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Thursday, April 2, 2015

Black Lab Enterprise Desktop 6.5 RC1 RELEASED

Today we are releasing Black Lab Enterprise Desktop 6.5 RC1.  This is the first Release Candidate of what will become the final product of Black Lab Enterprise Desktop 6.5.  We are now in feature freeze meaning there will be no more changes to the application lineup and we will be working on polish.  We have introduced quite a few new features.  Enterprise Filesystem support, Built in virtualization utilities, and webapp integration.

WARNING:  This is an unstable release of the software meant for testing ONLY.  We do not recommend this release for deployment in a production environment.  Some features may not work as intended.  We are not responsible for lost data.

With this release we have included a few new features.  We are releasing this Release Candidate with the Mate Desktop.  So here is a list of the upcoming changes.

1.  Customized Mate Desktop
2.  Firefox 36
3. Thunderbird 35.1
4. VLC 2.2
5. Dropbox
6. Gnome Documents
7.  Tracker Desktop Search
8.  XFS Support
9. UEFI support
10. LibreOffice 4.4.2
11. Linux Kernel 3.16.0-33
12.  VirtualBox 4.3.10
13.  Fogger Webapp utility

We have also included all security updates up until March 31, 2015.

Applications not included that will be in the final release:

Encryption Manager
Timeshift

Hardware support:  We have improved support for the HP Proliant DL60

You can download the Release Candidate from Sourceforge

Black Lab Enterprise Desktop 6.5 x86_64

MD5: 0da9224f7d7f2ab2d04505a976e31949

Current customers with support contracts will receive this release free of charge.  Others can preorder Black Lab Enterprise Desktop 6.5 for $45.00 USD with a release date of May 15, 2015.


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