[altlinux-announce-en] Platform 11 Release

[Maria Fokanova <fokanovama@basealt.ru>]

Platform 11 (p11 - Salvia branch) has been released. In the new stable 
branch packages are built for the following architectures:
- x86_64;
- i586;
- aarch64;
- Elbrus: e2k (v3, 4C) and e2kv4 (8C/1C+), as well as e2kv5 (8C), the 
new e2kv6.

Multilib support will remain in the repository for x86_64. For 32-bit 
architectures mipsel, armh (armv7a), 64-bit ppc64le, the p11 branch is 
not created.

The platform is designed for the development, testing, distribution, 
updating and support of integrated solutions at all levels - from 
embedded devices to enterprise servers and data centers. The platform is 
created and developed by the ALT Linux Team, supported by Basealt Ltd.

The Eleventh platform contains solutions related to the operation of the 
Active Directory, migration from proprietary infrastructure and others.


New versions of applications

At the time of the release of the p11 branch, the Linux kernel 6.1, 6.6, 
3.10 (OpenVZ) is available. rt-6.1.90 (with real-time patches). Systemd 
255.6, Glibc 2.38, and a set of GCC compilers 13.2, 12.3, and 11.4 are 
provided for the system environment.

Network services and connections have been updated: NetworkManager has 
been updated to version 1.46, multifunctional DNS server BIND 9.18, 
nginx 1.24, Apache httpd 2.4, postfix 3.8.

The p11 branch provides a wide range of development tools, including: 
Rust 1.78, Python 3.12 and 2.7, LLVM toolkits 17 and 18 versions, the 
Perl interpreter 5.38. The set of popular boost C++ libraries has been 
updated to 1.85. The toolchain for the Golang programming language has 
been updated to 1.22.

GNOME 46, KDE 5.116, MATE 1.28, Xfce 4.18 and others desktop 
environments are available for p11 users. The latest versions of web 
browsers have been collected: Firefox has been updated to 126.0; Firefox 
ESR 115.11 is available; Chromium 125.0 and Chromium-gost 124.0. The 
official client for Telegram messenger telegram-desktop version 5.0 has 
been assembled into the platform. Applications for working with sound 
have been updated. The JACK audio input/output server has been removed 
from the repository in favor of pipewire-jack, a compatibility layer 
with JACK for PipeWire.


The Linux Group Policy Project

The new stable branch presents a solution for implementing group 
policies in the ALT OS, based on the Samba project - an alternative to 
Active Directory for Linux/Unix.

During the development of the p10 branch, own developments have been 
actively developing - graphical group policy management tools in Linux 
ADMC and GPUI, as well as the gpupdate group policy application 
mechanism. Currently, the application versions in p10 and p11 are 
synchronized: ADMC 0.16, GPUI 0.2, gpupdate 0.10. Maintenance of this 
set of utilities is also planned to be carried out synchronously until 
the end of support for p10.

In p11 a stable version of Samba 4.20 is available along with Kerberos 1.21.


New tools

ALT Diagnostic Tool is a graphical diagnostic utility for the operating 
system. ADT 0.1 uses a pre-prepared set of checks, provides the user 
with the opportunity to run tests without any root privileges and a 
single type of verification report. You can also add your own set of 
checks to ADT.

alterator-manager is introduced in version 0.1 - an ADT component, a 
modular service designed for configuration via D-bus.

alterator-module-executor - ADT component, Alterator module for 
processing .backend files and launching executable files.

libdomain 0.9 is a universal C library designed to simplify interaction 
with various LDAP servers, including FreeIPA, Samba/AD and OpenLDAP. 
libdomain 0.9 implements initial samba support, a set of tests for 
samba, tests for TLS, tests for adding and removing, modifying and 
renaming computers to OpenLDAP.

alterator-browser 0.1 - graphical user interface for system 
configuration using D-Bus. It can display and launch installed Alterator 
modules.


Technical review of the release on the ALT Linux Wiki (in Rusiian):
https://www.altlinux.org/Branches/p11/TechnicalNotes

Learn more about the new p11 branch:
https://packages.altlinux.org/en/p11/

-- 
With best regards,
Maria Fokanova
community manager