On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:08:24 +0200, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:

PS: a draft of the news message, so you know what's included.

2011.08 snapshots. Hi,

I would remove that "Hi".

time for a much needed update to the Arch installation media, as the last release (<a href="http://www.archlinux.org/news/201005-snapshots-less-is-more/">2010.05</a>) is not only quite outdated, but yields broken installations if you do a netinstall (because the old installer is not aware of the <a href="http://www.archlinux.org/news/changes-to-kernel-package-and-filenames/">changed kernel/initramfs filename</a> in our new Linux 3.0 packages).

What has changed in this period of more then a year?

than

<a href="http://projects.archlinux.org/archiso.git/">Archiso</a> (image builds):

* TODO fill in snapshot of current core, including kernel 3., pacman-3 and * glibc,, mkinitcpio/initscripts/netcfg * Big overhaul: use dm-snapshot instead of aufs2 * Consolidate image building, use single build.sh script which also does dual-arch images.

This is most likely not important for users. In general I would only mention stuff that affects users directly. Backend changes are awesome but the news draft is already really long.

* All needed files to boot for custom USB mediums installed on /arch * 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"

...which wont work on new computers anyway ;-)

* Added packages: btrfs-progs-unstable crda curl dhclient dialog dnsmasq hdparm netcfg nilfs-utils openconnect rp-pppoe rsync vpnc wpa_actiond * Removed packages: aufs2 aufs2-util joe ndiswrapper ndiswrapper-utils tiacx tiacx-firmware * Remove x86test, add HDT to initial syslinux menu * Add support for booting from memdisk * XZ compression for SquashFS and initramfs. * Various cleanups, improvements and bugfixes.

http://projects.archlinux.org/aif.git/"AIF</a> (installation tool): * experimental support for btrfs and nilfs2. * support syslinux next to grub.

May sound like you were able to install both in parallel.

* changes to configuration formats to support new rc.conf and linux3.0 * make selecting source more flexible (multiple local and/or remote repos) * 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.

Not important to the user

* various code cleanups, improvements and bugfixes.

<a href="https://github.com/Dieterbe/libui-sh">libui.sh</a> (bash UI framework) * made long checklists much easier in CLI mode, by using $EDITOR

No idea what this means.

* fix an endless loop in CLI mode. * more flexible initialisation

initialization

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Official_Arch_Linux_Install_Guide"Official installation guide</a>: * brought up to date.

For those interested in the build environment (which is now set up on a <a href="releng.archlinux.org">new server</a>), can check <a href="http://projects.archlinux.org/users/dieter/releng.git/">releng.git</a>

Please assure tickets exist in the <a href="https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?project=6">bugtracker - Release Engineering project</a> for any issues you may find.

* <a href="http://www.archlinux.org/download/">Download</a>

That is the most important link here; should probably be mentioned at the beginning.

* <a href="http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:2011.08">List of * packages</a>

-- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre