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[opensuse-announce] SUSE Linux 9.2 security support is now discontinued.
by Marcus Meissner 21 Nov '06

21 Nov '06

Hi, With todays release of "pam_ldap" we discontinue the security support for SUSE Linux 9.2. For the discontinuation schedule of our SUSE Linux products, please have a look at http://en.opensuse.org/SUSE_Linux_Lifetime The next discontinued SUSE Linux version will be SUSE Linux 9.3, around end of April 2007. SUSE Linux 9.2 was released in begin of October 2004. It was the first release featuring Delta RPMs, making downloads of patches even smaller than with the Patch RPMs we used before. The difference in "Recommended" patches is mostly due to the previous SUSE Linux 9.1 being the base of SLES 9 and also the first release with Linux 2.6 kernel and so getting more bugfixes. Patches (active patches) (difference to SL 9.1): Total: 581 (278 active) (-58) Security: 487 (204 active) (-5) Recommended: 74 (57 active) (-45) Optional: 20 (17 active) (-8) Split by type of patch (compared with 9.1 for the ones with large numbers): 17 kernel (-3) 16 clamav (+3) 14 apache2-mod_php4 (-3) 13 MozillaFirefox (+2) 11 opera ( 0) 10 ethereal ( 0) 9 phpMyAdmin ( 0) 8 squid (-2) 7 apache2 (-2) 7 squirrelmail (+1) 6 kdelibs3 (-5) 6 mailman ( 0) 6 MozillaThunderbird 6 wget 6 xorg-x11-server 6 xpdf 5 acroread 5 gaim 5 gpg 5 gpg2 5 horde 5 ImageMagick 5 java-1_4_2-sun 5 kdegraphics3-pdf 5 libtiff 5 mozilla 5 mysql 5 postgresql 5 RealPlayer 5 ruby 4 dia 4 evolution 4 freeradius 4 gd 4 gpdf 4 heimdal 4 mpg123 4 openssh 4 openssl 4 pdftohtml 4 samba 4 xine-lib (rest has 3 occurences or less) du of update tree: 1748156 ./deltas 1796 ./misc/resizer 1800 ./misc 2156 ./patches 3652 ./patches.obsolete 23068 ./repodata 3696756 ./rpm/i586 87780 ./rpm/noarch 1259832 ./rpm/src 2486308 ./rpm/x86_64 7530680 ./rpm 24 ./scripts 9309540 . Ciao, Marcus

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[opensuse-announce] Reminder: openSUSE status meeting 2006/11/22 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT)
by Martin Lasarsch 20 Nov '06

20 Nov '06

Hi The next openSUSE status meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-project IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-project) this Wednesday at 2006/11/22 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT) This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Status_Meeting_2006-11-22 as soon as possible. Also, if you cannot attend the meeting, but have questions you want to see discussed, please add them to the meeting wiki page as well. Don't confuse this with the meeting on Thursday (2006-11-23) which is _only_ about the Novell/Microsoft deal. All other openSUSE related questions should go to this meeting on Wednesday (2006-11-22). For general info about our IRC meetings read: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About For a general technical introduction to IRC (Internet Relay Chat) see http://www.irchelp.org/ (not affiliated with openSUSE) or enter "IRC help" into your preferred search engine. The network we use is freenode - for more information on this, including how to find a server, visit http://freenode.net/ (not affiliated with openSUSE either). btw: for Henne: no cc: to opensuse-project anymore. -- with kind regards, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Lasarsch, Core Services SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nuremberg martin.lasarsch(a)suse.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- simply change to www.suse.de

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[opensuse-announce] IRC meeting about Novell/Microsoft deal - 2006-11-23 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT)
by Martin Lasarsch 20 Nov '06

20 Nov '06

Hi as promised in the last IRC meeting we will have a dedicated IRC meeting about the Novell/Microsoft deal. We already had questions in the regular IRC meeting last time, but there might be some questions which are not answered because of the short time we had, or new questions came up ... Nat Friedman, Holger Dyroff and AJ are happy to answer all your questions in the chat this Thursday at 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT). Please check out the information we have so far, many questions should be answered there: http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/openletter.html http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/faq.html http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/faq_opensource.html http://www.novell.com/news/press/item.jsp?id=1196 If you can't participate and have a question, please enter it on the meeting page at: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Special_Meeting_2006-11-23 btw: we will have a regular meeting as usual on Wednesday, announcement coming soon. -- with kind regards, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Lasarsch, Core Services SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nuremberg martin.lasarsch(a)suse.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- simply change to www.suse.de

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.2 Beta2 is available
by Andreas Jaeger 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

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[opensuse-announce] [owner] New Mailinglists
by Henne Vogelsang 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

Hi, as previously announced we will migrate mailinglists from lists.suse.com to lists.opensuse.org today around 12:30GMT. This means we have plenty of "new" subscribers and plenty of "new" lists. old name (@suse.com) new name (@opensuse.org) ------------------------------------------------- suse-linux opensuse-de suse-linux-e opensuse suse-linux-s opensuse-es suse-linux-ja opensuse-ja suse-isdn opensuse-isdn-de suse-kde opensuse-kde suse-laptop opensuse-mobile suse-multimedia opensuse-multimedia-de suse-multimedia-e opensuse-multimedia suse-programming opensuse-programming-de suse-programming-e opensuse-programming suse-security opensuse-security suse-ia64 opensuse-ia64 suse-amd64 opensuse-amd64 suse-ppc opensuse-ppc For details about the lists see http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate#Mailing_Lists Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, Core Services "Rules change. The Game remains the same." - Omar (The Wire)

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[opensuse-announce] Reminder: openSUSE status meeting 2006/11/08 18:00 CET
by Martin Lasarsch 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

Hi The next openSUSE status meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-project IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-project) this Wednesday at 2006/11/08 18:00 CET (16:00 GMT) This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Status_Meeting_2006-11-08 as soon as possible. Also, if you cannot attend the meeting, but have questions you want to see discussed, please add them to the meeting wiki page as well. For general info about our IRC meetings read: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About For a general technical introduction to IRC (Internet Relay Chat) see http://www.irchelp.org/ (not affiliated with openSUSE) or enter "IRC help" into your preferred search engine. The network we use is freenode - for more information on this, including how to find a server, visit http://freenode.net/ (not affiliated with openSUSE either). -- with kind regards, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Lasarsch, Core Services SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nuremberg martin.lasarsch(a)suse.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- simply change to www.suse.de

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.2 Beta1 for PowerPC available
by Andreas Jaeger 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

I'm glad to announce the first beta of openSUSE 10.2 codename Basilisk Lizard for PowerPC. Our developers fixed bug #213873 which made installation on PowerPC impossible and we've mastered media for PowerPC now as well. Note that the factory tree still has an old broken installation images and will only be updated with the next sync, please install from CDs or DVD. openSUSE 10.2 Beta1 contains a large number of enhancements and updates done by the open source community and Novell's development teams. I'd like to point out especially the following significant changes From our list of updates of all open source subcomponents, integration of new subcomponents and improvements in various areas: - Linux Kernel 2.6.18.1 - glibc 2.5 - Firefox 2.0 - GNOME 2.16.1 - KDE 3.5.5 - X11 R7.2 RC - both KDE and GNOME feature improved start menus compared to upstream - improved desktop effects (compiz 0.2) - OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 - Koffice 1.6 - gnucash 2.0.2 - ekiga 2.0.2 VoIP and video conferencing application - python 2.5 - php 5.2 RC - cups 1.2.4 - wink 1.5 software tutorial and presentation creatiation software - Using opensync instead of multisync for much better syncing between mobile devices and software. - numerous improvements to our package manager stack, including a new update notification applet (opensuse-updater) and a console application called zypper which are non-zmd based. The update stack has been improved in both features and speed. - integration of powermanagement features into hal See also http://en.opensuse.org/Factory/News - and the ChangeLog file on the first media of each set for a really detailed overview. Thanks to everybody making this release happen - and thanks to all testing it! Beta1 has a couple of rough edges, the most annoying ones are documented at http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs . For now let me just point out the following: * On some new installations an error occured preparing a hard disk Bug #214682. This seems to happen on disks without any prior partitioning and when using EVMS. EVMS is broken here. If this happens, start the installation again. * zen-updater is not installed by default Bug #214877 * kpowersave crashes directly Bug #214881 * The product is not completely localised, localisation will be done for Beta2. * Grub installs in MBR no matter what is selected in YaST2-bootloader (Bug #213256) * Major changes in the bluez-libs might lead to problems with connecting to Bluetooth-devices * Help Center Integration of the openSUSE Manuals is work in progress. There are issues with the desktop files (Bug #213573) * yelp segfaults (Bug #210429) * The product is not completly localised, localisation will be done for Beta2. openSUSE 10.2 Beta1 comes in different medias: * 5 CDs, you need CDs 1-3 for a normal installation with just GNOME or KDE (any language) * 1 AddOn CD with only binary packages on it * 1 AddOn CD with language packages that are used for our tier 2 languages (tier 1 languages are english, french, italian, spanish, german, chinese, japanese and czech - and support for those is on the standard 5 CDs) (the 5 CDs have support for installation in all languages, just extra packages are only on this extra media) * 1 DVD containing the contents of the above 7 media * a FTP tree with open source packages (only for the final version, for now use the factory tree) * a FTP tree with binary packages (only for the final version, for now use the factory-extra tree) For PowerPC we have created Delta ISOs the CDs of Alpha4. Please use them for download. We have mastered a DVD5 for PowerPC and will distribute it *only* via bittorrent. Please report all bugs you find on in our bugzilla as explained in http://bugs.opensuse.org, discussion is most appropriate on the opensuse-factory(a)opensuse.org mailing list. Thanks, The spicy POWER Team at SUSE and Andreas Download URLs for the torrents of the DELTA-ISOs: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/openSUSE-10.2… Download URLs for the torrents of the ISOs: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/openSUSE-10.2… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/openSUSE-10.2… Download URLs for the Add-On Media torrent: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/openSUSE-10.2… Download URLs for the Add-On Media torrent: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/openSUSE-10.2… Download URLs for the full Delta ISOs: For PowerPC architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/delta-iso/ope… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/delta-iso/ope… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/delta-iso/ope… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/delta-iso/ope… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/delta-iso/ope… Download URLs for the full ISOs: For PowerPC architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/iso/openSUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/iso/openSUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/iso/openSUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/iso/openSUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/iso/openSUSE-… Download URLs for the Binary Add-On Media ISOs: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/non-oss/openS… Download URLs for the Language Add-On Media ISOs: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/non-oss/openS… -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.2 Beta1 (i386, x86-64) is available
by Andreas Jaeger 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

I'm glad to announce the first beta of openSUSE 10.2 codename Basilisk Lizard. openSUSE 10.2 Beta1 contains a large number of enhancements and updates done by the open source community and Novell's development teams. We have i386 and x86-64 medias available for download, there's no PowerPC distribution since the installation fails on that platform (Bug #213873). I'd like to point out especially the following significant changes for openSUSE 10.2 from our list of updates of all open source subcomponents, integration of new subcomponents and improvements in various areas: - Linux Kernel 2.6.18.1 - glibc 2.5 - Firefox 2.0 - GNOME 2.16.1 - KDE 3.5.5 - X11 R7.2 RC - both KDE and GNOME feature improved start menus compared to upstream - improved desktop effects (compiz 0.2) - OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 - Koffice 1.6 - gnucash 2.0.2 - ekiga 2.0.2 VoIP and video conferencing application - python 2.5 - php 5.2 RC - cups 1.2.4 - wink 1.5 software tutorial and presentation creatiation software - Using opensync instead of multisync for much better syncing between mobile devices and software. - numerous improvements to our package manager stack, including a new update notification applet (opensuse-updater) and a console application called zypper which are non-zmd based. The update stack has been improved in both features and speed. - integration of powermanagement features into hal See also http://en.opensuse.org/Factory/News - and the ChangeLog file on the first media of each set for a really detailed overview. Beta1 has a couple of rough edges, the most annoying ones are documented at http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs . For now let me just point out the following: * On some new installations an error occured preparing a hard disk Bug #214682. This seems to happen on disks without any prior partitioning and when using EVMS. EVMS is broken here. If this happens, start the installation again. * zen-updater is not installed by default Bug #214877 * kpowersave crashes directly Bug #214881 * The product is not completely localised, localisation will be done for Beta2. * Grub installs in MBR no matter what is selected in YaST2-bootloader (Bug #213256) * Major changes in the bluez-libs might lead to problems with connecting to Bluetooth-devices * Help Center Integration of the openSUSE Manuals is work in progress. There are issues with the desktop files (Bug #213573) * yelp segfaults (Bug #210429) * The product is not completly localised, localisation will be done for Beta2. openSUSE 10.2 Beta1 comes in different medias: * 5 CDs, you need CDs 1-3 for a normal installation with just GNOME or KDE (any language) * 1 AddOn CD with only binary packages on it * 1 AddOn CD with language packages that are used for our tier 2 languages (tier 1 languages are english, french, italian, spanish, german, chinese, japanese and czech - and support for those is on the standard 5 CDs) (the 5 CDs have support for installation in all languages, just extra packages are only on this extra media) * 1 DVD containing the contents of the above 7 media * a FTP tree with open source packages (only for the final version, for now use the factory tree) * a FTP tree with binary packages (only for the final version, for now use the factory-extra tree) We have created Delta ISOs from the DVD of Alpha5 and from the CDs of Alpha4. Please use them for download. We have mastered the DVD5 for i386 and x86-64 and will distribute it *only* via bittorrent - and as deltas from the previous version. For this release we would like to put up a call for testing, focusing especially on these three areas: * Python 2.5: As we upgraded to Python 2.5, we would like to ask you to test all Python-related packages, especially on x86-64. * OpenOffice.org on x86-64 (yes, a native 64-bit OpenOffice.org package) * the OpenSync 0.19 framework and its plugins Please report all bugs you find on in our bugzilla as explained in http://bugs.opensuse.org, discussion is most appropriate on the opensuse-factory(a)opensuse.org mailing list. Thanks to everybody making this release happen - and thanks to all testing it! Andreas P.S. Here're the usual handy URLs for download: Download URLs for the torrents of the DELTA-ISOs: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/openSUSE-10.2… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/openSUSE-10.2… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/openSUSE-10.2… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/openSUSE-10.2… Download URLs for the torrents of the ISOs: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/openSUSE-10.2… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/openSUSE-10.2… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/openSUSE-10.2… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/openSUSE-10.2… Download URLs for the Add-On Media torrent: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/openSUSE-10.2… Download URLs for the Add-On Media torrent: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/openSUSE-10.2… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/openSUSE-10.2… Download URLs for the full Delta ISOs: x86 architecture (Intel 32-bit) architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/delta-iso/ope… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/delta-iso/ope… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/delta-iso/ope… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/delta-iso/ope… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/delta-iso/ope… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/delta-iso/ope… For x86-64 (AMD64 / EM64T) 64-bit architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/delta-iso/ope… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/delta-iso/ope… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/delta-iso/ope… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/delta-iso/ope… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/delta-iso/ope… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/delta-iso/ope… Download URLs for the full ISOs: x86 architecture (Intel 32-bit) architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/iso/openSUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/iso/openSUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/iso/openSUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/iso/openSUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/iso/openSUSE-… For x86-64 (AMD64 / EM64T) 64-bit architecture: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/iso/openSUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/iso/openSUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/iso/openSUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/iso/openSUSE-… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/iso/openSUSE-… Download URLs for the Binary Add-On Media ISOs: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/non-oss/openS… Download URLs for the Language Add-On Media ISOs: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/non-oss/openS… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/non-oss/openS… -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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[opensuse-announce] Reminder: openSUSE status meeting 2006/10/18 18:00 CEST
by Martin Lasarsch 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

Hi The next openSUSE status meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-project IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-project) this Wednesday at 2006/10/18 18:00 CET (16:00 GMT) This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Status_Meeting_2006-10-18 as soon as possible. Also, if you cannot attend the meeting, but have questions you want to see discussed, please add them to the meeting wiki page as well. For general info about our IRC meetings read: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About For a general technical introduction to IRC (Internet Relay Chat) see http://www.irchelp.org/ (not affiliated with openSUSE) or enter "IRC help" into your preferred search engine. The network we use is freenode - for more information on this, including how to find a server, visit http://freenode.net/ (not affiliated with openSUSE either). -- with kind regards, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Lasarsch, Core Services SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nuremberg martin.lasarsch(a)suse.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- simply change to www.suse.de

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[opensuse-announce] SUSE Linux 10.1 Remastered - including Install DVDs
by Andreas Jaeger 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

We're happy to announce that we have put out now the complete remastered version of SUSE Linux 10.1 (including DVD but no LiveDVD or ftp installation source), which includes all patches for SUSE Linux 10.1 released till October 9. It replaces the original ISOs on our mirrors. This version will ease the issues users had with the goldmaster version and should make the installing and working experience much smoother for everyone. The files have a "Remastered" in their name and a symbolic link from the old name to them so that references will continue to work. If you are running SUSE Linux 10.1 already, there is no need to download these images at all. Just do an update from our update repository to get all our security updates. This remastered media are usefull for new installations. We're now focusing on the next milestone, openSUSE 10.2 Have a lot of fun! your openSUSE team -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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