[release-notes] Convert Entertainment beat
by John J. McDonough
commit 3ca87aca412d2eb67d3352d8e4a01c5c02e885c8
Author: John J. McDonough <jjmcd(a)fedoraproject.org>
Date: Sun Mar 27 16:46:05 2011 -0400
Convert Entertainment beat
en-US/Entertainment.xml | 160 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 files changed, 159 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/en-US/Entertainment.xml b/en-US/Entertainment.xml
index b5a60e6..5fa8216 100644
--- a/en-US/Entertainment.xml
+++ b/en-US/Entertainment.xml
@@ -7,6 +7,164 @@
<section id="sect-RelNotes-Entertainment">
<title>Entertainment</title>
- <para> </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This section provides a selection of games and entertainments that
+ have had a varieties of new features and development improvements
+ with Fedora 15. Please refer to <ulink
+ url="http://fedorapeople.org/groups/docs/technical-notes/en-US/ar01s02.html">http://fedorapeople.org/groups/docs/technical-notes/en-US/ar01s02.html</ulink>
+ to know all games changes in Fedora 15.
+ </para>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Alien Arena</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>Alien Arena</package> is an open source freeware
+ deathmatch shooter.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Fedora 15, brings for its users Alien Arena 2011, version
+ 7.50. with visible features such as two brand new maps
+ (Annihilation and Neptune), new background musics and a renewed
+ IRC client. The computer animation (Ragdoll physics) uses the
+ Open Dynamics Physics Engine and the games grants faster
+ particle rendering. For all details please refer to <ulink
+ url="http://icculus.org/alienarena/changelogs/7.50.txt">http://icculus.org/alienarena/changelogs/7.50.txt</ulink>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Colossus Arena</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>Colossus Arena</package> is a Java clone of the
+ boardgame Titan, a turn-based fantasy wargame for 2-6 players.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ In this version, the 0.12.0, among the features there is a new
+ variant, "DinoTitan", an option to disable Warlock recruiting on
+ the first turn and a new look for angels and captured legion
+ markers; and global improvements after many bug fixes. For all
+ details visit this page <ulink
+ url="http://colossus.sourceforge.net/docs/RecentChangesDetails.html">http://colossus.sourceforge.net/docs/RecentChangesDetails.html</ulink>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>F.L.A.W.</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>F.L.A.W.</package> is a free top-down wizard fighting
+ game that can be played by up to 5 players.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Fedora 15 ships F.L.A.W. version 1.2.4 that features a new
+ tactical gameplay mode and more music; for slow computers, an
+ optional low quality graphics mode, various AI improvements and
+ fixes, such as joystick detection. For more informations, please
+ refer to the website, <ulink
+ url="http://flaw.sourceforge.net/index.php">http://flaw.sourceforge.net/index.php</ulink>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Freeciv</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>Freeciv</package> is a free turn-based multiplayer
+ strategy game.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ This release is version 2.4 with a lot of changes passed
+ respect to previous one 2.2, as the capability to have a major
+ numbers of simultaneous players up to 126, with map size
+ increased from 30,000 to 128,000 tiles; better map resolution
+ whose linear map dimensions had increased from 254 to 512. New
+ rewriting on the server/client side have added new features for
+ customizing the game play. And new looks and rules for emazing
+ the player experience. For all details (and they are many!),
+ please refer to the upstream web site at <ulink
+ url="http://freeciv.wikia.com/">http://freeciv.wikia.com/</ulink>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>FreeCol</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>FreeCol</package> is a turn-based strategy game based
+ on the old game Colonization, and similar to Civilization.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ With Fedora 15, FreeCol is upgraded from version 0.8.3 to
+ 0.9.5. In the meantime, as release 0.9 was launched in jan 2010,
+ the developers have introduced more efficiency on the
+ elaboration side (AI); new building graphics, new images for
+ forests and beaches, redesigned panels and dialogs (using
+ MigLayout) and better integration in small displays (1024x600)
+ on the graphic side; and new rules for players. Please refer to
+ the website at <ulink
+ url="http://www.freecol.org/">http://www.freecol.org/</ulink>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>FreeDink</title>
+ <para>
+ GNU <package>FreeDink</package> is a free, portable and enhanced
+ version of the Dink Smallwood game engine.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ In Fedora 15 FreeDink has been upgraded from version
+ 1.08.20100420 to v1.08.20101114, fixing a couple of crash,
+ adding the new Turbo mode to triple the game speed and support
+ to new languages. For all details, please refer to the web site,
+ at <ulink
+ url="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freedink/">http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freedink/</ulink>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>gbrainy</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>gbrainy</package> is a brain teaser game and trainer to
+ have fun and to keep your brain trained!!!
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The version 1.52 of this GNOME game introduces eleven new logic
+ games and enhances usability. For more information, please visit
+ the gnome web-site at <ulink
+ url="http://live.gnome.org/gbrainy/Releases">http://live.gnome.org/gbrainy/Releases</ulink>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>supertuxkart</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>SuperTuxKart</package> is a Free 3d kart racing game.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Fedora 15 distribute version 0.7 upgraded from 0.6.2. In
+ addition to many bugfixes, this version of superTux comes with a
+ new GUI, has kart and track animations, new and improved tracks,
+ karts and items. It provides also shortcuts and alternative ways
+ for tracks; developers have added support to Asian fonts. For
+ all details please refer to the upstream project on <ulink
+ url="http://supertuxkart.sourceforge.net/Main_Page">http://supertuxkart.sourceforge.net/Main_Page</ulink>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>zaz</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>zaz</package> is a puzzle game into which arrange balls
+ in triplets.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ In Fedora 15 zaz has been upgraded from version 0.7.0 to version
+ 1.0.0 with a new splashscreen, new game levels, additions and
+ updates for french, german, spanish, italian, hungarn, russian,
+ polland and turkey locales and some bug fixes. For more
+ information please refer to the Changelog on the project web
+ site at <ulink
+ url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/zaz">http://sourceforge.net/projects/zaz</ulink>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
</section>
12 years, 12 months
[release-notes] Convert Security beat
by John J. McDonough
commit 484575585742806b78103259b083a3403770101e
Author: John J. McDonough <jjmcd(a)fedoraproject.org>
Date: Fri Mar 25 20:44:13 2011 -0400
Convert Security beat
en-US/Security.xml | 162 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 files changed, 161 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/en-US/Security.xml b/en-US/Security.xml
index 59708e9..da33952 100644
--- a/en-US/Security.xml
+++ b/en-US/Security.xml
@@ -7,6 +7,166 @@
<section id="sect-RelNotes-Security">
<title>Security</title>
- <para> </para>
+ <para>
+ This section describes the security changes and enhancements
+ available in Fedora 15.
+ </para>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Dynamic Firewall</title>
+ <para>
+ Fedora 15 adds support for the optional firewall daemon
+ (<package>FirewallD</package>), providing a dynamic firewall
+ management with a D-Bus interface.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The previous firewall model with
+ <package>system-config-firewall</package>, was static and
+ required a full firewall restart for all changes, even simple
+ ones. This resulted in termination of filtered
+ connections. <package>Firewalld</package> can modify the
+ firewall dynamically and no firewall recreation is needed. At
+ this stage, it supports iptables, ip6tables and ebtables. In
+ Fedora 15 a simple tray applet shows the firewall state, and
+ firewall services can be enabled and disabled.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ For more details, visit the Fedora wiki pages, <ulink
+ url="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DynamicFirewall">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DynamicFirewall</ulink>
+ and <ulink
+ url="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FirewallD/">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FirewallD/
+ </ulink>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>DNSSEC on workstations </title>
+ <para>
+ In Fedora 15 comes in a new security feature that protects the
+ end users and their workstations exposition against various DNS
+ spoofing and DNS cache-poisoning attacks.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ DNSSEC is an environment full tested in Fedora, as all major DNS
+ servers in Fedora run with DNSSEC validation enabled by default
+ since Fedora 11, giving to the Fedora Project a lot of
+ experience from server environment. DNSSEC is aimed to secure
+ all DNS traffic. <package>NetworkManager</package> uses the
+ BIND nameserver as a DNSSEC resolver and all received DNS
+ responses are proved to be correct. In case a particular domain
+ is signed and failed to validate then resolver returns
+ <command>SERFVAIL</command> instead of invalidated response,
+ which means something is wrong.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ For all details please refer to <ulink
+ url="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DNSSEC_on_workstations">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DNSSEC_on_workstations</ulink>
+ on the Fedora wiki.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <package>dnssec-tools</package> version 1.8 in Fedora 15 is
+ the tool used to improve this feature.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>OpenSCAP</title>
+ <para>
+ First introduced in Fedora 14, <package>OpenSCAP</package> is a
+ set of open source libraries providing an easier path for
+ integration of the SCAP line of standards, managed by NIST and
+ created to provide a standardized approach to maintaining the
+ security of enterprise systems, such as automatically verifying
+ the presence of patches, checking system security configuration
+ settings, and examining systems for signs of compromise.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ In Fedora 15, <package>openscap</package>, the set of open
+ source libraries enabling integration of the SCAP line of
+ standards, has been upgraded from version 0.6.3 to 0.6.8. During
+ these development stage there has been introduced full support
+ for perl regular expression by default, OVAL float type support,
+ XSL transformation improvements and Dublin Core support, added
+ OVAL schemas version 5.6 and improved XCCDF reporting.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <package>secstate</package>, the Security State Configuration
+ Tool, has been rebuilt in Fedora 15 against version 0.4.1.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <package>firstaidkit</package>, the System Rescue Tool that
+ automates simple and common system recovery tasks, has been
+ upgraded from 0.2.17 to version 0.2.18.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ For more information visit this page:
+ <ulink url="http://www.open-scap.org/page/Main_Page">
+ http://www.open-scap.org/page/Main_Page
+ </ulink>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>authoconfig ecryptfs</title>
+ <para>
+ Fedora 15 brings in improved support for eCryptfs, a stacked
+ cryptographic filesystem for Linux. Now when a
+ <package>ecryptfs</package> user logs in,
+ <application>authconfig</application> will automatically mount
+ his private encrypted part of the home directory.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ For details please refer to the wiki page <ulink
+ url="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/EcryptfsAuthConfig">
+ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/EcryptfsAuthConfig
+ </ulink>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>setroubleshoot</title>
+ <para>
+ The user interface of <package>setroubleshoot</package> has been
+ redesigned to make it easier to diagnose SELinux problems. In
+ the current setroubleshooter the "best" match is returned for a
+ solution to the customer. In the new redesign, all matches will
+ be returned. For example if samba tried to read content that it
+ is not allowed, we would like to tell the admin that he could
+ label the content <command>samba_share_t</command> or he could
+ set up SELinux to allow samba to share all content Read Only, or
+ Read Write, or samba should not be trying to read this content,
+ it could be a bug or an attack.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The interface has also been simplified with easier to
+ explain definitions, like
+ </para>
+<screen>
+If you want samba to share the entire system read/only, then
+you need to tell SELinux system about this, by setting the
+samba_export_all_ro boolean.
+
+Execute the following command as root.
+
+ setsebool -P samba_export_all_ro=1
+</screen>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Remove setuid</title>
+ <para>
+ Fedora 15 removes <command>setuid</command> applications and
+ instead specifically assigns the capabilities required by an
+ application, modifing the spec files of most applications that
+ include a setuid application to remove the setuid flag and
+ change to file capabilities.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Please refer to <ulink
+ url="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RemoveSETUID">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RemoveSETUID</ulink>
+ for all details.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
</section>
12 years, 12 months
[release-notes] Adjust tagging, fix typos
by John J. McDonough
commit f42d24c7a8fc417bc87b1539da2747d40ad9a9f4
Author: John J. McDonough <jjmcd(a)fedoraproject.org>
Date: Fri Mar 25 20:09:04 2011 -0400
Adjust tagging, fix typos
en-US/Circuit_Design.xml | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------
en-US/Scientific_and_Technical.xml | 29 +++++++++++-----------
en-US/Web_Servers.xml | 25 ++++++++++---------
3 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/en-US/Circuit_Design.xml b/en-US/Circuit_Design.xml
index 3cf79c1..c1733df 100644
--- a/en-US/Circuit_Design.xml
+++ b/en-US/Circuit_Design.xml
@@ -56,17 +56,21 @@
compiler. Some changes of this release are related to
<emphasis>Language Coverage</emphasis> with remotion of
obsolete VAMS $log function; addition of a warning that
- synthesis is not currently being maintained when -S is used;
- named blocks now keep their scope information; and it has
- been added the correct version information to the data
- structure returned by the PLI vpi_get_vlog_info()
- call. Regarding the <emphasis>Language Extensions</emphasis>
- it has been added FST dumper; +timescale to the command
- file; ability to automatically perform bit <-> real
- conversion for module inputs/outputs where this makes sense;
- optional warnings for out of range bit/part selects; and
- $info(), $warning() and $error() as aliases for
- $display.
+ synthesis is not currently being maintained when
+ <command>-S</command> is used; named blocks now keep their
+ scope information; and it has been added the correct version
+ information to the data structure returned by the
+ <function>PLI vpi_get_vlog_info()</function> call. Regarding
+ the <emphasis>Language Extensions</emphasis> it has been
+ added <function>FST</function> dumper;
+ <command>+timescale</command> to the command file; ability
+ to automatically perform bit <-> real conversion for
+ module inputs/outputs where this makes sense; optional
+ warnings for out of range bit/part selects; and
+ <function>$info()</function>,
+ <function>$warning()</function> and
+ <function>$error()</function> as aliases for
+ <function>$display</function>.
</para>
<para>
For a complete list of these features, with the general bug
@@ -112,14 +116,18 @@
of OpenMP multicore support for BSIM3, BSIM4, and BSIMSOI4
that speeds up transistor loaded simulation by a factor of
two; and improving its stability. In particular, the new
- feauture include: reinstate expansion in interactive
- interpreter; .TITLE line added; update to 'spectrum' script;
- par('expression') in .four, .plot, .print, .meas, .save
- commands; command 'option' for use in spinit, .spiceinit and
- in scripts; adms procedure updated; new random number
- generator, new random functions sunif() and sgauss(), and
- scripts for Monte Carlo simulations, new plot vectors allv,
- alli, ally. Manuals and documents follow the updates.</para>
+ features include: reinstate expansion in interactive
+ interpreter; <command>.TITLE</command> line added; update to
+ '<command>spectrum</command>' script;
+ <function>par('expression')</function> in
+ <command>.four</command>, <command>.plot</command>,
+ <command>.print</command>, <command>.meas</command>,
+ <command>.save</command> commands; command 'option' for use
+ in spinit, .spiceinit and in scripts; adms procedure
+ updated; new random number generator, new random functions
+ sunif() and sgauss(), and scripts for Monte Carlo
+ simulations, new plot vectors allv, alli, ally. Manuals and
+ documents follow the updates.</para>
<para>
<ulink url="http://ngspice.sourceforge.net">http://ngspice.sourceforge.net</ulink>
</para>
diff --git a/en-US/Scientific_and_Technical.xml b/en-US/Scientific_and_Technical.xml
index 62c3475..9622352 100644
--- a/en-US/Scientific_and_Technical.xml
+++ b/en-US/Scientific_and_Technical.xml
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@
<para>
<package>gretl</package> is a cross-platform software
package for econometric analysis. It includes links to
- <emphasis>R</emphasis>, <emphasis>octave</emphasis> and ox
+ <package>R</package>, <package>octave</package> and ox
for more detailed analysis. A full list of features may be
found at <ulink
url="http://gretl.sourceforge.net/">http://gretl.sourceforge.net/</ulink>
@@ -236,19 +236,20 @@
transport module of the DB and the new mechanism/module of
OpenSCADA system's test; there were found and corrected many
errors in order to better optimization, increase stability,
- sustainability and system's performance. Notable
- optimization was made in the Visual Control Area (VCA) and
- its visualizers; changes were made in the VCA engine
- (UI.VCAEngine) modules: UI.Vision and UI.WebVision
- visualizers, aimed at stabilizing, optimization of memory
- consumption and improvement of user's properties of VCA. It
- has been made a new object API of the user's programming,
- which provides the integration of user's functions in the
- objects' tree of OpenSCADA, in addition, to a number of
- changes to the existing library of functions of the user's
- API. For all details please refer to the Changelog in your
- package or to the News section on the project website at
- <ulink url="http://oscada.org/">http://oscada.org/</ulink>.
+ sustainability and system's performance. Notable optimization
+ was made in the Visual Control Area (VCA) and its visualizers;
+ changes were made in the VCA engine
+ (<application>UI.VCAEngine</application>) modules:
+ <application>UI.Vision</application> and
+ <application>UI.WebVision</application> visualizers, aimed at
+ stabilizing, optimization of memory consumption and improvement
+ of user's properties of VCA. It has been made a new object API
+ of the user's programming, which provides the integration of
+ user's functions in the objects' tree of OpenSCADA, in addition,
+ to a number of changes to the existing library of functions of
+ the user's API. For all details please refer to the Changelog in
+ your package or to the News section on the project website at
+ <ulink url="http://oscada.org/">http://oscada.org/</ulink>.
</para>
</section>
diff --git a/en-US/Web_Servers.xml b/en-US/Web_Servers.xml
index da31bf9..0fed59b 100644
--- a/en-US/Web_Servers.xml
+++ b/en-US/Web_Servers.xml
@@ -11,27 +11,28 @@
<title>Apache </title>
<para>
<package>httpd</package> was updated from 2.2.16 to 2.2.17. This
- version includes <emphasis>mod</emphasis> fixes and
- <emphasis>core</emphasis> fixes and changes.
+ version includes <command>mod</command> fixes and
+ <command>core</command> fixes and changes.
</para>
<para>
Core fixes and changes:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- (re)-introduce -T commandline option to suppress
- documentroot check at startup.
+ (re)-introduce <command>-T</command> commandline option to
+ suppress documentroot check at startup.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- check symlink ownership if both FollowSymlinks and
- SymlinksIfOwnerMatch are set.
+ check symlink ownership if both
+ <command>FollowSymlinks</command> and
+ <command>SymlinksIfOwnerMatch</command> are set.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- fix origin checking in SymlinksIfOwnerMatch.
+ fix origin checking in <command>SymlinksIfOwnerMatch</command>.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
@@ -41,11 +42,11 @@
<section>
<title>Drupal renamed to Drupal6</title>
<para>
- Starting with Fedora 15, the drupal package and all module
- packages have been renamed from drupal* to drupal6*. In
- addition, all filesystem locations will reflect this change.
- Simply copying your old content to the new locations should
- work, as the versions should be the same.
+ Starting with Fedora 15, the <package>drupal</package> package
+ and all module packages have been renamed from drupal* to
+ drupal6*. In addition, all filesystem locations will reflect
+ this change. Simply copying your old content to the new
+ locations should work, as the versions should be the same.
</para>
<para>
This change was made to facilitate easier maintenance of
12 years, 12 months
[release-notes] Convert Web Servers beat
by John J. McDonough
commit 60823b330b365562079a063665eeadd470fa69a1
Author: John J. McDonough <jjmcd(a)fedoraproject.org>
Date: Fri Mar 25 19:49:06 2011 -0400
Convert Web Servers beat
en-US/Web_Servers.xml | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/en-US/Web_Servers.xml b/en-US/Web_Servers.xml
index 8a9c204..da31bf9 100644
--- a/en-US/Web_Servers.xml
+++ b/en-US/Web_Servers.xml
@@ -5,8 +5,53 @@
]>
<section id="sect-RelNotes-Web_Servers">
- <title>Web Servers</title>
+ <title>Web Servers and Web Applications</title>
- <para> </para>
+ <section>
+ <title>Apache </title>
+ <para>
+ <package>httpd</package> was updated from 2.2.16 to 2.2.17. This
+ version includes <emphasis>mod</emphasis> fixes and
+ <emphasis>core</emphasis> fixes and changes.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Core fixes and changes:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ (re)-introduce -T commandline option to suppress
+ documentroot check at startup.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ check symlink ownership if both FollowSymlinks and
+ SymlinksIfOwnerMatch are set.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ fix origin checking in SymlinksIfOwnerMatch.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Drupal renamed to Drupal6</title>
+ <para>
+ Starting with Fedora 15, the drupal package and all module
+ packages have been renamed from drupal* to drupal6*. In
+ addition, all filesystem locations will reflect this change.
+ Simply copying your old content to the new locations should
+ work, as the versions should be the same.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ This change was made to facilitate easier maintenance of
+ parallel drupal versions across Fedora/EPEL releases with the
+ release of drupal7.
+ </para>
+ </section>
</section>
12 years, 12 months
[release-notes] Converted Java beat
by John J. McDonough
commit 028066c805970b8ebab42caa7f9a55dc421fd442
Author: John J. McDonough <jjmcd(a)fedoraproject.org>
Date: Fri Mar 25 13:58:57 2011 -0400
Converted Java beat
en-US/Java.xml | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/en-US/Java.xml b/en-US/Java.xml
index 703af06..2dcaac4 100644
--- a/en-US/Java.xml
+++ b/en-US/Java.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,29 @@
<section id="sect-RelNotes-Java">
<title>Java</title>
-
- <para> </para>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Maven</title>
+ <para>
+ Maven is Java project management, project comprehension and build
+ system tool.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Fedora 15 comes with <package>Maven</package> version 3.0. It
+ offers better stability and performance compared to previous
+ versions, but the biggest changes shouldn't be noticed by
+ users. Most work has been happening under the hood to simplify
+ writing Maven plugins and further improve performance by
+ building projects in parallel. It includes a new Maven API for
+ component configuration, many improvements and bug fixes. Users
+ of Maven are encouraged to read the Maven 3 <ulink
+ url="http://maven.apache.org/docs/3.0/release-notes.html">
+ Upstream Release Notes</ulink>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Fedora 15 still provides maven2 package to support backward
+ compatibility where needed.
+ </para>
+ </section>
</section>
12 years, 12 months
[release-notes] Converted OCaml beat
by John J. McDonough
commit 986eeeef6b2dc98928bd86ddf02467d0adec1fe4
Author: John J. McDonough <jjmcd(a)fedoraproject.org>
Date: Fri Mar 25 13:51:13 2011 -0400
Converted OCaml beat
en-US/OCaml.xml | 7 ++++++-
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/en-US/OCaml.xml b/en-US/OCaml.xml
index f70d7af..d29e628 100644
--- a/en-US/OCaml.xml
+++ b/en-US/OCaml.xml
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@
<section id="sect-RelNotes-OCaml">
<title>Ocaml</title>
- <para> </para>
+ <para>
+ Fedora 15 includes <ulink
+ url="http://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Features/OCaml3.12">OCaml
+ 3.12</ulink>, a major new release of the OCaml language and
+ compiler.
+ </para>
</section>
12 years, 12 months
[release-notes] Convert Scientific and Technical beat
by John J. McDonough
commit 4b8f68d9604b7225c738d505e7def41079301810
Author: John J. McDonough <jjmcd(a)fedoraproject.org>
Date: Fri Mar 25 10:26:00 2011 -0400
Convert Scientific and Technical beat
en-US/Scientific_and_Technical.xml | 310 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 files changed, 309 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/en-US/Scientific_and_Technical.xml b/en-US/Scientific_and_Technical.xml
index 937c5d3..62c3475 100644
--- a/en-US/Scientific_and_Technical.xml
+++ b/en-US/Scientific_and_Technical.xml
@@ -7,6 +7,314 @@
<section id="sect-RelNotes-Scientific_and_Technical">
<title>Scientific and Technical</title>
- <para> </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Fedora continues to add to its strong complement of scientific
+ and technical packages with a host of new offerings for Fedora
+ 15. In addition to the new packages shown here, many other
+ packages have been updated for this release. Refer to the
+ Fedora Technical Notes at <ulink
+ url="http://docs.fedoraproject.org">http://docs.fedoraproject.org</ulink>
+ for more complete details.
+ </para>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>BEDtools</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>BEDTools</package> is a set of utilities allow to
+ one to address common genomics tasks such as finding feature
+ overlaps and computing coverage. BEDtools is new to Fedora.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>R</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>R</package> is a popular statistics package with
+ many add on packages to address specific needs. Fedora 15
+ brings a few new add-on packages to R.
+ </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <package>R-GenomicRanges</package> provides general
+ purpose containers for storing genomic intervals as well
+ as more specialized containers for storing alignments
+ against a reference genome.
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink type="http" url=
+ "http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/GenomicRanges.html"
+ />.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <package>R-ROC</package> - The ROC library is a
+ collection of R classes and functions related to
+ receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves. These
+ functions are targeted at the use of ROC analysis with
+ DNA microarrays The <package>R-ROC</package> package
+ provides a set of utilities for ROC.
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink type="http" url=
+ "http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/ROC.html"
+ />.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <package>R-affydata</package> is a set of example
+ affymetrix datasets. These datasets are somewhat larger
+ than the examples included in the affy package, and are
+ intended to better represent "real-world" datasets.
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink type="http" url=
+ "http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.6/data/experiment/html/affydata.html"
+ />.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>APE</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>ape</package> (Atomic Pseudopotential Engine) is a
+ tool for generating atomic pseudopotentials within a
+ Density-Functional Theory framework. It is distributed under
+ the GPL and it produces pseudopotential files suitable for
+ use with
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ SIESTA
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ OCTOPUS
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ ABINIT
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ PWscf
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://www.tddft.org/programs/APE/node/9">http://www.tddft.org/programs/APE/node/9</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>coot</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>coot</package> (Crystallographic Object-Oriented
+ Toolkit) is a set of tools for macromolecular model
+ building, model completion and validation, particularly
+ suitable for protein modelling using X-ray data.
+ <emphasis>coot</emphasis> 0.6.2 is included in Fedora 15.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://www.biop.ox.ac.uk/coot/">http://www.biop.ox.ac.uk/coot/</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>cp2k</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>cp2k</package> is a program to perform atomistic
+ and molecular simulations of solid state, liquid, molecular
+ and biological systems. It provides a general framework for
+ different methods such as e.g. density functional theory
+ (DFT) using a mixed Gaussian and plane waves approach (GPW),
+ and classical pair and many-body potentials.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Fedora 15 includes <emphasis>cp2k</emphasis> version 2.1.
+ For details refer to <ulink
+ url="http://cp2k.berlios.de/">http://cp2k.berlios.de/</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>dia-optics</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>dia-optics</package> is a shape library for the
+ popular <emphasis>dia</emphasis> drawing package. The
+ included shapes may be reviewed at <ulink
+ url="http://dia-installer.de/shapes/optics/index_en.html">http://dia-installer.de/shapes/optics/index_en.html</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>gpsbabel-gui</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>gpsbabel</package> is a package for manipulating
+ GPS data from a variety of devices and manipulating that
+ data. Fedora 15 now includes a GUI for that data. Refer to
+ <ulink
+ url="http://www.gpsbabel.org/">http://www.gpsbabel.org/</ulink>
+ for additional information.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>gretl</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>gretl</package> is a cross-platform software
+ package for econometric analysis. It includes links to
+ <emphasis>R</emphasis>, <emphasis>octave</emphasis> and ox
+ for more detailed analysis. A full list of features may be
+ found at <ulink
+ url="http://gretl.sourceforge.net/">http://gretl.sourceforge.net/</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>libxc</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>libxc</package> is a library of
+ exchange-correlation functionals for density-functional
+ theory. The aim is to provide a portable, well tested and
+ reliable set of exchange and correlation functionals that
+ can be used by all the ETSF codes and also other codes. The
+ project maintains a wiki at <ulink
+ url="http://www.tddft.org/programs/octopus/wiki/index.php/Libxc">http://www.tddft.org/programs/octopus/wiki/index.php/Libxc</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>ltl2ba</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>ltl2ba</package> provides fast translation from LTL
+ formulae to Büchi automata. Fedora 15 includes version
+ 1.1.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>openeuclide</title>
+ <para>
+ Also new to Fedora 15 is
+ <package>openeuclide</package>. OpenEuclide is a 2D geometry
+ software: figures are defined dynamically by describing
+ formal geometrical constraints.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>openscada</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>openscada</package> system is open implementation
+ SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) systems.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Fedora 15 ships the stable release version 0.7.0 with
+ implementations of the database ODBC module, PostgresSQL and
+ transport module of the DB and the new mechanism/module of
+ OpenSCADA system's test; there were found and corrected many
+ errors in order to better optimization, increase stability,
+ sustainability and system's performance. Notable
+ optimization was made in the Visual Control Area (VCA) and
+ its visualizers; changes were made in the VCA engine
+ (UI.VCAEngine) modules: UI.Vision and UI.WebVision
+ visualizers, aimed at stabilizing, optimization of memory
+ consumption and improvement of user's properties of VCA. It
+ has been made a new object API of the user's programming,
+ which provides the integration of user's functions in the
+ objects' tree of OpenSCADA, in addition, to a number of
+ changes to the existing library of functions of the user's
+ API. For all details please refer to the Changelog in your
+ package or to the News section on the project website at
+ <ulink url="http://oscada.org/">http://oscada.org/</ulink>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>plotdrop</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>plotdrop</package> is a frontend to GNU plot. Data
+ files are added to plotdrop by simply dragging them from
+ nautilus. The project maintains a website at <ulink
+ url="http://plotdrop.sourceforge.net/">http://plotdrop.sourceforge.net/</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>psfex</title>
+ <para>
+ PSFEx (“PSF Extractor”) extracts models of the
+ Point Spread Function (PSF) from FITS images processed with
+ SExtractor, and measures the quality of images. The
+ generated PSF models can be used for model-fitting
+ photometry or morphological analyses.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://www.astromatic.net/software/psfex">http://www.astromatic.net/software/psfex</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>root</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>root</package> is a package for analyzing large
+ amounts of data. Fedora 15 includes several new add-ons for
+ root:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <package>root-genetic</package>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <package>root-graf-fitsio</package>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <package>root-hist-factory</package>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <package>root-io</package>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <package>root-proof-pq2</package>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Project site: <ulink
+ url="http://root.cern.ch/">http://root.cern.ch/</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
</section>
12 years, 12 months
[release-notes] Add forgotten OCaml section
by John J. McDonough
commit f794777f077fec933157ddc3095ef12f2bdf7fb9
Author: John J. McDonough <jjmcd(a)fedoraproject.org>
Date: Fri Mar 25 10:09:50 2011 -0400
Add forgotten OCaml section
en-US/Development_Eclipse.xml | 35 --------
en-US/Development_GCC.xml | 172 -----------------------------------------
en-US/Development_Haskell.xml | 32 --------
en-US/Development_Java.xml | 67 ----------------
en-US/Development_Runtime.xml | 71 -----------------
en-US/OCaml.xml | 12 +++
en-US/Release_Notes.xml | 3 +
7 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 377 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/en-US/OCaml.xml b/en-US/OCaml.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f70d7af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/en-US/OCaml.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' ?>
+<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
+<!ENTITY % BOOK_ENTITIES SYSTEM "Release_Notes.ent">
+%BOOK_ENTITIES;
+]>
+
+<section id="sect-RelNotes-OCaml">
+ <title>Ocaml</title>
+
+ <para> </para>
+
+</section>
diff --git a/en-US/Release_Notes.xml b/en-US/Release_Notes.xml
index f7f2db5..bf53ced 100644
--- a/en-US/Release_Notes.xml
+++ b/en-US/Release_Notes.xml
@@ -131,6 +131,9 @@
<xi:include href="Haskell.xml"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
</xi:include>
+ <xi:include href="OCaml.xml"
+ xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
+ </xi:include>
<xi:include href="Eclipse.xml"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
</xi:include>
12 years, 12 months
[release-notes] Update kernel version
by John J. McDonough
commit 53f4368da5c8b74221c79d02f989ae2c801bbb8e
Author: John J. McDonough <jjmcd(a)fedoraproject.org>
Date: Thu Mar 24 14:56:41 2011 -0400
Update kernel version
en-US/Release_Notes.ent | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/en-US/Release_Notes.ent b/en-US/Release_Notes.ent
index 5fa5b06..247c5cf 100644
--- a/en-US/Release_Notes.ent
+++ b/en-US/Release_Notes.ent
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@
<!ENTITY YEAR "2011">
<!ENTITY HOLDER "Red Hat, Inc. and others">
<!ENTITY PRODVER "15">
-<!ENTITY PREVVER "12">
-<!ENTITY KERNEL "2.6.35">
+<!ENTITY PREVVER "14">
+<!ENTITY KERNEL "2.6.38">
12 years, 12 months
[release-notes] Convert Circuit Design beat
by John J. McDonough
commit 18ca4b8ba96b39d6cdef22efabf070d790a2350d
Author: John J. McDonough <jjmcd(a)fedoraproject.org>
Date: Thu Mar 24 13:06:12 2011 -0400
Convert Circuit Design beat
en-US/Circuit_Design.xml | 154 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 files changed, 153 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/en-US/Circuit_Design.xml b/en-US/Circuit_Design.xml
index b78d98c..3cf79c1 100644
--- a/en-US/Circuit_Design.xml
+++ b/en-US/Circuit_Design.xml
@@ -7,6 +7,158 @@
<section id="sect-RelNotes-Circuit_Design">
<title>Circuit Design</title>
- <para> </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This section includes the set of applications for schematic
+ capture, circuit simulation and PCB layout that have had
+ major changes with Fedora 15.
+ </para>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>gtkwave</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>gtkwave</package> is an analysis tool used to
+ perform debugging on Verilog or VHDL simulation models.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ With Fedora 15 <package>gtkwave</package> has been
+ upgraded to 3.3.20, with improvements and new features
+ respect to the release 3.3.10 present in Fedora 14. Among
+ these there are: additions of new tcl functions to enhance
+ Tcl access; added support for process and transaction
+ filters in MinGW and support for Open New Window to MinGW;
+ in order to aid in indexing, detection for Verilog
+ XL-style VCD identifiers in all vcd loaders in
+ gtkwave. Updates to manual supporting GTKWave 3.3.20. For
+ all details and fixes, refer to the CHANGELOG.TXT in the
+ package doc directory.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <ulink
+ url="http://gtkwave.sourceforge.net/">http://gtkwave.sourceforge.net/</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>iverolg</title>
+ <para>
+ Icarus Verilog or <package>iverilog</package> is a Verilog
+ compiler that generates a variety of engineering formats,
+ including simulation. It strives to be true to the IEEE-1364
+ standard.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ In Fedora 15 <package>iverilog</package> has been built
+ against version 0,9.3. As declared in upstream, within the
+ v0.9 series major changes are kept to a minimum, allowing
+ some new features only if they do not risk the stability of
+ the branch or of Verilog programs that use this
+ compiler. Some changes of this release are related to
+ <emphasis>Language Coverage</emphasis> with remotion of
+ obsolete VAMS $log function; addition of a warning that
+ synthesis is not currently being maintained when -S is used;
+ named blocks now keep their scope information; and it has
+ been added the correct version information to the data
+ structure returned by the PLI vpi_get_vlog_info()
+ call. Regarding the <emphasis>Language Extensions</emphasis>
+ it has been added FST dumper; +timescale to the command
+ file; ability to automatically perform bit <-> real
+ conversion for module inputs/outputs where this makes sense;
+ optional warnings for out of range bit/part selects; and
+ $info(), $warning() and $error() as aliases for
+ $display.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ For a complete list of these features, with the general bug
+ fixes and some of the things that still don't work, please
+ refer to:
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <ulink
+ url="http://iverilog.wikia.com/wiki/Release_Notes_Icarus_Verilog_0_9_3">http://iverilog.wikia.com/wiki/Release_Notes_Icarus_Verilog_0_9_3</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>mot-adms</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>mot-adms</package> is a code generator that
+ converts electrical compact device models specified in
+ high-level description language into ready-to-compile c code
+ for the API of spice simulators. Based on transformations
+ specified in xml language adms transforms Verilog-AMS code
+ into other target languages.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <ulink
+ url="http://mot-adms.sourceforge.net/">http://mot-adms.sourceforge.net/</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>ngspice</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>ngspice</package> is a general-purpose circuit
+ simulator program. It implements three classes of analysis:
+ Nonlinear DC analyses, Nonlinear Transient analyses and
+ Linear AC analyses.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ With F15, <package>ngspice</package> has been upgraded to
+ release 22. In this update, more features have been added to
+ <package>ngspice</package>, improving its compatibility
+ through an extensive code cleanup that considerably reduces
+ compiler warnings; improving its speed with the availabilty
+ of OpenMP multicore support for BSIM3, BSIM4, and BSIMSOI4
+ that speeds up transistor loaded simulation by a factor of
+ two; and improving its stability. In particular, the new
+ feauture include: reinstate expansion in interactive
+ interpreter; .TITLE line added; update to 'spectrum' script;
+ par('expression') in .four, .plot, .print, .meas, .save
+ commands; command 'option' for use in spinit, .spiceinit and
+ in scripts; adms procedure updated; new random number
+ generator, new random functions sunif() and sgauss(), and
+ scripts for Monte Carlo simulations, new plot vectors allv,
+ alli, ally. Manuals and documents follow the updates.</para>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://ngspice.sourceforge.net">http://ngspice.sourceforge.net</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>pcb</title>
+ <para>
+ An interactive printed circuit board editor.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ In F15, <package>pcb</package> has been upgraded to release
+ 20100929, with many bug fixes and new features. Among these
+ are to cite: direct importing of schematics during runtime;
+ places accept measurements' unit; the polygon hole tool;
+ DBUS enabled by default (when possible); action scripts run
+ by the CLI exporters; no more required the (,,) syntax of
+ CLI actions in GUI; and tool-tips pop-up on elements, pins
+ and nets; new GCode exporter and updated reference card.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <ulink
+ url="http://pcb.sourceforge.net">http://pcb.sourceforge.net</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>rcrpanel</title>
+ <para>
+ <package>rcrpanel</package> is a command line application
+ that takes a text description of a panel and produces a
+ PostScript rendering of the panel. It is especially handy
+ for things like calibrated dial faces that can be tedious to
+ produce with a traditional graphics application. rcrpanel
+ is described in detail in the <ulink
+ url="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Amateur_Radio_Guide/ot...">
+ Fedora Amateur Radio Guide</ulink>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
</section>
12 years, 12 months