TULSA, OKLAHOMA (11 February 2020) — The Adélie Linux Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the immediate release of Adélie Linux 1.0-RC1 for all supported platforms. Learn more about Adélie Linux on our Web site.

Please note: This is a test release of Adélie Linux. While every care has been taken to ensure the stability of the system, features and packages may be missing or may not function correctly. You should always back up your computer’s data before you install a new Linux distribution. This release is being actively tested on multiple platforms. It is highly recommended that you use a dedicated computer or virtual machine to learn the environment until you are comfortable with using the Adélie Linux system and its package manager (apk).

Tier 1 platforms supported for this release: 32-bit PowerPC, 64-bit PowerPC, 32-bit Intel x86, 64-bit Intel x86, 64-bit ARM (AArch64).

Tier 2 platforms supported for this release: ARMv7.

We are happy to announce that this release of Adélie Linux is the first release of any Linux distribution that uses 64-bit integers for representing time on 32-bit computers. This means that all 32-bit computers running Adélie Linux 1.0-RC1 or newer can process dates after January 2038. For more information on 64-bit time, see the blog post from Linaro and our Project: Time64 page.

If you want to show your support for the work Adélie Linux is performing to provide high-quality libre software to everyone, and you have the ability, please consider a financial contribution to our project. You can find out how to contribute on our Contribution page. Thank you!

Release Notes

All architectures

• GRUB now automatically updates its configuration when kernels are installed or deinstalled.
• KDE Applications have been updated to 19.12, Frameworks to 5.67, and Plasma to 5.18 LTS.
• The Linux kernel used for easy-kernel has been updated to the 5.4 LTS branch.
• The musl libc has been updated to version 1.2.
• OpenSSL has been updated from 1.0.2 to 1.1.1.
• Qt has been updated to its latest LTS branch, 5.12.
• Qt WebKit has been updated to 5.212.0 from 5.9, bringing hundreds of security improvements and bug fixes.
• The Rust programming language has been updated to version 1.38.0.
• An issue with SDDM has been fixed.

64-bit ARM (aarch64)

No architecture-specific notes for this release.

32-bit PowerPC (ppc)

• The Rust compiler now uses the correct ABI on 32-bit PowerPC.

64-bit PowerPC (ppc64)

No architecture-specific notes for this release.

32-bit x86 (pmmx)

No architecture-specific notes for this release.

64-bit x86 (x86_64)

No architecture-specific notes for this release.

Statistics

Adélie Packages

There were 1,009 commits to packages.git between 1.0-BETA4 and 1.0-RC1, by eleven developers:

• A. Wilcox (624)
• Kiyoshi Aman (207)
• Max Rees (98)
• Laurent Bercot (19)
• Dan Theisen (18)
• Luis Ressel (16)
• Samuel Holland (14)
• Molly Miller (9)
• Gavin Howard (2)
• Lee Starnes (1)
• Jason A. Donenfeld (1)