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| <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2013.02-rc1 - codename <a | ||
| href="/faq/#releasename">Grumpy Grinch</a></h1> | ||
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| <p><a href="http://grml.org/download/prerelease/">Download Now</a></p> | ||
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| <h3>About</h3> | ||
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| <p>This release brings the Grml tools towards the upcoming Debian stable | ||
| release (AKA wheezy), provides up2date hardware support and fixes known | ||
| bugs from the previous Grml release.</p> | ||
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| <h3>New features</h3> | ||
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| <li>ssh boot option: display SSH server key fingerprints | ||
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| <li>grml-hwinfo: added support for lsscsi, iscsiadm, | ||
| proxmox/libvirt/openvz/vserver information retrieval, swapon, mdadm, | ||
| LVM + dmsetup, now using 'lspci -nn' for lspci output | ||
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| <li>grml-live: handling firmware related packages in GRMLBASE, added | ||
| uuid-runtime to GRMLBASE | ||
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| <li>grml-network: netcardconfig provides support to scan for available | ||
| wireless networks | ||
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| <li>grml-udev-config: Do not set mount options for NTFS partitions to | ||
| "ro" any longer | ||
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| <li>grml2usb: verify that the bootflag is enabled | ||
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| <li>grml2iso: ISOs are dd-able by default | ||
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| <li>grml-debootstrap: | ||
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| <li>Use http.debian.net as default mirror | ||
| <li>Set wheezy as the new default release | ||
| <li>Add acpi-support-base + firmware-linux-free to default package selection | ||
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| <h3>Important Changes</h3> | ||
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| <li>Debian's live-boot changed the path from /live/image to | ||
| /lib/live/mount/medium. If you're using /live/image anywhere inside | ||
| your own custom scripts please adopt your code to use /lib/live/mount/medium | ||
| starting with Grml 2013.02-rc1. | ||
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| <h3>Bits & bolts</h3> | ||
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| <li>Linux kernel is based on <b>3.7.6</b>. No additional modules are shipped.</li> | ||
| <li>Fixed several bugs from the <a href="http://bts.grml.org/grml/">bug tracking system</a>.</li> | ||
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| <h3>Packages</h3> | ||
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| <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions on Grml are | ||
| available at the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit | ||
| <a href="/files/release-2013.02-rc1/dpkg_list">dpkg_list</a> for a | ||
| detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2013.02-rc1.</p> | ||
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| <h3>Updates</h3> | ||
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| <p>Packages are taken from Debian testing, 11th of February | ||
| 2013. 12 packages have been removed, and these 21 new packages | ||
| have been added (plus dependencies, excluding lib* and kernel image):</p> | ||
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| aptitude-common atmel-firmware bluez-firmware cpp-4.7 cryptsetup-bin epdfview | ||
| firmware-atheros firmware-bnx2 firmware-bnx2x firmware-intelwimax | ||
| firmware-libertas firmware-linux ifenslave-2.6 insserv libertas-firmware | ||
| netsniff-ng ruby1.9.1 ssmping uuid-runtime virt-what zd1211-firmware | ||
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| <p>These Grml packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib* and kernel image):</p> | ||
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| arrayprobe consolekit cpp-4.6 fuse-utils gcc-4.5-base gcc-4.6-base | ||
| grub info linux-sound-base smbfs tasksel tasksel-data | ||
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| <h3>Known issues</h3> | ||
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| <li>grml2hd isn't shipped | ||
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| <li>grml-live-remaster doesn't work out-of-the-box because neither | ||
| mkisofs nor genisoimage are available | ||
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| <h3>Download Grml 2013.02-rc1</h3> | ||
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| <p>Grml 2013.02-rc1 can be downloaded from | ||
| <a href="http://grml.org/download/prerelease/">grml.org/download/prerelease/</a>.</p> | ||
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| <h3>Feedback</h3> | ||
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| <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help | ||
| fixing bugs and improving future releases. If you find a problem with | ||
| the release please check <a | ||
| href="/bugs/known/">the known bugs list</a> and report problems using information on <a | ||
| href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>. Please send your feedback and | ||
| feature requests <a href="/contact/">to the Grml team</a>!</p> | ||
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| <h3>Thanks</h3> | ||
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| <p>Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically) | ||
| Andras Korn, | ||
| Bernhard Tittelbach, | ||
| Charles A. Hewson, | ||
| Christian Hesse, | ||
| Christian Hesse , | ||
| Christian Hofstaedtler, | ||
| Christoph Biedl, | ||
| Csillag Tamas, | ||
| Dominik Schips, | ||
| Florian Klien, | ||
| frenbu, | ||
| Gregor Herrmann, | ||
| Lukas Anzinger, | ||
| Pawel Sadkowski , | ||
| Peter Palfrader, | ||
| Pierre Schmitz, | ||
| Raoul Raminder Andreas, | ||
| Thorsten Glaser and | ||
| Ulrich Dangel | ||
| for their contributions.</p> | ||
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| <h3>More Information</h3> | ||
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| <p>You can find out more about Grml on <a href="/">our website</a>, <a | ||
| href="/contact/#irc">IRC channel</a>, and <a | ||
| href="http://wiki.grml.org/">wiki</a>. | ||
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| <p>To sign up for future Grml announcements, please subscribe to <a | ||
| href="http://ml.grml.org/mailman/listinfo/grml-announce">Grml's | ||
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