Announcing Pre-Release Version: astlinux-1.3-3915-85f590 If there are no issues, this version will be tagged as AstLinux 1.3.4 .
The AstLinux Team is regularly upgrading packages containing security and bug fixes as well as adding new features of our own. -- Linux Kernel 3.16.57, security and bug fixes. -- genx86_64-vm board type, add support for virtio-blk as a bootable disk driver, also added to RUNNIX. Tested via Proxmox and Vultr (hosted). -- genx86_64-vm board type, add support for QEMU Guest Agent (qemu-ga 2.12.0). -- rng-tools, new package, version 6.5, Random Number Generator (RNG) daemon Enabled by default to increase the available entropy for the kernel's "random" sources. Uses one of 3 sources, in order: 1) /dev/hwrng (typically via virtio-rng for the genx86_64-vm board type) 2) Intel RDRAND instruction on supported CPU's 3) jitterentropy, Hardware RNG based on CPU timing jitter -- keepalived, new package, version 2.0.7, VRRP High Availability daemon -- msmtpd (msmtp 1.8.0), added SMTP localhost daemon to forward 127.0.0.1:25 to "sendmail", enabled by default. -- Asterisk 13 version bump to 13.23.1 New Documentation Topics: VRRP High Availability Daemon (keepalived) -- https://doc.astlinux-project.org/userdoc:tt_high_availability Qotom Q530G6 Core i3-6100U Fanless Appliance -- https://doc.astlinux-project.org/userdoc:board_qotom_q530g6 Linode KVM -- https://doc.astlinux-project.org/userdoc:hosted_guest_vm_linode Vultr KVM -- https://doc.astlinux-project.org/userdoc:hosted_guest_vm_vultr Updated Documentation Topics: WAN Failover -- https://doc.astlinux-project.org/userdoc:tt_wan_failover#example4g_lte_modem_failover Tarsnap Online Backup -- https://doc.astlinux-project.org/userdoc:tt_tarsnap_online_backup#restore_to_a_new_install The "AstLinux Pre-Release ChangeLog" and "Repository URL" entries can be found under the "Development" tab of the AstLinux Project web site ... AstLinux Project -> Development https://www.astlinux-project.org/dev.html AstLinux Team _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org.
