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| <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2024.02-rc1 - codename <a href="/faq/#releasename">Glumpad</a></h1> | ||
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| <h3>About</h3> | ||
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| <p>Grml is a Debian based live system focusing on the needs of system administrators. | ||
| This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian bookworm. | ||
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| As usual it also incorporates up to date hardware support and fixes known bugs from previous Grml releases.</p> | ||
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| <h3>New features</h3> | ||
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| <p>Highlighting the most relevant changes only:</p> | ||
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| <h4>Misc:</h4> | ||
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| <li><strong>grml-hwinfo</strong>: add inxi output and collect information about network devices via ethtool | ||
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| <h4><a href="/grml-live/">grml-live</a> (build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems):</h4> | ||
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| <li>Initial arm64 / aarch64 support | ||
| <li>Add support for Debian/trixie (current Debian/testing) | ||
| <li>Use serial console with a setting of 115200n8 by default | ||
| <li>Update zsh completion + ship it via Debian package | ||
| <li>Unify boot options order between isolinux/syslinux and GRUB | ||
| <li>Improved memtest + chainloader handling | ||
| <li>Remove Grml release name from the boot options | ||
| <li>Misc software related changes in GRMLBASE, GRML_SMALL + GRML_FULL classes | ||
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| <h4><a href="/zsh/">grml-zshrc</a> (Zsh configuration):</h4> | ||
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| <li>zshrc: fixed outdated url in <em>weather</em> function | ||
| <li>/etc/skel/.zshrc: suggest J as global alias for jq usage | ||
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| <h4><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a> (wrapper around debootstrap for installing pure Debian):</h4> | ||
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| <li>Initial arm64 support | ||
| <li>Add EFI support for VMs | ||
| <li>Don't install busybox any longer by default | ||
| <li>Refactored error handling | ||
| <li>Dropped support for installing releases before jessie | ||
| <li>Use persistent device names under /dev/disk/by-id/ for GRUB's install_devices | ||
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| <h3>Bits & bolts</h3> | ||
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| <li>Linux kernel <b>6.5</b>.</li> | ||
| <li>Fixed several bugs from the <a href="https://github.com/grml/grml/issues/">issue tracking system</a>.</li> | ||
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| <h3>Packages</h3> | ||
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| <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions in Grml are | ||
| available in the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit | ||
| <a href="/files/grml64-full_2024.02/dpkg.list">dpkg_list</a> for a | ||
| detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2024.02(-rc1).</p> | ||
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| <h3>Updates</h3> | ||
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| <p>Packages are taken from Debian trixie/testing as of 2nd of February 2024. | ||
| The following 9 relevant packages have been added (excluding e.g. lib*, fonts*, *-base/*-bin/*-common/*-core/*-data, gcc-*/cpp-*, perl*, python*, ruby* and kernel image):</p> | ||
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| <li>dhcpcd: DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 dual-stack client (replacement for deprecated isc-dhcp-client) | ||
| <li>f3: test real flash memory capacity | ||
| <li>fwupd/fwupd-amd64-signed: Tools to manage UEFI firmware updates | ||
| <li>lolcat: colorful `cat` | ||
| <li>lz4: Fast LZ compression algorithm library - tool | ||
| <li>pixz: (dependency of clonezilla) | ||
| <li>toilet: display large colourful characters in text mode | ||
| <li>udisks2: D-Bus service to access and manipulate storage devices | ||
| </ul> | ||
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| <p>The following 9 Debian packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib*, *-base/-bin/*-common/*-core/*-data, gcc-*/cpp-*, perl*, python*, ruby* and kernel image):</p> | ||
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| <li>dmraid: obsolete (see <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/1056944">#1056944</a>) | ||
| <li>dstat: unmaintained upstream (see <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/1034856">#1034856</a>) | ||
| <li>fai-server: irrelevant, no longer a dependency of grml-live | ||
| <li>fakeroot: irrelevant, no longer a dependency of devscripts1056944 | ||
| <li>firmware-ath9k-htc: conflicts with/replaced by firmware-atheros | ||
| <li>iso-codes: irrelevant, no longer a dependency of qemu-system-* | ||
| <li>lsb-base: irrelevant, no longer a dependency of uml-utilities | ||
| <li>lua-lpeg: irrelevant, no longer a dependency of nmap | ||
| <li>thin-provisioning-tools: broken in Debian/testing (see <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/1041089">#1041089</a>) | ||
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| <h3>Known issues</h3> | ||
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| <p>Please visit the <a href="/bugs/known/">known bugs</a> web page.</p> | ||
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| <h3>Download Grml 2024.02-rc1</h3> | ||
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| <p>Grml 2024.02-rc1 can be downloaded from | ||
| <a href="/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 (pre-)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>. | ||
| We also welcome feature requests and any kind of constructive feedback. | ||
| If you want to reach out to the Grml team, please visit our <a href="/contact/">contact webpage</a>.</p> | ||
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| <h3>Thanks</h3> | ||
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| <p>Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically) | ||
| 2f2a, | ||
| Alhyene, | ||
| anarcat, | ||
| András Korn, | ||
| Chris Hofstaedtler, | ||
| Christopher Bock, | ||
| Csillag Tamas, | ||
| Daniel Richard G, | ||
| Daniel Winzen, | ||
| Felix Egli, | ||
| flobee, | ||
| GavinPacini, | ||
| Giovanni Rosa, | ||
| János Pásztor, | ||
| Keith Irwin, | ||
| Marc Haber, | ||
| Michael Schierl, | ||
| Patrick Schleizer, | ||
| Roland Sommer and | ||
| willmcginnis | ||
| 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="https://wiki.grml.org/">wiki</a>. | ||
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Should this say trixie? @mika