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Manjaro 0.8.9 is out

Posted: 24 Feb 2014, 03:13
by viking60
XFCE KDE OPENBOX
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Since Manjaro is a rolling release I simply update it - and that goes smoothly. I do miss out on the installer though but apparently the good installer has become better now.

New features in Thus - graphical installer
Fixed resizing in language slide
Fixed parted issues in advanced mode
Fixed GUID partition table creation in advanced
Fixed UEFI support
Fixed swap partition detection in advanced mode
Fixed swapoff in advanced mode
Fixed myhomepath in partition_module
Fixed verbose error messages
Fixed umount issue in auto_partition
Added home dir to automatic mode
Added a logging message when an unknown exception is thrown in installation_process
Added encfs for home-dir encryption: pam_encfs is needed
Luks and lvm in automatic mode is now enabled
Modified grub installation
Reordered slides: language > location > check > timezone > keymap > ask > (automatic, alongside, advanced) > user_info > slides
Mount source squashfs only when not already mounted
Use 'sudo -E' directly in thus script
Keyboard layout generator added
Advanced mode should detect now all supported filesystems properly
Proper btrfs support
An active swap partition can prevent the creation of new partitions
It is possible to use unformatted root - we have a warning
Add DiskLabelException
Now disks is a tuple (disk, result). We can create disk labels in unformated hardisks
Open Arch-Wiki when Grub-Installation failed
Show needed mount points to continue in advanced mode
Disable boot device selection in uefi systems
Users can now select the partitions to install grub in advanced installation
Removed backported chroot code from live-installer (old python2 code)
Code cleanup, optimatizion and restructure
Updated translations

And the community is growing and so are the ambitions:
With this release we provide three alternative graphical desktops, each optimized for your needs. Alongside our flagship Xfce edition there's an updated KDE edition featuring Turbulence, our new tool to customize your Manjaro installation, and the Openbox edition has been redesigned to fit the needs of our vibrant community. All this in addition to our usual community editions! The Manjaro team has grown a lot for this release, and we're expanding even further!

Manjaro now comes with LUKS and LVM encryption of partitions, improved UEFI support, improved filesystem detection and handling. Basically I have to say that Manjaro 0.8.9 is worth the extra attention - because this distro really is good.+1