Pieter Lenaerts has found his way back to Source Mage again. He has time to contribute to the grimoire again, so he has reinstated himself as an active developer. Welcome back Pieter! It is good to have you back!

Elisamuel Resto sent the following message about a brand new addition to the Tome Team.

“I’d like to share with everyone that Juan Carlos Torres (aka. Jucato) has joined the circle of mages, to become a scribe in the Tome Team… and help out with the KDE spells whenever there’s a chance to from his side.”

Jucato has been hanging out with us for quite some time and he finally decided to make it official.

We want to say welcome to you both and we are glad you have joined the project.

Andraž “ruskie” Levstik has posted to the mailinglists with the results of the voting for the Tome Team Lead position. The results are that the only nominee, Elisamuel “ryuji” Resto (yes, me) was elected as the new Tome Team Lead. You can follow the thread on Gmane, where the aims were discussed, among other things.

This one is a little delayed.

Arwed “alley_cat” von Merkatz has announced to the sm-discuss mailinglist that stable-rc 0.25 has been cut and uploaded to the main distro servers.

One thing to note is that the recent merge of modualr Xorg was not included in this cycle, as there is a need to let it soak in test for at least a month before including in the stable release, to iron out obvious bugs. Arwed’s message follows.

“Hi everyone,

stable-rc 0.25 is cut and ready for testing. There’s the usual wiki page for those who want to help testing.
This release was cut from the point before the xorg-modular merge, as we want this one to stay in test for a month.

The release will be released on September 15th if nothing major gets in the way.

Tarballs have been created and are on the master server, should make it to the mirrors in a few hours.
I’m working on the x86 chroot now, volunteers for x86_64 are welcome.

As always don’t forget to file any bugs against our bug tracker so we can fix and integrate any bugs/issues.

Let’s give this new stable-rc a good testing!”