Holger Sickenberg wrote:

The next release is scheduled for October 15, 2009. It will be the first of two release candidates (RC) with the final release on November 12, 2009. See the detailed roadmap on the on the wiki.

At about 03:00 GMT today, I did a 'zypper dup' on my M7 installation and got an M8 version. The M7 problems with the computer clock have thankfully vanished. I have done little testing; however, WPA2 wireless with KNM was fine. I also built the compat-wireless package so that my Broadcom 14e4:4315 device works. After the problems with M7, I was beginning to think that 11.2 Gold might be a disaster, but M8 restores my optimism. I guess creating a new version is like sausage - you don't really want to know the details! Larry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help@opensuse.org

Holger Sickenberg wrote:

openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 8 is official announced now. It is available at http://software.opensuse.org/developer

Looking forward to your feedback.

I did both a full DVD x86_64 new installation with Gnome default and KDE pattern added, and an 'online' i686 'zypper dup' with Gnome. Both installations worked fine on my existing multiboot configurations. The latter 'zypper dup' I tried for the first time, was impressive simple and convenient. I got a single, temporary stop, but retry after the following message, 'zypper dup' continued: Failed to provide Package libgvfscommon0-1.3.6-1.1. Do you want to retry retrieval? [openSUSE 11.2-0|http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/] Can't provide file './suse/i586/libgvfscommon0-1.3.6-1.1.i586.rpm' from repository 'openSUSE 11.2-0' History: - Can't copy /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000001/suse/i586/libgvfscommon0-1.3.6-1.1.i586.rpm to /var/cache/zypp/packages/openSUSE 11.2-0 - Can't provide ./suse/i586/libgvfscommon0-1.3.6-1.1.i586.rpm : Can't copy /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000001/suse/i586/libgvfscommon0-1.3.6-1.1.i586.rpm to /var/cache/zypp/packages/openSUSE 11.2-0 The 11.2 themes looks nice. Switching between Gnome and KDE sessions worked fine from the GDM panel selection menu. Login to KDE 4.3.1 desktop displayed a KDE session manager error message: Could not find 'gnome-starter.bsh' executeable. I'm not sure what this message really mean. Else I'm glad to see that the M6 and M7 bugs for Gnome Shutdown/Restart and YaST startup are fixed in M8. On the down side I noticed that my reported M7 Bug 538839: 'Network Manager - OpenVPN Gnome connection failure' still does exist. Tried again to import my existing OpenVPN setup - but the connections fails. This issue was fixed earlier during the SLED11 beta, and NM OpenVPN worked afterwards also on openSUSE 11.1. It must be fixed and useable in 11.2 too. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538839 Terje J. Hanssen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help@opensuse.org

I downloaded and attempted to install M8 on my laptop and, sad to report, found that my BZ 430284 has not yet been resolved. I will try to test again in a day or two when I can make a more thorough attempt to measure response times. Bayard --- On Thu, 10/1/09, Holger Sickenberg wrote:

From: Holger Sickenberg Subject: [opensuse-testing] openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 8 ready to test To: opensuse-testing@opensuse.org Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009, 6:48 AM -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1

Hi everybody,

openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 8 is official announced now. It is available at http://software.opensuse.org/developer

Please have a look at http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_11.2_dev before you start your installation.

Further information on testing are available at http://en.opensuse.org/Testing

I also attached the announcement mail from Andreas.

Looking forward to your feedback.

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