Please report only issues/bugs which are new in the prerelease.

We've been holding back on this release a few days waiting for updated Intel ixgbe (10Gbit) OOT driver which builds correctly with 4.18 kernel. But no update yet so this release uses 4.17.19 kernel.

Every major subsystem has been updated. In addition @bonienl has added some really cool features and update the default themes to match our new branding.

Release notes:

Version 6.6.0-rc1 2018-08-31

Base distro﻿:

aaa_base: version 14.2 (rev 5)

aaa_elflibs: version 15.0 (rev 2)

acl: version 2.2.53

acpid: version 2.0.29

adwaita-icon-theme: version 3.28.0

appres: version 1.0.5 (rev 2)

at-spi2-atk: version 2.26.2

at-spi2-core: version 2.28.0

at: version 3.1.20 (rev 5)

atk: version 2.28.1

attr: version 2.4.48

avahi: version 0.7 (rev2)

bash: version 4.4.023

bin: version 11.1 (rev 2)

bridge-utils: version 1.5 (rev 2)

btrfs-progs: version v4.17

bzip2: version 1.0.6 (rev 3)

ca-certificates: version 20180409

cairo: version 1.15.12

celt051: version 0.5.1.3 (rev 2)

cifs-utils: version 6.7 (rev 2)

coreutils: version 8.29 (rev 2)

cpio: version 2.12 (rev 2)

cpufrequtils: version 08 (rev 2)

cryptsetup: version 1.7.5 (rev 2)

curl: version 7.61.0 (CVE-2018-1000300, CVE-2018-1000301, CVE-2018-0500)

cyrus-sasl: version 2.1.27_rc8

db48: version 4.8.30 (rev 4)

dbus: version 1.12.8

dcron: version 4.5

dejavu-fonts-ttf: version 2.37 (rev 4)

dhcpcd: version 7.0.6

diffutils: version 3.6 (rev 2)

dmidecode: version 3.1 (rev 2)

dnsmasq: version 2.79 (rev 2)

docker: version 18.06.1-ce

e2fsprogs: version 1.44.2

ebtables: version 2.0.10 (rev 2)

editres: version 1.0.7 (rev 2)

elvis: version 2.2_0 (rev 4)

encodings: version 1.0.4 (rev 2)

etc: version 15.0 (rev 6)

ethtool: version 4.17

eudev: version 3.2.5 (rev2)

file: version 5.33

findutils: version 4.4.2 (rev 2)

flex: version 2.6.4 (rev 3)

floppy: version 5.5 (rev 2)

fontconfig: version 2.12.6 (rev 2)

freetype: version 2.9 (rev 2)

fribidi: version 1.0.4

fuse: version 2.9.7 (rev3)

gawk: version 4.2.1 (rev 2)

gd: version 2.2.5 (rev2)

gdbm: version 1.15

gdk-pixbuf2: version 2.36.12

genpower: version 1.0.5 (rev 3)

getty-ps: version 2.1.0b (rev 4)

glew: version 2.1.0 (rev 2)

glib2: version 2.56.1

glibc-solibs: version 2.27 (rev 4)

glibc-zoneinfo: version 2018e (rev 3)

glibc: version 2.27 (rev 4)

glu: version 9.0.0 (rev 2)

gmp: version 6.1.2 (rev 2)

gnome-themes-standard: version 3.22.3 (rev 2)

gnupg: version 1.4.23 (CVE-2018-12020)

gnutls: version 3.6.2 (rev 2)

gptfdisk: version 1.0.3 (rev 2)

grep: version 3.1 (rev 2)

gtk+3: version 3.22.30

gzip: version 1.9 (rev 2)

harfbuzz: version 1.8.1

haveged: version 1.9.2

hdparm: version 9.56

hicolor-icon-theme: version 0.17 (rev 2)

hostname: version 3.18 (rev 2)

htop: version 2.2.0

icu4c: version 61.1

imlib2: version 1.5.1

inetd: version 1.79s (rev 11)

infozip: version 6.0 (rev 4)

inotify-tools: version 3.14 (rev 2)

intel-microcode: version 20180807

iproute2: version 4.17.0

iptables: version 1.6.2 (rev 2)

iputils: version s20140519 (rev 2)

kernel-firmware: version 20180814_f1b95fe

keyutils: version 1.5.10 (rev 2)

kmod: version 25 (rev 2)

lbzip2: version 2.5

less: version 530 (rev 3)

libaio: version 0.3.111

libarchive: version 3.3.2 (rev 3)

libcap-ng: version 0.7.8 (rev 3)

libcgroup: version 0.41 (rev 5)

libcroco: version 0.6.12 (rev 2)

libdaemon: version 0.14 (rev2)

libdmx: version 1.1.4

libdrm: version 2.4.92

libedit: version 20180525_3.1

libee: version 0.4.1 (rev 2)

libepoxy: version 1.4.3 (rev 2)

libestr: version 0.1.10 (rev 2)

libevdev: version 1.5.9 (rev 2)

libevent: version 2.1.8 (rev 3)

libfastjson: version 0.99.8 (rev2)

libffi: version 3.2.1 (rev 2)

libfontenc: version 1.1.3 (rev 2)

libgcrypt: version 1.8.3 (CVE-2018-0495)

libgpg-error: version 1.31

libgudev: version 232 (rev 2)

libICE: version 1.0.9 (rev 3)

libidn: version 1.35

libjpeg-turbo: version 1.5.3 (rev 2)

liblogging: version 1.0.6 (rev2)

libmnl: version 1.0.4 (rev 3)

libnetfilter_conntrack: version 1.0.7

libnfnetlink: version 1.0.1 (rev 2)

libnftnl: version 1.1.0

libnl3: version 3.4.0 (rev 2)

libpcap: version 1.8.1 (rev 2)

libpciaccess: version 0.14 (rev 2)

libpng: version 1.6.34 (rev 2)

libpthread-stubs: version 0.4 (rev 2)

librsvg: version 2.42.5

libseccomp: version 2.3.3 (rev2)

libSM: version 1.2.2 (rev 3)

libssh2: version 1.8.0 (rev 3)

libtasn1: version 4.13 (rev 2)

libtirpc: version 1.0.3 (rev 2)

libunistring: version 0.9.10

libunwind: version 1.2.1

libusb-compat: version 0.1.5 (rev2)

libusb: version 1.0.22

libvirt-php: version 0.5.4 (rev3)

libvirt: version 4.6.0

libwebsockets: version 2.4.2

libX11: version 1.6.5 (rev 2)

libx86: version 1.1 (rev 3)

libXau: version 1.0.8 (rev 3)

libXaw: version 1.0.13 (rev 2)

libxcb: version 1.13 (rev 2)

libXcomposite: version 0.4.4 (rev 3)

libXcursor: version 1.1.15 (rev 2)

libXdamage: version 1.1.4 (rev 3)

libXdmcp: version 1.1.2 (rev 3)

libXevie: version 1.0.3 (rev 3)

libXext: version 1.3.3 (rev 3)

libXfixes: version 5.0.3 (rev 2)

libXfont2: version 2.0.3 (rev 2)

libXfontcache: version 1.0.5 (rev 3)

libXft: version 2.3.2 (rev 4)

libXi: version 1.7.9 (rev 2)

libXinerama: version 1.1.3 (rev 3)

libxkbfile: version 1.0.9 (rev 2)

libxml2: version 2.9.8 (rev 2)

libXmu: version 1.1.2 (rev 3)

libXpm: version 3.5.12 (rev 2)

libXrandr: version 1.5.1 (rev 2)

libXrender: version 0.9.10 (rev 2)

libXres: version 1.2.0 (rev 2)

libxshmfence: version 1.3 (rev 2)

libxslt: version 1.1.32 (rev 2)

libXt: version 1.1.5 (rev 2)

libXtst: version 1.2.3 (rev 2)

libXxf86dga: version 1.1.4 (rev 3)

libXxf86misc: version 1.0.3 (rev 3)

libXxf86vm: version 1.1.4 (rev 3)

listres: version 1.0.4 (rev 2)

lm_sensors: version 3.4.0 (rev 2)

logrotate: version 3.14.0 (rev 2)

lsof: version 4.91

lsscsi: version 0.29

lvm2: version 2.02.177

lz4: version 1.8.2

mc: version 4.8.21

mesa: version 18.1.2

mkfontdir: version 1.0.7 (rev 2)

mkfontscale: version 1.1.3 (rev 2)

mozilla-firefox: version 61.0.2 (CVE-2018-12359, CVE-2018-12360, CVE-2018-12361, CVE-2018-12358, CVE-2018-12362, CVE-2018-5156, CVE-2018-12363, CVE-2018-12364, CVE-2018-12365, CVE-2018-12371, CVE-2018-12366, CVE-2018-12367, CVE-2018-12368, CVE-2018-12369, CVE-2018-12370, CVE-2018-5186, CVE-2018-5187, CVE-2018-5188)

mpfr: version 4.0.1 (rev 2)

mtdev: version 1.1.5 (rev 2)

nano: version 2.9.8

ncompress: version 4.2.4.4 (rev 2)

ncurses: version 6.1_20180616

net-tools: version 20170208_479bb4a (rev 2)

netatalk: version 3.1.11 (rev2)

nettle: version 3.4 (rev 2)

network-scripts: version 15.0

nghttp2: version 1.32.0 (CVE-2018-1000168)

nginx: version 1.14.0

ntfs-3g: version 2017.3.23 (rev 2)

ntp: version 4.2.8p12 (CVE-2016-1549, CVE-2018-12327)

numactl: version 2.0.11 (rev2)

openldap-client: version 2.4.46

openssh: version 7.7p1

openssl-solibs: version 1.1.0i

openssl10-solibs: version 1.0.2o

openssl: version 1.1.0i (CVE-2018-0732, CVE-2018-0737)

p11-kit: version 0.23.12

pango: version 1.42.1

patch: version 2.7.6 (rev 3) (CVE-2018-1000156)

pciutils: version 3.5.6 (rev 2)

pcre: version 8.42

php: version 7.2.8

pixman: version 0.34.0 (rev 2)

pkgtools: version 15.0 (rev 20)

pm-utils: version 1.4.1 (rev 6)

procps-ng: version 3.3.15 (CVE-2018-1124, CVE-2018-1126, CVE-2018-1125, CVE-2018-1123, CVE-2018-1122)

qemu: version 3.0.0

reiserfsprogs: version 3.6.27 (rev2)

rpcbind: version 0.2.4 (rev 4)

rsync: version 3.1.3 (rev 2)

rsyslog: version 8.36.0

samba: version 4.8.4 (CVE-2018-1139, CVE-2018-1140, CVE-2018-10858, CVE-2018-10918, CVE-2018-10919)

sed: version 4.5

sessreg: version 1.1.1 (rev 2)

setxkbmap: version 1.3.1 (rev 2)

shadow: version 4.2.1 (rev 4)

shared-mime-info: version 1.9 (rev 2)

spice: version 0.14.0 (rev2)

sqlite: version 3.24.0

ssmtp: version 2.64 (rev5)

startup-notification: version 0.12 (rev 3)

sudo: version 1.8.23

sysfsutils: version 2.1.0 (rev 2)

sysvinit-scripts: version 2.1 (rev 12)

sysvinit: version 2.90

talloc: version 2.1.13

tar: version 1.30 (rev 2)

tcp_wrappers: version 7.6 (rev 2)

tdb: version 1.3.15 (rev 2)

telnet: version 0.17 (rev 4)

tevent: version 0.9.36 (rev 2)

traceroute: version 2.1.0 (rev 2)

transset: version 1.0.2 (rev 2)

tree: version 1.7.0 (rev 2)

ttyd: version 1.4.0 (rev2)

usbredir: version 0.7.1 (rev2)

usbutils: version 010

utempter: version 1.1.6 (rev 3)

util-linux: version 2.32

vala: version 0.28.1 (rev2)

vbetool: version 1.2.2 (rev 2)

vsftpd: version 3.0.3 (rev 5)

vte3: version 0.44.3 (rev2)

wget: version 1.19.5 (CVE-2018-0494)

which: version 2.21 (rev 2)

xauth: version 1.0.10 (rev 2)

xcb-util: version 0.4.0 (rev 3)

xclock: version 1.0.7 (rev 3)

xdpyinfo: version 1.3.2 (rev 2)

xdriinfo: version 1.0.6 (rev 2)

xev: version 1.2.2 (rev 2)

xf86-input-evdev: version 2.10.6

xf86-input-keyboard: version 1.9.0 (rev 3)

xf86-input-mouse: version 1.9.3

xf86-input-synaptics: version 1.9.1

xf86-video-ast: version 1.1.5 (rev 5)

xf86-video-mga: version 1.6.5 (rev 3)

xf86-video-vesa: version 2.4.0 (rev 3)

xfsprogs: version 4.16.1

xhost: version 1.0.7 (rev 2)

xinit: version 1.4.0 (rev 2)

xkbcomp: version 1.4.2

xkbevd: version 1.1.4 (rev 2)

xkbutils: version 1.0.4 (rev 3)

xkeyboard-config: version 2.22 (rev 2)

xkill: version 1.0.5 (rev 2)

xload: version 1.1.3 (rev 2)

xlsatoms: version 1.1.2 (rev 2)

xlsclients: version 1.1.4 (rev 2)

xmessage: version 1.0.5 (rev 2)

xmodmap: version 1.0.9 (rev 2)

xorg-server: version 1.20.0 (rev 2)

xprop: version 1.2.3 (rev 2)

xrandr: version 1.5.0 (rev 2)

xrdb: version 1.1.1 (rev 2)

xrefresh: version 1.0.6 (rev 2)

xset: version 1.2.4 (rev 2)

xsetroot: version 1.1.2 (rev 2)

xsm: version 1.0.4 (rev 2)

xterm: version 333

xtrans: version 1.3.5 (rev 2)

xwd: version 1.0.7 (rev 2)

xwininfo: version 1.1.4 (rev 2)

xwud: version 1.0.5 (rev 2)

xz: version 5.2.4

zlib: version 1.2.11 (rev 2)

Linux kernel:

version 4.17.19

intel ixgbe: version 5.3.7

intel ixgbevf: version 4.3.5

highpoint r750: version 1.2.11

highpoint rr3740a: version 1.17.0

added per customer request: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SKD: STEC S1120 Block Driver CONFIG_BNXT: Broadcom NetXtreme-C/E support CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST: SCSI tape support

changed from built-in to module: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR: SCSI CDROM support

removed CONFIG_SENSORS_IT87: ITE IT87xx and compatibles

it87: version 20180709 groeck Linux Driver for ITE LPC chips (https://github.com/groeck/it87)

groeck Linux Driver for ITE LPC chips (https://github.com/groeck/it87) set CRYPTO_DEV_SP_PSP=N otherwise udev deadlocks on threadripper

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