This may seem early, but beta 4 is closer than it may appear. 1-16 april development and porting We're in this period now. 17-22 april string freeze; general development slowdown; porting continues We'll need to slow down on general development (in trunk, anyway) during this period, and begin to look at stabilising the installer. A lot of stuff has been breaking, and making things harder for porters. Porting will continue during this time period (might include 2.6 porting), and porters can break the string freeze if necessary. 23 april upload translated udebs to archive 24 april last possible changes to udebs on initrds 25 april initrd builds 26 april initrd builds continue (slow autobuilders) 27 april cd building, testing 28 april release beta 4 We passed a nice milestone earlier this week, when the d-i images autobuilt for 10 architectures. The lone failure was on powerpc, which is due to problems with the autobuilder, not us. We've now had recent success reports for all architectures except hppa and s390. Arm and mipsel are notable additions. Hppa is blocked by a libc bug (though there's a workaround), and a lack of people working on it (right now). S390 is still blocked by parted. Of our errata for beta 3, the following are still problems to be best of my knowledge, and need to be fixed soon: - hardware raid problems (probably fixed, but as of yet, unverified) - alpha cannot install from SCSI cdrom - ia64 netboot installs broken - sparc CDs broken - Arabic and Hebrew display problems (progress has been made) Of the other possible goals for this release, these remain undone: - use the new boot logo (needs to have the sarge version number fixed) - a less intimidating grub install screen - 2.6 kernel support -- see shy jo
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