PLD Linux Distribution

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====== Development plans for PLD 3.0 (Th) ======

Overview of changes planned to PLD [[th|Th]].

===== Software updates =====

^ Software ^ Progress ^ Comments ^
| texlive 2012, 2014? | ?? | work in progress |
| [[http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/pipermail/pld-devel-en/2014-July/023986.html|ImageMagick Q8 for non-desktop (PHP)]] | ?? | ?? |
===== System wide changes =====

  * full systemd support (provide systemd units, but still support SysV scripts - at least until vserver will be able to run systemd) 

===== Completed targets =====

^ Project ^ Released_In_Th ^ Notes ^
| BerkeleyDB 5.3 | 2012-09-22 | In Th on 22nd September 2012 [[http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/pipermail/pld-devel-en/2012-September/023096.html|along with rpm5]], [[http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/pipermail/pld-users-en/2012-December/000296.html|but rpm uses BDB 5.2]] |
| rpm 5.4.x | 2012-09-22| [[http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/pipermail/pld-devel-en/2012-September/023096.html|In Th on 22nd September 2012]] |
| apache 2.4.x | 2013-06-07 | [[packages:apache|In Th on 7th June 2013]] |
| perl 5.18.x | 2013-06-30 | Available with all dependant packages in Th since [[http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/pipermail/pld-devel-en/2013-June/023578.html|30th June 2013]] |
| kernel |  | grsecurity support has been dropped, linux-3.4.x is now "longterm" |
| Samba 4 | 2014-01-31 | Updated to 4.x, new packages in Th on January 31st 2014 |
| Java cleanup |  | java-sun is full of security holes and unmaintained, java-oracle looks to be non-redistributable, they're both been moved to th-obsolete. Icedtea is now default java environment. |
| initrd subpackages removal |  | Done, the only one initrd package left is busybox-initrd for geninitrd, | 
| 256 colors terminals | 2014-03-03 | setup with shrc.d script to set 256 colors in capable terminals in Th on March 3 2014 |
| PHP 5.5 as main php, php52, php53 for compatibility | 2014-06-12 | [[http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/pipermail/pld-devel-en/2014-April/023889.html|PHP 5.5 coming to Th]]. Done: [[http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/pipermail/pld-devel-en/2014-June/023959.html|12th June 2014: New PHP packages in PLD Th]] |
| ruby 2.0 | 2014-09-24 | ruby 2.0 is faster than 1.9.3, and minimally different to 1.9 (compared 1.9 to 1.8). [[https://www.pld-linux.org/#th_september_2014ruby_20_in_pld_th|done]] |