<div id="geary-body" dir="auto"><div><div id="magicdomid2" class="ace-line"><span class="author-a-z73zz70zz122z5o7fz122zaz86zz83zhz90z2z88zs">Hello people,</span></div><div id="magicdomid3" class="ace-line"><br></div><div id="magicdomid4" class="ace-line"><span class="author-a-z73zz70zz122z5o7fz122zaz86zz83zhz90z2z88zs">We have released the first release candidate of Freedestkop SDK for 20.08. We hope that application developers can test this before we release.</span></div><div id="magicdomid5" class="ace-line"><br></div><div id="magicdomid6" class="ace-line"><span class="author-a-z73zz70zz122z5o7fz122zaz86zz83zhz90z2z88zs">The final release date is planned for 2020.08.31.</span></div><div id="magicdomid7" class="ace-line"><br></div><div id="magicdomid8" class="ace-line"><span class="author-a-z73zz70zz122z5o7fz122zaz86zz83zhz90z2z88zs">At this point we have frozen the ABI.</span></div><div id="magicdomid9" class="ace-line"><br></div><div id="magicdomid10" class="ace-line"><span class="author-a-z73zz70zz122z5o7fz122zaz86zz83zhz90z2z88zs">The release is available on flathub beta. In order to install Freedesktop SDK 20.08 release candidate 1, you can do the following:</span></div><div id="magicdomid11" class="ace-line"><br></div><div id="magicdomid12" class="ace-line"><span class="author-a-z73zz70zz122z5o7fz122zaz86zz83zhz90z2z88zs">flatpak remote-add flathub-beta </span><span class="author-a-z73zz70zz122z5o7fz122zaz86zz83zhz90z2z88zs url"><a href="https://flathub.org/beta-repo/flathub-beta.flatpakrepo">https://flathub.org/beta-repo/flathub-beta.flatpakrepo</a></span></div><div id="magicdomid13" class="ace-line"><span class="author-a-z73zz70zz122z5o7fz122zaz86zz83zhz90z2z88zs">flatpak install flathub-beta org.freedesktop.Sdk//20.08beta org.freedesktop.Platform//20.08beta</span></div><div id="magicdomid14" class="ace-line"><br></div><div id="magicdomid15" class="ace-line"><span class="author-a-z73zz70zz122z5o7fz122zaz86zz83zhz90z2z88zs">You can verify the exact installed version with:</span></div><div id="magicdomid16" class="ace-line"><br></div><div id="magicdomid17" class="ace-line"><span class="author-a-z73zz70zz122z5o7fz122zaz86zz83zhz90z2z88zs">flatpak info org.freedesktop.Sdk//20.08beta</span></div><div id="magicdomid18" class="ace-line"><span class="author-a-z73zz70zz122z5o7fz122zaz86zz83zhz90z2z88zs">flatpak info org.freedesktop.Platform//20.08beta</span></div><div id="magicdomid19" class="ace-line"><br></div><div id="magicdomid20" class="ace-line"><span class="author-a-z73zz70zz122z5o7fz122zaz86zz83zhz90z2z88zs">It should show 20.08rc.1 for both.</span></div><div id="magicdomid21" class="ace-line"><br></div><div id="magicdomid22" class="ace-line"><span class="author-a-z73zz70zz122z5o7fz122zaz86zz83zhz90z2z88zs">If you use flatpak-builder, in the manifest of your application, change "runtime-version" to "20.08beta". Then rebuild your application.</span></div><div id="magicdomid23" class="ace-line"><br></div><div id="magicdomid24" class="ace-line"><span class="author-a-z73zz70zz122z5o7fz122zaz86zz83zhz90z2z88zs">If you have issues with this new version you can report bugs to </span><span class="author-a-z73zz70zz122z5o7fz122zaz86zz83zhz90z2z88zs url"><a href="https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/freedesktop-sdk/-/issues">https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/freedesktop-sdk/-/issues</a></span><span class="author-a-z73zz70zz122z5o7fz122zaz86zz83zhz90z2z88zs"> or ask for help</span></div><div id="magicdomid25" class="ace-line"><span class="author-a-z73zz70zz122z5o7fz122zaz86zz83zhz90z2z88zs">on #freedesktop-sdk on freenode.</span></div><div id="magicdomid26" class="ace-line"><br></div><div id="magicdomid27" class="ace-line"><span class="author-a-z73zz70zz122z5o7fz122zaz86zz83zhz90z2z88zs">NEWS file is available at </span><span class="author-a-z73zz70zz122z5o7fz122zaz86zz83zhz90z2z88zs url"><a href="https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/freedesktop-sdk/-/blob/a57a805ddae07e57a40c94e1784b8955ec318978/NEWS">https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/freedesktop-sdk/-/blob/a57a805ddae07e57a40c94e1784b8955ec318978/NEWS</a></span></div></div></div>