[lsb-discuss] ANNOUNCEMENT: LSB 3.2 Released

[Till Kamppeter]

Jeff, the specs for Runtime Languages, Printing, and Multimedia seem not 
yet uploaded, they all give a 404.

    Till


Jeff Licquia wrote:
> 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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