Kubuntu Changelog

What's new in Kubuntu 8.04.2

Feb 22, 2009
  • Installer updates:
  • Create sambashare group and add the initial user to it (#238224)
  • Permissions on some system files and directories were set wrong when installing from Desktop CDs. For users tracking the recommended hardy-updates repository, this issue has already been corrected post-install (#288479)
  • Record the partition table as changed when a single partition's file system type has changed, fixing bootloader installation failures when installing onto existing partitions (#149832)
  • Fix writing of /var/log/installer/oem-id in OEM mode (#251751)
  • Use the correct mirror for -security in the event of apt-setup/security_host being preseeded (#306356)
  • Desktop updates:
  • KDE was updated to the current KDE3 release, KDE 3.5.10
  • Fix codec installation loop on unsupported media in kaffeine (#210303)
  • Fix khelpcenter's indexer to work with dash (#241916)
  • Fix latexconvert in Kopete to work with dash (#183989)
  • Fix latexconvert dash incompatibility (#267991)
  • Fix problems with remote resources crashing kontact, most notably when using GCal (#286905)
  • General updates:
  • Set hdparm power management to 254 for all hard drives while on AC, and 128 while on battery (note that suspend/resume still breaks this, and a more complete fix will be forthcoming for Ubuntu 8.04.3) (#59695)
  • Support CDs with no uncompressed Packages files, only compressed ones, enabling upgrade to future releases using CDs (#255545)
  • Conflict with old mysql 4.1 packages to ensure smooth upgrades from Ubuntu 6.06 (#208695)
  • Backport cifs.upcall, to support Kerberos-authenticated CIFS kernel mounts (#236830)
  • e1000 checksum recheck after reset (#60388)