What's new in Kubuntu 8.04.2:

February 22nd, 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)