Dear Community,

Our first release in 2019 is OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 Beta, a close preview of the upcoming final release.

Since Alpha1, OMLx 4.0 got a huge number of fixes and improvements.

You may already be aware of some of them having read OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 Alpha1 follow-up, some more came afterwards.

Live mode:

ISO menu new entries for language and keyboard preference

Upon user’s request, KPatience card games have been included in ISO (live mode only)

Calamares new features:

Easy swap partition option

Calamares log copied to successfully installed system

Automagically removing all unused languages at the end of installation

Calamares now checks whether system is installed in VirtualBox or in real hardware. If in real hardware it removes virtualbox unuseful packages.

Core packages updated:

Kernel 4.20.4

KDE Plasma: 5.14.90

KDE Frameworks: 5.54.0

KDE Applications: 18.12.1

Qt Framework 5.12

Systemd 240

LLVM/clang 7.0.0

Main packages updated:

LibreOffice 6.2

Firefox Quantum 65.0

Krita 4.1.7.101

DigiKam 6.0

Xorg 1.20.3, Mesa 18.3.3

New applications entered the ISO packages list:

Dnfdragora - graphical frontend for package manager, replacement for old rpmdrake

Kuser - users and groups manager tool, replacement for old userdrake

KBackup - tool for the backup of directories or files, replacement for old draksnapshot

Plasma software updates - Plasma applet for software updates using PackageKit

We will never forget to thank QA testers and all users for constant report of bugs at Issue Tracker System or at Forum and all our devoted high skilled developers.

Whithout them this magic would not have been possible.

As always, please read the Release Notes and the Errata.

Detailed information about this release can be found in OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 Release Notes

Our sources can be found on Github

Our main org:

OpenMandrivaSoftware

Our packaging org:

OpenMandrivaAssociation

Download at SourceForge:

Torrents

If you want to help us and support OpenMandriva, please consider making a donation.

More screenshots

https://gallery.openmandriva.org/index.php?/category/29