Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (320 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 01 September 2010 16:51:10 Will Stephenson wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 September 2010 14:32:21 Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > On Wednesday 01 September 2010 14:26:26 Will Stephenson wrote:
> > > AJ, if you didn't find anyone to do the work in this meta-discussion, I
> > > can  hammer something out now.
> >
> > Will that would be great!  Best you talk directly to Coolo.
> >
> > Feel free to send here a link to your draft for review.
>
> I spoke to coolo and at length to mls, to have something for our readers to
> get their teeth into:
>
> http://news.opensuse.org/?p=4085&preview=true

Not everybody has access to it, so let me quote it here,

Thanks,
Andreas

openSUSE Releases First Development Milestone With Improved Package Management 
Performance, New XOrg, KDE and GNOME Versions  

openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 1 is available today, Thursday, September 2 for 
developers, testers and community members to test and participate in the 
development of openSUSE 11.4. M1 starts off openSUSE 11.4 development at a 
cracking pace with performance improvements in the package management network 
layer and version updates to major components.

This milestone contains libzypp version 8.1, which has a new backend for http 
and ftp package downloads. MultiCurl replaces the old MediaAria backend, and 
brings support for zsync transfers and better Metalink download support. These 
will improve both repository refresh and package install and update 
performance. Metalink allows the multi-channel download of packages by 
downloading the individual blocks of a package in parallel from multiple 
servers. ZSync reduces the amount of data to download by only fetching the 
changed parts of a file instead of the whole file. This speeds up repository 
refreshes, since due to the way the repository data is structured, it is easy 
to locate the parts of the metadata that changed since the last update. The 
new Curl-based zypp backend also gives libzypp and therefore zypper and YaST 
better support for network proxies, by using the same proxy configuration as 
the rest of YaST instead of its own, and adds support for HTTP BASIC password-
protected repositories. And as an added bonus, MultiCurl should eliminate slow 
and hanging package installations that occurred due to bugs in the old 
MediaAria backend.

Other major components that have received updates from upstream projects for 
Milestone 1 include XOrg 1.9, KDE 4.5 and GNOME 2.32.0 Beta 1. Automated 
testing and brave openSUSE Factory testers have been validating early builds 
to make sure that Milestone 1 is suitable for others to test, so please 
download Milestone 1 and report bugs - the earlier a bug is reported in the 
development cycle, the more likely it is that it will be fixed on release day, 
March 10, 2011.

The next milestone is scheduled for September 30.
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