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+#+title: January 2023 News Post
+#+author: Cem Keylan
+#+date: <2023-01-31 Tue>
+
+Happy New Year everyone, and welcome to the first Carbs Linux "News Post" in
+nearly two years (wow that really is a long time). We have a couple of news that
+I want to discuss in detail, so I decided that it warrants a blog post on its
+own.
+
+#+TOC: headline 1 local
+
+** Bye bye, X.org
+
+Throughout the years I was already clear on my intentions to drop xorg support
+at one point, and in my opinion both Wayland and its support around it has
+matured enough to make the complete switch. I am currently writing this blog
+post on, as of yet unreleased, pure-GTK build of Emacs which does not depend on
+any X11 components.
+
+Carbs Linux was first published on December 2019 with xorg support only, and had
+Wayland support since February 2021. This month, all xorg specific libraries,
+drivers, and utilities (except for xwayland) have been dropped from the
+repository. If you are currently an xorg user, you can read the [[https://carbslinux.org/docs/carbslinux/Switching-from-Xorg.html][Switching from
+Xorg]] section of the user manual. Feel free to jump on the IRC channel for
+requesting help.
+
+** CPT Version 7 Release
+
+After almost a year of delay, I am happy to finally announce that the 7th major
+version of our package manager is released. You can learn more about the changes
+from the [[https://fossil.carbslinux.org/cpt/doc/trunk/CHANGELOG.md][ChangeLog]] in the source repository. Some of the highlights include:
+
+- Package manager updates will be re-entrant from now on, meaning that you don't
+  have to run ~cpt-update~ twice.
+- The new configuration directory is now available as =/etc/cpt/= in order to not
+  clutter the =/etc/= directory.
+- Package manager hooks are now handled in a different manner.
+- ~cpt-size~ program can now sort the files based on size.
+
+And many more changes and improvements along this one! Coming with this change,
+I will also be releasing a new rootfs tarball soon. Follow the news feed for
+more information.
+
+See you on the next post!