[ANNOUNCE] New Dextrose-3 development release: Alpha-2

[Anish Mangal]

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Hi,

The last few weeks have seen a lot of positive OLPC and Sugar
development activity. In the same vein, we're progressing on the
Dextrose-3 development roadmap [1]. This mail is notification for the
Alpha-2 development release. Once again, this release has been made
possible due to close collaboration between OLPC, Sugar, OLPC.au and
Activity Central

==Key points==
* Rebasing Dextrose-3 patches on top of sugar-0.93.4
* Fixing high-priority issues as per Feature Freeze [2]

==Get it here==

===XO-1===
With gnome:
http://people.sugarlabs.org/anish/dx3/dx3g040.img
http://people.sugarlabs.org/anish/dx3/dx3g040.crc

Without gnome:
http://people.sugarlabs.org/anish/dx3/dx3ng040.img
http://people.sugarlabs.org/anish/dx3/dx3ng040.crc

===XO-1.5===
With gnome:
http://people.sugarlabs.org/anish/dx3-1.5/dx3g041.zd

Without gnome:
http://people.sugarlabs.org/anish/dx3-1.5/dx3ng041.zd

==What comes next?==
Um... Alpha-3 (what else did you expect ;-)?

Okay, there will likely be a rpm update or another development build
(before Alpha-3 due on 17th October)

Broadly, we're done or very close to completion of most of the
development. By Alpha-3 Dextrose-3 will start to have 'proper' testing,
have a well defined Activity list, and most of all, bug-fixes!

So, test, test, test! If you find a problem, open a ticket in
bugs.sugarlabs.org and remember to add the 'dx3' keyword to it.

==Bugfixes==
Note: This list does not contain the sugar bugs fixed between
0.92.4-0.93.4 (and whose patches have been upstreamed) or the OLPC bugs
fixed during that period

* au#886 Control panel -> Accessibility -> "Cancel" button doesn't work
* au#851 yum transactions can be interrrupted
* au#825 Software Update fails to upgrade content bundles
* au#747 Older activities can overwrite newer ones
* sl#3082 Check if flash in dx3 is click to enable

==Activity version updates==
* Browse-126
* Chat-71
* Distance-28
* FotoToon-9
* Maze-13
* Memorize-37
* Pippy-41
* Ruler-12
* Speak-31
* TamTamMini-60
* Write-76

==New Packages==
+ ax-1.0-1.uy.fc14.i686
+ CapitalFont-1.0-1.uy.noarch
+ FlatbedCursors-0.2-1.fc14.1.uy.noarch
+ magnifier-Ceibal-3.3.2-1.1.uy.fc14.i686
+ pybox2d-2.0.2-4.20100110svn.fc14.i686
+ pygtk2-libglade-2.17.0-9.fc14.i686

==Updated Packages==
+ dextrose-updater-6-1.fc14.noarch
+ kernel-2.6.35.13_xo1-20110915.0803.olpc.8c91a41.i586
+ olpc-powerd-35-1.fc14.i686
+ olpc-powerd-dbus-35-1.fc14.i686
+ olpc-utils-1.3.1-1.fc14.i686
+ sugar-0.93.4-20110920.dx3.fc14.noarch
+ sugar-artwork-0.93.3-20110920.dx3.fc14.i686
+ sugar-toolkit-0.93.3-20110920.dx3.fc14.i686
+ bitfrost-1.0.15-1.fc14.i686
+ ca-certificates-2011.78-1.fc14.noarch
+ firefox-3.6.22-1.fc14.i686
+ libgudev1-161-10.fc14.i686
+ librsvg2-2.32.0-4.fc14.i686
+ libudev-161-10.fc14.i686
+ lyx-fonts-2.0.1-2.fc14.noarch
+ openssl-1.0.0e-1.fc14.i686
+ rsyslog-4.6.3-3.fc14.i686
+ tzdata-2011i-1.fc14.noarch
+ udev-161-10.fc14.i686
+ vim-minimal-7.3.289-1.fc14.i686
+ xulrunner-1.9.2.22-1.fc14.i686

==Removed packages==
- - mesa-dri-drivers-7.9-5.fc14.i686
- - prelink-0.4.3-4.fc14.i686
- - ssmtp-2.61-15.fc14.i686

[1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Dextrose/3/Roadmap
[2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Dextrose/3/Feature_Freeze

- -- 
Anish Mangal
Dextrose Project Manager

P.S. This mail (and the release) was due out a few days ago, but got
delayed because I had a fight with my ISP and my connection got severed.
A few 'chosen' words in exotic Indian languages later, I have a new ISP
and 8x faster internet, yay! ;-)
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