Weekly Status Report: 2020-02-23

Hello all!

A large amount of goodies have been added to Adélie this week, mostly in our installer, Horizon.

Horizon

Partitioning for the Runtime Environment has been added to the Qt frontend, and more partition features are now available. An initial implementation of automatic partitioning is available. Additionally, partition tables can now be dynamically reloaded.

HFS+ file system support has been added.

Detection of PowerPC platforms has been added.

Improvements to accessibility have been made, including more keyboard accelerators for those unable to use a mouse. More help files and “What’s This” have also been specified.

Issues found by static analysis have been fixed. A few minor memory leaks have been fixed.

Packaging

A. Wilcox (awilfox@) updated KDE Plasma to its latest long-term stable release, 5.18. They also fixed an issue with abuild.

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