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Release Notes for CRUX 2.4

Introduction

This page discusses the relevant changes introduced in CRUX 2.4. Everybody upgrading from the previous release is advised to carefully read the following notes.

Toolchain updates

CRUX 2.4 includes glibc 2.6.1, gcc 4.2.2 and binutils 2.18.

Xorg 7.3

CRUX 2.4 ships with Xorg 7.3. Note that Xprint isn't supported anymore.

New ISO image

CRUX 2.4 uses a new ISO image with an initial RAM filesystem (initramfs) that allows for some convenient features:

Known issues