Hi,

Since RC2 we have fixed all reported bugs and the OS seems to be stable, so here we go for RC3, hopefully the last 7.0 release candidate. The kernel was downgraded to 2.6.35.11 (a long term supported special branch) as we encountered several regressions with 2.6.37. Zenwalk 7.0 will come with XFCE 4.8.1 (stable version, many bugs have been fixed since 4.8.0), and we are pleased to announce that OpenOffice will be replaced by LibreOffice which appeared to be more reliable on Zenwalk during our testing process (stability is very important for an office software).

We also changed a little bit the way we manage packages, you may have noticed that we no longer provide a "current" repository. We had to find a solution to make package management safe and clear for the average user : from now, for each version of Zenwalk, we will provide a versionalized repository including extra packages, where all packages are "certified compatible" with the given version (ie : 6.4, 7.0, ...). The "snapshot" repository will keep being an "experimental" work-in-progress repository, as usual.

7.0 RC3 versions overview :
- LibreOffice 3.3.1
- XFCE 4.8.1
- Icecat 3.6.13
- Icedove 3.0.4
- Kernel 2.6.35.11 with BFS scheduler and performance tweaks

Please download Zenwalk RC3 and help us fix remaining bugs for FINAL :

http://zen-repo.meticul.eu/i486/zenwalk-7.0/ISO/zenwalk-7.0-RC3a.iso
ftp://viking.zenwalk.org/i486/zenwalk-7.0/ISO/zenwalk-7.0-RC3a.iso
http://viking.zenwalk.org/i486/zenwalk-7.0/ISO/zenwalk-7.0-RC3a.iso

More mirrors to come soon :)

JP

Changelog since RC2 :

-----< Mar 03 2011 >---- GTK -------

[l] Updated glib2-2.28.1-i486-1.txz
[l] Updated gtk+2-2.24.1-i486-1.txz
[l] Updated polkit-gnome-0.100-i486-70.1.txz
[l] Updated polkit-0.100-i486-70.1.txz
[ap] Updated depfinder-1.3.8-i486-70.1.txz (bugfix)
[l] Updated neon-0.29.5-i486-1.txz (Upgraded)
[xap] Updated xfce4-power-manager-1.0.10-i486-70.1.txz

-----< Mar 02 2011 >---- SAMBA -------

[n] Updated samba-3.5.7-i486-70.1.txz (Fixed a vulnerability due to a denial of service caused by memory corruption)


-----< Mar 01 2011 >---- MKINITRD... -------

[a] Updated mkinitrd-1.4.6-i486-4.txz (Rebuilt.Upgraded to busybox-1.18.3.Blacklist some things in /lib/udev.Thanks to Robby Workman.)
[a] Updated pcmciautils-017-i486-1.txz (Upgraded.)
[l] Updated polkit-0.99-i486-70.1.txz (Make when you start xfce from the console, automount, and mount plugdev usbkey, cdrom, ...... work.)
[xap] Updated sane-1.0.22-i486-1.txz (Upgraded.)


-----< Feb 27 2011 >---- NETPKG... -------

[a] Updated dosfstools-3.0.11-i486-1.txz (Upgraded)
[a] Updated shadow-4.1.4.3-i486-70.1.txz
[a] Updated sysvinit-2.86-i486-70.2.txz
[ap] Updated netpkg-4.7.0-i486-70.1.txz (Print the zenwalk version, new set of versionized repositories)
[l] Updated mhash-0.9.9.9-i486-3.txz (Rebuilt.)
[xap] Updated orage-4.8.1-i486-70.1.txz
[xap] Updated xfce4-panel-4.8.2-i486-70.1.txz
[xap] Updated xfce4-mixer-4.8.0-i486-70.1.txz


-----< Feb 24 2011 >---- KERNEL... -------

[a] Updated kernel-2.6.35.11-i486-70.3.txz (Added eeepc support)
[a] Updated kernelscsi-2.6.35.11-i486-70.3.txz (Added eeepc support)
[l] Updated pycups-1.9.54-i486-70.1.txz (New version)


-----< Feb 23 2011 >---- GSTREAMER... -------

[a] Updated alsa-firmware-1.0.24.1-i486-70.1.txz (New version)
[l] Updated gstreamer-0.10.32-i486-70.1.txz (New version)
[l] Updated gst-plugins-bad-0.10.21-i486-70.1.txz (New version)
[l] Updated gst-plugins-base-0.10.32-i486-70.1.txz (New version)
[l] Updated gst-plugins-good-0.10.27-i486-70.1.txz (New version)
[l] Updated gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.17-i486-70.1.txz (New version)
[l] Updated gst-python-0.10.21-i486-70.1.txz (New version)


-----< Feb 22 2011 >---- KERNEL... -------

[a] Updated kernel-2.6.35.11-i486-70.2.txz (Added eeepc support)
[a] Updated kernelscsi-2.6.35.11-i486-70.2.txz (Added eeepc support)
[l] Updated totem-pl-parser-2.32.3-i486-70.1.txz (New version)
[n] Updated curl-7.21.4-i486-70.1.txz (New version)