Endless OS 4.0.10 was released on October 12th, 2022.
For full details on what's new in Endless OS 4, please see the release notes for Endless OS 4.0.0.
When you first boot Endless OS, you are presented with an initial-setup wizard which guides you to configure various things about your computer, including creating your user account. Since Endless OS 4.0, it has been possible to choose the username for your user account, not just your full name. For instance, the user Joe R. Bloggs might choose the username joebloggs, joe, jrb, or so on.
Only a very small range of letters can be used in the username: lowercase a through z (without diacritics), digits 0 through 9, and certain symbols. Previous versions of Endless OS 4 would allow you to choose a username containing uppercase letters, such as JoeBloggs, but the initial setup process would subsequently crash if you did so.
This bug is resolved in this release: if you try to use uppercase letters in your username, an error will be shown.
Endless OS includes a tool to create technical debugging logs, which can be shared with technicians with the aim of diagnosing and understanding any specific problem you are facing.
In this release, information about the real-time clock hardware is included in this diagnostic log, which can help to diagnose issues with computers not remembering the time or date.
/tmp and /var/tmpIn this release we re-instated the automatic removal of files older than 10 days in /tmp and files older than 30 days in /var/tmp.
Note that /tmp is stored in memory (tmpfs), so it is also cleaned-up on every reboot.
If you want to test beta releases of Endless OS, follow these instructions.