Version 17.5 of Pardus, still being improved by TUBITAK ULAKBIM, has been released.
Pardus 17.5 is the last interim version of the Pardus 17 family. To observe the changes made, you have to keep your Pardus 17-installed system up to date. With this latest version, Pardus 17 has set the date for LTS (Long Term Support) as May 1, 2021. Pardus 17 will continue to receive updates, but a disc pattern will not be created with a new version. Pardus reserves the right to republish the update of the disk pattern of the latest version with a notice and without changing the version.
We are working on the development of Pardus and, Pardus 19.0 version will be distributed as of July 2019.
What are the improvements?
- Fixed the usage scenario issues that the end user encountered in many graphical interfaces.
- Many package updates and optimizations were carried out affecting system performance.
- Security updates including over 200 packages and patches have been added to the system.
- The default Internet browser Firefox version has been updated to 60.5.1.
- The default email client Thunderbird has been updated to version to 60.5.1.
- The default media player VLC has been updated to version 3.0.6.
- The default office document application Libreoffice has been updated to version 6.1.5.1.
- The default application store pardus-store has been updated to version 0.3.1 ~ beta4 and content management has been rendered to dynamically editable without remote update.
- The troubles found in sssd that communicate with the default login screen shell lightdm-gtk-greeter and the user management systems at the back end have been fixed and ldap has been rendered to error-free operation with the central user management system.
- The installation process via the live pop-up system was abandoned, and the option to install the system using the setup environment was set as the only option.
- LTS label was placed on the denominations of the disc patterns to be provided with long-term support.
- The package tracker through which the difference between Pardus and debian, from which Pardus is derived from, can be observed live will be shared at tracker.pardus.org.tr on March 11, 2019.
You can download Pardus 17.5 right now and see the release notes for detailed information about this version.