Release notes

You will find on this page the list of the main modifications achieved between the different DoudouLinux versions. We also try to note modifications that will be achieved in the next version. If you need more information on all changes, particularly those that cannot be seen because of or concerning DoudouLinux build tools, you may consider visiting the DoudouLinux project. You may be particularly interested in the global view of our activities (Gantt chart).

Official releases

DoudouLinux Gondwana update 1

Published in late September 2011, it is also known as the release 1.1. Here is the list of changes:

• official support for Czesh, Danish, German, Hungarian, Latvian, Malay, Norwegian (Bokmål), Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal) and Telugu
• new small tool to change the user’s name on the local network
• Songwrite is now in its latest version to solve language issues
• translation issues with Stopmotion and Vkeybd (the piano keyboard) have been solved
• missing translation messages on Transifex have been provided for several applications
• translation of boot and shutdown texts in splash images have also been solved
• a basic video driver is forced on recent Poulsbo hardware to avoid a black screen
• annoying print dialogs for all the advanced activities have been discarded
• embedded PDF documentation has been updated
• fixed Russian PDF documentation
• added the Russian version of the song Brother John.

The complete list of changes can be found in our roadmap for Gondwana update 1.

DoudouLinux Gondwana

Published by the beginning of June 2011, it is also known as the release 2011-05. Here is the list of changes:

• official support for Greek and Persian
• new application, Songwrite, a simple application to write and play songs
• new application, Stopmotion, another simple application to make animation movies from series of photos
• new launcher, Jukebox, to play the music now shipping with DoudouLinux
• included several MIDI files to play music, accompanied with their Songwrite and PDF scores (Classical music and French children’s songs right now)
• graphical and musical boot and shutdown
• first audio messages (for low battery and to remove the CD at shutdown)
• redesigned the menu of activities, which now handles languages written from right to left
• better hardware support (network, wifi, webcams, tablets, touchscreens)
• replaced the network manager tool to easily handle Wifi authentication
• audio output selection is now a system wide setting
• added a shortcut Alt+F5 to restart the panel when it is not correctly drawn
• added adblock and popup blocking to the web browser Epiphany
• fixed minor issues with DansGuardian

The complete list of changes can be found in our roadmap for version 2011-05.

Version being developed

Current release

The current release is the first official stable release named DoudouLinux Gondwana – see above. Next release in development is numbered 2011-11. You can look at its full projected roadmap online. Development versions are now based on Debian Squeeze, DoudouLinux Gondwana being based on Debian Lenny.

Previous releases

• Version 2011-08 (out in late August 2011!)
  • this is the very first version build on top of Debian Squeeze instead of Debian Lenny
  • only supported for English, French, Russian and Spanish
  • refer to the special section Development version to know more about this release

• Version 2011-02 (out in late February 2011!)
  • official support for Chinese, Dutch, Italian, Polish and Swedish
  • new CD’s in the incubator section: Indonesian and Greek
  • new tool to set the activities available from the main screen (see The menu of activities)
  • two new activities for schools, that are not shown by default, use the tool to set the menu of activities!
  • a special activity is available to set the sound volume when no advanced activity is available, not shown by default either
  • switched Gamine to its latest version thanks to his author Gnunux, this solves the translation issue of this application (see https://gna.org/bugs/?16895) and brings new features (screenshots and keyboard character output)
  • KDE applications are being translated
  • the virtual piano is now translatable
  • files from other activities are now accessible from any activity, especially the directory “Pictures” now contains the TuxPaint draws of all activities
  • users can now always switch keyboard layout to Azerty, Qwerty or Qwertz using Shift+Alt
  • DoudouLinux is now able to use a previous video configuration when hardware is identical
  • video driver is now forced to “intel” or “nv” (nVidia) when it make sense!
  • minor fixes and improvements…
• Version 2010-11 (out in late November 2010, hum…)
  • official support for Romanian, Russian, Serbian and Ukrainian
  • many applications have been better translated
  • new CD’s in the incubator section: Dutch, Italian, Polish, Turkish…
  • added web filtering for parental controls with DansGuardian, this is alpha version for Arabic, Romanian, Serbian and Ukrainian
  • graphical interface improvement for the mouse setting tool and the sound output setting tool
  • replaced window menu button with a window shade button
  • suppressed boot hanging on DHCP messages when network cable is not plugged
  • fixed boot crash when a Linux system is installed on an ext4 partition
  • fixed bugs in tools liveusb-write and doudou-installer
  • under the hood: project is now registered on the online translation platform TransiFex, many translation files have been ported to PO files to ease the translation process and translation files have been separated from source code
  • translation for a new language can now start as soon as you have an account on TransiFex
• Version 2010-08 (out in late august 2010!)
  • added a tool to install DoudouLinux
  • added documentation in PDF format
  • added German, Portuguese, Romanian and Russian versions in the incubator
  • added a download page for language file packs
  • USB Live: no more waiting for pressing the Enter key before computer shutdown
  • Arabic version: keyboard now defaults to Arabic alphabet, Alt+Shift toggles to Latin, and panel is now left aligned in mini/all DoudouLinux activities
• Version 2010-05 (out in late may 2010 !)
  • first version released to launch the project