http://news.opensuse.org/2010/03/25/opensuse-11-3-milestone-4-release/
The fourth of seven scheduled milestone releases for 11.3 was
completed and released on schedule. Milestone 4 focuses on switching
to upstart as init daemon.
Here’s what you may find interesting in the new release:
* OpenOffice.Org has been updated to 3.2.1 Beta1 with new features
* NetworkManager has been updated to version 0.8 with fixes to
better support bluetooth and GSM.
* cups has been updated to version 1.4.2, it “adds over 67 changes
and new features to CUPS 1.3.11, including improved Bonjour/DNS-SD
support, supply level and status reporting for network printers via
SNMP, an improved web interface, and the CUPS DDK tools.”
* The conntrack – network filtering system has been added. These
are userspace tools that allow system administrators interact with the
Connection Tracking System, which is the module that provides stateful
packet inspection for iptables.
* The Mono stack has been updated to the bug fix release 2.6.3
together with MonoDevelop 2.2.2.
* Python was updated to the bug fix release 2.6.5 RC 2
* samba has been updated to version 3.5.1
* The Moblin team has started with the integration of the Moblin
UI into the distribution and plan to have everything ready for the
next milestone.
* The LiveCDs have virtualbox guest tools. Now features like
screen resizing, seamless mode, and shared clipboards work fine and
automatically after boot-up! Check this (~8,5MB) ogv video to see the
guest addition features in action.
Gnome/GTK desktop users:
* GNOME has been updated to the GNOME 2.30 release candidate (2.29.92)
o With the next milestone, empathy will be the default IM
client for GNOME. Empathy supports now sending files via drag & drop
and the IRC module now includes support for common IRC commands such
as /join.
o Tomboy’s startup time has been drastically improved.
Syncing is now done automatically.
o Natilus’ user interface now includes a new split view mode
and the default is set to browser mode.
KDE desktop users:
* KDE has been updated to version 4.4.1 the most important changes:
o A performance problem in KMail when sending emails has been fixed
o Various fixes in Plasma widgets and other addons, such as
the analog clock and the picture frame
o A number of fixes in Konsole, KDE’s powerful terminal application
* Amarok is now at version 2.3, “Areas such as podcast support and
saved playlists have seen huge improvements, as has the support for
USB mass storage devices (including generic MP3 players)”.
* k3b is updated to 2.0 RC2
LXDE desktop users:
* Switch to pcmanfm 0.9.3 and libfm 0.1.9. Now lxde fully supports
trash, automount, gvfs, “menu-browsing” and much more.
* lxsession: upgrade to 0.4.3 with d-bus support
As this is a milestone release, 11.3 milestone 4 does contain bugs
that we know about, but should not stand between courageous
contributors and release testing.
The known bugs include:
* gwibber has been updated but depends on desktopcouch and that
stack is not yet integrated into openSUSE.
You can track the most annoying bugs on the wiki along with 11.3
development. If you want to make sure 11.3 final is free of annoying
bugs, we’ll need your help finding, reporting, and fixing those hidden
bugs.
To learn more about testing openSUSE, visit the Testing pages on the
openSUSE wiki. To follow the testing and development process, we
suggest that you subscribe to the openSUSE-Factory mailing list
(Subscribe | Help | Archives) and join the #openSUSE-Factory channel
on Freenode to discuss openSUSE development.
The next openSUSE Milestone is scheduled to be released on Friday,
April the 9th, with additional new features and bug fixes.
Get Milestone 4 Today!
What are you waiting for? Grab the milestone release from
software.opensuse.org/developer today!
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