Releases/Mandriva/2007/Development/Changelog
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Distribution Changelog for Mandriva Linux 2007
Summary of most important changes in each set of ISO files released
[edit] 2006-10-02 Warly 2007.0-1 Mandriva Linux 2007 Official
- Mandriva 2007 Official, see Releases/Mandriva/2007 for languages available and ISO specific details
[edit] 2006-09-16 Warly 2007.0-0.6 Mandriva Linux 2007 Beta "Sunna"
- Mandriva 2007 RC 2 2007, see Releases/Mandriva/2007/Development/RC/Sunna for known issues, languages available and ISO specific details
[edit] 2006-09-08 Warly 2007.0-0.5 Mandriva Linux 2007 Beta "Mona"
- Mandriva 2007 RC 1 2007, see Releases/Mandriva/2007/Development/RC/Mona for known issues, languages available and ISO specific details
- Install from 2006-09-08 18:52:31 +0200 / Drakxtools 10.4.65
- Hardware
- fix ugly typo (fix klaptop not installed on laptops)
- Look and feel
- (ask_browse_tree_info_given_widgets_for_rpmdrake) kill gtk+ warnings (bugz:23720)
- added new advertisment
- use splash.xpm.gz if it exists (pkgs mandriva-theme will modify it according to the chosen theme)
- really don't display "release notes" button if none availlable (eg: /usr/share/doc being empty) (bugz:23304)
- Video
- allow choosing 3D acceleration when specifying driver explictly
- allow to configure SWCursor on savage cards (since it is needed on "VT8751 [ProSavageDDR P4M266] VGA Controller" (0x5333:0x8d04))
- x11-driver-video-xxx (error was silent)
- we only need /dev/mouse symlink for X. the bug occured when configuring X and /etc/sysconfig/mouse was empty or buggy (bugz:24020)
- fix using the proprietary driver by default in automatic mode
- Misc
- fix copy_rpms_on_disk (also fixes the resulting urpmi config) (bugz:25197)
- Network
- fix firmware path for zd1211
- install zd1211-firmware if needed
- monitor all wireless interfaces, not only the first one
- use signal strength from iwconfig output for current AP (bugz:24498)
- write hostname (bugz:24012)
- use iwlist to scan networks even if no interface is specified
- display IP address and gateway in tooltip (bugz:23800)
- show interface type with an icon (bugz:23767)
- use defaultPref() instead of pref() in mozilla-firefox config file so that it can be overridden by user config
- configure three {0,1,2}.foo.pool.ntp.org NTP server addresses when a NTP pool is used (bugz:10659)
- strip digits from NTP pool addresses when matching servers list
- use Retry/Quit buttons for the ntp sync error window (bugz:17037)
- improve UTC/local time selection (bugz:23275)
- Hardware
- write imwheel startup.conf after installing pkg imwheel so that /etc/X11/imwheel exists
- have a valid /etc/sysconfig/mouse when using drakx-in-chroot (useful for mandriva One)
- ask before bindly using software raid
- allow automatically using imwheel without evdev
- change the format used for imwheel kind of mouse (imwheel|MX500 is now imwheel+MX500, imwheel is now imwheel+generic)
- installing on some dmraid need the option --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2. using it in any case (it is what grub-install is doing) the part of help on setup command concerning --stage2: If you install GRUB under the grub shell and you cannot unmount the partition where GRUB images reside, specify the option --stage2' to tell GRUB the file name under your OS.
- (probe_powerpc) fix bug spotted by diagnostics pragma where perl would split on both spaces and commas...
- (selectMouse) do not bother ask for which USB driver (bugz:24514)
- install soundwrapper for OSS cards too
- use info from usbtable to know wether to use evdev (for example, evdev is useful for MX700, which do not have a HWHEEL, and we can't use KEY to know wether it has many buttons since receivers report things like KEY=ffff0000)
- we always use HWheelXAxisMapping for evdev, it tells mice with no horizontal wheel to skip those buttons that way we ensure 6 & 7 is always horizontal wheel (cf patch skip-HWheelRelativeAxisButtons-even-if-unused in x11-driver-input-evdev)
- make sure soundwrapper is installed, at least when there's an ALSA driven sound card (bugz:24371)
- i18n
- fix japanese keyboard configuration (UTUMI Hirosi <[email protected])
- Live
- add lvm2 ([[:bugz:24658}%) and mdadm (bugz:24942) on live media
- Hardware
- kernel 2.6.17-4mdv2007.0, same as in 2007.0-0.3 (beta 2)
- Samir Bellabes
- netfilter fix - bug bugz:24252
- fix netfilter IFWLOG
- Arnaud Patard <[email protected]>
- 2.6.17.11
- Alsa 1.0.12
- Enable USB_EHCI_SPLIT_ISO (bugz:24412)
- Fix sparc build (bugz:24646)
- Fix Xen on 32bit and workaround Xen bug on 64bit.
- Fix b44 module (bugz:24312)
- RSBAC 1.2.8
- AHCI suspend
- Squashfs 3.1r2
- Fix oops on video.ko rmmod
- SiS 966 chipsets support
- Add support for 2Gb memory cards
- Fix uhci list bug
- Revert reset changes in the e1000 driver. This should fix the e1000 resume issues
- Fix list usage in the sis190 driver
- Luiz Capitulino
- Updates drbd to 8.0pre4
- Adds drbd-api provides (bugz:24264)
- Adds support for partitioned loop devices (patch from Flavio)
- Fix double ACPI video /proc entries (patch from Danny [email protected]
- Samir Bellabes
- Desktop
- KDE 3.5.4
- Gnome 2.16
- Some of the other new packages available for this beta (some of them are only available via FTP sources for space limitation on the CDs)
- amarok 1.4.3 A powerful media player for Kde
- beagle 0.2.9 GNOME indexing subsystem
- ekiga 2.0.3 Voice and Video over IP software (H323 / SIP)
- epiphany 2.16.0 GNOME web browser based on the mozilla rendering engine
- evolution 2.8.0 Integrated GNOME mail client, calendar and address book
- gset-compiz 0.3.4 A compiz configuration tool
- MySQL 5.0.24a MySQL: a very fast and reliable SQL database engine
[edit] 2006-08-30 Warly 2007.0-0.4 Mandriva Linux 2007 Beta "Tyr"
- Mandriva 2007 beta 3, see Releases/Mandriva/2007/Development/RC/Tyr for known issues, languages available and ISO specific details
- 417 bugs fixed, 517 reported since last beta
- Install Revision: 58514 (2006-08-28 19:43:01 +0200) / Drakxtools 10.4.60
- Network
- invictus: don't write world-readable ucarp.d files, they contain passwords
- write GATEWAY settings (bugz:20169)
- drakids: display an error message when the daemon isn't started at all (instead of dying silently)
- tmdns isn't used anymore
- net_applet: allow to run drakvpn from VPN submenu
- net_applet: move wireless configuration button in wireless sub-menu
- drakroam: don't show ndiswrapper choice
- wireless: allow to select automatically usable devices only
- drakfirewall: don't write icmp rules for IFW (bugz:24645)
- add interface alias in modules conf for ethernet/wireless devices (bugz:24384)
- write modules conf in drakconnect (bugz:24384)
- Video
- drak3d: fix default compiz selection when Xgl is used
- use XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps for i810 and ati (bugz:24628)
- re-enable RenderAccel by default on nvidia proprietary driver (pb fixed with version 8774)
- really ensure that task-3ddesktop is installed
- list compiz as a window manager
- finish-install: 3D desktop support in finish-install
- drak3d: fix compiz detection
- allow specifying EXA on i128 ati sis trident via savage (list taken from http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ExaStatus)
- allow setting BIOSHotkeys on radeon
- Clone is the default on ATI, allow forcing no Clone (fix buggy detection of the CRT, as reproduced here on a thinkpad here, and reported by Thomas Backlund on cooker)
- really ensure task-x11 is installed (testing the presence of rgb.txt is not enough) (bugz:24529)
- only enable Composite by default on i810 since
- it doesn't work on proprietary nvidia
- it doesn't work nicely on radeon
- it conflicts with DRI on fglrx
- it conflicts with XGL
- Clone option on intel and nvidia
- Look and feel
- drak3d: fix layout when embedded
- make gtk2 watch method work again (bugz:24589)
- new icons for a lot of tools
- enable again to select individual packages (bugz:24522)
- reintroduce old version for services/package browsing at install time (bugz:24522, bugz:24517, bugz:24496)
- draksplash: check that a valid theme name and image are selected (bugz:24591)
- Printing
- Updated instructions for faxing with HP MF devices.
- Do not let an extra entry for a fax queue be listed in the printer auto-detection results. This can lead to two fax queues for one HP MF device being generated.
- Let the "no_device_found" output of HPLIP's "hp" and "hpfax" CUPS backends not be interpreted as an additional printer
- Wait 2 sec between detection of plugged printer and automatic print queue setup, as some printers need to load their firmware and during firmware upload the automatic queue setup does not work (device ID not readable).
- Fixed dynamic PPD file generation during installation
- Hardware
- stop stage1 generation when the PCI/USB/PCMCIA modules aren't available (may happen when the kernel isn't installed, bugz:21918)
- Remove more disk/scsi modules for x86_64: tmscsim (DC930T) only 2 pcitable entries and code probably not 64-bit clean, qlogicfas408, originally ISA card (not supported) and PCMCIA model unlikely to be used with an SCSI CD Reader anyway
- we now handle raid6 (bugz:24637) (thanks to Luca Berra)
- (dmidecode) do not try to run dmidecode if not root (bugz:24478)
- make sure rt2570 devices reporting themselves as rtusb are detected (bugz:24461)
- bootloader: use more explicit variable names, and fix "unknown line ..." (cf logs in bug bugz:24320)
- add a evdev entry for mice with an horizontal wheel (still need inverting buttons 6 & 7 though)
- don't ask wether we want to emulate 3rd button on 2 buttons mice since it doesn't change anything currently
- ensure we don't die computing the number of cylinders (the bug occured when HDIO_GETGEO succeeds, but returning 0) (bugz:24096, bugz:24042)
- introduce a "USB mass storage" class in order to catch some devices (bugz:21836)
- synaptics touchpad do not need "Protocol auto-dev" nor "Device ..." (need tests on ALPS to ensure it is the same)
- Network
- kernel 2.6.17-2mdv2007.0, same as in 2007.0-0.3 (beta 2)
- Desktop
- KDE 3.5.4
- Gnome 2.16 RC 1
- Some of the other new packages available for this beta (some of them are only available via FTP sources for space limitation on the CDs)
- alsa-oss 1.0.12 Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) library
- audacious 1.1.2 A versatile and handy media player
- avahi 0.6.13 Avahi service discovery (mDNS/DNS-SD) suite
- beagle 0.2.8 GNOME indexing subsystem
- bittorrent 4.20.9 BitTorrent is a tool for copying files from one machine to another
- Borges 0.14.8 Mandriva Linux Documents Management System
- cairo 1.2.4 Cairo - multi-platform 2D graphics library
- cups 1.2.3 Common Unix Printing System - Server package
- evolution 2.7.92 Integrated GNOME mail client, calendar and address book
- f-spot 0.2.0 A full-featured personal photo management application for the GNOME desktop
- gset-compiz 0.3.4 A compiz configuration tool
- ia_ora-gnome 1.0.4 Ia Ora Mandriva GNOME theme
- k3b 0.12.17 CD-Burner for KDE
- mono 1.1.17 Mono Runtime
- proftpd 1.3.0 ProFTPd -- Professional FTP Server
- rosegarden 1.2.4 Midi, audio and notation editor
- rpmdrake 3.1.1 Mandriva Linux graphical front end for sofware installation/removal
- ruby 1.8.5 Object Oriented Script Language
- tor 0.1.1.23 Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (The onion router)
[edit] 2006-08-15 Warly 2007.0-0.3 Mandriva Linux 2007 Beta "Odin"
- Mandriva 2007 Beta 2, see Releases/Mandriva/2007/Development/RC/Odin for knows issues, languages available and ISO specific details.
- 587 bugs solved since the last beta, 478 reported.
- Install / Drakxtools 10.4.50-1mdv2007.0
- hardware
- kernel: adapt to new kernels (-i586-up-1GB is now -legacy, standard kernel is smp but not 64GB anymore)
- harddrake: create and package /etc/sysconfig/harddrake2/service.conf that enable to disable some auto configuration done by the harddrake service, enable to disable hardware probing per class (bugz:24071)
- harddrake: display PCI/USB ids as hexa like lspcidrake does (bugz:21220), workaround do_pkgs->is_available() destroying $_ (bugz:23327)
- Look and Feel
- Theme: use Ia Ora instead of Galaxy (theme)
- don't show the "releases notes" button if empty (bugz:23304)
- try harder to find releases notes (eg: for finish-install) (bugz:23304)
- fix inactive "close" button (bugz:23266)
- (real_main) fix bad window sizing (bugz:23552)
- Video
- adapt to new fonts location
- XFdrake: get rid of weird chars (bugz:24078)
- handle evdev (keyboard or mouse)
- X fonts move to /usr/share
- Printer
- Added automatic download of ICM color profiles for printers driven by the "foo2zjs" driver from the internet;
- Made duplicate detection of the same printer being recognized also with HPLIP 1.6.7 and newer;
- Added automatic setup for firmware file istallation for the HP LaserJet 1000, 1005, 1018, and 1020.
- Packages
- Orca is replacing gnopernicus;
- Replace galaxy-gnome by ia_ora-gnome.
- drakxvt use /usr/bin/xvt (from Nicolas LAécureuil, bugz:24213)b
- Network
- use network::connection::isdn (bugz:24244)
- atmel wireless drivers are now named atmel_cs and atmel_pci (instead of at76c50*)
- use NTP pools from pool.ntp.org instead of hardcoded NTP servers (get_ntp_server_tree)
- fix ntp parsing when coutry name contains a space (bugz:24215)
- show VPN sub-menu even if only one connection is configured
- don't show a VPN connection button if no VPN connection is configured (bugz:24203)
- don't use caching-nameserver but directly "bind" and "named"
- wrap VPN command for non-root users
- hardware
- kernel 2.6.17
- Enable HUGETLBFS (GwenoleBeauchesne)
- Factor out configs (GwenoleBeauchesne)
- 2.6.17.8 (Arnaud Patard)
- Alsa 1.0.12rc2 (Arnaud Patard)
- Add usb ids for the Testo usb device (bug bugz:23666) (Arnaud Patard)
- Add quickcam messenger driver for 2.6.18-rcX (Arnaud Patard)
- ata_piix/ICH8 fixes (Arnaud Patard)
- ACL support for tmpfs (bug bugz:24045) (Arnaud Patard)
- Add DI20_initialize_hw_regs_in_setup_ports.patch from 2006-upd (Arnaud Patard)
- i965 support (Arnaud Patard)
- Intel iAMT redirection drivers (Arnaud Patard)
- Add support for chipset realtek 8168. (bug bugz:23705) (SamirBellabes)
- Add netfilter ipset patch (SamirBellabes)
- Add netfilter conntrack/nat sip patch (SamirBellabes)
- Add netfilter psd patch. (SamirBellabes)
- Desktop
- Gnome 2.16 beta (2.5.91)
- KDE 3.5.4
- Some of the other new packages available for this beta (some of them are only available via FTP sources for space limitation on the CDs)
- alsa-tools 1.0.12: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) tools
- amarok 1.4.2: A powerful media player for Kde
- apache 2.2.3: The most widely used Web server on the Internet
- banshee 0.11.0: Music player with mobile player support
- blender 2.42a: A fully functional 3D modeling/rendering/animation package
- dbus 0.91: D-Bus message bus
- dmraid 1.0.0: Device-mapper ATARAID tool
- epiphany 2.15.91: GNOME web browser based on the mozilla rendering engine
- evolution 2.7.91: Integrated GNOME mail client, calendar and address book
- gaim 2.0.0: A GTK+ based multiprotocol instant messaging client
- gnucash 2.0.1: GnuCash is an application to keep track of your finances
- gutenprint 5.0.0: Photo-quality printer drivers primarily for inkjet printers
- ia_ora-gnome 1.0.1: Ia Ora Mandriva GNOME theme
- iptables 1.3.5: Tools for managing Linux kernel packet filtering capabilities
- kerry 0.1.1: Desktop search tool
- koffice 1.5.90: Set of office applications for KDE
- mozilla-firefox 1.5.0.6: Mozilla Firefox Web Browser
- MySQL 5.0.24: MySQL a very fast and reliable SQL database engine
- qemu 0.8.2: QEMU CPU Emulator
- rails 1.1.4: Web-application framework with template engine, control-flow layer, and ORM
- sylpheed 2.2.7: A GTK+2 based, lightweight, and fast e-mail client
- xgl 0.0.1: Xserver that uses OpenGL.
[edit] 2006-07-27 Warly 2007.0-0.2 Mandriva Linux 2007 Beta "Thor"
- Mandriva 2007 Beta 1, see MandrivaLinux2007Thor (Releases/Mandriva/2007/Development/RC/Thor) for know issues, languages available and ISO specific details.
- New mirror structure. The development is currently evolving, the media will be divided in subsections (release for official packages, updates, backport and testing)
- About 640 new bugs reported since the last alpha release, and (strangely) about 640 old bug closed during the same period.
- Install Revision: 42141 (2006-07-25 20:34:34) / Drakxtools 10.4.42
- Network
- allow not to log firewall messages in system logs (bugz:23690)
- add step labels (bugz:23796)
- fix typo in ueagle-atm fir,mare path (bugz:23398)
- remove "Track network card id (useful for laptops)" option (we do this by default using udev rules anyway), and fix bugz:23414 as a side effect
- drakroam
- refresh networks on every network status event (bugz:23862)
- add a status bar and display network event messages (bugz:19290)
- reload interface settings before configuration (bugz:23803)
- write settings after configuration, not only before connection (partial fix for bugz:23803)
- select the first interface that doesn't have a slow network scan
- allow to select interface from command line
- grey Configure/Refresh buttons when no device is selected (bugz:23794)
- grey the Connect button when no network is selected (bugz:20168)
- fix connection to AP passed as argument (bugz:23628)
- Wireless
- use "wext" wpa_supplicant driver for ndiswrapper as well (ndiswrapper >= 1.12)
- don't pre-select WPA only because WIRELESS_WPA_DRIVER is set
- write wireless encryption key even if WPA (so that we can guess it from ifcfg, we don't parse wpa_supplicant.conf yet)
- re-read ssid configuration each time it is accessed
- Wireless
- don't allow to modify ESSID if a network with a valid ESSID is selected
- fix configuring an AP without ESSID
- acx100 firmware support
- add group labels to separate settings (bugz:23796)
- guess encryption according to network flags
- bcm43xx firmware support
- add zd1211rw module in network/wireless
- handle prism2 drivers using thirdparty layer
- drakgw
- test caching-nameserver using /usr/sbin/named
- net_applet
- fix signal level (bugz:23799)
- drakgw
- use network card description in state notification bubble if possible
- add wireless access point and link level in state notification bubble
- show notification bubble on state change
- Hardware
- Make installation stage 1 able to boot dual arch CDs
- Cpufreq: fix crash when modules doesn't exist
- greatly increase the swap maxsize (useful for swsuspend)
- make isLaptop() return true if Type is "laptop", using dmitable entries for example (bugz:23197)
- Sound: install the proper firmware for "snd-asihpi" driven sound cards
- tag systems with ipw2100/2200/3945 devices as laptops, they are Mini-PCI (Express) adapters
- handle new centrino model (bugz:22914)
- don't fail when preload modules can't be loaded (bugz:23674)
- configure CPU frequency modules in harddrake and during install (will replace the cpufreq service)
- Video
- use Modes instead of Virtual by default (it seems we don't need to list the smaller resolutions anymore with Modes, and Modes works better than Virtual. eg: on a laptop here, we end up with only 1400x1050 in xrandr when using Virtual, whereas with Modes, we have 1024x768, 800x600...)
- allow toggling Composite extension (on by default), and RenderAccel proprietary nvidia option (on by default until this driver works better)
- allow to choose the non-proprietary driver
- Tools
- drakbug: allow to report drakroam bugs, fix parsing new packages fullnames ([email protected], bugz:23066)
- drakbackup
- Authentication
- differentiate local auth and NIS auth (by reading yp.conf)
- Other bug fixes
- Fix bugz:23368 - freeze at CD/DVD media selection
- bugz:18840, bugz:21361, bugz:23557, bugz:21502, bugz:23514
- Language
- set up SCIM for indian languages
- Update af, am, ar, az, be, bg, bn, bs, ca, cs, da, de, el, eo, es, eu, fa, fi, fuo, ga, gl, he, hi, hr, hu, id, is, it, ko, ky, lt, ltg, lv, mk, mn, ms, mt, nb, nl, nn, pa_IN, pl, pt, pt_BR, ro, ru, sc, sk, sl, sq, sr, sr@Latn, sv, ta, tg, th, tl, tr, uk, uz, uz@Latn, vi, wa, zh_CN, zh_TW
- Network
- kernel 2.6.17
- based on 2.6.17.6
- Alsa 1.0.12rc1
- Rsbac 1.2.8(pre1)
- New Xen snapshot
- New wireless-2.6 snapshot (adds zd1211rw driver)
- KGDB drop
- e100, e1000 update
- Via VT8251 sata support
- vt_ar5k drop. Considered as obselete by upstream.
- svgalib_helper drop.
- 3rdparty updates : acerhk, drbd, dxr3, ipw3945, ivtv, lirc, mod_marvel, ndiswrapper
- re-enable supermount (fix bug bugz:23217)
- ct_sync aka 'howto replicate the firewall'
- Desktop
- Gnome 2.16 beta 1
- KDE 3.5.3
- Some of the other new packages available for this beta (some of them are only available via FTP sources for space limitation on the CDs)
- jakarta 1.3
- koffice 1.5.2
- mono 1.1.16.1
- MySQL 5.0.23
- abiword 2.4.5: Lean and fast full-featured word processor
- aircrack-ng 0.6: Reliable 802.11 (wireless) sniffer and WEP key cracker
- alacarte 0.9.2: Simple menu editor for Gnome
- amarok 1.4.1: A powerful media player for Kde
- amphetamine 0.8.10: Amphetamine is a cool Jump'n Run game
- audacious 1.1.1: A versatile and handy media player
- avahi 0.6.12: Avahi service discovery (mDNS/DNS-SD) suite
- azureus 2.4.0.3: BitTorrent Client
- bacula 1.38.11: Bacula - The Network Backup Solution
- balazar 0.3.1: A 3D adventure and roleplaying game
- bittorrent 4.20.4: BitTorrent is a tool for copying files from one machine to another
- bmpx 0.20.3: Next generation Beep Media Player
- Borges 0.14.4: Mandriva Linux Documents Management System
- cairo 1.2.0: Cairo - multi-platform 2D graphics library
- castpodder 5.1: Graphical podcast catcher and player:
- circuslinux 1.0.3: Cute breakout-like game
- cpufreqd 2.1.1: CPU frequency scaling daemon
- cups 1.2.2: Common Unix Printing System - Server package
- dasher 4.1.8: Graphical predictive text entry system
- ecell 3.1.105: A software suite for modeling, simulation, and analysis of biological cells
- eclipse 3.2.0: An open, extensible IDE
- egroupware 1.2.104: Web-based groupware suite written in php
- epiphany 2.15.4: GNOME web browser based on the mozilla rendering engine
- evince 0.5.4: GNOME Document viewer
- evolution 2.7.90: Integrated GNOME mail client, calendar and address book
- gimp 2.3.10: The GNU Image Manipulation Program
- Gnome 2.16 beta 1 (including totem, nautilus)
- gnucash 2.0.0: GnuCash is an application to keep track of your finances
- gsoap 2.7.8c: Development tookit for SOAP/XML Web services in C/C++
- perl-Catalyst 5.7000: The Elegant MVC Web Application Framework
- syslinux 3.11: A bootloader for linux using floppies, CD
- webmin 1.290: An SSL web-based administration interface for Unix systems
- wine 0.9.17: WINE Is Not An Emulator - runs MS Windows programs
- xdtv 2.3.3: TV application with plugin capabilities (new name of xawtv)
- xfce 4.3.90.2: Lightweight Desktop Environment
[edit] 2006-06-22 Warly 2007.0-0.1 Mandriva Linux 2007 Alpha "Frige"
- First 2007 alpha version composed of four differents live installable CDs, one i586 KDE, one x86_64 KDE, one i586 Gnome and one x86_64 Gnome
- See Releases/Mandriva/2007/Development/RC/Frige page for languages and ISO files specific details
- Mandriva One installation based on DrakX Revision: 37230 of 2006-06-14 18:55:48 +0200 (Wed, 14 Jun 2006)
- Languages update: af, am, ar, az, be, bg, bn, br, bs, ca, cs, cy, da, de, el, eo, es, et, eu, fa, fi, fr, fur, ga, gl, he, hi, hr, hu, id, is, it, ja, ko, ky, lt, ltg, lv, mk, mn, ms, mt, nb, nl, nn, pa_IN, pl, pt, pt_BR, ro, ru, sc, sk, sl, sq, sr, sr@Latn, sv, ta, tg, th, tl, tr, uk, uz, uz@Latn, vi, wa, zh_CN, zh_TW
- Network (OlivierBlin)
- initial bluetooth support
- add draknetprofile
- pass real network::connection object in configure_control_compat step (bugz:22756)
- don't overwrite user-provided domainname by the one we guess (bugz:22480 fix #2)
- make sure guessed domain names really contain a name, and not just a TLD (bugz:22480 fix #1)
- adapt to new keyring image location in usermode (bugz:22813)
- add default metric for wireless
- write BOOTPROTO in ifcfg files for ethernet
- adapt to new keyring image location in usermode (bugz:22495)
- introduce is_gigabit and use it to guess metric for ethernet
- handle metric in general control settings
- firmware check for ueagle-atm
- install packages before unloading connection
- really apply ONBOOT and USERCTL settings
- write ppp settings for static/dhcp connections
- add VPI/VCI settings for PPPoA/PPPoE protocols
- don't give providers and protocols choices for CAPI DSL modems
- add xdsl type in devices
- fix signal quality detection
- clamp the TCP MSS to 1412 for PPPoE connections (useful if the connection is to be shared on a LAN)
- allow to have multiple interfaces in net zone (bugz:16917)
- update shorewall interfaces list when a new interface is detected (bugz:21252)
- Printer (TillKamppeter)
- Some LaserJets (e. g. LaserJet 1022) were not recognized as HPLIP-supported, due to libusb-based HPLIP reporting URI with serial number but "usblp"-kernel-module based IOCTL polling of the device ID string by printerdrake does not return the serial number.
- Made temporary PPD file also be accessible in sub programs called via "chroot" during installation
- Better fix for bug bugz:22935, the old one did not cover all cases
- Improved/updated the instructions for faxing with HP multi-function devices
- Let faxing instructions also appear in the help window of fax queues
- Added welcome screen to fax queue setup wizard, this way one can easily abort the setup of a fax queue if one does not want to have one.
- Let also the model info output from the "snmp" CUPS backend be straightened, not only the output from "scli",
- Fixed bug of the network printer setup dialog not distinguishing correctly between an auto-detected printer chosen from the menu and a manually entered printer IP.
- If the printer has optional hardware add-ons, pop up a dialog/wizard step to configure them when installing via Plug'n'Print or in recommended mode (in expert mode all options will be shown, as before).
- Fixed problem of having two choices with the same menu entry in a an option in the PPD file (should not be, really bad usability) breaks setting up printers/changing options/changing printer name in printerdrake
- Use "CUPS + Gutenprint" and not "GhostScript + gutenprint-ijs" PPDs in beginners mode
- Show all important options of Gutenprint without needing to click "Advanced" button
- Do not let printerdrake install gutenprint-ijs and gutenprint-foomatic any more
- SNMP auto-detection in the remote LPD printer dialog - Fixed regexps for LPD and Socket URIs
- Use auto-detection via CUPS "snmp" backend also for interactive print queue setup.
- Added support for local and network device auto-detection via CUPS backends
- Made auto queue setup use the CUPS backends for detectinglocal and network devices
- Improved recognizing the correct printer model based on the auto-detection data, especially for network devices
- Improved recognition whether for an auto-detected device there is already a queue
- Improved device model recognition for the HPLIP setup
- Support for on-the-fly PPD generation by CUPS
- Get all info about supported printer models from CUPS if CUPS is the printing system in use. Foomatic PPDs are built by CUPS on-the-fly
- Speed optimization for building of the list of supported models
- Bug fixes for building of the list of supported models
- Tell user that for his HP MF device two queues will be set up, a print queue and a fax queue
- Give the possibility to cancel the print queue setup for only having a fax queue also during installation
- Let auto-queue setup of an HP MF device be done also when there is no print queue but a fax queue already exists
- Let auto-queue setup not create a second fax queue for an HP MF device if a fax queue already exists
- Make the fax queue setup for HP MF devices also work when there is no print queue for the device
- Ask always for the fax queue name when creating a fax queue and there is already one for the device
- When the user clicks "Cancel" during the print queue setup, the wizard for the fax queue is still started. So a fax-only setup is also possible.
- Now fax queues can also be added in wizard mode
- Adding a fax queue to an HP MF device which is already set up can be done by its "Edit Printer" menu
- Implementation of automatic setup of fax queues for HP multi-function devices. Works for plug'n'print and should also work during installation. Only integration into the printer setup wizard and manual fax queue setup is missing yet.
- Reload USB printer module before printer auto-detection, this way also USB printers clamed by libusb-based access methods (ex. HPLIP) get detected.
- Added support for new CUPS 1.2 error policy functionality and use it by default for backend error handling, use "beh" wrapper backend only for advanced configuration
- Added support for individually (de)activating the sharing of print queues to the network
- Display Fax queues for HP multi-function devices correctly in the main window and in menues
- Let printerdrake read /etc/cups/cupsd.conf of CUPS 1.2 correctly
- Added support for remote LPD URIs without queue name (uses default queue on server, makes setup of ethernet printers very easy as only IP address is needed, one needs queue field in remote LPD setup screen siumply blank)
- Added support for TCP/Socket URIs without port number (defaults to port 9100)
- Added support for IPP URIs. - Let free URI input interface be pre-selected if user changes connection type of printer with unknown or unsupported URI type
- Avoid one and the same printer appearing twice in auto-detection results (especially HP printers are detected by both "hp" and "usb" CUPS backends).
- Fixed Plug'n'Print for HP's MF devices: The devices are detected twice and this let the Plug'n'Print window pop up when the device is already installed.
- New "Network printer" dialog replacing the old dialogs for TCP/Socket and remote LPD printers. With fast broadcast SBNP network scan and auto-detection of protocol (Socket, LPD, and IPP) via SNMP. - New dialog used in both expert and recommended (bug bugz:20617) mode.
- Improvements and fixes on printer model/driver listing in printerdrake
- Corrected handling of PPD links in Foomatic printer XML files, no the prinyer list entries have the correct model names of theFoomatic printer XML files and so PPDs linked to multiple printers appear with each linked printer in printerdrake. This also avoids duplicate "(Recommended)" tags for one printer (problem occured with HP LaserJet 1200).
- Avoid duplicate PPD entries for Foomatic-generated PPDs and identical pre-generated Foomatic PPDs in /usr/share/cups/model. This problem occured when the hplip-hpijs-ppds package is installed.
- Hardware (Olivier Blin, Thierry Vignaud, Pascal Rigaux)
- don't try to load PCMCIA controller when none is configured
- add yet another PPC sound driver (snd-aoa)
- add support for "laptop" kernels (were known as multimedia or mm kernels)
- use sysfs to get PCMCIA devices and the modalias module to get matching modules
- add modalias module, providing a get_modules() function to resolve modaliases the way modprobe does it
- remove unneeded PCMCIA "type" device setting, but keep crappy PCMCIA devices check for modems
- fix detecting some webcams (bugz:22452)
- drop support for kernel 2.4
- Use the short_ext even for the short label, for xen kernels, use xen.gz to load the kernel as grub "module", set dom0_mem to 128M or half the memory on low memory boxes
- fix again cooker/x86_64; on this architecture, we definitively need TLS in order to have a working rpm
- Since the BOOT kernel in cooker can't be used (too big) for some time, handle in the code the getting of 10.1 BOOT kernel (i was replacing by hand the cooker kernel-BOOT with the one from 10.1, hoping one day the cooker kernel-BOOT could be used again, but nowadays kernel-BOOT is seldom used to let it die)
- sync bttv, cx88 and saa7134 driver model lists with kernel-2.6.16-rc1-mm2
- add support for gigabit sky2 driver (appeared in 2.6.16-rc1)
- Better (and fix) SMP detection, aka. also check for populated & enabled CPU socket.
- use BLKGETSIZE64 to allow detecting partitions bigger than 2TB, and use "double" instead of "unsigned int" (nb: it means we will use doubles instead of ints for computing things, this works quite nicely up to 100_000TB
- Graphical Configuration (PascalRigaux)
- remove DRI_GLX_EXPERIMENTAL support (not much such cards nowadays), remove xorg_version() since we only have one Xorg version (and for a long time now)
- defaulting to 1024x768 instead of 800x600 when the monitor size is unknown (since a lot of people expect this, and that's what fedora is doing, cf bugz:20304)
- Packages choice (PascalRigaux)
- install x11-font-wqy-bitmapfont too for chinese locale
- Look&Feel (ThierryVignaud)
- do not put titles in size groups which add extra left spacing to other widgets when adding new titles
- use spacing to separate groups like specified in GNOME's HIG
- fix layout when translated by using single verbs or words when possible (fix some hidden steps btw in order to prepare the day when the may be showed again) (bugz:8985)
- handle LSB description tags (bugz:20998)
- New release extension 'mdv2007.0'
- kernel 2.6.16-2mdk
- 2.6.16.20
- RS02/RS11 cleanup
- Removed bcm4400. We have the b44 module in the kernel
- Fix usage of acpi_clear_event() in CE06
- Enable cpufreq on SMP, disable USB_BANDWIDTH
- Switch to GENERIC_ARCH on x86 to suppress the false warning about the number of cpus when using cpu hotplug
- Fix freeze when using the 'live' mode of gi (instead of using the clp files)
- Activate RSBAC_INIT_DELAY to get rsbac working with all kind of initrd/initramfs
- Wireless update (Adds the bcm43xx driver)
- mmc layer update (Adds the sdhci driver)
- e1000 update
- Xbox support outdated, so (temporary ?) removed
- Alsa 1.0.11
- RSBAC 1.2.6
- New Xen snapshot
- ipw3945
- Avoid automatic update of kernel-source without updating the kernel:
- Put package version on package name for kernel-source and kernel-source-stripped (bugz:21345)
- update ipt_IFWLOG (interactive firewall)
- Fix bad update of RS11
- Drbd 0.7.15
- Dropped the now merged ipw2100, ipw2200, ieee80211, fuse, hostap 3rdparty tarballs.
- Changed the eagle-usb driver in favour of the to-be-merged version
- Use now the acx driver from akpm's tree.
- Update 3rdparty drivers : lirc, ndiswrapper, rt2400, rt2500
- Added rt2570 usb driver.
- netfilter update (DN30_netfilter_svn6470.patch)
- unionfs 1.1.3
- Xorg 7.1
- Glibc 2.4
- KDE 3.5.3
- Gnome 2.15
- OpenOffice.org 2.0.2
- rpm 4.4.6
- Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4
- Amarok 1.4.1
- xmoto 0.1.16
[edit] 2005-12-25 Warly 2006.1-0.3
- December Cooker snapshot, three x86_64 CDs, three i586 CDs, one i586 Live CD
- DrakX 1.1093 / drakxtools-10.4.7mdk
- Stage 1
- support jfs and xfs
- Network
- load all ethernet modules in all installation modes (fixes the problem of firewire not being loaded in automatic mode)
- update zones file for shorewall 3.0
- use new DBus typing facilities
- don't screw up eagle-usb devices if the firmware is already loaded
- fix wireless network list using iwlist (` returns a defined empty string if the command fails)
- handle zd1201 as well
- don't let interfaces with unknown drivers be configured
- fix rt2400/rt2500 devices detection (workaround for their missing "device" link in sysfs)
- use disconnected icon if no route, even if wifi is associated
- handle new ueagle-atm driver
- use /lib/firmware as default firmware directory
- Printer
- fixed setting up printers with pre-made Foomatic PPD in /usr/share/cups/model (bug bugz:19524).
- HPLIP support
- Gutenprint support
- support for several other new drivers
- Printer communication error handling
- Main window of printerdrake comes up faster
- Many bug fixes and detail improvements
- Filesystem
- add user_xattr (useful for beagle, cf bugzilla bugz:15068)
- simplify text for option "users" (was not accurate and much too verbose) (see also bugzilla bugz:19848)
- add button "Label" (in expert for now) to set the "volume label" (and so get LABEL= in fstab and lilo.conf)
- when calling dmraid, replace -ccs and -ccr with -s -c -c and -r -c -c(the former doesn't work anymore with dmraid 1.0.0 RC9) cf bugz:19654
- log is mixed with valid data (bugzilla bugz:19654)
- use vol_id to find device type
- Live
- add some useful devices for live systems build
- don't run Xnest if an auto_install file is used
- install all hardware related packages when building a live system
- Bootloader
- fix getting raid-extra-boot (bugzilla bugz:19965)
- Rescue
- fix restoring many primary partitions
- partimage, fix (same behaviour as before, but option save_home_directory really mean what it says)
- acpi=ht is bad on some boxes (=> sata_sis not working)
- Sound
- install aoss too when installing ALSA
- Upgrade
- fix upgrading conectivaoffice pkg (bugzilla bugz:18948)
- X config
- properly handle switch between nvidia & nvidia_legacy
- simplify (and make it more robust)
- make it more easier to understand
- ensure we don't load both "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so" and "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/nvidia/libglx.so"
- handle nvidia_legacy
- don't create files (and thus don't run ldconfig when not needed)
- don't modify /etc/ld.so.conf.d/{nvidia,ati}.conf if file does not exist (otherwise at package install time, one gets a .rpmnew)
- Packages
- install powernowd on x86_64 (since they've the cool&quiet technology) and athcool on athlon32
- kernel 2.6.12-13mdk
- Updated pl2303 usb-serial driver to support X75 and SX1 Siemens mobiles
- selected fixes from 2.6.13 and beyond:
- add r300 drm support
- fix x86_64 idle=poll
- fix races in libata core
- properly fix the radeon IRQ handling code
- properly fix the errata #122 workaround on x86_64 + add it to i386
- merge new upstream ioctl32 compat code, thus supporting i915 as well
- KDE 3.5
- Gnome 2.12
- OpenOffice 2.0
- Xorg 6.9
- amarok 1.3.7
- apache 2.2.0
- bind 9.3.2
- bittorrent 4.3.3
- epiphany 1.8.4
- evolution 2.4.2.1
- gimp 2.3.5
- kaffeine 0.7.1
- MySQL 5.0.17
- postgresql 8.1.1
- First official Mandriva Linux 2006 beta
