{"id":3269,"date":"2017-03-31T17:38:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T17:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/?p=3269"},"modified":"2017-03-31T17:39:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T17:39:06","slug":"weekly-roundup-2017-week-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2017\/03\/31\/weekly-roundup-2017-week-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly roundup 2017 &#8211; week 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"magicdomid2\"><span class=\"author-a-7z79zz90zx6az122zz69zsz122zz86zfz70zgz75zq\">Cauldron<\/span><\/h2>\n<p id=\"magicdomid3\"><span class=\"author-a-7z79zz90zx6az122zz69zsz122zz86zfz70zgz75zq\">The big Cauldron news is that ISO testing for Mageia 6 RC is well under way, new images were generated that will hopefully fix the EFI implementation and some grub config issues. Gnome 3.24 will be available on the upcoming ISOs as pre-testing has not shown any issues. We&#8217;re also hoping to have <\/span><span class=\"author-a-z89zz76zrz68zz90z6m5z77zz87z03iz81zz85zz85z\">most<\/span><span class=\"author-a-7z79zz90zx6az122zz69zsz122zz86zfz70zgz75zq\"> blocker bugs fixed before the RC release, the <a href=\"http:\/\/madb.mageia.org\/tools\/blockers\">list<\/a> is getting nice and short, so hopefully that won<\/span><span class=\"author-a-z89zz76zrz68zz90z6m5z77zz87z03iz81zz85zz85z\">&#8216;<\/span><span class=\"author-a-7z79zz90zx6az122zz69zsz122zz86zfz70zgz75zq\">t take long. If you want to get involved with pre-release ISO testing, the QA team always has room for more hardware and hands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"magicdomid5\"><span class=\"author-a-7z79zz90zx6az122zz69zsz122zz86zfz70zgz75zq\">Big updates include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"list-bullet1\">\n<li><span class=\"author-a-7z79zz90zx6az122zz69zsz122zz86zfz70zgz75zq\">libbluray 1.0.0 &#8211; there might be some broken deps with this while the needed packages are rebuilt<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"author-a-7z79zz90zx6az122zz69zsz122zz86zfz70zgz75zq\">kernel 4.9.19<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"author-a-7z79zz90zx6az122zz69zsz122zz86zfz70zgz75zq\">webkit2<\/span> <span class=\"author-a-7z79zz90zx6az122zz69zsz122zz86zfz70zgz75zq\">2.16.0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"author-a-7z79zz90zx6az122zz69zsz122zz86zfz70zgz75zq\">firefox 52.0.2<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"author-a-7z79zz90zx6az122zz69zsz122zz86zfz70zgz75zq\">urpmi 8.106-2 &#8211; this increases the transaction size from 8 to 50, it will help with upgrades from Mageia 5 to 6<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"author-a-7z79zz90zx6az122zz69zsz122zz86zfz70zgz75zq\">chrome-gnome-shell &#8211; this should add some nice functionality to Gnome<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The other big talking point aside from the RC release in the Council Meeting was the inclusion of the new Manatools for system configuration on the ISOs. The ncurses versions will be added, along with dnfdragora, but the integration of the graphical front ends was pushed until after Mageia 6 to give proper testing time.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"magicdomid16\"><span class=\"author-a-7z79zz90zx6az122zz69zsz122zz86zfz70zgz75zq\">Mageia 5<\/span><\/h2>\n<p id=\"magicdomid18\"><span class=\"author-a-7z79zz90zx6az122zz69zsz122zz86zfz70zgz75zq\">R-base was patched against <a href=\"https:\/\/cve.mitre.org\/cgi-bin\/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8714\">CVE 2016-8714<\/a>, the other big update is to the kernel, 4.4.59 which will fix a vulnerability found in the pwn2own contest.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"magicdomid20\"><span class=\"author-a-7z79zz90zx6az122zz69zsz122zz86zfz70zgz75zq\">Community<\/span><\/h2>\n<p id=\"magicdomid22\"><span class=\"author-a-7z79zz90zx6az122zz69zsz122zz86zfz70zgz75zq\">We will be at the Libre Software Days in Lyon this <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2017\/03\/28\/mageia-at-jdll-2017-in-lyon-on-the-1st-and-2nd-of-april\/\">weekend<\/a>, so if you are in the area drop by and meet some of our contributors or catch up on the other projects on show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"magicdomid24\"><span class=\"author-a-7z79zz90zx6az122zz69zsz122zz86zfz70zgz75zq\">We have been using Mypads from Framasoft a lot for blog posts and announcements, this is being written on one in fact. To that end, we have made a \u200e\u20ac250 donation, full blog about how we use Mypads and Framasoft can be read <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2017\/03\/29\/donation-to-framasoft\/\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cauldron The big Cauldron news is that ISO testing for Mageia 6 RC is well under way, new images were generated that will hopefully fix the EFI implementation and some grub config issues. Gnome 3.24 will be available on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2017\/03\/31\/weekly-roundup-2017-week-13\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[155,47,124,136,55,118,171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bugsquad","category-community","category-mageia-2","category-qa-2","category-release","category-users","category-weekly-roundup"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p159kA-QJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3269"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3273,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3269\/revisions\/3273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}