Welcome to the 32nd installation of This Week in Solus.
Solus 1.2.1 Releases Tomorrow
We’re really excited to be releasing our last “traditional” release, Solus 1.2.1, tomorrow. We opted to delay by a day just to ensure we don’t push ourselves too hard after the recent Hackfest, as well as being able to take the time to do additional QA.
Infrastructure Improvements & Closure of 1.0 Upgrade Path
We have used Bugzilla since mid-2015 and while it has served us well, we are continuously reviewing alternatives and as of Friday, July 22nd, we will be locking down our BTS. This will enable us to shift to a better alternative and cherry-pick bug history to migrate over.
This downtime for the Bugzilla will also open the window for additional infrastructure maintenance and deprecate the upgrade path from Solus 1.0, which was released over 6 months ago. This means that updating from 1.0 release will no longer be possible after Friday and we will be removing the old repository. If you have already upgraded to 1.2, whether it be through the migration tooling during 1.1 or after, you will not be affected.
Impromptu Hackfest & Sundays with Solus
On Saturday, we decided to have an impromptu hackfest to work on items for Solus 1.2.1. If you have the time to watch, we’d recommend it!
If you just want a summary of the impromptu Hackfest or want to hear what is coming up next week, check out our short Sundays with Solus!
Package Highlights
A lot of packaging work occurred during the week as well as in our Impromptu Hackfest, here are some highlights:
New:
- bullet3 2.83.7
- calibre 2.62
- cmus 2.7.0
- dbus-sharp 0.8.1
- ffmpegthumbnailer 2.1.1
- graphviz 2.38.0
- gnome-pie 0.6.8
- kicad 4.0.2
- lmms 1.1.3
- mtpaint 3.4
- musescore 2.0.3
- newt 0.52.19
- rawtherapee 4.2
- sassc 3.3.6
- sloccount 2.26
- texlive 20160523b
- texstudio 2.11.0
- xkill 1.0.4
Updated:
- codelite 9.2
- dia: Enforce –integrated for single-window mode.
- easytag: Drop the inode/directory mimetype handler.
- gimp: Update to 2.8.18 and enable ascii exif and jpeg2000 support.
- git 2.9.1
- haste-applet 0.2.4
- hplip 3.16.5
- kernel: Enable CONFIG_BRCMFMAC_USB and fix kernel-tools
- r: Now uses lapack for -lapack instead of openblas.
- screenshot-applet 0.3.5
- texworks 1.6.1
- zim: Enable support for following plugins: Insert Diagram, Insert Gnuplot, and Insert Screenshot (via rundeps).