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Every release contains the latest 5.10.x kernel, cherry-picked woof-CE fixes, plus stability and security fixes from Debian.

9.1.26 (4/6/22):

• Fix for internet connectivity over IPv6 when the firewall is enabled - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 2b643f722f

• apt no longer (wrongly) complains about missing updates - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... f95ae0011e

• More Chromium variants are added to the list of applications auto-configured to run as spot - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 704033e8bc

• Blueman notifications are really disabled - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... f51388b3b0

9.1.24 (21/5/22):

• Blueman notifications, which don't disappear, are disabled now - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 7871a2e53e

9.1.23 (14/5/22):

• Fix for JWM crash when moving a window - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 81ec5b54f9

9.1.22 (7/5/22):

• HexChat is added to the list of applications auto-configured to run as spot - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 9dde4334d0

• Fix for invalid XDG_DATA_DIRS when running as spot - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... e00eab116b

• Fix for a bug in fixmenusd that causes it to run setup-spot more than once - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 2089e28723

9.1.20 (23/4/22):

• Update to Xwayland of 22.1.1 - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... e6afd7f160

• Fix for failure of the Wayland monitor settings wizard when using a resolution other than the preferred one - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 8f8ab79f14

9.1.18 (9/4/22):

• spot is now in the render group to really fix broken GPU acceleration - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... e5c8f7ffcd

9.1.17 (2/4/22):

• filemnt now uses read-only loop devices, to reduce I/O and prevent accidental modification - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 2ec1fa1320

• Suspend on lid close is now allowed even if a flas drive partition is mounted - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 2aca1811b9

• Fix for broken GPU acceleration in applications running as spot - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 96f3e335c1

9.1.15 (19/3/22):

• Fix for inconsistent cursors in applications running as spot, since 9.1.13 https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 54b1386a49, https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... d4627bf843

9.1.14 (19/3/22):

• Workaround for breakage of jwm_config - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... a73a840e17

• Fix for DNS resolution of localhost in IPv4-only networks - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 8646991242

• Fix for the inconsistent appearance of applications running as spot, since 9.1.13 - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 5432c0b5ae, https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... e39a5f123d, https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 7710e4ec87

• lsb_release -sc now reports "bullseye", as on Debian, making the official Debian installation guide work - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... e29f82b7fc, https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 97c8fba865

• LibreWolf is added to the list of applications auto-configured to run as spot - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 9a892b26dd

9.1.13 (12/3/22):

• psync no longer tries to syncronize the clock on boot - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 255c6dd649

• If sudo is not installed, sudo is a dummy function (so instructions in online tutorials, stuff like sudo apt install x, can be used as-is) - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 413852ef01

• spot can no longer read files under /root - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 01c7965d19, https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 8b1bf1beb2

• Ctrl+Shift+Esc now runs lxtask - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 2722b18a2e

• l3eafpad is updated to master - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... a6360b0269

• xlock prompt for a password when it runs for the first time only if the laptop lid is opened, and prompts again if ~/.xlockrc is an empty file - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... fde8d47c95

9.1.12 (5/3/22):

• Now starting VS Code using code in the terminal should work out-of-the box - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 4c3b550ac3, https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 967ffa96b9

• Background WiFi scanning is now disabled, "online" checks are disabled in the name of privacy and the clock is synchronized against pool.ntp.org if no NTP server is specified by DHCP (so apt update works out-of-the-box) - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... c512aaa35c

9.1.11 (26/2/22):

• pupswap now offers /initrd as the default location for the swap file - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 2adecc84d8

• The firewall now blocks incoming IPv6 traffic too - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... bdf2342f79

• The kernel sources SFS is now included in releases, and uses the same version numbers - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/release ... 0cd6a1bbf9

• efilinux.cfg now uses relative paths, allowing Vanilla Dpup installations on different drives to coexist - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 5a08be9d4d

• Backport of https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/g ... g/pull/133 by @step

• The default handler for .deb packages has been changed from PPM to the friendlier gdebi, https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 18e42c6254

• Fix for applications running as spot which try to use pkexec to run other application as root (for example, gedbi launched through a browser running as spot) - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 9cef6b4e12

• Helpful recommendations for packages when trying to run a missing application - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 5c28d63039

• Workaround for black screen after 10m of inactivity - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 28e983e00b

• setup-spot is now faster and safe to run in parallel - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 021f2990d8

• The menu generator now puts each application only in one section of each submenu it belongs to - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 29cb944fc2

• The Firefox title bar is restored - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 4cd5864b40

9.1.10 (19/2/22):

• Fix for a mistake in the release notes - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... a712f2e6bb

• Cache is now flushed once a week to allow frugalify and GTK+ themes to be updated across Vanilla Dpup releases - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/release ... 044cdf6309

• Theme consistency fixes - https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/g ... 4b96643c9e, https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/g ... 92c4c01590 and https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/g ... 3c39f89ba5

• A ~15 MB subset of the kernel sources SFS is now included in releases and gets updated together with the kernel - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 769d1f633f and https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 28af3b5da9

• uname -r now reports the full kernel version - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... d19d52c06a

• woof-CE now has automated builds of Vanilla Dpup compatible kernels, so Vanilla Dpup is now easier and faster to build - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/release ... 7138392129

• ConnMan and bluetoothd are now started earlier - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 257d0d1d14

• Fix for immediate exit of the terminal when starting the firewall via the firewall UI - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 325e4bcaf1

• The firewall tray icon now checks the firewall state for the first time when it starts - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 36da474964

• The firewall tray no longer polls the firewall state every 2s - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... b70d495262

9.1.9 (12/2/22):
Rebuild of 9.1.8, after a cache flush.

9.1.8 (12/2/22):

• wlroots 0.15.0->0.15.1 - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 124e40b0e6

• Applications that refuse to run as root (like Chromium and derivatives) are now automatically configured to run as spot - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... c5c58a48d1

• Better contrast between the window title and the window outline - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... def90cfbb9 and https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/g ... bdf7de336d

9.1.7 (5/2/22):

• Fix for breakage of the updater when using frugalify but initrd.gz exists - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... d56fb112d6

9.1.6 (5/2/22):

• Clicking the boot partition desktop icon no longer mounts it again - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 109e4727fb

• rxvt-unicode is replaced by a lxterminal wrapper - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 39de090e88

• Workaround for buggy scripts that grep /proc/mounts and don't handle the corner case of /dev/root - https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/f ... 99c7c51adf

• The boot partition desktop icon should now open /mnt/home, not /initrd - https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/f ... 3e0cdaeaee

• The kernel sources SFS doesn't break the system anymore - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/release ... bfdb4230fe

• /mnt/home is now a symlink - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 1470778740

• Support for FAT with ASCII encoding is now included (reported by @Marv+@peebee) - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... 7c9fb70e5e

• The boot partition is now marked with a tiny house icon and cannot be unmounted - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... d07cb68b0f

• Backport of https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/g ... g/pull/126 by @step

• The boot partition and UEFI partition labels are no longer hardcoded - https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE ... d4889ad951