The first alpha version of OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 is now available for testing.

OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 Alpha available for testing

Here we have the Alpha milestone of OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 release cycle. Warning: This is an alpha product, and it is not aimed to be used in a production environment. Alpha release is primarily for testing and bug squashing. Testing is a critical step during development as all bug fixing will take place during this lapse of time.

Therefore we exhort all OpenMandriva users to test our system and report any issue you may find at our  forum or at  Github Issues.
You can get in touch real time with our developers at IRC channel #openmandriva-cooker on freenode.

Please note development releases ’Update channel’ is set to Rolling by default.
The best adviced command to upgrade Rolling system is:
$ sudo dnf clean all ; sudo dnf --allowerasing distro-sync

You can read more about OpenMandriva Release Plan and Repositories, please visit:  https://wiki.openmandriva.org/en/doc/release-plan-and-repositories

Major changes since 4.1:

— The kernel has been updated to 5.7.8
— Qt has been updated to 5.15
— Plasma has been updated: Frameworks 5.72.0, Plasma Desktop 5.19.3, Applications 20.04.3

Please read more about the new features at  What’s New in OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 Alpha.

As always, please read the Release Notes and the  Errata.

Detailed information about this release can be found in OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 Alpha  Release Notes

Download OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 Alpha at  SourceForge

OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 Alpha available for testing – OpenMandriva