[lsb-discuss] ANNOUNCEMENT: LSB 3.2 Released

[Jeff Licquia]

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.