3:38 p.m.
The Adélie Linux Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the
immediate release of Adélie Linux 1.0-RC1 for all supported platforms:
https://distfiles.adelielinux.org/adelie/1.0/iso/rc1/
Please note: This is a test release of Adélie Linux. While every care
has been taken to ensure the stability of the system, features and
packages may be missing or may not function correctly. You should always
back up your computer’s data before you install a new Linux
distribution. This release is being actively tested on multiple
platforms. It is highly recommended that you use a dedicated computer or
virtual machine to learn the environment until you are comfortable with
using the Adélie Linux system and its package manager (apk).
Tier 1 platforms supported for this release: 32-bit PowerPC, 64-bit
PowerPC, 32-bit Intel x86, 64-bit Intel x86, 64-bit ARM (AArch64).
Tier 2 platforms supported for this release: ARMv7.
We are happy to announce that this release of Adélie Linux is the first
release of any Linux distribution that uses 64-bit integers for
representing time on 32-bit computers. This means that all 32-bit
computers running Adélie Linux 1.0-RC1 or newer can process dates after
January 2038. For more information on 64-bit time, see our Project:
Time64 page at: https://wiki.adelielinux.org/wiki/Project:Time64
This Release Candidate does not yet contain our System Installation
process (Project Horizon). We expect this to be released as part of
RC2, which is due in the first few days of March.
If you want to show your support for the work Adélie Linux is performing
to provide high-quality libre software to everyone, and you have the
ability, please consider a financial contribution to our project. You
can find out how to contribute on our Contribution page at:
https://www.adelielinux.org/contribute.html
Thank you!
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Release Notes
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All architectures
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* GRUB now automatically updates its configuration when kernels are
installed or deinstalled.
* KDE Applications have been updated to 19.12, Frameworks to 5.67, and
Plasma to 5.18 LTS.
* The Linux kernel used for easy-kernel has been updated to the 5.4 LTS
branch.
* The musl libc has been updated to version 1.2.
* OpenSSL has been updated from 1.0.2 to 1.1.1.
* Qt has been updated to its latest LTS branch, 5.12.
* Qt WebKit has been updated to 5.212.0 from 5.9, bringing hundreds of
security improvements and bug fixes.
* The Rust programming language has been updated to version 1.38.0.
* An issue with SDDM has been fixed.
64-bit ARM (aarch64)
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No architecture-specific notes for this release.
32-bit PowerPC (ppc)
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* The Rust compiler now uses the correct ABI on 32-bit PowerPC.
64-bit PowerPC (ppc64)
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No architecture-specific notes for this release.
32-bit x86 (pmmx)
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No architecture-specific notes for this release.
64-bit x86 (x86_64)
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No architecture-specific notes for this release.
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Statistics
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Adélie Packages
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There were 1,009 commits to packages.git between 1.0-BETA4 and 1.0-RC1,
by eleven developers:
* A. Wilcox (624)
* Kiyoshi Aman (207)
* Max Rees (98)
* Laurent Bercot (19)
* Dan Theisen (18)
* Luis Ressel (16)
* Samuel Holland (14)
* Molly Miller (9)
* Gavin Howard (2)
* Lee Starnes (1)
* Jason A. Donenfeld (1)
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A. Wilcox (awilfox)
Project Lead, Adélie Linux
https://www.adelielinux.org