The third wheezy based beta release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
+today. This is the release announcement from Holger Levsen:
+Hi,
+
+it is my pleasure to announce the third beta release (beta 2 for
+short) of Debian Edu /
+Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy!
+
+Please test these images extensivly, if no new problems are found
+we plan to do this final Debian Edu Wheezy release this coming
+weekend. We are not aware of any major problems or blockers in beta2,
+if you find something, please notify us immediately!
+
+(More about the remaining steps for the Edu Wheezy release in
+another mail to the edu list tonight or tomorrow...)
+
+Noteworthy changes and software updates for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~b2
+compared to beta1:
+
+
+
+- The KDE proxy setup has been adjusted to use the provided wpad.dat. This
+also gets Chromium to use this proxy.
+- Install kdepim-groupware with KDE desktops to make sure korganizer
+understand ical/dav sources.
+- Increased default maximum size of /var/spool/squid and /skole/backup on the
+main server.
+- A source DVD image containing all source packages is now available as well.
+- Updates for chromium (29.0.1547.57-1~deb7u1), imagemagick
+(6.7.7.10-5+deb7u2), php5 (5.4.4-14+deb7u4), libmodplug
+(0.8.8.4-3+deb7u1+git20130828), tiff (4.0.2-6+deb7u2), linux-image
+(3.2.0-4-486_3.2.46-1+deb7u1).
+
+
+
+Where to get it:
+
+To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use
+
+
+
+The SHA1SUM of this image is: 3a1c89f4666df80eebcd46c5bf5fedb866f9472f
+
+To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use
+
+
+The SHA1SUM of this image is: 702d1718548f401c74bfa6df9f032cc3ee16597e
+
+The Source DVD image has the filename
+debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-source-DVD.iso and the SHA1SUM
+089eed8b3f962db47aae1f6a9685e9bb2fa30ca5 and is available the same way
+as the other isos.
+
+How to report bugs
+
+For information how to report bugs please see
+
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs
+
+
+About Debian Edu and Skolelinux
+
+Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based
+on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely
+configured school network. Immediately after installation a school
+server running all services needed for a school network is set up just
+waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable
+Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after
+initial installation of the main server from CD or USB stick all other
+machines can be installed via the network. The provided school server
+provides LDAP database and Kerberos authentication service,
+centralized home directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other
+services. The desktop contains more than 60 educational software
+packages and more are available from the Debian archive, and schools
+can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE and Xfce desktop environment.
+
+This is the seventh test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically
+this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the
+Squeeze release.
+
+Notes for upgrades from Alpha Prereleases
+
+Alpha based installations should reinstall or downgrade the
+versions of gosa and libpam-mklocaluser to the ones used in this beta
+release. Both alpha and beta0 based installations should reinstall or
+deal with gosa.conf manually; there are two options: (1) Keep
+gosa.conf and edit this file as outlined on the mailing list. (2)
+Accept the new version of gosa.conf and replace both contained admin
+password placeholders with the password hashes found in the old one
+(backup copy!). In both cases all users need to change their password
+to make sure a password is set for CIFS access to their home
+directory.
+
+
+cheers,
+
Holger
+