Change Log - Turtle Kevux
Author: Kevin Day
Description: Kevux, Linux based, Distribution Change Log.
Keywords: Kevin Day, Kevux, Linux, Distribution, Open-Source, Turtle, Change, Log

# Turtle Kevux Change Logs

## 0.9.5

Fixes of Turtle 0.9.4 Problems:

- A large number of kiwi installation problems have been fixed.
- claws-mail now works.
- The mpd music server now dmixes properly by default so you can now have more than one program use audio at the same time.
- Fixed applications that did not look for the mixer device in /dev/snd/mixer.
- /lib/libudev.so and /lib/libgudev-1.0.so had permissions that prevented desktop users from using any application that depended on either of those libraries.
- Copy and paste on the desktop now works in xfce.
- 64-bit grub cdroms now boot properly.
- Fixed boot problems when using software raid.

New Software:

- Added libffi
- Added vcdimager
- Added libblueray
- Added libaacs

Other Changes:

- Now using xorg-server 1.11.* and Mesa 7.11.*.
- Fixed webkit so that SoupSession is in the correct state to allow for pausing and unpausing.
- The boot process was reworked.

## 0.9.4

Fixes of Turtle 0.9.3 Problems:

- Fix major networking problem in 0.9.3 where devices are improperly started
- Once again attempt to solve the autologin relogin problem with qingy (this time completely strip out the code that does a timestamp check, if the file exists then do not re-login, period
- When shutting down or rebooting, make sure to tell all sshd connections to close and turn off network devices
- Network scripts did not stop dhcpclient, wpa_supplicant, and hostap if it was running when the network script was stopped
- /etc/hosts was being used instead of /etc/network/hosts
- Fixed initrd boot process problems
- Removed floating_root parameter from squish and squash boot options, making floating_root unconditional for squash and squash booting

New Software:

- Added joy2key
- Added vala
- Added gstreamer (which doesn't really work anyway..)
- Added webkit
- Added midori (replacing seamonkey)
- Added libvpx
- Added tunctl
- Added bind (replacing maradns)
- Added celt
- Added links back now that it appears to be actively maintained once again
- Added strace to the toolchain
- Added libpki
- Added openca-ocspd
- Added libotr and pidgin-otr for encrypted chat support

Removed Software:

- Removed seamonkey
- Removed maradns (does not support dnssec, so it was replaced with bind)
- Removed ps3-utils
- Removed tcl/tk
- Removed pidgin-encryption in favor of pidgin-otr

Network Changes:

- Removed support for /etc/network/proc_settings
- Added network device setting file auto-generation and auto-degeneration support
- Prevent already started or stopped network devices from being re-started or re-stopped
- Add extension support to dns resolver
- Add non-standard port support for ipv4 dns resolver

Other Changes:

- Shortened udev settle time to 4 seconds
- Added support for /etc/sysctl.conf (this also replaces /etc/network/proc_settings)
- Desktop build now adds fewer xorg video drivers
- Now supports custom xorg.conf.d directories at /etc/X11/ (This helps enable KMS)