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Cauldron

The last Council meeting on Tuesday was focused around the go/no go on releasing Mageia 6, rather unsurprisingly. While there was lots of discussion about blockers and update paths, one issue that stood out was ISO size. It is getting increasingly hard to keep the ISOs under the 4Gb barrier for USB sticks – DVDs tend to be less of a problem as their 4Gb tends to be around 4.3Gb, while the 4Gb USB sticks can be as low as 3.7Gb depending on how it’s counted. To avoid this issue, the size limit for USB sticks was lifted but kept for DVDs, this allowed the target of making the final ISOs for the release this weekend to be set, with the full release freeze going into effect before they are built. Note that the ISO builders already managed to strip some MB of them so the size limit issue will be less likely to appear.

On Thursday, mageia-release-6-1.mga6 landed on the mirrors with the official switch from “Mageia 6 (Cauldron)” to “Mageia 6 (Official)”. This has caused a knock on effect requiring some large rebuilds, and a signal that Cauldron is coming to a close for the Mageia 6 cycle, and will reopen again for Mageia 7. Some repository cleanups were done to make sure all packages have properly been rebuilt for Mageia 6 (some nonfree packages had been forgotten during the mass rebuild), and that packages which are both in Core and Tainted (such as FFmpeg) have the exact same version and release.

This morning, the full freeze landed, Cauldron has become Mageia 6 and assuming no bugs are found in the final ISOs, the release should happen in the coming days.

With all of that said, there were still plenty of updates aside from the rebuilds to pull in the final translations, here are a few:

• dnf 2.5.1
• krusader 2.6.0
• mariadb 10.1.24
• naev 0.7.0
• panda3d 1.9.4 (new package)
• wine 2.0.1 (stable, with staging patches disabled)

Mageia 5

Even with everything going into the release for Mageia 6, there have been plenty of updates for Mageia 5, here are a few of the larger ones:

• thunderbird 52.2.1 – fixes some issues with Gmail folders
• enigmail 1.9.7 – see thunderbird update
• bitlbee 3.2.2-4.1 – CVE fixes
• ffcall 1.13 and clisp 2.49-11.1 – security fix
• libff- 3.1-4.1 – CVE fix

Cauldron

A nice snippet about the state of Cauldron from the Dev mailing list today – a mail with the subject “Nobody touches anything!” noted that the last autobuild (all of the Mageia packages get rebuilt each week to check for issues) only had one failure due to the latest curl update – the previous best was 12. To gain proper perspective please note that autobuild managed to build the other 13649 packages successfully.

ISO testing for the final release of Mageia 6 is ongoing, they’re starting to look good, although there was a bug found in 32-bit Gnome Calculator and an intermittent issue with a black screen in Plasma at startup that should be fixed soon.

Updates wise, it is unsurprisingly slowing down on Cauldron, there were still a few though, so here is a list of the major ones:

• curl 7.51.1
• whois 5.2.16
• plasma-pk-updates 0.3.1
• thunderbird 52.2.0
• kernel 4.9.32
• postfix 3.1.6
• firefox 52.2.0

There were also bugfixes for packagekit, atlas and git among others.

Mageia 5

Lots of updates for Mageia 5 again this week, here are some of the larger ones:

• catdoc 0.95 – security fix
• tor 0.2.8.14 – CVE fix
• flash-player-plugin 26.0.0.126 – multiple CVE fixes
• smb4k 1.2.3 – CVE fix

Cauldron

So Cauldron is in release freeze now, and new ISOs have been built. Tests so far are looking good, there was one issue with initial application launches on the Plasma live build causing a freeze on some occasions, but it’s being worked on so there should be a fix soon.

Update wise, Cauldron has been quiet with the main activity on bug fixes, here are some of the main ones:

• sugar desktop
• kodi
• qemu
• perl

Most of the Mageia specific tools: urpmi, rpmdrake and the control centre have been updated to fix some missing translations.

That said, there were a few version updates, here are some of the main ones:

• packagekit 1.1.6
• kernel 4.9.31
• ffmpeg 3.3.2
• mesa 17.1.2

Mageia 5

There have been lots of updates for Mageia 5 this week, here is a selection of the main ones:

• sympa 6.1.25 – bugfix updates
• puppet 3.6.2-3.1 – CVE fix
• nss 3.28.5 – CVE fix
• ansible 2.3.1.0-2 – multiple CVE fixes
• dropbear 2014.66-1.3 CVE fixes