[altlinux-announce-en] ALT Linux 7.0.5

[Андрей Черепанов]

ALT Linux Ltd announces the availability of updated Seventh Platform
distribution releases:

* ALT Linux 7.0.5 Centaurus (http://en.altlinux.org/centaurus)
* ALT Linux 7.0.5 KDesktop
* Simply Linux 7.0.5 (http://en.altlinux.org/simply)
* ALT Linux 7.0.5 School Suite

Changes within this release:

* Updated software closing known vulnerabilities as of May 22, 2015
with further updates available through Platform 7 repositories
* Updated timezones
* System Control Center is now able to join Active Directory
* LiveCDs gained RW partition support during UEFI boot as well
* "poweroff" kernel commandline parameter will cause the system to shut down
upon installation to ease automated deployment
* Online repositories will always be configured, not just when found
available
* Linux 3.14.41
* Mesa 10.0.5
* Firefox 31.6.0
* Various bugs were fixed with updated Intel video driver

KDesktop changes:

* NVIDIA drivers updated to 346.72, 340.76, 304.125, 173.14.39
* Fixed missing installation source during installer initialization
* System journal is displayed on tty12

Download:
* http://torrent.altlinux.org/
* http://mirror.yandex.ru/altlinux/p7/images/

Quarterly updated Starterkits (http://en.altlinux.org/starterkits)
are going to be released on June 12, 2015.

Weekly Regular builds based on unstable Sisyphus repository are
also available (http://en.altlinux.org/regular).

Support is provided until these dates (if not contracted otherwise):
* Centaurus 7.0: June 30, 2016 (but not earlier than 6 months after
ALT Linux 8.0 Centaurus release)
* KDesktop 7.0: July 26, 2015 (but not earlier than 6 months after
ALT Linux 8.0 KDesktop release)
* Simply Linux 7.0: June 30, 2015 (but not earlier than 6 months after
Simply Linux 8.0 release)
* School 7.0 (Teacher, Junior, Master): August 30, 2015 (but not earlier
than 6 months after 8.0 couterparts release)
* School 7.0 (Server): August 30, 2016 (but not earlier than 6 months
after ALT Linux 8.0 School Server release)