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27 <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2022.11 - codename <a href="/faq/#releasename">MalGuckes</a></h1>
29 <p><a href="/download/">Download Now</a></p>
33 <p>Grml is a Debian based live system focusing on the needs of system administrators.
34 This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian bookworm.
35 As usual it also incorporates up to date hardware support and fixes known bugs from previous Grml releases.</p>
37 <h3>Important Changes</h3>
41 <li>The Grml live system now uses the merged-/usr layout
42 <li>Updated Perl from v5.32 to v5.36
43 <li>Updated Python3 from v3.9 to v3.10
44 <li>Updated Ruby from v2.7 to v3.0
50 <p>Highlighting the most relevant changes only:</p>
55 <li><strong>grml-hwinfo</strong>: iterate over present disks to collect <em>sfdisk -d</em> information
56 <li><strong>grml-terminalserver</strong>: suggest a proper IP range usage when configuring DHCP clients
57 <li><strong>netcardconfig</strong>: netcardconfig: avoid suggesting default gateway if a default route exists already
58 <li>Integration of Memtest86+ v6, providing UEFI support
61 <h4><a href="/grml-live/">grml-live</a> (build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems):</h4>
64 <li>Support Memtest86+ with UEFI
65 <li>Support Debian/bookworm
66 <li>Support for ZFS via new ZFS FAI class
67 <li>Provide workaround for kmod/initramfs-tools issue with NFS/netboot
68 <li>Exclude /var/lib/dkms/* from squashfs
69 <li>GRMLBASE/50-lvm: also clear /lib/udev/rules.d/69-lvm.rules
70 <li>Disable man-db settings to speed up package installation
71 <li>Use grubx64.efi file from grml_chroot, instead of relying on host system
72 <li>isolinux: fix toram=... variable usage within isolinux configs
73 <li>Provide information how ISO was generated in file conf/buildinfo.json
74 <li>Misc software related changes in GRMLBASE, GRML_SMALL + GRML_FULL classes
77 <h4><a href="/grml2usb/">grml2usb</a> (tool to install Grml ISO to usb device):</h4>
80 <li>grml2iso: support parallel execution
83 <h4><a href="/zsh/">grml-zshrc</a> (Zsh configuration):</h4>
86 <li>zshrc: run <em>tlog</em> alias with --follow=name
87 <li>zshrc: support setting title in <em>foot</em> terminal emulator
88 <li>zshrc: use <em>ip</em> from iproute2 with color support
89 <li>zshrc: support <em>NOETCHOSTS</em> option to deactivate parsing of "/etc/hosts" for host completion
90 <li>zshrc: do not unconditionally overwrite <em>$COLORTERM</em>
91 <li>tmux.conf: source user-specific local conf file <em>~/.tmux.conf.local</em>
92 <li>tmux.conf: Add <em>bind-key J</em> to join marked pane to active window
95 <h4><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a> (wrapper around debootstrap for installing pure Debian):</h4>
98 <li>EFI support: fix for grub-install usage with efivarfs
99 <li>Install dbus by default
100 <li>VMs: create partition with alignment starting at 4MiB + ending at 100%
103 <h3>Bits & bolts</h3>
106 <li>Linux kernel <b>6.0</b>.</li>
107 <li>Fixed several bugs from the <a href="https://github.com/grml/grml/issues/">issue tracking system</a>.</li>
112 <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions in Grml are
113 available in the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit
114 <a href="/files/grml64-full_2022.11/dpkg.list">dpkg_list</a> for a
115 detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2022.11(-rc1).</p>
119 <p>Packages are taken from Debian bookworm/testing as of 11th of November 2022.
120 The following 18 packages have been added (excluding lib*, *-base/*-bin/*-common/*-core/*-data, cpp-*, perl*, python*, ruby* and kernel image):</p>
123 <li>dbus-daemon: simple interprocess messaging system
124 <li>exfatprogs: exFAT file system utilities
125 <li>f2fs-tools: Tools for Flash-Friendly File System
126 <li>hping3: Active Network Smashing Tool
127 <li>inetutils-telnet: telnet client
128 <li>jo: command-line processor to output JSON from a shell
129 <li>mbuffer: tool for buffering data streams
130 <li>myrescue: rescue data from damaged disks
131 <li>nftables: Program to control packet filtering rules by Netfilter project
132 <li>ntpsec: Network Time Protocol daemon and utility programs
133 <li>ntpsec-ntpdate: client for setting system time from NTP servers
134 <li>ntpsec-ntpdig: ntpdig SNTP client
135 <li>pkexec: run commands as another user with polkit authorization
136 <li>polkitd: framework for managing administrative policies and privileges
137 <li>sqlite3: Command line interface for SQLite 3
138 <li>stenc: SCSI Tape Encryption Manager
139 <li>usrmerge: Convert the system to the merged /usr directories scheme
140 <li>util-linux-extra: interactive login tools
143 <p>The following 26 Debian packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib*, *-base/-bin/*-common/*-core/*-data, cpp-*, perl*, python*, ruby* and kernel image):</p>
146 <li>bacula-console/bacula-fd/bacula-sd (no longer considered relevant for the live system)
147 <li>bonnie++ (use fio for benchmarking)
148 <li>bsdmainutils (transitional package, replaced by bsdutils, debianutils, bsdextrautils and ncal (ncal not being shipped by Grml))
149 <li>espeak (replaced by espeak-ng)
150 <li>exfat-utils (replaced by exfatprogs)
151 <li>facter/hiera/mcollective/puppet (no longer considered relevant for the live system)
152 <li>firmware-intelwimax (no longer shipped with firmware-nonfree)
153 <li>glib-networking/glib-networking-services/gsettings-desktop-schemas (used to be dependencies of firefox/qemu-system-gui/usbview/vim-gtk3)
154 <li>mercurial (no longer considered relevant for the live system)
155 <li>ncal (no longer considered relevant for the live system)
156 <li>nilfs-tools (used to be a dependency of partclone)
157 <li>ntp (replaced by ntpsec/ntpsec-ntpdate/ntpsec-ntpdig)
158 <li>ntpdate (replaced by ntpsec/ntpsec-ntpdate/ntpsec-ntpdig)
159 <li>slurm (no longer available in Debian/testing, see <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=993874">#993874</a>)
160 <li>subversion (no longer considered relevant for the live system)
161 <li>tshark (requires ~155MB of disk space, please raise your voice if it should be part of the stable release)
162 <li>update-inetd (used to be a dependecy of atftpd)
163 <li>wireshark/wireshark-qt (requires ~155MB of disk space, please raise your voice if it should be part of the stable release)
166 <h3>Known issues</h3>
168 <p>Please visit the <a href="/bugs/known/">known bugs</a> web page.</p>
170 <h3>Download Grml 2022.11</h3>
172 <p>Grml 2022.11 can be downloaded from
173 <a href="/download/">grml.org/download/</a>.</p>
177 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help fixing bugs and improving future releases.
178 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>.
179 We also welcome feature requests and any kind of constructive feedback.
180 If you want to reach out to the Grml team, please visit our <a href="/contact/">contact webpage</a>.</p>
182 <a name="thanks"></a>
185 <p>Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically)
207 for their contributions.</p>
209 <h3>More Information</h3>
211 <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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