Factory/News/11.1

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See Product Highlights/11.1 for a cumulated view of openSUSE 11.1.

This page gives a summary of the important changes as they happen. Unless stated otherwise, all changes (ChangeLog) are done for all our architectures and therefore are available for x86, x86-64 and PowerPC architectures.

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Changes since openSUSE 11.1 RC 1

• Linux 2.6.27.8-rc1 (package keeps 2.6.27.7 as version number)
• more translations

Important updates and package additions compared to 11.0:

Changes between openSUSE 11.1 Beta 5 and RC 1

• new shorter distro license
• Linux 2.6.27.7
• glibc 2.9
• PackageKit 0.3.11
• bluez 4.19
• more translations

Important updates and package additions compared to 11.0:

Changes between openSUSE 11.1 Beta 4 and Beta 5

• Linux 2.6.27.5
• PackageKit 0.3.9
• more 11.1 branding in place
• KDE4: NetworkManager and power management plasmoids
• integration of Smolt finished
• more translations

Important updates and package additions compared to 11.0:

Changes between openSUSE 11.1 Beta 3 and Beta 4

• Linux 2.6.27.4
• Nomad for "unmatchable remote desktop experience"

Important updates and package additions compared to 11.0:

Changes between openSUSE 11.1 Beta 2 and Beta 3

• Linux 2.6.27.1
• CUPS 1.3.9
• cmake 2.6.2
• D-Bus 1.2.4
• PackageKit 0.3.7
• Python 2.6
• parts of 11.1 branding in place

Important updates and package additions compared to 11.0:

Changes between openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1 and Beta 2

• Python 2.6rc2
• PackageKit 0.3.5
• Samba 3.2.4
• Mesa 7.2
• patches to prevent e1000e network card corruption see release announcement

Important updates and package additions compared to 11.0:

Changes between openSUSE 11.1 Alpha 2 and Beta 1

• Linux 2.6.27rc5, Alsa 1.0.18rc3, Xen 3.3.1 RC
• Basic SELinux Enablement
• gcc 4.3.2
• Rewritten YaST modules: Partitioner, Printer, Security
• PackageKit 0.3.2
• Mesa 7.1
• X Server 1.5.0 (X.org 7.4)
• PulseAudio 0.9.12
• IPv6 improvements: distro can be installed in a ipv6 environment and run an IPv6 web server.
• Python 2.6beta3 and 3.0beta3
• Samba 3.2.3
• Cluster stack features significant usability changes and has adopted OpenAIS, an industry standard also supported by leading vendors, for its core infrastructure.
• Support for Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) -- using KIWI, users can easily create an EC2 cloud based on openSUSE 11.1.
• Improvements in OCFS2: Full integration with userspace cluster stack, POSIX file locking, extended attributes, and file system sizes up to four Petabytes (4PiB).

Important updates and package additions compared to 11.0:

Changes between openSUSE 11.1 Alpha 1 and Alpha 2

• CUPS 1.3.8
• cmake 2.6.1-rc15
• D-BUS 1.2.3

Important updates and package additions compared to 11.0:

Changes since openSUSE 11.0 GM

• Linux 2.6.26
• Alsa 1.0.17
• autoconf 2.62
• gcc 4.3 branch
• cmake 2.6.1-rc11
• NetworkManager 0.7 SVN

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