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Key component updates
We updated Firefox* to version 48 and OpenSSH to version 7.3. In addition we updated the
core toolchain components: Glibc is updated to version 2.24, and Binutils is updated to
version 2.27. We updated the go version to the final release candidate of 1.7.
Noteworthy items
This week we made the HTTP/2 protocol the default internet protocol in Clear Linux. HTTP/2
is a huge improvement over HTTP version 1.1, which is the workhorse of the internet since
all web pages and the bulk of file transfers use HTTP. HTTP/2 has less latency and
increased reliability and performance. All modern web browsers prefer HTTP/2 nowadays, but
it is rarely enabled by Linux distributions. In Clear Linux, we now default to HTTP/2 for
both the server components as well as our client components such as our software update.
Clear Linux OS images are now available in Dockerhub. Docker* users can now "docker
pull clearlinux" and get a basic Clear Linux image with os-core and os-core-update
bundles installed on it. This allows you to use Clear Linux optimized binaries on other
distributions. You can also readily explore Clear Linux functionality for future use and
leverage Clear Linux bundles working in concert with Docker to encapsulate complete
features and use cases like machine learning or a LAMP stack. In order to play with Clear
Linux from any Linux distro, just type:
docker run -it clearlinux
after which the normal "swupd bundle-add" command can be used to add
functionality to the bare-bones image.
Component highlights
The following components changed between release 9540 and 9890:
* Updated components:
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acpica-unix2<https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/acpica-unix2> 20160729
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alsa-lib<https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/alsa-lib> 1.1.2
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binutils<https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/binutils> 2.27
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btrfs-progs<https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/btrfs-progs> 4.7
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ciao<https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/ciao> 23
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curl<https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/curl> 7.50.1
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Cython<https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/Cython> 0.24.1
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diffutils<https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/diffutils> 3.4
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Django<https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/Django> 1.10
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firefox<https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/firefox> 48.0
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glibc<https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/glibc> 2.24
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go<https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/go> 1.7rc6
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guile<https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/guile> 2.0.12
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gvim<https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/gvim> 7.4.2181
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hwloc<https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/hwloc> 1.11.3
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libdrm<https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/libdrm> 2.4.70
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libinput<https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/libinput> 1.4.1
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libpcap<https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/libpcap> 1.8.0
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libpng<https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/libpng> 1.6.24
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libtasn1<https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/libtasn1> 4.9
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linux-lts<https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/linux-lts> 4.4.16
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nginx<https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/nginx> 1.11.3
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openssh<https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/openssh> 7.3p1
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php<https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/php> 5.6.24
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scipy<https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/scipy> 0.18.0
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soletta<https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/soletta> 1
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sqlite-autoconf<https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/sqlite-autoconf> 3140000
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strace<https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/strace> 4.13
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tcl<https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/tcl> 8.6.6
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tcpdump<https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/tcpdump> 4.8.0
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tk<https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/tk> 8.6.6
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vim<https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/vim> 7.4.2181
* New components:
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matplotlib<https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/matplotlib> 1.5.2
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nghttp2<https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/nghttp2> 1.13.0
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scikit-image<https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/scikit-image> 0.12.3