4MLinux 45.0 Released with Linux Kernel 6.6 LTS, New Printing Drivers
Coming more than three and a half months after 4MLinux 44.0, which was powered by the Linux 6.1 LTS kernel series, the 4MLinux 45.0 release ships with a new long-term supported kernel, namely Linux 6.6 LTS. The Linux 6.6.18 kernel is included by default in the ISO images, along with the Mesa 23.3 graphics stack.
On top of that, the 4MLinux 45.0 release includes lots of new printing drivers, a newer FFmpeg version that offers improved support for video scaling (resizing) via the zimg library, better handling of stereo audio through the use of the libbs2b Bauer stereophonic-to-binaural DSP effect library in FFmpeg and MPlayer, the CHAMP Kong game as a DOSBox package, and Basilisk web browser as a downloadable extension.
Update (by Roy)
Official blog:
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4MLinux 45.0 STABLE released.
The status of the 4MLinux 45.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Edit your documents with LibreOffice 24.2.1 and GNOME Office (AbiWord 3.0.5, GIMP 2.10.36, Gnumeric 1.12.56), surf the Internet with Firefox 123.0.1 and Chrome 122.0.6261.128, send emails via Thunderbird 115.8.1, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 4.3.1, watch your favorite videos with VLC 3.0.20 and SMPlayer 23.12.0, play games powered by Mesa 23.3.0 and Wine 9.2. You can also setup the 4MLinux LAMP Server (Linux 6.6.18, Apache 2.4.58, MariaDB 10.6.16, and PHP 8.2.16). Perl 5.38.2, Python 2.7.18, Python 3.11.6, and Ruby 3.2.2 are also available.
As always, the new major release has some new features. Lots of new printing drivers have been added. FFmpeg in 4MLinux now offers improved support for video scaling (resizing) via zimg library. Additionally, FFmpeg and MPlayer make us of Bauer stereophonic-to-binaural DSP effect library (libbs2b) for better handling of stereo audio. Classic CHAMP Kong game has been added to the 4MLinux DOSBox package. Basilisk web browser is now available a downloadable extension. And finally, OpenSSL in 4MLinux has been system-wide upgraded to its version 3.