Today, i.e. 2021-02-15, quietly and unnoticed, the updated version of Devuan 3.1.0 Beowulf was released. Devuan 3.1 is an interim release that continues the development of the Devuan 3.x branch, built on the Debian 10 βBusterβ package base. Live assemblies and installation iso images for AMD64 and i386 architectures have been prepared for download. Assemblies for ARM (armel, armhf and arm64) and images for virtual machines for release 3.1 have not been generated, but you can use Devuan 3.0 assemblies and then update the system.
Some 400 Debian packages have been forked and modified to de-bind to systemd, rebranded, or adapted to the Devuan infrastructure. Two packages (devuan-baseconf, jenkins-debian-glue-buildenv-devuan) are present only in Devuan and are related to setting up repositories and running the build system. Devuan is otherwise fully compatible with Debian and can be used as a basis for creating custom builds of Debian without systemd.
What's new?
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The installer offers a choice of three initialization systems: sysvinit, openrc and runit. In expert mode, you can select an alternative bootloader (lilo), as well as disable the installation of non-free firmware.
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Vulnerability fixes have been ported from Debian 10. The Linux kernel has been updated to version 4.19.171.
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Added a new debian-pulseaudio-config-override package to fix the issue with PulseAudio being disabled by default. The package is automatically installed when the desktop is selected in the installer and comments out the "autospawn=no" setting in /etc/pulse/client.conf.d/00-disable-autospawn.conf .
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Fixed an issue with "Debian" being displayed instead of "Devuan" in the boot menu. To identify the system as "Debian", you must change the name in the /etc/os-release file.
iso images can be downloaded here here
Source: linux.org.ru