> I see that Qubes does not announce planned new releases of Qubes, or state > what should trigger an update. Releases are announced when ready for testing. In addition, releases of templateVMs are announced in the Qubes-users/devel mailinglists. > I am between updating Qubes with Fedora 32, which also means creating > AppVMs, I am not sure how I would update the Work VM, as it is, I am > guessing, based on Fedora 32. All this translates to my working with Salt, > which is shown a lot of in this forum. Meaning I should learn Salt and > some other things. I can't comment on doing it through salt, but using the Qubes Template Manager you can select which template a VM uses and mass change the templates. > Just seems like it would be so much easier if we had an entire new version > of Qubes, which I could install. At the same time, I am making sure any > Malware I might have picked up gets clobbered. And leaving me with the > problem of re installing all of my personal files, my own personal fixes to > Template VMs. Instead many are learning Salt. I'm not sure that reinstalling the entire OS and adding all changes made to it would be better for most people. Installing a new template with `qubes-dom0-update qubes-template-fedora-32` and moving VMs over to it took me 10 minutes. Installing Qubes and getting the OS customised can take me a few hours. > This question also comes back to making Qubes easy for Human Rights > Activists and Journalists. I do not think those two groups will go to the > trouble of learning how to install Salt. I agree that since most of the > changes for Human Rights Activists/Journalists are made inside Template VMs > of (now usually Debian, or Fedora), that the folks who create Qubes for us, > should not concern themselves with those things. > > So, anyone here have a guess as to what new version of Qubes might be > nearly out? Or should I start reading about how to work with Salt?
The next version of Qubes (4.1) is well on it's way. You can see progress in the following links: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/5529 https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/5763 https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A%22Release+4.1%22 As for salt, it's always recommended to learn and use a configuration management system. But it's not necessary. It entirely depends on whether you need to be able to rebuild your system from scratch or automate updates. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/d3843ce5-1017-8e38-764c-0fda02791586%40undef.tools.
