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Numerous fixes and improvements. Switched to latest GNUstep and stock LLVM/clang. Look into changelog for details.

This release was built for 3 distributions of RedHat family: CentOS 7, CentOS 8 and Fedora 31. Packages are bundled into .tgz file for particular distribution and contains install script that automates all steps described in "Install Guide 0.85".

So, this time install process quite simple (example for CentOS 7):

1. Download .tgz archive:

# curl -L -O https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace/releases/download/0.90/NextSpace-0.90-CentOS_7.tgz

2. Unpack it:

# tar zxf NextSpace-0.90-CentOS_7.tgz

3. Switch to the NextSpace-0.90 directory and run installer script as root:

# cd NextSpace-0.90
# ./nextspace_install.sh

4. Answer to the questions of nextspace_install.sh.

This intermediate release will be the last based on archived stable releases of GNUstep GUI and Back (0.25.0).

Although introduces:

• llvm and clang 7.0.1 - with patches not included in official release
• libdispatch 1.3.1121 - built from latest Apple Swift 5.0 sources
• Latest release of libobjc2 - 2.0.
• GNUstep Make 2.7.0 and Base 1.26.0
• DesktopKit framework (former NXAppKit and NXFoundation) - classes to resemble NeXT desktop.
• SystemKit framework (former NXSystem) - OS-specific classes.
• SoundKit framework
• NextSpace mouse cursor theme for X.org.
• NextSpace boot splash Plymouth theme.
• Numerous fixes, changes and enhancements to NextSpace applications and frameworks since the 0.8 release.

You can find installation instructions in "Install Guide". If you want to compile NEXTSPACE from sources (or even make development) please follow the steps in "Build Guide" .

This set of package were prepared for CentOS 7 Linux. They are mandatory to compile NEXTSPACE sources. Installation order:

• llvm 3.8.1 and clang 3.8.1 (CentOS Extras repository contains outdated version of clang - 3.4.2)
• libdispatch
• libobjc2
• nextspace-core
• nextspace-gnustep