Alt-F Files

Deprecated, a newer release is available.

=== March 26, 2011: Alt-F-0.1B7 is released on Alt-F first anniversary

	In the previous 12 months Alt-F has seen 6 releases, which gives an average of
	a new release every 2 months.

	During the previous year, thanks to many user reports and suggestions,
	and to many bug-fixes and improvements, Alt-F has evolved in a way that
	means that it is now mature and ready to leave the Beta status, what
	will hopefully happens in the next release.

	Online documentation, Wiki entries, packages updates and bug fixes will be the priority
	for the next release.

	Alt-F is intended to be a serious and sustainable alternative to the vendor's firmware,
	ready to be used by the average user through its administering web pages.

	Enjoy
	

-What's new:
	-kernel 2.6.35.11, as kernel 2.6.36.x had issues with A1 boards
	-IPv6 support in kernel and packages that support it
	-more robust reloading method, thanks to putterboy findings;
	 also, when reloading fails, the box will most often be rebooted instead of freezing.

	-filesystem check at boot now does not stops the boot process,
	 as fsck is parallelized/serialized and runs in the background
	-disk spindown now enforced be sysctrl
	-new cleanup service to clean (truncate) log files

	-Debian Installer page, to chroot or kexec Debian Squeeze
	-Save/Load setting to/from desktop computer
	-View/filter/download all existing log files
	-Pages that show temperatures show them in Celsius and Fahrenheit
	-Status page now uses bar graphs and an AJAX-like refresh mechanism,
	 based on original idea and code contributed by Dwight Hubbard
	-many improvements and bug fixes (about 280 changesets affecting 424 files since B6)

-New Alt-F packages:
	 automatic-0.6.4, forked-daapd-0.13, 
	 alsa-lib-1.0.18, dbus-1.2.26, libantlr-3.2, libavl-0.3.5, libconfuse-2.6, 
	 libevent-2.0.10, libgcrypt-1.2.4, libgpg-error-1.6, libunistring-0.9.3, mxml-2.6,
	 libcurl-7.19.6, ncurses-5.6, python-2.45, uemacs-4.0.15

-Updated Alt-F packages:
	 transmission-2.22, minidlna-1.0.19, mediatomb-0.12.1, ffmpeg-0.6.1,
	 avahi-0.6.28, netatalk-2.1.5, cups-1.4.6, hplip-3.11.1, 
	 openssh-0.9.8.r, vsftpd-2.3.4, rsync-3.0.7, wget-1.11.4, dropbear-0.53, dnsmasq-2.57, 
	 e2fsprogs-1.41.14, smartmontools-5.40, dosfstools-3.0.11, ntfs-3g-2010.10.2,
	 ethtool-2.6.36, Berkeley-db-4.8.30, libiconv-1.13.1, libfuse-2.8.5, libdaemon-0.14, 
	 tiff-3.9.4, jpeg-8c, taglib-1.6.3,  zlib-1.2.5

User who have an already Alt-F flashed box should use the TryIt button 
in the Firmware Upgrader web page before flashing this new version. 
Users that are using a reloaded Alt-F can proceed as above, in order 
to try the new version without messing up with the fun_plug 
installation. 
The unstable package feed was updated with new and recompiled 
packages. Most if not all new packages will only work on 0.1B7. 
The old feed is still available under the name unstable-old 
The experimental feed was deleted.