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Development plans for PLD 3.0 (Th)
Overview of changes planned to PLD Th.
Software updates
Software | Progress | Comments |
---|---|---|
texlive 2012, 2014? | ?? | work in progress |
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
BerkeleyDB 5.3 | 100% | In Th on 22nd September 2012 along with rpm5, but rpm uses BDB 5.2 |
rpm 5.4.x | 100% | In Th on 22nd September 2012 |
perl 5.18.x | 100% | Available with all dependant packages in Th since 30th June 2013 |
apache 2.4.x | 100% | In Th on 7th June 2013 |
kernel | 100% | grsecurity support has been dropped, linux-3.4.x is now “longterm” |
Samba 4 | 100% | Updated to 4.x, new packages in Th on January 31st 2014 |
Java cleanup | 100% | 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 | 100% | Done, the only one initrd package left is busybox-initrd for geninitrd, |
256 colors terminals | 100% | 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 | 100% | PHP 5.5 coming to Th. Done: 12th June 2014: New PHP packages in PLD Th |
ruby 2.0 | done | ruby 2.0 is faster than 1.9.3, and minimally different to 1.9 (compared 1.9 to 1.8) |
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