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

[Philip Müller]

I fixed it at our blog and in our forum. In mailing lists I can't change 
it though ;)

On 11/24/2013 12:49 PM, Guillaume Benoit wrote:
> Nice news,
> I have two suggestions of correction in the announcement:
> - the last pamac version is 0.9.2
> - maybe change "my custom pyalpm" by "our custom pyalpm" or "a custom 
> pyalpm"
>
> Le 23/11/2013 17:45, Philip Müller a écrit :
>> 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 - Yaourt packages get listed as outdated in default package list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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