openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 3

Delayed by a week due to a critical bug that prevented testing, the openSUSE 
project today announces openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 3 (M3), the third of six 
milestone releases of what will become openSUSE 11.4. The bug, a crash in the 
software rasterizer of the Mesa OpenGL stack, was found by our automated test 
suite and the openSUSE XOrg developers swung into action so that KDE would 
work on systems without hardware acceleration, which includes most virtual 
machines.

systemd, the alternative init system, becomes available for testing in M3 with 
version 11.  ?To test systemd, install it, then reboot with init=/bin/systemd 
as described by Andreas Jaeger. Otherwise, the existing SysV init is used.

M3 includes Gnome 2.32 on the desktop, including metacontact support in the 
Empathy instant messenger and Banshee 1.8 with Amazon MP3 store plugin, KDE 
4.5.3, and a number of independent updates including version 0.11 of the Arora 
browser, the chemistry tool Avogadro 1.0.1 and Licq 1.5, introducing XMPP 
support to this venerable IM client.

On the productivity front, M3 includes LibreOffice 3.2.99,  a host of 
additional optional packages for KOffice such as lcms2 giving better colour 
management and image processing options, and Digikam 1.5.0 including automated 
lens correction while batch processing multiple images,

Mono 2.8 replaces Mono 2.6 and adds C# 4.0, an new garbage collector and many 
performance improvements.

At the lower level, Linux kernel 2.6.36 is in, along with smartmontools 5.40 
brings SSD support, and Wireshark 1.4 brings many performance improvements and 
memory footprint reductions.

Due to a new liblzma, delta ISOs from M2 to M3 must be applied using a new 
version of deltarpm.  Stephan Kulow provides this in his home:coolo Build 
Service project.

We look forward to your bug reports and test experiences. Automated testing 
and the openSUSE Factory team have been active to ensure that your download of  
M3 will be at least minimally functional.

The next milestone is scheduled for November 25.  openSUSE 11.4 is planned to 
be released in March 2011.

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Will Stephenson, KDE Developer, openSUSE Boosters Team
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex
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