From dieter@plaetinck.be Sun May 16 17:26:45 2010 From: Dieter Plaetinck To: arch-releng@lists.archlinux.org Subject: [arch-releng] 2010.05 announcement draft Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 23:26:47 +0200 Message-ID: <20100516232647.0946a29e@plaetinck.be> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============3800016930601018510==" --===============3800016930601018510== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable please provide feedback. I have the feeling I'm forgetting something. Btw the plan is to do the release monday may 17th around 20:00 UTC, so there's not much time! 2010.05 snapshots. Less is more... Hi all, New installation media are vailable. Their size and quantity has shrunken quite a bit but the usefulness has only gone up. Here's a list of notable changes, which will explain everything: Archiso: * all iso files can be burned onto CD's as well as written to media like usb sticks (isohybrid) * more then half of the packages in core are now xz compressed * next to the single-arch files we provide dual-Arch images which can be used as 32 or 64bit medium * use isolinux bootloader exclusively (for booting the live media) * snapshot of current core, including kernel 2.6.33.4-1, pacman-3.3.3-5 and glibc-2.11.1-3 * updated memtest * support for PXE booting * provide wpa_supplicant * support libvirt AIF: * ability to choose if you want uuid/labels/devicefiles for blockdevices; automatically applied in menu.lst, fstab, etc * split off UI library into separate libui-sh project * support virtio blockdevices * allow user to specify additional custom arguments for mkfs and the like Other then this, quite some bugs have been fixed again, mostly in AIF. And of course, the Official installation guide has been updated to reflect these changes. Thanks to everyone who contributed, this release took a long time but I think it's worth it. Download --===============3800016930601018510==--