Hey guys and girls.

We cannot post this on the mainpage (yet) but we don't want to hold you back, so we want to introduce you to the official 2009.08 images.

These images are the first fruits of our new arch-releng build environment on the sevenL server.

They are built from a current snapshot of core, which includes kernel 2.6.30.4-1, udev 141-5 and pacman 3.3.0-2.

Changes compared to 2009.02:

- more up-to-date software (see above)

- usage of new AIF installer, which brings:

* better disk editor with support for dm_crypt and lvm setups

* support for automated installations using config files (deprecates quickinst)

* a framework to build your own installation procedures

* better date/time setting with ntp support

* refactored grub installation routines

* usability improvements

- aufs instead of unionfs

- enhanced boot device detection on image start

- ftp images are renamed to netinstall to avoid confusion

- bugfixes (xfs freeze, mirror setting, clock correctness, network settings, ...)

- and much more...

detailed package list and additional snapshot information

As you can see, just like with 2009.02 there have been some huge changes.

We should be more settled now and hopefully it will be more straightforward to build snapshots in the future.

Time will tell ;-).

As usual, the images come in iso and img flavors, with grub and isolinux for people whose cd-rom drive doesn't work with grub

Due to all mentioned changes, the installation guide will get a bunch of changes in a few minutes

The new guide is for now only available in English but we'll add other versions when we receive translated versions.

We cannot update the download page yet, but most mirrors have these images and torrent files (with webseed support) in their iso directory.