[IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.86.2 Bugfix Release

[Simon Schampijer]

Dear Sugar Community,

This is the second bug fix release last after the final 0.86 release - 
see http://sugarlabs.org/go/0.86/Roadmap#Schedule for more details.

Please test the landed bug fixes carefully. A friendly BugSquad will be 
available to triage those bugs accordingly.

Please use the instructions for your distribution (Fedora, Ubuntu, 
Debian etc) of choice to upgrade to this release. Note that it may take 
a while until the release is packaged for each distribution (especially 
as there are freezes (e.g. F12) at this time of the year). Please stay 
tuned for distribution specific announcements and watch out for updates 
at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Downloads.

Thanks everyone for your great contributions!

In behalf of the sugar community,
Your Release Team


== Glucose modules that changed ==
* 
http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar/sugar-0.86.2.tar.bz2
* 
http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/etoys/etoys-4.0.2332.tar.gz

== Glucose news ==
=== sugar ===
* Not able to make screenshot #1464
* debug logs for the presence service and connection managers not 
working #927
* Not able to stop activities #1444

=== etoys ===
* updated translation: fr
* store reference to previous project when a project is re-uploaded
* smaller font size for textual scripts
* fix translating of value types and function tiles
* fix bearing-to and distance-to in Test pane

== Fructose modules that changed ==
* 
http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Etoys/Etoys-110.tar.gz
* http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Read/Read-76.tar.gz
* 
http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/ImageViewer/ImageViewer-14.tar.gz
* 
http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Terminal/Terminal-28.tar.gz

== Fructose news ==
=== Read ===
* Fix pagination for IA Epubs
* Updated Vietnamese translations

=== Terminal ===
* Updated translations

=== ImageViewer ===
* Updated translations

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[IAEP] Content Delivery Network is in production

[David Farning]

For the last couple of week, we have been working with Peter Pöml to
set up mirrorbrain as the content deliver network for Sugar Labs.
There are a number advantages for using a content delivery network.

1. Usability -  We can  remove the mirror information from
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Strawberry#Download_locations
.  All a _user_ has to worry about is the single
http://download.sugarlabs.org location , redirection to individual
mirrors is invisible to the user.

2. Scalability - Rather that increasing the bandwidth or throughput on
a primary sl.org machine we can distribute the load across a system of
mirrors.  Mirrors are a very well understood concept in free software
delivery.  Mirrorbrain is used by both opensuse and open office with
loads 2 orders of magnitutide above Sugar Labs' loads.

3. Locality - Mirrorbrain uses geoip for to determine the physical
location of downloader and mirrors.  Mirrorbrain can determine the
most appropriate mirror for a given download.

Any traffic going through htp://download.sugarlabs.org (including
activity bundles) will be served through the content delivery network.

david
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