This is EXCELLENT news! I installed it and things seem to work well so far (as expected, since this is an updated monthly test release, and I test every monthly test release).
I've posted a news item about it on the FreeDOS website. I also updated the "Download" page with a big yellow box so interested folks can see the new FreeDOS 1.4 RC1. https://www.freedos.org/download/ On Wed, Jan 1, 2025 at 6:04 AM Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > The FreeDOS 1.4-RC1 Release Build (aka T2501) is now available at: > > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/test/ > > Please note, that as a “Release Candidate” the RBE does a couple > minor things a little different. Primarily, it does not swap out the > color theme for the FreeDOS installer. So unlike an Interim Test Build, > you will not see a black background in the main installer. Instead > you will see the blue background used on a release. > > Also, the RBE builds from the media using the “candidate” and/or > “master” project branches. Therefore any project or package updates > that are pushed to GitLab under an “unstable” branch will not > cause changes to the RC or eventual Final release of version 1.4. > > Furthermore, the online update repository for FreeDOS 1.4 (RC1 and > later) is now “officially” active. It has the latest version of the > packages from the RC1 build. It also contains the majority of packages > which are “download only” (for example, ClamAV) and not provided on > any of the Release Media. Also, the “unstable” download repository > has been purged and loaded with the packages for 1.4-RC1. > > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/1.4/pkg-html/index.html > > Following is a list of changes since FreeDOS 1.3. As I have mentioned > before, the RBE does some filtering on this list. I also preformed > some manual filtering to remove most general housekeeping, CI/CD and > NLS related commit messages. As a reminder, packages that are not > maintained on the GitLab Archive usually only get a “updated to > x.y.z” message when they are brought up to date. That could be a > simple update or one that contains many changes. For those, you need > to check inside the package for a changelog or check upstream. > > :-) [..] _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
