{"id":3257,"date":"2017-03-24T20:20:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T20:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/?p=3257"},"modified":"2017-03-24T20:20:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T20:20:37","slug":"weekly-roundup-2017-week-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2017\/03\/24\/weekly-roundup-2017-week-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Roundup – 2017, week 12"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another week has passed and there have been many changes with Cauldron as well as continued testing on RC ISOs for Mageia 6. Mageia 5 has also received some important updates.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cauldron<\/span><\/h2>\n

As we are hoping to release the release candidate for Mageia 6 soon, the focus on development in Cauldron is switching more and more away from new releases and features to focus on bug fixes and getting the packaged software into the best state for release. That being said, there was a major update to Gnome 3.24. This is currently in updates_testing to check was major issues and regressions before being pushing to release if everything is ok.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another big update was to move to ICU 58.2, which is a requirement for packaging Firefox 52 ESR. The rebuilds went relatively well in core\/updates_testing, but after the rebuilt packages were moved to core\/release, some issues appeared with Cauldron. Ironically, all Mozilla software (Firefox, Thunderbird, Seamonkey\/Iceape) crashed with this new version, forcing us to rebuild them against their bundled ICU code base. We could finally fix the crashes with the system library by adding Mozilla patches to ICU 58.2, which should hopefully allow us to package all Mozilla software against the system ICU.<\/span><\/p>\n

There were updates to LibreOffice (5.3.2 <\/span>RC<\/span>1) which will be updated to final before Mageia 6 is released. The libinput <\/span>RC<\/span> update from last week was also updated to final. Samba was updated to 4.5.7<\/span>,<\/span> fix<\/span>ing<\/span> this Mageia bug<\/a> and a security issue where a symlink race could be used to gain access to parts of the filesystem not shared, see this CVE<\/a>\u00a0for further details. DNF was updated to 2.1.1, Mesa to 17.0.2 and flash player plugin was also updated to 25.0.0.127. Firefox\/<\/span>T<\/span>hunderbird <\/span>are currently on versions<\/span> 45.8.0<\/span> ESR,<\/span> with the intention to update<\/span> them<\/span> to the 52 ESR branch for the final release.<\/span><\/p>\n

ISO testing for Mageia 6 RC start<\/span>ed last week, and a new<\/span> round of ISOs<\/span> was<\/span> built yesterday. Testing so far is looking good.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mageia 5<\/span><\/h2>\n

There have been lots of updates submitted for validation, here is <\/span>the<\/span> full list<\/a>, the highlights of which are:<\/span><\/p>\n