[manjaro-dev] [0.8.8] we finally made it ...

[J Fernyhough]

Congratulations!

And good job all you devs!

J

On 23 November 2013 16:45, Philip Müller <philm at manjaro.org> wrote:
> We finally made it. Manjaro 0.8.8 is ready now. Our last stable release
> 0.8.7
> we announced on the 2013-08-25. 0.8.7.1 followed one month later on the 12
> Sep.
> This means, it took us three months for our current stable release.
>
> You will find followed kernels:
>
> - Linux34 3.4.70    -   our default kernel series for Manjaro 0.8.7
> - Linux38 3.8.13.13 -   stable extended support kernel maintained by
> Canonical
> - Linux310 3.10.20  -   our default kernel series for Manjaro 0.8.8
> - Linux311 3.11.9   -   current stable release by Linus.
> - Linux312 3.12.1   -   we still don't recommend to us it
>
> We worked hard and managed to get Pamac 0.9.1 done. Here are some features
> of
> our redesigned package manager:
>
> - stable backend for updates or transactions with my custom pyalpm
> - the transaction progress window was redesign, it includes now a details
> expander
> - post-install script output is visble in this expander
> - you can install local packages from pamac-manager (you can also do it from
> cli with pamac-install cmd or from your file manager)
> - an about window
> - dbus daemon is back to perform transactions
> - high cpu usage bug should be completely fixed
> - checking updates rewritten
> - config parser improvements
> - AUR support
>
> Also Octopi got updated to 0.3. Here are some features of the new release:
>
> - menu "Octopi" and "System Upgrade" got added in octopi-notifier
> - Yaourt packages get listed as outdated in default package list
> - now it's possible to upgrade Yaourt packages even outside Yaourt group
> - now octopi-notifier opens only the transaction dialog if Octopi is not
> running and user requests a system upgrade
> - support to remove Pacman's transaction lock file got added
> - About Dialog to Octopi Notifier got added
>
> Some facts about the current changes:
>
> Thus - graphical installer
>
> - Simplified UI
> - Partitioning in two modes (automatic, custom)
> - Using rsync to extract squashfs images
> - Webkit slideshow
> - Bootloader support for Grub (bios, efi)
> - Location selection on map
> - Autologin support
> - Orca support for more accessibility
>
> ManjaroISO
> - use stable branch
> - use linux310
>
> I hope you have fun as we had to prepare this release.
>
> kind regards
>
> Phil Müller and the development team of Manjaro.
>
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