On 08/14/2011 07:34 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
In preparation for the new release, I went over git logs since 2010.05 and
jotted down what seems to me is important.
I will put this list in the news announcement, so suggestions welcome.
Archiso (image builds):
* TODO fill in: snapshot of current core, including kernel 3., pacman-3 and
glibc.
and mkinitcpio/initscripts/netcfg, there are great changes in these Arch
Linux projects.
* Big overhaul: use dm-snapshot instead of aufs2
* Consolidate image building, use single build.sh script which also does
dual-arch images.
* Allow changing NBD export name
* Allow using serial console with console kernel parameter.
* Allow starting custom script with script kernel parameter, autologin tty1.
* Add support to mount iso in loopback mode
* Add new menu entry "Power off"
* Add rsync,hdparm,dhclient,crda, wpa_actiond, netcf, curl, nilfs-utils,
btrfs-progs-unstable to live-enviroment
Added: btrfs-progs-unstable crda curl dhclient dialog dnsmasq hdparm
netcfg nilfs-utils openconnect rp-pppoe rsync vpnc wpa_actiond
* Remove joe from packagelist.
Removed: aufs2 aufs2-util iwlwifi-3945-ucode iwlwifi-4965-ucode
iwlwifi-5000-ucode iwlwifi-5150-ucode joe ndiswrapper ndiswrapper-utils
rt2x00-rt61-fw rt2x00-rt71w-fw tiacx tiacx-firmware
* Remove x86test, add HDT to initial syslinux menu
* Add support for booting from memdisk
* Various cleanups, improvements and bugfixes.
* All needed files to boot for custom USB mediums installed on /arch
* XZ compression for SquashFS and initramfs.
* New documentation README (boot params, build instructions and other
things)
AIF (installation tool):
* experimental support for btrfs and nilfs2.
* support syslinux next to grub.
* changes to configuration formats to support new rc.conf and linux3.0
* make selecting source more flexible (multiple local and/or remote repos)
* remove joe
* show package descriptions when installing packages
* run with debugging and logging enabled by default, add /arch/report-issues
script
* make automatic profiles switch source depending on whether core or netinstall
system is running
* remove support for tcp_wrappers in accordance to Arch Linux policy
* change develop model: primary development goes on in (rewritable) develop
branch, master == stable.
* various code cleanups, improvements and bugfixes.
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Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
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