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November 29, 2008

Novell and its OpenSUSE Project announces the release of OpenSUSE 11.1 RC 1.

The company is saying that if all goes well, this will be the last testing release before the final 11.1 public release scheduled on or about Dec. 18, 2008.

OpenSUSE's new release includes a number of fixes and changes since 11.1 beta 5, as well as a new user license.

"We all want openSUSE 11.1 to be the best release yet, and we need your help to get there. This release is ready for widespread testing, and we’re encouraging everyone to download and work with the testing releases to find any critical bugs or potential security holes before its final release. Please run the release through your usual routine, and let us know about any bugs or other issues that you find," said an OpenSUSE spokesman.

(See openSUSE.org/Testing for more information on Testing.) To follow the testing and development process, it is suggested that you subscribe to the OpenSUSE "Factory" mailing list, and join the #openSUSE "Factory Channel" on Freenode to discuss openSUSE development.

However, users need to remember that this is only a release candidate, and that it's not suitable for use on production systems.

Though many OpenSUSE users can and do use the Factory distribution and/or testing releases for day-to-day work, OpenSUSE wants to stress that it’s entirely possible that you will encounter some bugs.

Some important changes made in this 11.1 RC 1 release include:

A newer and shorter distro license

Linux kernel 2.6.27.7

Glibc v. 2.9

Additional translations available

Amarok 2.0 RC 1

Zypper 1.0.1

See the OpenSUSE "Factory News" page for changes in the Factory distribution between release announcements.

DistroWatch also carries an expanded list of packages being shipped in the Factory distribution.

Overall, release 11.1 RC 1 can be found at http://software.opensuse.org/developer. See http://en.opensuse.org/Mirror_Selection for a full list of mirrors. Note that you don’t need to choose a mirror yourself, but you can use the mirror list if you want or need to select a mirror manually.

While some initial bugs have been eliminated since the last beta, OpenSUSE still has a few remaining and newer bugs that testers should be aware of:

Bug 448270: the license has no translations yet

Bug 449711: no OpenOffice for ppc

Bug 449422: Amarok2 on KDE4 does not stop

Bug 449513: Novell vpn doesn’t work at novell-ipsec-tools 0.7.1.

A note to OpenSUSE contributors - If you have any changes or features to call out for future release announcements, please send an email Novell/OpenSUSE with any information that should be in that announcement, preferably at least two days before the scheduled release date.

Source: OpenSUSE.

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