#+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!