Devuan ASCII 2.1 point release
Dear Init Freedom Lovers
Once again the Veteran Unix Admins salute you!
Devuan ASCII 2.1 point release installer ISOs, desktop-live, and minimal-live isos are now available. No ARM or virtual images are included in this release.
What’s new in this point release:
Installation:
The option to choose OpenRC in the installer ISOs is more prominent, and no longer requires an Expert install. You can’t miss it.
If you would like to select an alternate bootloader (lilo) or exclude non-free firmware, you must select one of the Expert install options.
The recommended default mirror is now deb.devuan.org. If you would like to use a country code mirror, please check https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/mirror_list.txt to see if there is one suitable for your needs.
Security updates:
apt (1.4.9) to fix CVE-2019-3462
linux-image-4.9.0-9 (4.9.168-1+deb9u4) to fix multiple vulnerabilities
firefox-esr (60.8.0esr-1~deb9u1) to fix multiple vulnerabilities
policykit-1 to fix CVE-2018-19788 and CVE-2019-6133<
Many more. (See https://www.debian.org/security/2019/)
Other changes:
dbus patch to generate new dbus machine-id on boot. This behavior is configurable in /etc/default/dbus
memtest86+, lvm2, and mdadm added to live ISOs
A new version of Devuan GNU/Linux, a fork of Debian GNU/Linux 9 without systemd has been released.
