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As our team shrinked quite a bit lately we lack the manpower to continue providing a,</p> <p>secure and stable tree while provding bleeding edge and latest package in another. Therefore we decided to move all users to the -current tree.</p> <p>For users not wanting that we will provide a static, not updated snapshot of the -current tree each time we do a release.</p> <p>We also plan to release more often so this snapshots get updated faster.</p> <p>Here are the most important changes since 2.0 in no particular order:</p> <ul> <li>Package updates: <ul> <li>Linux kernel 4.7.2</li> <li>Xorg server 1.18.4</li> <li>Mesa 12.0.1</li> <li>KDE (Plasma) 5.7.3</li> <li>GNOME 3.20.2</li> <li>LibreOffice 5.2.1.2</li> <li>Mozilla Firefox 48.0.2</li> <li>Chromium browser 52.0.2743.116</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p>Please refer to the Frugalware <a href="http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-stable/ChangeLog.txt">Derowd ChangeLog</a> for more information.</p> <p>We no longer provide i686 ISOs but will continue to provide i686 packages, because they are also needed for lib32-extra packages on x86_64.</p> <p>Download for x86_64: See our <a href="http://frugalware.org/download/frugalware-stable-iso">mirror list</a>. 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