Yaboot 1.3.7 has been released, this is purely a maintenance release to fix some minor bugs that have been discovered since 1.3.6. The yaboot 1.x code base is in maintenance mode as all development efforts are being centered on rewriting yaboot from scratch for a 2.0 release.
Unless you have been affected by one of the fixed bugs, there is no compelling reason to upgrade. Also some related news; yaboot now has mailing lists: yaboot-announce Announcements regarding yaboot (read-only) yaboot-users User related questions/discussion regarding yaboot yaboot-devel Technical and development discussion regarding yaboot Please see http://lists.penguinppc.org/LISTNAME (where LISTNAME is one of the above mentioned lists) for subscription info. along with the #yaboot irc channel on irc.freenode.net. Changes since 1.3.6: * Documentation: - Add German translation of yaboot-howto. - Small updates to yaboot-howto. - No longer tell people to send bugs to benh in yabootconfig(8). * yaboot: - Fix file search so IBM CHRP will work if there is more than one type 0x83 partition. - Fix possible reiserfs symlink resolution failure. * yabootconfig: - Fix corner case /etc/fstab parsing failure. (Debian bug#156742). * Small build system modifications (mostly to accommodate the use of the arch revision control system. * yaboot now includes two changelogs: "ChangeLog" which is a detailed automatically generated list of changes, and "changelog" (this file) which is a hand written understandable summary of changes between releases. http://penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot/ and http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/yaboot/ -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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