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The first ever bugfix-only release of the distribution is out now. The ISO is available from http://gobo.calica.com/gobolinux-iso/GoboLinux-014.01-i686.iso or http://kundor.org/gobo/iso/GoboLinux-014.01-i686.iso (MD5 c4c4827d8bbaf724e0e28f8ead47e7da), and will be from the other standard mirrors as they update.

This release fixes all known bugs from 014 and should be the most stable release yet. Thanks to Carlo for all the work he put in, and everybody else who reported bugs, fixed bugs, backported fixes to bugs, or just provided moral support.

This release will be distributed on 4,000 CDs at the International Forum on Free Software (FISL) in Porto Alegre, Brazil; if you’re not going to be there, download and give it a whirl.

To follow up on adding support for GNU Bazaar in Compile, I’ve also added it to MakeRecipe in the same manner as the others.

I’ve also set up a few branches mirroring the Subversion tree – at the moment, only for Scripts, Compile, and Freshen, but others may follow if anybody else is using them. I’ve found them useful to split pieces of work across locations and to have decent branching to work with when adding features. The three branches up so far are at:

• http://mwh.geek.nz/files/gobo/branches/Scripts/trunk
• http://mwh.geek.nz/files/gobo/branches/Compile/trunk
• http://mwh.geek.nz/files/gobo/branches/Freshen/trunk

They’re kept up-to-date with bzr-svn (which was a bit of a pain to get going on Dreamhost; I had to compile half a toolchain in the process), and updated every half hour. Probably nobody else will be using them, but they’re there if somebody wants.

I think that’s the last of the work integrating bzr with the tools, so it should be all there for the next release of the tools, so I’ll move the branch recipes over from the experimental recipes repository into the mainline when that happens.

I’ve added support for bzr-based recipes to Compile, in the same manner as SVN or git snapshots work. It was surprisingly simple to do once I got to work on it. Recipes specify the branch URL with bzr=http://…, the same as for the others, and it works pretty smoothly from there.

We’re in a code freeze right now for the move to SVN, so I haven’t checked it in, but I’ve posted a patch for anybody interested – sudo patch -p0 ~/Compile-bzr-support.patch in your /P/Compile/Current directory will add it to your install.

That will allow me to add recipes for more Bazaar plugins, that are often only released as public branches. They’ll live in the experimental recipes repository until there’s a Compile release with this in it.