[arch-releng] 2010.05 announcement draft
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 <a href="http://github.com/Dieterbe/libui-sh">libui-sh</a> 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 <a href="http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Official_Arch_Linux_Install_Guide">Official installation guide</a> 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. <a href="http://www.archlinux.org/download/">Download</a>
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Dieter Plaetinck