* Improved x86_64 emul packages, allowing the use of i686-only packages such as flashplayer, codecs and teamspeak-client on x86_64 Frugalware (0.7) rc2: pending * Package updates: * GNOME 2.20.0 * OpenOffice.org 2.3 with OOXML support and Mozilla plugin * More than 1000 changes, mostly bugfixes * New features: * Added Gfpm, a graphical package manager * New Gfpm and Gnetconfig plugins for Xfce4 settings manager * Setup * Fixed PPPoE support * Slow format (when checking for bad blocks is enabled) works again for swap partitions * Fixed Swedish language support rc1: Sep 4, 2007 * Package updates: * GNU C Library 2.6.1 * Replaced util-linux with util-linux-ng * More than 30 new packages * Added detailed documentation for the util-linux-ng, amavisd-new and ejabberd packages * More than 900 changes: package updates, bug- and security fixes. * New features: * Added permalinks to the documentation * Rewritten the package builder daemon, which is now supports distributed operation. This results in continuous package updates even if one package builder server is not available. * Setup: * new Danish translation pre2: Jul 30, 2007 * Package updates: * Linux kernel 2.6.22 * GCC-4.2.1, with several bugfixes and usable java browser plug-in for systems where the binary is not available, like x86_64. * OpenOffice.org 2.2.1 * New features: * New graphical configuration tool: Gnetconfig to tweak your network settings. * The setup now puts the installer log to the target system, so that it is not lost. * The default timezone and keyboard layout is now language-dependent. * New Italian translation in the installer. * New packages: * vim spell-check dictionaries for various languages * More than 100 new packages: qmpdclient, gpsdrive, emovix, gpodder, horde-webmail and much more! * Homepage: * It is now possible to browse HTML documentation for a package on the homepage. * According to the SCM we use, replaced darcsweb with gitweb, which should be much more faster generally. * A list of bugs reported after the release of the installer images can be viewed at http://wiki.frugalware.org/KnownBugs-0.7pre2 pre1: May 24, 2007 * Renamed our package management library to libpacman as it isn't specific to any distribution * Added C# bindings (including an example) to Pacman-G2. * Translators are now welcome to localize Frugalware. See the brand new http://frugalware.org/docs/translations page for more info. * OpenOffice.org 2.2 should appear better to users thanks to its support for kerning, a technique that improves the appearance of text written in proportional fonts; kerning is now enabled by default. OpenOffice's PDF (Portable Document Format) export function has also been enhanced with the addition of the optional creation of bookmarks feature, and with support for user-definable export of form fields. * libncursesw: a new ncurses library providing utf8 support. * Support for Xorg 6.x finally removed. This should cause some speedup since libraries are no longer searched under /usr/X11R6/lib * Security support for Terminus available * Security support for Siwenna no longer available Frugalware (0.6) final: Marc 22, 2007 This is a merge of all the updates from the pre-releases to make up the final release announcement. Package updates: * Glibc 2.5 bringing many speed improvements and fixes * Binutils 2.17.50.0.6 with support for some of the new features in Glibc 2.5, including DT_GNU_HASH. Most packages have been rebuilt with this resulting in a massive speed improvement. * GCC 4.1.2 with fixes for a lot of regressions in previous releases * GNOME 2.18.0 providing lots of new features, visual improvements and fixes * KDE 3.5.6 with KHTML improvements, support for sudo in kdesu and other new features * XFCE 4.4 including hundreds of new features and fixes. * Kernel 2.6.20.3 providing support for KVM virtualization, lots of speed improvements and bug fixes * Beryl 0.2.0 providing lots of eye-candy and usability improvements on your desktop * DBUS 1.0 with lots of stability improvements over previous releases * HAL 0.5.8.1 including many new features and reliability fixes * Python 2.5 with an interesting mix of language and library improvements * OpenOffice 2.1 including lots of bug fixes and stability fixes * Firefox 2.0.0.2 with improved tabbed browsing and inline spell checking rc2: Mar 8, 2007 Package updates: * GCC 4.1.2 with changes to correct regressions from previous releases * GNOME 2.18.0 RC1 with cool features, important bug fixes, great translations Improvements: * Updated the documentation: obsolete parts are removed, new parts are written, it is more than two times longer than it was till now. * Finished the artwork update, it is now homogenous again. * Updated the translations of the installer rc1: Feb 15, 2007 Package updates: * GNOME 2.17.90 with several bug fixes and speed enhancements * XFCE 4.4 with many new features and numerous bug fixes * Beryl 0.1.99.2 with many usablity, speed and reliability improvements * Added a package for VirtualBox, a free opensource virtualization program * Kernel 2.6.20 with KVM virtualization support and many speed enhancements * KDE 3.5.6 * Wine 0.9.29 bringing stability improvements Improvements: * Many packages recompiled to take advantage of new features in Glibc 2.5 and GCC 4.1. * Brand new GDM theme, which has many improvements over previous themes pre2: Jan 11, 2007 Package updates: * Added virt-manager and gnome-applet-vm packages as GUI tools for Xen * Tracker, a desktop search tool, now enabled by default in GNOME for lightning-fast searching * GNOME 2.17.3, with new features and bug fixes * Xfce 4.4 Release Candidate 2, with a lot of bug fixes * Beryl 0.1.3 with lots of new eye-candy effects * Linux Kernel 2.6.19 * Curl 7.16.0 * DBUS 1.0 with several improvements and fixes * HAL 0.5.8.1 with new features and bug fixes * dhcpcd 3.0, resulting in more reliable network autoconfiguration Improvements: * Added KDE support to fw-xgl-control and Beryl. * Gnome-mount, a replacement for pmount in GNOME resulting in more reliable and flexible automounting in GNOME Setup: * Much improved error handling. A dialog box will be displayed in the unlikely event of a segmentation fault and the installer will exit, instead of just restarting from the beginning. * Use libalpm to download the package database, which gives better error handling. If the database update fails, you will be told about it, instead of being given an empty category list. * There is now an option to go back to a previous step in the installer (where it makes sense). * CD/DVD installation is now faster: integrity and conflict checks are done before creating the installation images. * There is floppy image available now for tftp installs. pre1: Nov 9, 2006 Package updates: * kernel-2.6.18 with a much improved SATA layer and a few new drivers * glibc-2.5 with support for the new ELF hash table format * firefox-2.0 with improved tabbed browsing and inline spell checking * xfce 4.4rc1: This fixes all plugin crash problems with the old Xfce 4.2.x and the new version is much more stable. * kde-3.5.5 with KHTML improvements, and support for sudo in kdesu * openoffice.org-2.0.4 with a latex export filter and encryption support in the pdf export filter * dbus-0.93 with many memleaks and bugs fixed * neon-0.26.1 with internationalization support * Xen 3.0.3 with HVM and XenFB support && 2.6.18 for Xen kernels * db-4.5.20 with Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) support * python-2.5 with an interesting mix of language and library improvements * GNOME 2.17.1 with various bugfixes and new features * binutils-2.17.50.0.6 - this allows us to use the new ELF hash table format which is now enabled by default in our build system. This will cause a considerable performance increase in newly built packages New packages: * Added PHP documentation for 23 languages. Improvements: * All installed-by-default packages are now built using gcj/ecj, javac is only provided as an alternate compiler. Setup: * Installing from an usb stick is now supported.