Release Notes for CRUX 3.1

Introduction

This page discusses the relevant changes introduced in CRUX 3.1. Everybody upgrading from the previous release is advised to carefully read the following notes.

Toolchain updates

CRUX 3.1 comes with a multilib toolchain which includes glibc 2.19.0, gcc 4.8.3 and binutils 2.24

Kernel

Linux 3.12.24

Xorg

CRUX 3.1 ships with Xorg 7.7 and xorg-server 1.15.1.

Image

The ISO image is processed with isohybrid and is suitable for burning on a CD and putting on a USB drive.

Incompatible changes

Important libraries have been updated to new major versions which are not ABI compatible with the old versions. We strongly advise against manually updating to CRUX 3.1 via ports, since these changes will temporarily break the system. Please note that there may still be packages that needs updating that are not included on the ISO. These packages will need to be updated/rebuilt manually.

libpng has been updated to version 1.6
libjpeg has been replaced by libjepeg-turbo
libmng has been updated to version 2.0

Important notes

udev has been replaced by eudev
the upgraded eudev will rename your ethernet devices like udev. To stop it from doing that, run touch /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-name-slot.rules

More details can be found at the freedesktop wiki: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/

net-tools and traceroute has been removed form the core collection. It's main functionality has been replaced by iproute. Additionally the inetutils port contains a ifconfig, hostname and traceroute command now
the tools last, mesg, wall and pidof from sysvinit has been replaced by newer versions that comes with util-linux resp. procps
the man program is unmaintained since years, it has been replaced by man-db
the network configuration has been split in two parts, one being lo for the loopback device, net for other network devices. Both are residing in /etc/rc.d and thus are supposed to be started like services in /etc/rc.conf
clang was removed from the llvm port. If you want clang, install opt/clang which depends on llvm.
mesa3d depends now on llvm which is necessary to build some popular gallium drivers. We added explicit libvdpau support to mesa3d as well.

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