Release — Paul Sutton

April 15, 2022

BigBlueButton 2.5.0-beta.1 released!

Just sharing this announcement

We are pleased to announce BigBlueButton 2.5.0-beta.1!

This beta iteration of BigBlueButton 2.5 includes some packaging and configuration improvements and several fixes. It also includes an upgrade of Tomcat to mitigate any danger of Spring Framework Remote Code Execution (CVE-2022-22965) by upgrading Tomcat**

Note that BBB 2.3.x and BBB 2.4.x (the maintained versions) are safe, see #14719

At this point we're “feature complete” for BBB 2.5.x Switching to “beta” to iterate with increased focus on testing and clean up bugs. Development is moved on to the next release, BBB 2.6, with pull requests targeting branch 'develop' until we branch out into 'v2.6.x-release' when it's time for 2.6.0-alpha.1

Note that it runs on Ubuntu Focal (20.04). If you have a BigBlueButton version earlier than alpha.5, please check the alpha.5 release notes as they contain imporant information on upgrading.

The full release notes can be found on https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/releases/tag/v2.5.0-beta.1

To try out 2.5.0-beta.1, visit * https://test25.bigbluebutton.org/

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#BigBlueButton.#Beta2.5.0,#Release

April 3, 2022

TeX Live 2022

TeX Live 2022 is now available. This is the latest release of the popular LaTeX typesetting system, software, related software, packages, documentation and other related material(s).

Please give it a day or so, so that mirrors can be populated etc.

I will have a copy available at the next Paignton Library STEM Group on April 9th. The CTAN resources are useful, even if you are using websites such as Overleaf.

Writing

Free Software and Hardware

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#TeXLive,#LaTeX,#Release

August 19, 2021

Libreoffice 7.2

LibreOffice 7.2 is out, along with a video highlighting the new features

Mastodon post (embed)

Video – direct on Peertube

Links

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#LibreOffice72,#Features,#Release,#Linux,#Mac,#Windows,#Video, #Peertube

August 14, 2021

Debian 11 – Bullseye

Debian 11 release day

Links General

Debian

Support and help

OFTC #debian
Bullseye Presentation
- Fork of above by Laura Arjona Reina
Basic flyer ( not official )

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#Debian,#Linux,#Bullseye,#Release,#OS,#Presentation,#OperatingSystem

August 12, 2021

Debian 11 Release

Debian 11 (Bullseye) is due for release on the 14th August.

Links

Debian
Release Notes
iso integrity check
OFTC
My Bullseye Presentation
- Fork of above by Laura Arjona Reina
Basic flyer ( not official )
Release party info (wiki)

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#Debian,#Linux,#Bullseye,#Release,#OS,#Presentation,#OperatingSystem

May 18, 2021

Ubuntu 21.04

The new features found in Ubuntu 21.04 [1]

A quick overview of the features of the latest release of the Ubuntu operating system (OS).

This video is provided via Invidious, which is a front end to Youtube, twitter etc that filters out tracking etc. This can be done automatically via Privacy Redirect plug-in [2] for Firefox.

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1 Ubuntu 2 Privacy Redirect

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#Linux,#Ubuntu,#2104.#Release,#April2021 ,#Video,#Invidious,#Privacy,#Redirect,#Browser,#Plugin.NoTracking

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May 17, 2021

Bullseye Presentation

A few years ago, I found that there was not an up-to-date presentation for the upcoming release of Debian at the time. I therefore set about creating one.

This is now an ongoing project, my personal remit is to keep this updated by researching information about the upcoming release(s) of Debian. The next release is Debian 11 (Bullseye) as this is now frozen then I am working on the update.

Presentation is in Beamer, which is a LaTeX package for creating presentations. I am however using Overleaf to create the document.

I am on IRC (oftc) as zleap if anyone wants to discuss further. I will also be at the DebConf Planning meeting on the 24th.

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#Debian,#Release,#Update,#Presentation,#LaTeX,#Beamer,#Overleaf,#CTAN