EasyOS Dunfell-series 4.2.7 released

Of course it features the small "difference file" update, by clicking on the "update" icon on the desktop. By sure to have the current image file, for example easy-4.2.1-amd64.img', at /mnt/wkg (/mnt/${WKG_DEV}/${WKG_DIR}), so that a small difference-file may be downloaded and merged with it, to create 'easy-4.2.7-amd64.img'.

Due to major structural changes, difference-file updating from 4.1 is supported, but there are complications, see the pink box in the 4.2.2 release announcement:

https://bkhome.org/news/202206/easyos-dunfell-series-version-422-released.html

Some of the difference-files are quite small:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/dunfell/2022/4.2.7/deltas/

...only 45.9MB to update from 4.2.3. There is a page that explains updating:

https://easyos.org/user/how-to-update-easyos.html

Release notes:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/dunfell/2022/4.2.7/release-notes.htm

Courtesy of ibiblio, download the full-size English, French and German builds:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/dunfell/2022/4.2.7/

Courtesy of NLUUG, fast mirror in Europe:

https://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/easyos/amd64/releases/dunfell/2022/4.2.7/

If you need help on how to write EasyOS to a USB-stick and boot it:

https://easyos.org/install/how-to-install-easyos-on-a-new-ssd.html

Feedback is welcome in the EasyOS section of the Puppy Forum:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=6355

I am intending the next release to be version 4.3, that will be announced on Distrowatch. The focus between now and then will be to track down bugs, and not add more features. I will probably bump Firefox and the kernel (to the latest 5.15.x).     

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