Qubes OS 4.0.4 has been released!

[Andrew David Wong]

Dear Qubes Community,

We're pleased to announce the release of Qubes OS 4.0.4! This is the
fourth stable release of Qubes 4.0. It includes many updates over the
initial 4.0 release, including:

- All 4.0 dom0 updates to date
- Fedora 32 TemplateVM
- Debian 10 TemplateVM
- Whonix 15 Gateway and Workstation TemplateVMs
- Linux kernel 5.4 by default

Qubes 4.0.4 is available on the downloads page:

https://www.qubes-os.org/downloads/


What is a point release?
------------------------

A point release does not designate a separate, new version of Qubes OS.
Rather, it designates its respective major or minor release (in this
case, 4.0) inclusive of all updates up to a certain point. Installing
Qubes 4.0 and fully updating [1] it results in the same system as
installing Qubes 4.0.4.


What should I do?
-----------------

If you installed Qubes 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, or 4.0.3 and have fully
updated [1], then your system is already equivalent to a Qubes
4.0.4 installation. No further action is required.

Regardless of your current OS, if you wish to install (or reinstall)
Qubes 4.0 for any reason, then the 4.0.4 ISO makes this more convenient
and secure, since it bundles all Qubes 4.0 updates to date. Please see
the installation guide [2] for detailed instructions.

Thank you to all the release candidate users for testing this release
and reporting issues [3]!


[1] https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/updating-qubes-os/
[2] https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/installation-guide/
[3] https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/reporting-bugs/

This announcement is also available on the Qubes website:
https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2021/03/04/qubes-4-0-4/

--
Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org

[haaber]

Dear Andrew

thank you. My system (based on q4.0) is up-to-date. However I need to
test the

kernel-latest-5.10.16-1.3.fc32.qubes.x86_64.rpm

compile that marmarek put only in r4.1 repos. Could you push it please
into r4.0 as well or are they incompatible ??

cheers, Bernhard

[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki]

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On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 09:12:07AM +0100, haaber wrote:
> Dear Andrew
>
> thank you. My system (based on q4.0) is up-to-date. However I need to
> test the
>
> kernel-latest-5.10.16-1.3.fc32.qubes.x86_64.rpm
>
> compile that marmarek put only in r4.1 repos. Could you push it please
> into r4.0 as well or are they incompatible ??

That very package was built for r4.1 only (they are not directly
compatible, I'd need to built r4.0 version separately). But in the
meatime there is kernel-latest-5.11.4 for both 4.0 and 4.1, that
includes the same fix.

- --
Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
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