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Comment: new major freeradius version, too
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Separate section for D-I; add "no longer supported" category
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== Debian Installer == Only major changes are listed. For details the various release announcements can be checked. * Support for multiple CDs/DVDs during the installation * Update of system clock using NTP * volatile.debian.org added to sources.list by default * Experimental support for SATA RAID (dmraid) * relatime mount option * isolinux boot menu (i386/amd64) * Option to install Debian from MS Windows (i386/amd64) * Various changes affecting automated installs (preseeding) * New translations: ... * Dropped translations: ... * ... === Expected === * multipath support * relatime default == No longer supported in Lenny == Even though the page is called "New" this is probably the best place to track major changes in this category too (after all, the fact that support for something was dropped is new too). -- fjp * sparc32 |
New stuff in lenny:
Kernel and utilities
Linux 2.6.24 ([wiki:KernelFAQ new-features-in-lenny]); no support for Linux 2.4
- lspci (pciutils 3.0.0) has a -Q option to query the central database.
- mount : --make-shared, --make-slave, --make-private, --make-unbindable
- KVM (kernel + qemu-kvm...)
- ntfs-3g
Expected
- Linux 2.6.26
Desktop
GNOME 2.22 [http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.22/]-~
- gvfs replaces gnome-vfs (although nautilus will remain to gnome-vfs)
experimental webkit support (epiphany-webkit)
- gnome-keyring is generalized (including SSH keys support and pam_gnome_keyring)
- system-config-printer replaces gnome-cups-manager
- Native "print to PDF" support.
new apps : [http://live.gnome.org/Cheese/ cheese], [http://www.gnome.org/projects/vinagre/ vinagre], [http://live.gnome.org/Sabayon sabayon]
Improved application evolution, evince, totem (automatic download codecs), gedit (syntax-highlighting), screen-saver (Leave Message feature), Network-manager and power-manager.
- Improved Internationalization.
- Many improvements in accessibility support (new applications, at-spi integration in gecko applications)
X.org 7.3 ~-[http://www.x.org/wiki/Releases/7.3]-~
- Xserver autoconfiguration (most of xorg.conf becomes useless)
- RandR 1.2 support on Intel, ATI, and some G80 boards (autodetection of available modes, dynamic resizing, placing and rotating of outputs), but no multiple displays anymore
- ATI R5xx and R6xx modesetting and 2D acceleration support
Openoffice.org 2.4 ~-[http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/New_Features_2.4]-~
- Emacs 22
Gimp ~-[http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.4.html] ; [http://developer.gimp.org/NEWS-2.4]-~
- gParted 0.36 (can move partitions)
Expected
- Gecko 1.9
- KDE 4.1?
- iceweasel/Firefox 3 (?)
Server
- Nagios3 (removal of nagios2)
- MySQL 5.1
- PostgreSQL 8.3
- FreeRADIUS 2.0
Programming
- Python 2.5 as the default Python interpreter
- Tcl/Tk 8.5
- Perl 5.10
- GCC 4.3
- gcc/g++ 4.2/4.3 as default C/C++ compiler depending on architecture
- gfortran 4.3 as default FORTRAN compiler (g77 has been removed)
Debian system
- Support of symbols files (dpkg-gensymbols, dpkg-shlibdeps)
- Support of new source package formats (so that they can be used in lenny+1)
- debhelper 7
- dpkg triggers
- Manual page database updated automatically when installing packages
- apt-get autoremove
- Usable cross-building support of Debian packages with Debian tools.
DebianVolatile is official.
Expected
- TDebs (?)
Debian Installer
Only major changes are listed. For details the various release announcements can be checked.
- Support for multiple CDs/DVDs during the installation
- Update of system clock using NTP
- volatile.debian.org added to sources.list by default
- Experimental support for SATA RAID (dmraid)
- relatime mount option
- isolinux boot menu (i386/amd64)
- Option to install Debian from MS Windows (i386/amd64)
- Various changes affecting automated installs (preseeding)
- New translations: ...
- Dropped translations: ...
- ...
Expected
- multipath support
- relatime default
No longer supported in Lenny
Even though the page is called "New" this is probably the best place to track major changes in this category too (after all, the fact that support for something was dropped is new too). -- fjp
- sparc32
Notes
- a good start would be to review the programs in default tasks + the most installed programs not in tasks.
- New hardware support ; new modules ?