[opensuse-factory] Milestone 4 Announcement Review
I'd like to see Milestone 4 announced tomorrow and have drafted the following announcement. Please review it and send me suggestions on improving the text. If you want to rewrite it completely, I'm fine as well ;) I'd like to see from packagers a few more details on the major packaging changes, enhancements are welcome. Thanks, Andreas [Graphic: Geeko at work from MIlestone3] The fourth of seven scheduled milestone releases for 11.3 was completed and released on schedule. Milestone 4 focuses on switching to upstart as init daemon. Here's what you may find interesting in the new release: * OpenOffice.Org has been updated to 3.2.1 Beta1 * NetworkManager was updated to version 0.8 * cups has been updated to version 1.4.2 * The conntrack - network filtering system has been added * The mono stack has been updated to version 2.6.3 * Python was updated to version 2.6.5 RC 2 * samba was updated to version 3.5.1 * The Moblin team has started with the integration of the Moblin UI into the distribution and plan to have everything ready for the next milestone Gnome/GTK desktop users: * GNOME has been updated to the GNOME 2.30 release candidate (2.39.92) KDE desktop users: * KDE has been updated to version 4.4.1. * Amarok is now at version 2.3. * k3b is updated to version 1.91. Testing! Testing! Testing! As this is a milestone release, 11.3 milestone 4 does contain bugs that we know about, but should not stand between courageous contributors and release testing. You can track the most annoying bugs on the wiki along with 11.3 development. If you want to make sure 11.3 final is free of annoying bugs, we’ll need your help finding, reporting, and fixing those hidden bugs. To learn more about testing openSUSE, visit the Testing pages on the openSUSE wiki. To follow the testing and development process, we suggest that you subscribe to the openSUSE-Factory mailing list (Subscribe | Help | Archives) and join the #openSUSE-Factory channel on Freenode to discuss openSUSE development. The next openSUSE Milestone is scheduled to be released on Thursday, March the 25th, with additional new features and bug fixes. Get Milestone 4 Today! What are you waiting for? Grab the milestone release from software.opensuse.org/developer today! -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I think you should add something about lxde. The most important change is that we now finally switched to pcmanfm 0.9.x / libfm with thousands of improvments Andrea Il 24/03/2010 17:40, Andreas Jaeger ha scritto:
I'd like to see Milestone 4 announced tomorrow and have drafted the following announcement. Please review it and send me suggestions on improving the text. If you want to rewrite it completely, I'm fine as well ;)
I'd like to see from packagers a few more details on the major packaging changes, enhancements are welcome.
Thanks, Andreas
[Graphic: Geeko at work from MIlestone3]
The fourth of seven scheduled milestone releases for 11.3 was completed and released on schedule. Milestone 4 focuses on switching to upstart as init daemon.
Here's what you may find interesting in the new release:
* OpenOffice.Org has been updated to 3.2.1 Beta1 * NetworkManager was updated to version 0.8 * cups has been updated to version 1.4.2 * The conntrack - network filtering system has been added * The mono stack has been updated to version 2.6.3 * Python was updated to version 2.6.5 RC 2 * samba was updated to version 3.5.1 * The Moblin team has started with the integration of the Moblin UI into the distribution and plan to have everything ready for the next milestone
Gnome/GTK desktop users:
* GNOME has been updated to the GNOME 2.30 release candidate (2.39.92)
KDE desktop users:
* KDE has been updated to version 4.4.1. * Amarok is now at version 2.3. * k3b is updated to version 1.91.
Testing! Testing! Testing!
As this is a milestone release, 11.3 milestone 4 does contain bugs that we know about, but should not stand between courageous contributors and release testing.
You can track the most annoying bugs on the wiki along with 11.3 development. If you want to make sure 11.3 final is free of annoying bugs, we’ll need your help finding, reporting, and fixing those hidden bugs.
To learn more about testing openSUSE, visit the Testing pages on the openSUSE wiki. To follow the testing and development process, we suggest that you subscribe to the openSUSE-Factory mailing list (Subscribe | Help | Archives) and join the #openSUSE-Factory channel on Freenode to discuss openSUSE development.
The next openSUSE Milestone is scheduled to be released on Thursday, March the 25th, with additional new features and bug fixes. Get Milestone 4 Today!
What are you waiting for? Grab the milestone release from software.opensuse.org/developer today!
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Heya, If Kernel 2.6.34-rc2 have been pushed into Factory already that should be included, I don't know though =) Also last segment is talking about M5 target publish day but has the M4 date, so it should be The next openSUSE Milestone is scheduled to be released on Friday, April the 9th, with additional new features and bug fixes. Get Milestone 4 Today! (btw, doesn't coolo usually target for thursday?) Karsten Am Mittwoch, 24. März 2010 19:33:33 schrieb Andrea Florio:
I think you should add something about lxde. The most important change is that we now finally switched to pcmanfm 0.9.x / libfm with thousands of improvments
Andrea
Il 24/03/2010 17:40, Andreas Jaeger ha scritto:
I'd like to see Milestone 4 announced tomorrow and have drafted the following announcement. Please review it and send me suggestions on improving the text. If you want to rewrite it completely, I'm fine as well ;)
I'd like to see from packagers a few more details on the major packaging changes, enhancements are welcome.
Thanks, Andreas
[Graphic: Geeko at work from MIlestone3]
The fourth of seven scheduled milestone releases for 11.3 was completed and released on schedule. Milestone 4 focuses on switching to upstart as init daemon.
Here's what you may find interesting in the new release: * OpenOffice.Org has been updated to 3.2.1 Beta1 * NetworkManager was updated to version 0.8 * cups has been updated to version 1.4.2 * The conntrack - network filtering system has been added * The mono stack has been updated to version 2.6.3 * Python was updated to version 2.6.5 RC 2 * samba was updated to version 3.5.1 * The Moblin team has started with the integration of the Moblin UI into
the distribution and plan to have everything ready for the next milestone
Gnome/GTK desktop users: * GNOME has been updated to the GNOME 2.30 release candidate (2.39.92)
KDE desktop users: * KDE has been updated to version 4.4.1. * Amarok is now at version 2.3. * k3b is updated to version 1.91.
Testing! Testing! Testing!
As this is a milestone release, 11.3 milestone 4 does contain bugs that we know about, but should not stand between courageous contributors and release testing.
You can track the most annoying bugs on the wiki along with 11.3 development. If you want to make sure 11.3 final is free of annoying bugs, we’ll need your help finding, reporting, and fixing those hidden bugs.
To learn more about testing openSUSE, visit the Testing pages on the openSUSE wiki. To follow the testing and development process, we suggest that you subscribe to the openSUSE-Factory mailing list (Subscribe | Help | Archives) and join the #openSUSE-Factory channel on Freenode to discuss openSUSE development.
The next openSUSE Milestone is scheduled to be released on Thursday, March the 25th, with additional new features and bug fixes. Get Milestone 4 Today!
What are you waiting for? Grab the milestone release from software.opensuse.org/developer today!
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On Wednesday 24 March 2010 19:33:33 Andrea Florio wrote:
I think you should add something about lxde. The most important change is that we now finally switched to pcmanfm 0.9.x / libfm with thousands of improvments
Give me a sentence or two and I'll add it ;) I could add but would take something else as well: lxde: Switch to pcmanfm 0.9.x/ libfm with thousands of improvements. Thanks, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
On Wednesday 24 March 2010 19:51:16 Karsten König wrote:
Heya,
If Kernel 2.6.34-rc2 have been pushed into Factory already that should be included, I don't know though =)
It's not included.
Also last segment is talking about M5 target publish day but has the M4 date, so it should be
The next openSUSE Milestone is scheduled to be released on Friday, April the 9th, with additional new features and bug fixes. Get Milestone 4 Today!
thanks!
(btw, doesn't coolo usually target for thursday?)
Yes, might be he changed it due to easter. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I think you can say something like: Lxde: * Switch to pcmanfm 0.9.3 and libfm 0.1.9 (even if both into beta state) Now lxde fully support trash, automount, gvfs, "menu-browsing" and much more. * lxsession: upgrade to 0.4.3 with d-bus support would that be ok? feel free to change/improve them Andrea Il 24/03/2010 19:57, Andreas Jaeger ha scritto:
On Wednesday 24 March 2010 19:33:33 Andrea Florio wrote:
I think you should add something about lxde. The most important change is that we now finally switched to pcmanfm 0.9.x / libfm with thousands of improvments
Give me a sentence or two and I'll add it ;)
I could add but would take something else as well: lxde: Switch to pcmanfm 0.9.x/ libfm with thousands of improvements.
Thanks, Andreas
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On Wednesday 24 March 2010 20:52:47 Andrea Florio wrote:
I think you can say something like:
Lxde: * Switch to pcmanfm 0.9.3 and libfm 0.1.9 (even if both into beta state) Now lxde fully support trash, automount, gvfs, "menu-browsing" and much more.
* lxsession: upgrade to 0.4.3 with d-bus support
would that be ok? feel free to change/improve them
I remove the "even if both into beta state" and added it, thanks, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
Hello, FYI: On Mar 24 17:40 Andreas Jaeger wrote (shortened):
I'd like to see Milestone 4 announced tomorrow ... * cups has been updated to version 1.4.2
Which is known to not yet work o.k. on 64bit x86-64, see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=575544#c2 Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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