Hi guys, As you may have read already (http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2009-July/000549.html ) we are working on a new release, which we would like to have out there by froscon. (22 august 2009) You'll find the alpha images here: http://build.archlinux.org/isos/ Target audience: interested hackers, eg the people on this list. Changes compared to latest release (2009.02): - kernel 2.6.30 (next set of images will have 2.6.30.1) - usage of the AIF framework/installer, no more archlinux-installer - aufs instead of unionfs - images are now built on a new build server (the one provided by sevenL networks), in dedicated releng chroots. This should make the "build-upload-test" cycles shorter. Those are the main things I think. The roadmap (basically our todo list of bugs and feature requests) is here http://bugs.archlinux.org/roadmap/proj6 The moment this list is empty, expect an official release ;) Please test and pay special attention to the "new things" such as the lvm/dm_crypt support in aif, the new FS editor, and the automatic procedure (for which you'll find an example in /usr/share/aif) Bugreports are always welcome on our Bugtracker. Also, we're not sure how we should take care of the documentation. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Official_Arch_Linux_Install_Guide will need an update. Last time there was some discussion about this, but afaik the community contributed in this aspect. (though whoever wants to help here should probably wait a bit until we've had some feedback about aif's workings/UI) A, G & D PS: If you experience crashes with Virtualbox, there seem to be some bugs showing up in vbox since kernel 2.6.30 ( eg http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2149 )