15 Aug
2011
15 Aug
'11
1:22 a.m.
On 08/14/2011 07:34 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > In preparation for the new release, I went over git logs since 2010.05 and jotted down what seems to me is important. > I will put this list in the news announcement, so suggestions welcome. > > Archiso (image builds): > > * TODO fill in: snapshot of current core, including kernel 3., pacman-3 and glibc. and mkinitcpio/initscripts/netcfg, there are great changes in these Arch Linux projects. > * Big overhaul: use dm-snapshot instead of aufs2 > * Consolidate image building, use single build.sh script which also does dual-arch images. > * Allow changing NBD export name > * Allow using serial console with console kernel parameter. > * Allow starting custom script with script kernel parameter, autologin tty1. > * Add support to mount iso in loopback mode > * Add new menu entry "Power off" > * Add rsync,hdparm,dhclient,crda, wpa_actiond, netcf, curl, nilfs-utils, btrfs-progs-unstable to live-enviroment Added: btrfs-progs-unstable crda curl dhclient dialog dnsmasq hdparm netcfg nilfs-utils openconnect rp-pppoe rsync vpnc wpa_actiond > * Remove joe from packagelist. Removed: aufs2 aufs2-util iwlwifi-3945-ucode iwlwifi-4965-ucode iwlwifi-5000-ucode iwlwifi-5150-ucode joe ndiswrapper ndiswrapper-utils rt2x00-rt61-fw rt2x00-rt71w-fw tiacx tiacx-firmware > * Remove x86test, add HDT to initial syslinux menu > * Add support for booting from memdisk > * Various cleanups, improvements and bugfixes. * All needed files to boot for custom USB mediums installed on /arch * XZ compression for SquashFS and initramfs. * New documentation README (boot params, build instructions and other things) > > AIF (installation tool): > * experimental support for btrfs and nilfs2. > * support syslinux next to grub. > * changes to configuration formats to support new rc.conf and linux3.0 > * make selecting source more flexible (multiple local and/or remote repos) > * remove joe > * show package descriptions when installing packages > * run with debugging and logging enabled by default, add /arch/report-issues script > * make automatic profiles switch source depending on whether core or netinstall system is running > * remove support for tcp_wrappers in accordance to Arch Linux policy > * change develop model: primary development goes on in (rewritable) develop branch, master == stable. > * various code cleanups, improvements and bugfixes. > -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi \cos^2\alpha + \sin^2\alpha = 1