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# What's new since rocko ?
The SECO Northern Europe releases, formerly known as Garz & Fricke,
have some breaking changes, that have been introduced with the switch of the
have some breaking changes that have been introduced with the switch of the
yocto base version from 'rocko' ( Yocto Project Version 2.4 ) to the newer yocto
base version 'dunfell' ( Yocto Project Version 3.1 ).
Some of the are directly related to the yocto upgrade, but few are design
Some of them are directly related to the yocto upgrade, but few are design
decisions that are only relevant for G&F Yocto distribution. Most of these
decisions follow the base idea to develop closer to the 'mainline' source tree
decisions follow the basic idea of developing closer to the 'mainline' source tree
which allows faster upgrade cycles of the yocto version as
well as integrated components.
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## Kernel version
The kernel version for the i.MX6 platforms changed from 4.1.15 to 5.10 kernel
The kernel version for the i.MX6 platform changed from 4.1.15 to 5.10 kernel
based on the mainline tree.
As common for open source projects, there are different kernel derivates
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The dunfell version comes with [Qt 5.15](https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/index.html),
which will be the last [*Qt 5*](https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/index.html) version.
Later Qt versions are based on [*Qt 6*](https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/index.html).
Later, Dunfell would be updated to recent Qt versions which we can find in the [*Qt Release download page*](https://www.qt.io/download).
## Release cycle
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With the new dunfell release the system is still present, but changes the
scope from *shared*-Configuration (using the same configuration instantly on
all installed OSes) to *initial*-Configuration: Most settings are applied to
all installed OSes) to *initial*-Configuration. Most settings are applied to
standard linux config files during OS installation from the installed xml files.
This allows less changes to installed standard software (more mainline) and less access
to the xml files during boot (faster startup).
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**Note:** Up to know, the gitlab group is still private and a gitlab account is
needed to access the source code. If you need access, please contact
`support@garz-fricke.com`.
`support.north@seco.com`.
It is planned to open these repositories completely to the public.
## Window manager
The window manger in the previous yocto releases has been the *X11* system.
The window manager in the previous yocto releases has been the *X11* system.
This has been exchanged with [*Wayland*](https://wayland.freedesktop.org/) and
uses [*Weston*](https://github.com/wayland-project/weston) as compositor.
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so a recompilation of existing applications is needed.
There is an X on Wayland project, to continue running native X11 applications,
which we don't have tested yet.
which we haven't tested yet.
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