Table of Contents

Development plans for PLD 3.0 (Th)

Overview of changes planned to PLD Th.

Software updates

Software Progress Comments
texlive 2012, 2014? ?? work in progress
ImageMagick Q8 for non-desktop (PHP) ?? ??

System wide changes

Completed targets

Project Released_In_Th Notes
BerkeleyDB 5.3 2012-09-22 In Th on 22nd September 2012 along with rpm5, but rpm uses BDB 5.2
rpm 5.4.x 2012-09-22 In Th on 22nd September 2012
apache 2.4.x 2013-06-07 In Th on 7th June 2013
perl 5.18.x 2013-06-30 Available with all dependant packages in Th since 30th June 2013
kernel grsecurity support has been dropped, linux-3.4.x is now “longterm”
Samba 4 2014-01-31 Updated to 4.x, new packages in Th on January 31st 2014
Java cleanup java-sun is full of security holes and unmaintained, java-oracle looks to be non-redistributable, they're both been moved to th-obsolete. Icedtea is now default java environment.
initrd subpackages removal Done, the only one initrd package left is busybox-initrd for geninitrd,
256 colors terminals 2014-03-03 setup with shrc.d script to set 256 colors in capable terminals in Th on March 3 2014
PHP 5.5 as main php, php52, php53 for compatibility 2014-06-12 PHP 5.5 coming to Th. Done: 12th June 2014: New PHP packages in PLD Th
ruby 2.0 2014-09-24 ruby 2.0 is faster than 1.9.3, and minimally different to 1.9 (compared 1.9 to 1.8). done