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@plugnburn plugnburn released this 12 Sep 21:49
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This is the third Asgard release candidate, where lots of major changes happened:

  • Moved to a new main image format (from hybrid ISO to pendrive image): the img.gz after unpack requires at least 1GB flash drive to be written on (the base system image is, and will always be, still under 500MB, all remaining space is for persistent storage, see the next change)
  • Introduced COW-based transparent persistent storage while keeping the base system image intact (you can always choose Safe mode to boot into the initial state)
  • Completely moved to GTK3 (yes, Flash plugin is removed now)
  • Fixed HTML5 video playback issues present in WebkitGTK and some codecs due to libcairo bugs, while extending the number of codec backends
  • Changed the media player backend from mpg123 and MPlayer to mpv; the :playmp3 and :stopmp3 dwb commands have been renamed to :playmedia and :stopmedia
  • Introduced VMusic: a new music client for VK network, present in Asgard as both commandline application and :vmusic dwb command

Besides that, there is quite a lot of minor improvements you can see in the commits. And of course, all software is updated to its current versions, featuring Linux kernel 3.16.2, systemd 216 and so on. Have fun and join the testing!

md5sum of gzipped image (asgard-RC3.img.gz): 789e69c31f08863141c60eb720c25154

P.S. Special thanks to intelfx for pointing out the path to solve HTML5 video playback issues and merging the long-waited cairo patches to AUR repo.

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