This release includes over 10,000 change sets, including improvements to the build system, and resulting distributions in various ways. Support for cross compilation was significantly improved. Over 200 new packages were added, while most packages received an update, including GCC 4.5, GlibC 2.11.2, and X.Org 7.5. Preliminary, basic support was added for LLVM/clang as well as MinGW / Win32.
Major regressions were fixed for PowerPC, PowerPC64, and SPARC64. The AVR32 toolchain was updated to the latest upstream version. Among the 1241 revisions and 972 updates, the most notable ones are KDE (3.5.8), GNOME (2.18), X.Org, Firefox, the Linux kernel, Samba, and CUPS.
The release features two new CPU architectures, AVR32 and Blackfin, as well as GCC 4.2 and GlibC 2.6. The 7.0 series comes with over 400 new packages, while most of the existing packages received an update, including KDE 3.5.7, GNOME 2.18.2, X.org 7.3, XFCE 4.4.1, and Enlightenment 17. Many new features were implemented, including architecture and target package overlays.
The release primarily focuses on ironing out all known LiveCD issues for smooth compilation of custom T2-based LiveCD/DVD and USB sticks. It also comes with some updated packages such as GCC-4.1.2, KDE-3.5.6, Squid, Firefox, Thunderbird, Seamonkey, GNUPG, Avahi, Scribus, and Parted, and other security updates and fixes.
The release primarily focuses on ironing out all known SPARC 64 issues for smooth support of Sun T1, Niagara CPU systems such as the T1000 and T2000. It also includes non SPARC changes, such as multilib gcc library installation, dietlibc builds on uclibc based systems, GRUB auto-setup for a separate /boot partition, python imaging (PIL) headers installation, and other security-related updates.
