Qubes 4.3 is being tested by the testing team

[alimirjamali]

Qubes OS R4.3 repositories (NOT the ISO, NOT the templates) for dom0 and Fedora 39/40 (no Debian, Whonix, Archlinux, … repo at the moment) have been available since 17 April and are being tested by the testing team. This is the very early stage of preparation for the new release. Overall status of the project is available here.

It is something that I would not recommend to anyone at the moment as it might hardly break the entire machine and is not as forgiving as testing Fedora 40 or Debian 13 templates for R4.2.1

But we can observe the packages as there are many interesting ones in the pipeline:

Use this command anytime to track new dom0 packages in R4.3 which are not uploaded to R4.2:

diff -u <(rsync --info=NAME -an --no-motd rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/qubes/repo/yum/r4.2/current-testing/host/fc37/rpm/ | awk '{print $5}') <(rsync --info=NAME -an --no-motd rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/qubes/repo/yum/r4.3/current-testing/host/fc37/rpm/ | awk '{print $5}') | grep -E '^\+.*rpm$'

+dummy-psu-debugsource-1.0.0-3.fc37.x86_64.rpm
+fwupd-qubes-1.8.17-1.fc37.src.rpm
+fwupd-qubes-dom0-1.8.17-1.fc37.noarch.rpm
+fwupd-qubes-vm-1.8.17-1.fc37.noarch.rpm
+python3-qubesadmin-4.2.12-1.fc37.noarch.rpm
+qubes-core-admin-client-4.2.12-1.fc37.noarch.rpm
+qubes-core-admin-client-4.2.12-1.fc37.src.rpm
+qubes-desktop-linux-manager-4.2.21-1.fc37.noarch.rpm
+qubes-desktop-linux-manager-4.2.21-1.fc37.src.rpm

Use this command anytime to track new Fedora 40 packages in R4.3 which are not uploaded to R4.2 repo yet:

diff -u <(rsync --info=NAME -an --no-motd rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/qubes/repo/yum/r4.2/current-testing/vm/fc40/rpm/ | awk '{print $5}') <(rsync --info=NAME -an --no-motd rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/qubes/repo/yum/r4.3/current-testing/vm/fc40/rpm/ | awk '{print $5}') | grep -E '^\+.*rpm$'

+fwupd-qubes-1.8.17-1.fc40.src.rpm
+fwupd-qubes-dom0-1.8.17-1.fc40.noarch.rpm
+fwupd-qubes-vm-1.8.17-1.fc40.noarch.rpm
+i3-4.22-1.fc40.src.rpm
+i3-4.22-1.fc40.x86_64.rpm
+i3-debuginfo-4.22-1.fc40.x86_64.rpm
+i3-debugsource-4.22-1.fc40.x86_64.rpm
+i3-devel-4.22-1.fc40.x86_64.rpm
+i3-devel-doc-4.22-1.fc40.noarch.rpm
+i3-doc-4.22-1.fc40.noarch.rpm
+python3-qubesadmin-4.2.12-1.fc40.noarch.rpm
+qubes-core-admin-client-4.2.12-1.fc40.noarch.rpm
+qubes-core-admin-client-4.2.12-1.fc40.src.rpm
+qubes-desktop-linux-manager-4.2.21-1.fc40.noarch.rpm
+qubes-desktop-linux-manager-4.2.21-1.fc40.src.rpm
+qubes-gpg-sign-1.0.0-1.fc40.src.rpm
+qubes-gpg-sign-1.0.0-1.fc40.x86_64.rpm
+qubes-gpg-sign-debuginfo-1.0.0-1.fc40.x86_64.rpm
+qubes-gpg-sign-debugsource-1.0.0-1.fc40.x86_64.rp

p.s.: Message to the moderation. I would appreciate if you could create version-r43 tag for forum.

Note: @ludovic edited this topic to add the requested tag, I don’t how to do this without editing it.

[ludovic]

@alimirjamali

p.s.: Message to the moderation. I would appreciate if you could create version-r43 tag for forum.

Note: @ludovic edited this topic to add the requested tag, I don’t how to do this without editing it.

Done.

[rjrizzuto]

Is there anyplace where the anticipated changes for 4.3 are listed?

[alimirjamali]

This thread is more recent and more up to date:

Qubes OS R4.3-alpha Preview

Background I finally migrated the HP Elitebook 820 G1 laptop to Qubes OS R4.3. It did not take that much time. The backup took much more time indeed. Procedure I made two backups. One regular full backup with Qubes Backup tool and another with BTRFS send/receive for relevant subvolumes snapshots (since I use OpenSUSE style BTRFS filesystem & subvolumes) and rsync for /boot. Then I followed the qubes-dist-upgrade as a blueprint. It consists of two main bash scripts. One for dom0 upgrade tasks w…

[rjrizzuto]

I read that one also and it doesn’t have any information on what new features will be in 4.3

[XMachina]

I’d love to see something like this as well, but only out of impatience. It’d be cool to know what upgrades and features are coming, but waiting for the release won’t kill me (I think?).