[lsb-discuss] ANNOUNCEMENT: LSB 3.2 Released
Jeff Licquia
jeff at licquia.org
Mon Jan 28 17:06:52 PST 2008
The Linux Standard Base version 3.2 has been released. Release notes
are available here:
https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/ReleaseNotes32
The specification itself is available here:
http://refspecs.linux-foundation.org/LSB_3.2.0/
The test suites and SDK can be downloaded from our FTP site. More
information is available at:
https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Downloads
This release of the LSB has many fixes and features, including:
* New "trial use" modules, replacing the former "optional" modules.
* Initial support for printing.
* Initial support (as trial use) for ALSA.
* Support for Perl and Python as first-class languages for Linux apps.
* Several freedesktop.org standards, including menus and icon themes.
* Support for the Portland project's xdg-utils as trial use.
* Promotion of Qt 4 to a required part of the standard, and
deprecation of Qt 3.
* FreeType support, through both FreeType and the Xft X extension.
* XRender support.
More details are available in the release notes.
In addition, a new certification process has been introduced in time for
LSB 3.2.
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