I have been extremely busy lately and Mage Power has suffered because of it. I hope to get back on track now. Hold on to your wizard hat, here we go!

The Cauldron Team has been working on the new Source Mage GNU/Linux ISO once again. They really need everyone possible to test this. Justin “flux_control” Boffemmyer had this to say:

“There is a new ISO release! You can find the goodness at
New Test ISO

Please go and test this as soon as you are able. We in Cauldron are working hard to get a new stable (everyone knows we need one), but we need YOU to test the ISOs in order to get them stable. The more hardware it gets tested on, the better.

If you find anything wrong with it, don’t be shy - file some bugs on our bugzilla at bugs.sourcemage.org. You can also complain to me on IRC or via email, but please still file the bugs, as that is really the best way for us Cauldron devs to keep track of things.”

To some up the changes for this release, Flux also had this to say:

“It’s a bugfix. It should resolve all the bugs with the previous ISO release in February, as well as a few that BearPerson and I caught that no one actually saw when testing it. I think a few new features crept in.”

So download the new ISO and help test! It’s for the greater good!

Jaka “lynx” Kranjc has just released a new stable and test Sorcery!

“Stable Sorcery 1.13.8 has been released! It is mostly a bugfix release. Notable changes include the no-check-certificate source hint and a more informative error message on source hash mismatch.”

“Test Sorcery 1.14.0 has finally been released! Two years in the making, it contains lots of new features, changes and bugfixes. These release notes are best viewed on the wiki at Sorcery 1.14.0 Release Notes
Due to its size, the ChangeLog is not included in this mail. You can read it on the mentioned wiki page or from the tarball.

IMPORTANT: To use staging, you first need to install castfs.

This release also marks a new devel-development stream, so if you want to work on any (new) features, the time is right. Bugzilla, users and me are full of ideas. There are already a few smaller projects submitted to bugzilla, but most need a bit more work and polish. In any case, there’s plenty of fun stuff to work on (fun as in pink ponies, not bsdm) and I’d gladly mentor any* of it.

My plan for 1.15 includes (more or less) what is filed on bugzilla under that version - notably improved ressurect - and miscellaneous improvements like the gaze time set of functions and better messaging. I also feel a need, a need for speed!

Go forth and testify.”

Wow, with a new ISO and new Sorcery, Source Mage users are receiving some good stuff! Keep up the good work Mages!

In other news, you might have noticed sourcemage.org has removed the old Drupal site and is now running a wiki instead. News will be displayed right here on Mage Power. If you have any Source Mage news, please do not hesitate to contact novaburst on the #sourcemage irc channel or e-mail me at pbeel(AT)magepower(DOT)org.

Dale E. Edmons (linuxfan) has stated his interest in maintaining the “castfs” spell. Castfs is a fuse-based file system that monitors changes on a staged installation environment to then merge with the system (which actually helps Sorcery in tracking what was installed better than InstallWatch). Plus, Elisamuel “ryuji” Resto has just added a new castfs repo at http://repo.or.cz/w/castfs.git.

Bertrand Juglas has kindly created a French version of the Source Mage wiki. Here is his e-mail to the mailing list.

“Hello,

SourceMageWikiFrench is now created and will list all french wiki pages and all wiki pages needing french translation.
This page was already linked on the homepage http://.sourcemage.org so now we have the links for French and Japanese which exists, that’s why I’ve put Japanese just after French.

Hope that will begin a new French effort in the Source Mage community.”

In conclusion, nominations for a new Grimoire Team Lead are under way. Sadly, Eric Sandall will not be able to continue as Grimoire Lead for now. He mentioned he is very busy at the moment, but will continue to work with the project of course.

Until next time Mages, keep casting those spells!

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