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

[Philip Müller]

Hi Cost,

I just pushed 0.8.8 to our download servers. Please update your torrents 
in this name scheme:

manjaro-xfce-0.8.8-i686.torrent

manjaro-xfce/openbox/net-0.8.8-i686.torrent
manjaro-xfce/openbox/net-0.8.8-x86_64.torrent

thx

Phil

On 11/24/2013 01:44 AM, Cost Granda wrote:
> El 2013-11-23 11:45, Philip Müller escribió:
>> 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  - Yaourt packages get listed as outdated in default package list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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> Congratulations to all for the hard work, im really happy for try the 
> new iso, and i want to ask when is avaliable for download? because i 
> have to create the torrents so i want to do it fast :) greetings and 
> thank you for keep Manjaro working.
>