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@lordbasex lordbasex released this 04 Nov 20:33
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v0.8.8.3-beta
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An update for 0.8.8, 0.8.8.1 and 0.8.8.2 through Store → Updates and apt: only the lordos package changes, with the fixes and ideas reported on GitHub since 0.8.8. Thanks to everyone who opened an issue. It also brings everything in 0.8.8.2 (Italian, preferred languages, the Raspberry Pi 500 in the Imager), which was not published on its own.

Added

  • The system file dialog has a List / Thumbnails switch in its toolbar, so pictures can be chosen by how they look (Settings → Wallpaper, Notes' images and every other app that uses the dialog). A dialog that takes only pictures opens in Thumbnails; the choice is remembered. Thumbnails load in the background for the files in sight, and other files show their type icon (#22)
  • Desktops: rename a desktop by double-clicking its name in the Overview, from its right-click menu (Rename…) or in Settings → Desktop & Dock → Names; the name shows in the indicator, the Overview, Move to Desktop and the window lists, and an empty name goes back to "Desktop N". Reorder desktops by dragging them along the Overview's strip (or Move Left / Move Right in the same menu); their windows move with them. Names and order are kept across sessions (#15)
  • An on-screen level indicator for the volume, mute, screen brightness and keyboard-light keys: a rounded translucent panel near the bottom of the screen with an icon and a segmented bar, shown for 1.5 s after each press (a held key keeps it up), in Lord Flow and Lord Classic, light and dark. With Reduce motion it appears and goes without a fade (#24).
  • Settings → Energy: shorter sleep times, 10 and 20 min on the power adapter and 5 and 10 min on battery (#17).

Fixed

  • Screenshots: a window picked with ❖⇧4 then Space, or an area, came out cropped at a display scale above 100 % (the selection was in logical pixels and the capture is at the display's full resolution). The whole window is captured now, at any scale (#19).
  • A maximized window clicked to bring it forward shrank to its own size: the slightest pointer movement during the click counted as dragging it out. It now has to move a few pixels with the button held first, in both themes and for apps that draw their own title bar (#19).
  • A full-screen screenshot showed a GPU-drawn app's window (a third-party browser, for example) as an empty frame with its shadow: its content is now read back from the GPU for the capture (#19).
  • Mail: some messages, mostly newsletters, didn't open and showed bad-json. Their HTML layout nests tables several levels deep, and the check that lord-server makes on every reply of the mail helper stopped at 32 levels. It now accepts the depth the HTML view can produce. Also: a NUL byte can no longer cut a message's text short, a reply too large to show says so ("This message is too large to show here") instead of breaking the event queue, and a message that still can't be shown says so in your language (#18).
  • A black screen after logging in again when the screen had locked by itself: the session missed the notice that it had left the screen (it arrived together with the closed connection) and then ignored the screen when it was lent back. The notice is now read before the connection is closed, and a session lent the screen again while it thinks it is still shown leaves the old one first.
  • After an update that changes the Store's package list format (0.8.8.2 did, for Italian names), the Store showed only the LordOS catalog until the next check, up to 5 minutes later and only with automatic checks on. The list is now rebuilt 20 seconds after login whenever it can't be read.
  • Store: switching category, page or search kept the previous list's scroll position, so a short category could look empty. Each page and each app's page now opens at the top, and back from an app returns to where the list was. The same fix (a resetKey on the SDK's ScrollView) applies to Settings sections, System Information, Help articles, Monitor tabs, Characters, Backup folders and Files folders (#20)
  • With "Require password after the display turns off", the login screen turned the display back on and kept it on, and the computer never went to sleep. Now the screen stays off when it locks, the password is asked for when you wake it, the lock screen turns the display off again after the same time, and the computer still sleeps at the chosen time. A sleep time shorter than the lock time also locks first (#23).
  • The battery percentage in the menu bar and in Settings → Energy didn't follow the battery on laptops whose battery reports no change events while it discharges, so the low-battery notices at 20 %, 10 % and 5 % never came. It is now read again every 30 seconds (#25).
  • Wi-Fi that showed as connected after the computer woke from sleep but carried nothing until the card was turned off and on. LordOS's network service now hears the computer wake: wired connections confirm their address right away, and each Wi-Fi connection is checked a few seconds later (associated, link, address, and the router answering). If it isn't working, it re-associates and renews its address, and if that isn't enough it turns the card off and on by itself, as you had to. Every step is in the log. Needs confirming on the reported hardware (#14)

Downloads

File What it is
lordos-live-0.8.8.3-amd64.iso Live and installable image for 64-bit PCs (UEFI and BIOS). Write it to a USB stick as is; Secure Boot off.
lordos-0.8.8.3-amd64.ova Virtual machine image for VirtualBox and VMware: open it and the machine is imported. You create your own account on its first boot.
lordos-live-0.8.8.3-arm64.iso Live and installable image for generic arm64 machines and virtual machines with UEFI. Secure Boot off.
lordos-0.8.8.3-rpi5-arm64.img.xz Image for the Raspberry Pi 5, for the LordOS Imager (below) or Raspberry Pi Imager ("Use custom"), an SD card or an NVMe drive.
lordos_0.8.8.3_amd64.deb The LordOS package for an existing Debian 13 on a PC (installed by install.sh, or with apt install ./…).
lordos_0.8.8.3_arm64.deb The same package for Debian 13 on arm64.
lordos-hwdata_<date>_all.deb The signed tested-hardware snapshot for System Information's Compatibility panel, which the LordOS package depends on (both architectures; install.sh installs it with the package, or apt install ./lordos-hwdata_…_all.deb ./lordos_…). Newer ones arrive through Store → Updates between releases.
lordos_imager_0.8.6_universal.dmg LordOS Imager for Mac (both processor families, signed and notarized): writes LordOS to an SD card or a USB stick and prepares the Raspberry Pi 5's first boot.
lordos_imager_0.8.6_x64_setup.exe LordOS Imager for Windows (64-bit installer; not code-signed yet, so the system asks before running it).
lordos_imager_0.8.6_amd64.deb LordOS Imager for Linux (Debian 13 and similar, amd64; needs udisks2).
install.sh The one-line installer for Debian 13: curl -fsSL https://lordos.org/install.sh | sh. It checks the signature before installing.
SHA256SUMS The SHA-256 of every file in this release.
SHA256SUMS.sig The Ed25519 signature of SHA256SUMS with the LordOS release key (base64).
lordos_0.8.8.3_<arch>.spdx.json Software bill of materials (SPDX 2.3) for each package: what it bundles and the Debian packages it depends on.

Verifying the downloads

The LordOS release public key is lordos-release.pub.pem (in the repository, or at https://lordos.org/lordos-release.pub.pem). Its fingerprint, the SHA-256 of the DER public key, is:

c7155b8e6bbbb180f907381994d06af76d333016cd6f3facf67cadd053ea108e

With OpenSSL 3, in the folder with the downloads:

openssl pkey -pubin -in lordos-release.pub.pem -outform DER | sha256sum   # must match the fingerprint
base64 -d SHA256SUMS.sig > SHA256SUMS.sig.bin
openssl pkeyutl -verify -pubin -inkey lordos-release.pub.pem -rawin -in SHA256SUMS -sigfile SHA256SUMS.sig.bin
sha256sum -c --ignore-missing SHA256SUMS

"Signature Verified Successfully" and "OK" for each downloaded file mean the files are the ones we published. Details: docs/SIGNING.md.

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