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''' This is a draft of the release notes for Xubuntu Oneiric Ocelot Alpha Releases '''

These notes are a work in progress, and are not meant to be anything more than a draft for the actual release notes.

== Alpha Notes ==

 * Micahg has done several bugs to sync the latest Xfce packages from Debian.
 * xfce4-notifyd conflicts with notification-daemon
 * Alpha1 images are very much oversized
 * Firefox 5 is in alpha1; Note firefox version including stable or beta in release notes.

=== Alpha1 Release Notes ===

 * No significant changes were made for Alpha1.
 * alpha1 images are too big to fit on a CD. Please use either a DVD or USB to install this development release.

=== Alpha2 Release Notes ===

[[http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/LightDM|lightdm]] replaced GDM as the login manager.

[[http://xarchiver.sourceforge.net/|xarchiver]] replaced file-roller due to nautilus dependency with file-roller. This will allow testing xarchiver to determine how well it fits the requirements of Xubuntu. 

[[http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/|leafpad]] replaced mousepad; mousepad needs a maintainer in Xfce. This will also allow Xubuntu to drop xfprint4, which is used only by mousepad.

[[http://trac.emma-soft.com/epdfview/|epdfview]] has replaced evince as the default pdf viewer. Fewer resources required by epdfview better fit the needs of Xubuntu.

Users '''must''' select a session when logging in the first time. If no session is selected, the user will see the Ubuntu wallpaper, and nothing else. In this case, go to a tty using Ctrl+Alt+F2, login, and type {{{sudo service lightdm restart}}}. Now the user can login again, and select the session. 

 * GTK3 itself will probably be on the CD due to some shared apps, but Xfce is staying on GTK2.
 * squeeze is still using thunar-vfs and isn't really maintained upstream anyway at this time (not installed by default)
 * Alpha 2 includes the 3.0-rc5 kernel which is based on the latest mainline release candidate kernel at kernel milestone freeze [[http://kernel.org|kernel]].  This is an update from the v2.6.39 in Alpha 1.
 * User must choose a session when logging in after an installation or upgrade. (Bug:799754)
 * Live system and installs use the wrong default settings for background images, indicators, and others. (Bug:803499, Bug:804734)
 * Live session can not be started. (Bug:799238)