New features in Debian Edu Buster

New features for Debian Edu 10+edu0 Codename Buster

Installation changes

• New version of debian-installer from Debian Buster, see its installation manual for more details.

• New artwork based on the futurePrototype theme, the default artwork for Debian 10 Buster.

• New default desktop environment Xfce (replacing KDE).

• New CFEngine configuration management (replacing unmaintained package cfengine2 with cfengine3); this is a major change, for details see the official CFEngine documentation.

• The architecture of the LTSP chroot now defaults to the server one.

Software updates

• Everything which is new in Debian 10 Buster, eg:
  • Linux kernel 4.19
  • Desktop environments KDE Plasma Workspace 5.14, GNOME 3.22, Xfce 4.12, LXDE 0.53, MATE 1.20
  • Firefox 60.4 ESR and Chromium 72.0

  • LibreOffice 6.1

  • Educational toolbox GCompris 0.95
  • Music creator Rosegarden 18.12
  • GOsa 2.74
  • LTSP 5.18
  • Debian Buster includes more than 56000 packages available for installation.

  • More information about Debian 10 Buster is provided in the release notes and the installation manual.

Documentation and translation updates

• Translation updates for the templates used in the installer. These templates are now available in 76 languages, of which 25 are fully translated.
• The Debian Edu Buster Manual is fully translated to German, French, Italian, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian Bokmål and Japanese.
  • Partly translated versions exist for Polish, Spanish, Simplified Chinese and Ukranian.

Other changes compared to the previous release

• The USB ISO image allows offline installations again.
• LXQt 0.14 is offered as new choice for the desktop environment.
• Support for running Java applets in the Firefox ESR browser has been dropped upstream.
• Support for nonfree flash has been dropped from the Firefox ESR browser. We have also decided to drop the free but unmaintained gnash implementation.

• New GOsa²-Plugin Password Management.

• Unusable options have been removed from the GOsa² web interface.

• New netgroup available to exclude systems belonging to the shut-down-at-night-hosts netgroup from being waken up.

• Improved TLS/SSL support inside the internal network. A RootCA certificate is used to sign server certificates and user home directories are configured to accept it at account creation time; besides Firefox ESR, also Chromium and Konqueror can now use HTTPS without the need to allow insecure connections.

• With X2Go server now available in Debian, the related packages are now installed on all systems with Profile LTSP-Server.

Known issues

• see the Debian Edu Buster status page.

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