February 2011 - Arch-announce - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-announce] KDE SC 4.6 to [extra]
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Andrea Scarpino 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

Andrea Scarpino wrote: KDE announced the availability of its Software Compilation 4.6. You will find all upstream changes and new features on their website: http://kde.org/announcements/4.6/. As usual we provide the latest packages for Arch. This release offers UPower, UDev and UDisks support that can be used instead of the deprecated HAL. For that, the hal package is no more a requirement of kdebase-workspace and can be removed from your system. KDE PIM 4.6 is not yet available (will be released with the next minor release), so we will continue with the 4.4 series. Also, with the last Phonon update, the DEVs declared the Xine backend no longer maintained and it needs PulseAudio to work; you really should think to switch to the GStreamer or the VLC backend. In case of any error, try using a new user account or (re)moving KDE's configuration which can be found at ~/.kde4 /tmp/kde- /var/tmp/kdecache-. Akonadi saves its data at ~/.config/akonadi and ~/.local/share/akonadi. The removed packages are: kdegames-ksame, kdesdk-kbugbuster, kdeutils-okteta The new packages are: kdeaccessibility-kaccessible, kdegames-klickety, kdesdk- okteta, kdeutils-filelight, kdeplasma-addons-concontainments, kdeplasma-addons- runners-events URL: https://www.archlinux.org/news/kde-sc-46-to-extra/

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[arch-announce] KDE SC 4.5.0 moved to [extra]
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Ronald van Haren 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

Ronald van Haren wrote: KDE SC 4.5.0 has moved into the [extra] repository. Notable changes with respect to previous releases are: * kdepim has seen no new release, please continue to use version 4.4.5 * due to incompatibility with ruby 1.9, ruby kdebindings are not provided * webkit support in konqueror is provided by kwebkitpart * KDM is now started as the kdm user * upstream removed five translations: csb, mai, mk, si and tg The full upstream changelog is available [here][1]. Several users reported issues with kwin hanging when changing settings in the kdesettings dialog. So far this is only known to happen on some Intel and ATI cards with opengl compositing enabled. Possible workarounds include: * use xrender instead of opengl compositing * disable compositing * disable direct rendering under opengl options in the kdesettings menu * export "LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1" before starting KDE [1]: http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.5/ URL: https://www.archlinux.org/news/kde-sc-450-moved-to-extra/

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[arch-announce] MySQL 5.5 is now in [extra]
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Angel Velasquez 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Angel Velasquez wrote: MySQL 5.5 is now in [extra]. This is a major version upgrade from the 5.1 editions previously in the repositories. Archive, Blackhole, and Federated engine support are no longer included in this package, since they are not heavily used. After upgrading the MySQL package and restarting the database, you will need to run `mysql_upgrade` to ensure your tables, views and stored procedures are up to date and compatible with MySQL 5.5. Is always good to do a backup of your databases, before doing the update, you will also need to adjust my.cnf options in order to make it compatible with 5.5 release, [more info available here][1] [1]: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/upgrading-from-previous- series.html URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/mysql-55-is-now-in-extra/

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