Hi,

--------- The Linux Standard Base version 3.2 has been released. Release notes are available here:

https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/ReleaseNotes32

The specification itself is available here:

http://refspecs.linux-foundation.org/LSB_3.2.0/

The test suites and SDK can be downloaded from our FTP site. More information is available at:

https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Downloads

This release of the LSB has many fixes and features, including:

* New "trial use" modules, replacing the former "optional" modules.

* Initial support for printing.

* Initial support (as trial use) for ALSA.

* Support for Perl and Python as first-class languages for Linux apps.

* Several freedesktop.org standards, including menus and icon themes.

* Support for the Portland project's xdg-utils as trial use.

* Promotion of Qt 4 to a required part of the standard, and deprecation of Qt 3.

* FreeType support, through both FreeType and the Xft X extension.

* XRender support.

More details are available in the release notes.

In addition, a new certification process has been introduced in time for LSB 3.2. ------

Section 16 [1] should be of interest :)

[1]http://refspecs.linux-foundation.org/LSB_3.2.0/LSB-Desktop-generic/LSB-Deskt...

Cheers!

Pradeepto