epel-announce November 2021

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KDE Plasma Desktop in EPEL 8 has been updated
by Troy Dawson 24 Nov '21

24 Nov '21

RHEL 8.5 updated qt5 from 5.12 to 5.15. This allowed us to update the KDE Plasma Desktop in epel 8 to the latest version, per the update schedule[1]. That update is complete, tested and pushed to epel stable. ** New Versions qt5 - 5.15 (5.15.2 mainly) plasma - 5.23.3 kf5 - 5.88 ** Known Bugs - When running in Wayland (not X11), the start menu and notifications pop up in the middle of the screen instead of the side. ** Next Update - Per the update schedule[1], the KDE Plasma Desktop will remain stable in EPEL for a year. That goes for both epel8 and the upcoming epel9. Except for bugfixes, we do not expect any updates until RHEL 8.5 and RHEL 9.1. ** Packages that were not updated These packages still work, they just aren't at the latest versions. - kpmcore and kde-partitionmanager -- Newer versions of kpmcore need a newer util-linux (2.33.2) (RHEL8 has 2.32.1) -- Newer versions of kde-partitionmanager need a newer kpmcore - digikam -- Newer versions of digikam need opencv with the DNN libraries. They are not compiled on the RHEL 8 version of opencv. -- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2007780 - ktorrent and kf5-libktorrent -- Newer versions of ktorrent and kf5-libktorrent need boost 1.71.0 or higher. RHEL 8 has 1.66.0 Troy [1] - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/EPEL#Update_Schedule

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KDE Status in EPEL8
by Troy Dawson 11 Nov '21

11 Nov '21

The qt5 libraries in RHEL 8.5 are at a higher version than they were in RHEL 8.4. This is causing RHEL 8 machines that have the KDE Plasma Desktop unable to do an update due to qt5 version dependencies. A rebuild of the KDE Plasma Desktop in EPEL8 is currently underway. It usually takes 3-4 days for all the packages to be rebuilt, as long as the builders co-operate. We expect the packages to be in epel8-testing by Monday, November 15. Thank you for your patience. Troy Dawson

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ansible 2.9.x EOL - 2022-05-23
by Kevin Fenzi 08 Nov '21

08 Nov '21

Greetings. Upstream ansible has announced that they intend to EOL ansible 2.9.x on May 23rd, 2022. I intend to likewise retire the epel7 and epel8 ansible-2.9.x packages at that time. See the upstream announcement at: https://groups.google.com/g/ansible-devel/c/rx-fnf1L5e8/m/r0_UumLMBgAJ ansible-core will be available in centos stream 8/9 and rhel8/9 soon. The ansible upstream distribution (ansible-core + many many collections) will be available for Fedora soon ( https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Ansible5 ). Once that packaging work is done we will see about also adding it to epel8/9. Users using EL7 for a control host should look at moving to EL8 before ansible 2.9 goes EOL. Thanks, kevin

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epel-announce November 2021