From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:40:51 +0000 (+0000)
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+Title: Third alpha release of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy 
+Tags: english, debian edu
+Date: 2013-06-10 22:50
+
+<p>The third wheezy based alpha release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
+today.  This is the release announcement:</p>
+
+<p><strong>New features for Debian Edu 7.0.0 alpha2 released
+2013-06-10</strong></p>
+
+<p>This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux 7.0.0 edu
+alpha2, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".</p>
+
+<p><strong>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</strong></p>
+
+<p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu, also known as
+Skolelinux</a>, 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, DVD 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
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html">more
+than 60 educational software packages</a> and more are available from
+the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE
+and Xfce desktop environment.</p>
+
+<p>This is the third test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically
+this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the
+Squeeze release.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Software updates</strong></p>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li>Iceweasel was updated from 10 to 17. (DSA 2699-1) 
+<li>Updated libxv (DSA-2674), libxvmc (DSA-2675), libxfixes (DSA-2676), libxrender (DSA-2677), mesa (DSA-2678), xserver-xorg-video-openchrome (DSA-2679), libxt (DSA-2680), libxcursor (DSA-2681), libxext (DSA-2682), libxi (DSA-2683), libxrandr (DSA-2684), libxp (DSA-2685), libxcb (DSA-2686), libfs (DSA-2687), libxres (DSA-2688), libxtst (DSA-2689), libxxf86dga (DSA-2690), libxinerama (DSA-2691), libxxf86vm (DSA-2692), libx11 (DSA-2693), chromium-browser (DSA-2695), gnutls26 (DSA-2697), wireshark (DSA-2700), krb5 (DSA-2701), telepathy-gabble (DSA-2702) and subversion (DSA-2703). 
+<li>Switched xrdp on thin client servers to use tightvncserver instead of xvnc4. 
+<li>Now install software oscilloscope xoscope by default. 
+<li>Now install music tools gtick, lingot and pianobooster by default. 
+
+</ul>
+
+<p><strong>Other changes</strong></p>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li>The subnet-change script is now able to change all files needing a change on the main-server when changing the IP network used. 
+<li>Updated translation of the installation. 
+<li>New Romanian translation. 
+<li>Fix security problem causing root and first user password to no longer show up in /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat. 
+<li>Fix roaming workstation setup (Closed in libpam-mklocaluser/0.8, libpam-mklocaluser/0.8~deb7u1: #706753: libpam-mklocaluser: Fail to create local user during first login).
+<li>Made roaming workstation setup more robust in non-Debian Edu environments. 
+<li>New script debian-edu-bless to transform a Debian installation to a Debian Edu profile. 
+<li>Adjust Iceweasel setup to improve performance when $HOME is on NFS. 
+<li>More testsuite tests. 
+<li>Make automatic proxy configuration more robust. 
+<li>Adjust GOsa² GUI configuration. 
+
+<li>Update thin client and diskless workstation setup to work with
+LTSP in Wheezy.</li>
+
+<li>Diskless workstations now run out of the box -- no need to set
+them up with GOsa².</li>
+
+<li>Update IMAP server setup. </li>
+
+<li>Fix login into Skolelinux Backup Tool (Closed in
+slbackup-php/0.4.4-1: #700257: slbackup-php: Fails to submit correctly
+entered password). </li>
+
+</ul>
+
+<p><strong>Known issues</strong></p>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li>DVD binary and source images are not yet ready.</li>
+
+<li>No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv)
+available yet (Open in gosa/2.7.4-4: #698840: gosa-plugin-ldapmanager:
+missing import feature).</li>
+
+<li>Missing artwork for the KDE desktop (and probably a few others). </li>
+
+<li>KDE Debian submenu lacks icons (Closed: #502192: menu-xdg: invents
+own icon names instead of using existing). This will remain
+unfixed.</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+<p><strong>Where to get it</strong></p>
+
+<p>To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use</p>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso</a></li>
+
+<li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso .</li>
+
+<p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 27bbcace407743382f3c42c08dbe8178 
+<br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: e35f7d7908566cd3075375b3721fa10ee420d419</p>
+
+<p><strong>How to report bugs</strong></p>
+
+<p><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a>