Draft Release Notes for Alpine 3.21.0: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 20:13, 5 October 2024

Highlights

Go 1.23.1
Rust 1.81
GNOME 47
KDE Plasma 6.1.5
LXQt 2.0.0
GCC 14.2.0

OpenSSH

Note: TODO: Remove this section if https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/68589 gets merged before 3.21 is released

You need to restart your sshd service!

Since the 9.8_p1 release, openssh-server is now split into two binaries, sshd and sshd-session. With this change sshd needs to be restarted to be able to accept new connections.

Since managing services has always been out-of-scope for apk, we will NOT do the following for you:

rc-service --ifstarted sshd restart

GNOME 47

GNOME 47 made it into Alpine 3.21. Everything should work as expected. Make sure you read the GNOME 47 release notes: https://release.gnome.org/47/

LXQt 2.0.0

LXQt has been updated to release 2.0.

It now uses Qt6
Many parts of LXQt are now wayland ready¹, but wayland ports of the following are pending: screengrab, lxqt-globalkeys, LXQt Panel's task-bar² and keyboard indicator, some input settings, and settings of monitor, power button, and screen locker.
LXQt Panel has a new default application menu called Fancy Menu.

¹ lxqt-wayland-session has not been released or packaged yet, but most folks wanting to test on wayland will want to use it.
² Most folks testing LXQt on wayland are using waybar temporarily until the task-bar is ported.

Jellyfin

Jellyfin now uses the recommended fork of ffmpeg called jellyfin-ffmpeg by default. If you want to change that, take a look at the ffmpegpath variable in /etc/conf.d/jellyfin. (!69924)

Bats

"main/bats" was renamed to "main/bats-core". Now there is a meta package "community/bats" which contains:

bats-core
bats-file
bats-support
bats-assert

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 == Highlights ==
+* Go 1.23.1
 * Rust 1.81
 * GNOME 47
 * KDE Plasma 6.1.5
+* LXQt 2.0.0
+* GCC 14.2.0
+== OpenSSH ==
+{{Note|TODO: Remove this section if https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/68589 gets merged before 3.21 is released }}
+You need to restart your sshd service!
+Since the <code>9.8_p1</code> release, openssh-server is now split into two binaries, sshd and sshd-session. With this change sshd needs to be restarted to be able to accept new connections.
+Since managing services has always been out-of-scope for apk, we will NOT do the following for you:
+<code>
+rc-service --ifstarted sshd restart
+</code>
 == GNOME 47 ==
 GNOME 47 made it into Alpine 3.21. Everything should work as expected. Make sure you read the GNOME 47 release notes: https://release.gnome.org/47/
+== LXQt 2.0.0 ==
+LXQt has been updated to release 2.0.
+* It now uses Qt6
+* Many parts of LXQt are now wayland ready¹, but wayland ports of the following are pending: {{pkg|screengrab}}, {{pkg|lxqt-globalkeys}}, LXQt Panel's task-bar² and keyboard indicator, some input settings, and settings of monitor, power button, and screen locker.
+* LXQt Panel has a new default application menu called Fancy Menu.
+¹ [https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt-wayland-session lxqt-wayland-session] has not been released or packaged yet, but most folks wanting to test on wayland will want to use it.<br>
+² Most folks testing LXQt on wayland are using {{pkg|waybar}} temporarily until the task-bar is ported.
 == Jellyfin ==
-Jellyfin now uses the recommended fork of ffmpeg called `jellyfin-ffmpeg` by default. If you want to change that, take a look at the `ffmpegpath` variable in `/etc/conf.d/jellyfin`. (!69924)
+Jellyfin now uses the recommended fork of ffmpeg called <code>jellyfin-ffmpeg</code> by default. If you want to change that, take a look at the <code>ffmpegpath</code> variable in <code>/etc/conf.d/jellyfin</code>. ([https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/69924 !69924])
+== Bats ==
+"main/bats" was renamed to "main/bats-core". Now there is a meta package "community/bats" which contains:
+* bats-core
+* bats-file
+* bats-support
+* bats-assert