January 31st, 2011· M6 sees the completed removal of the HAL hardware abstraction layer, to be replaced with the more up-to-date and actively maintained udev, udisks and upower suite. HAL was already scheduled for removal in 11.3, but it was retained while the last few software packages which depend on it were ported to udev and company.
· Branding and artwork has had a lot of attention, with the addition of the final wallpapers, splash screens and branding for 11.4. The default wallpaper is called Celadon Stripes, taking its inspiration from the color codename for this release.
· New software added in Milestone 6 includes the WebYaST stack. WebYaST is the web-based admin tool developed for SLES, now available for openSUSE. Professional sysadmins and those who just like to comfortably administer their openSUSE servers will appreciate WebYaST. Also on the server side, the latest versions of the Horde groupware suite are now in openSUSE.
· Software updates this milestone include the update of XOrg to 7.6, VirtualBox 4.0.2, GnuCash 2.4, and Scribus 1.3.9. A lively discussion on the opensuse-factory list about whether to include the stable Firefox 3.6.13 or a Firefox 4 beta centered around the limited availability of popular extensions for version 4 versus the short upstream maintenance period of Firefox 3 releases. As this article was published, the discussion was leaning towards taking a Firefox 4 beta and online-updating it to the final release when it becomes available.
· Updates are flowing thick and fast to the KDE workspace and applications. KDE 4.6RC2 is on M6, and will be updated to 4.6.0 final for the first Release Candidate. The accompanying flurry of application releases include Amarok 2.4.0, Digikam 1.8.0, KOffice 2.3.1, k3b 2.0.2, KDevelop 4.2, KMyMoney 4.5, Rekonq 0.6 and BlueDevil 1.0.1. Fans of the Oxygen style will also see it in GTK applications, thanks to the native port of Oxygen to a GTK style in the form of the oxygen-gtk package .
· As the GNOME project prepares for GNOME 3, the focus at openSUSE is on stabilisation and polish to GNOME 2.32. Bugfixes to PulseAudio, GDM and gnome-main-menu will ensure that 11.4 brings incremental refinement to GNOME users. Clutter 1.5 is included to support the latest available preview of gnome-shell, and the gramps genealogy tool is added in version 3.2.5. The GNOME team is preparing an 11.4-based Live CD that will include GNOME 3 when it is released in March.
· The XFCE desktop is updated thanks to the hard work of the community to version 4.8, bringing with it network transparent file management, a rewritten panel, menus editable with Alacarte, and improved packaging and installation selections for openSUSE.
April 14th, 2010· Update to Perl 5.12 (release notes)
· Update to parted 2.2; M5 has a complete toolkit for supporting 4K phyisical sector disks. (openSUSE-factory list)
· KMS integration for Intel and Nvidia (via nouveau driver) graphics, and the ability to disable it. (bugzilla 591400)
· Update to PackageKit 0.6.2, requiring revisions to KPackageKit (openSUSE-factory list)
· Added librcd and librcc, which provide on-the-fly language translation/detection, from the RusXMMS project. (openSUSE-factory list)
· Added xdiskusage, a visual disk-space analyzer. (openSUSE-factory list)
· A bug in OpenOffice.org that caused crashes when copying spreadsheet cells has been resolved. (bugzilla 588957)
· Access to the official SUSE manuals has been improved. (bugzilla 586682)
· Documentation has been corrected for the smbfs to cifs changes. (bugzilla 561993, bugzilla 578621)
· The installation slideshow now talks about version 11.3 instead of 11.2. (bugzilla 588396)
· Lithuanian keyboard layout added. (bugzilla 569554)
· Encrypted swap volumes no longer need to be formatted during install; YaST will prompt for LUKS volume passwords. (bugzilla 581341)
· A locking issue with reiserfs has been resolved and no longer prevents installs. (bugzilla 591807)
· An M4 annoyance with udev init scripts has been fixed. (bugzilla 592445)
System Administrators:
· ssh now shows a visual fingerprint on all relevant activities, and the .ssh/known_hosts file is hashed for increased security. (openSUSE-factory list)
· cron has been replaced by cronie, which ships as cron-1.4.4 (openSUSE-factory list)
· pam_mount updated to the latest stable version (1.2.4, libHX 2.7). (openFATE 305351, bugzilla 438457)
· KVM/qemu SDL windows no longer freeze. (bugzilla 586260)
Developers/Packagers:
· Update to rpm 4.8.0 (release notes)
· Update to zypper 1.4.1 resolves issues with ‘zypper ref’ and ‘zypper up’. (bugzilla 586979, bugzilla 591760)
· Update to NetBeans 6.8 in Java:packages. (bugzilla 593600)
· rpmlint properly finds RPM_BUILD_ROOT again. (bugzilla 584952)
Multimedia Authors:
· The JACK team is coordinating with openSUSE, Ubuntu, and Debian, among others, to upgrade to jack 1.9.5 (JACK2) during the spring/summer release cycle. (openSUSE-factory list)
· lilypond is now in multimedia:apps, to support rosegarden4. (openSUSE-factory list)
GUI Users:
· Update to X11 7.5 & xorg-server to 1.8.0. (openFATE 306903, bugzilla 586157, bugzilla 586350, bugzilla 587514, bugzilla 576481, bugzilla 593878)
· Added nouveau driver for Nvidia graphics. (openFATE 307588)
· VMWare mouse drivers are functioning again. (bugzilla 574857, bugzilla 592193)
· Update to gutenprint 5.2.4 with support for many new printer models. (openFATE 309091)
· An hplip update resolves deprecation issues related to udev. (bugzilla 577035)
· Update to PCManFM’s (a lightweight file manager) libfm-0.1.9beta resolves some file access issues. (bugzilla 591731)
· xscreensaver-recommended only installs a recommended subset of screensavers, and is selected by default instead of xscreensaver-extras. (openFATE 308474)
· iwl3945 (an Intel Wireless LAN driver) no longer needs to be reloaded after NetworkManager startup. (bugzilla 586711)
· Gnome 2.30 ’About Me’ no longer looses information. (bugzilla 588172)
· gnome-keyring works properly under LXDE. (bugzilla 580043)
· Update to gnuplot 4.4. (bugzilla 592563)
· Update to seamonkey 2.0.4. (bugzilla 592587)
Mobile Users:
· Update to pm-utils to 1.3.0; power management utilities now use udisks/upower and have no dependencies on HAL; video quirks are included. (openSUSE-factory list)
· NetworkManager has support for PEAP with Generic Token Card (PEAP-GTC). (openFATE 309158)
· Uacklight controls are working in MacBooks with Intel graphics. (bugzilla 581474)
Gamers:
· Added Dungeon Crawl (a nethack clone) to the Games repository. (openSUSE-factory list)
March 26th, 2010KDE has been updated to version 4.4.1 the most important changes:
· A performance problem in KMail when sending emails has been fixed
· Various fixes in Plasma widgets and other addons, such as the analog clock and the picture frame
· A number of fixes in Konsole, KDE’s powerful terminal application
· Amarok is now at version 2.3, “Areas such as podcast support and saved playlists have seen huge improvements, as has the support for USB mass storage devices (including generic MP3 players)”.
· k3b is updated to 2.0 RC2
· GNOME has been updated to the GNOME 2.30 release candidate (2.29.92)
· With the next milestone, empathy will be the default IM client for GNOME. Empathy supports now sending files via drag & drop and the IRC module now includes support for common IRC commands such as /join.
· Tomboy’s startup time has been drastically improved. Syncing is now done automatically.
· Natilus’ user interface now includes a new split view mode and the default is set to browser mode.
· OpenOffice.Org has been updated to 3.2.1 Beta1 with new features
· NetworkManager has been updated to version 0.8 with fixes to better support bluetooth and GSM.
· cups has been updated to version 1.4.2, it “adds over 67 changes and new features to CUPS 1.3.11, including improved Bonjour/DNS-SD support, supply level and status reporting for network printers via SNMP, an improved web interface, and the CUPS DDK tools.”
· The conntrack – network filtering system has been added. These are userspace tools that allow system administrators interact with the Connection Tracking System, which is the module that provides stateful packet inspection for iptables.
· The Mono stack has been updated to the bug fix release 2.6.3 together with MonoDevelop 2.2.2.
· Python was updated to the bug fix release 2.6.5 RC 2
· samba has been updated to version 3.5.1
November 12th, 2009· Linux kernel 2.6.31.5;
· EXT4 filesystem;
· GNOME 2.28.0 desktop environment;
· KDE 4.3.1 desktop environment;
· X.Org 7.4;
· X.Org server 1.6.5;
· New artwork.
October 15th, 2009· Live version upgrade. No need to stop working while upgrading from
· openSUSE 11.1 to openSUSE 11.2
· Support for several social networks like Facebook, Twitter and identi.ca
· Running openSUSE from an USB stick (especially for that we ask you for
· testing)
· Linux kernel 2.6.31.3
· GNOME 2.28
· PulseAudio 0.9.19
· Evolution 2.28
· Qt 4.5.3
· SeaMonkey 2.0 RC1
April 24th, 2009· Please note that this is a milestone release. It's for openSUSE contributors who want to use the release for testing and development, but it is not for production use. What's new? Linux kernel 2.6.29, KDE 4.2.2, GNOME 2.26, Mono 2.4, OpenOffice.org 3.1 beta 4, Xfce 4.6, Samba 3.2.8. The live CDs now use LZMA compression and have German, French, Italian, Polish, and Russian translations. YaST's Qt package manager now has a configurable view layout, and Zypp's mirror handling should be more robust in this release. Ext4 is supported in this release, but not yet enabled for installation.
November 28th, 2008· If all goes well, this will be the last testing release before the final 11.1 public release on December 18th. This release includes a number of bug fixes and changes since 11.1 beta 5, as well as a new license. It is ready for widespread testing, and we are encouraging everyone to download and work with the testing releases to find any critical bugs before release. Major changes in this release include: a new, shorter distribution license; Linux kernel 2.6.27.7; glibc 2.9; additional translations; Amarok 2.0 RC1; Zypper 1.0.1.
November 4th, 2008· Hot on the heels of openSUSE 11.1 beta 3, the openSUSE project is happy to announce the availability of openSUSE 11.1 beta 4. This release includes a number of important bug fixes since the last beta, as well as a few new bugs that need to get squashed before the final release. Major changes in this release include: inclusion of Nomad, a set of components that provide an unmatchable remote desktop experience to openSUSE; fingerprint reader support; Linux 2.6.27.4 kernel, Mono 2.0.1, GNOME 2.24.1, VirtualBox 2.0.4, Evolution 2.24.1, Banshee 1.3.3; webcam support re-enabled.
October 22nd, 2008· The openSUSE project is proud to announce the availability of beta 3 of the 11.1 release. It's a few days late, but much better for the delay. Beta 3 is now available for immediate download and testing. Major changes in this release include: live CDs for x86 and x86_64 GNOME and KDE; OpenOffice.org 3.0; Mono 2.0 Final; Linux 2.6.27.1 (fixes e1000e issue); parts of 11.1 branding are now in place; GNOME 2.24. Installing openSUSE 11.1 beta 3 on Mac OS X machines should work fine. KVM is broken in this release due to a kernel configuration change before beta 3. OpenOffice.org 3.0 integration continues and should be much better in this release.
October 3rd, 2008· The first beta release for 11.1 was so popular, we have decided to do it again! The openSUSE project is happy to announce the release of openSUSE 11.1 beta 2, available for immediate download and testing. Major changes in this release include: live CDs for GNOME and KDE, VirtualBox 2.0.2, OpenOffice.org 3.0RC2, GNOME 2.24.0, KDE 4.1.2, Mono 2.0RC3, Compiz 0.7.8. This release is ready for widespread testing and we're encouraging everyone to download and test it.
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