GNOME 2.24
» PulseAudio improvements (PulseAudio 0.9.12)
» Ekiga 3.0
» Empathy Instant Messenger based on Telepathy framework
» File manager improvements, including tab support and “compact” view in Nautilus
» New deskbar plugins
» New screen resolution controls
» Accessibility improvements
» Power Manager improvement: Tab added to configure time to automatically wake from suspend/hibernate
» Banshee 1.3
KDE 3.5.10
openSUSE 11.1 will include KDE 3.5.10 on the DVD media, but moved to the “other window managers” selection.
KDE 4.1.x
» KWin has compositing enabled by default, testing welcome!
» Amarok 2.0 beta 1
» KWin cube effect
» Accessibility support
» SVG support “almost everywhere”
Basic SELinux enablement: This was announced on openSUSE News previously.
New YaST Modules
» Re-written YaST Printer module:
http://en.opensuse.or..._openSUSE_11.1» Re-written YaST Partitioner module: Testing wanted!
» Re-written YaST Security module: Checks the security of your system configuration.
Cluster stack features significant usability changes and has adopted OpenAIS, an industry standard also supported by leading vendors, for its core infrastructure. See
http://openais.org/ for more info.
Support for Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) – using KIWI, users can easily create an EC2 cloud based on openSUSE 11.1. (Documented here:
http://svn.berlios.de...le&rev=0&sc=0)Improvements in OCFS2: Full integration with userspace cluster stack, POSIX file locking, extended attributes, and file system sizes up to four Petabytes (4PiB).
IPv6 improvements: openSUSE can be installed in an IPv6 environment and run an IPv6 Web server.
New BlueTooth features with BlueZ 4.6.
Other major packages:
» Samba 3.2.3
» Python 2.6beta3 and 3.0beta3
» Linux kernel 2.6.27rc5
» Xen 3.3.1 RC
» PackageKit 0.3.2
» GCC 4.3.2
» X.org 7.4
» OpenOffice.org 3.0 RC
