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>

</ul>

<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>