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27 <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2024.02 - codename <a href="/faq/#releasename">Glumpad</a></h1>
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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 trixie.
35 As usual it also incorporates up to date hardware support and fixes known bugs from previous Grml releases.</p>
39 <p>Highlighting the most relevant changes only:</p>
44 <li><strong>grml-hwinfo</strong>: add inxi output and collect information about network devices via ethtool
47 <h4><a href="/grml-live/">grml-live</a> (build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems):</h4>
50 <li>Initial arm64 / aarch64 support
51 <li>Add support for Debian/trixie (current Debian/testing)
52 <li>Use serial console with a setting of 115200n8 by default
53 <li>Update zsh completion + ship it via Debian package
54 <li>Unify boot options order between isolinux/syslinux and GRUB
55 <li>Improved memtest + chainloader handling
56 <li>Remove Grml release name from the boot options
57 <li>Misc software related changes in GRMLBASE, GRML_SMALL + GRML_FULL classes
60 <h4><a href="/zsh/">grml-zshrc</a> (Zsh configuration):</h4>
63 <li>zshrc: fixed outdated url in <em>weather</em> function
64 <li>/etc/skel/.zshrc: suggest J as global alias for jq usage
67 <h4><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a> (wrapper around debootstrap for installing pure Debian):</h4>
70 <li>Initial arm64 support
71 <li>Add EFI support for VMs
72 <li>Don't install busybox any longer by default
73 <li>Refactored error handling
74 <li>Dropped support for installing releases before jessie
75 <li>Use persistent device names under /dev/disk/by-id/ for GRUB's install_devices
78 <h3>Bits & bolts</h3>
81 <li>Linux kernel <b>6.6</b>.</li>
82 <li>Fixed several bugs from the <a href="https://github.com/grml/grml/issues/">issue tracking system</a>.</li>
87 <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions in Grml are
88 available in the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit
89 <a href="/files/grml64-full_2024.02/dpkg.list">dpkg_list</a> for a
90 detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2024.02.</p>
94 <p>Packages are taken from Debian trixie/testing as of 26th of February 2024.
95 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>
98 <li>dhcpcd: DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 dual-stack client (replacement for deprecated isc-dhcp-client)
99 <li>f3: test real flash memory capacity
100 <li>fwupd/fwupd-amd64-signed: Tools to manage UEFI firmware updates
101 <li>lolcat: colorful `cat`
102 <li>lz4: Fast LZ compression algorithm library - tool
103 <li>pixz: (dependency of clonezilla)
104 <li>toilet: display large colourful characters in text mode
105 <li>udisks2: D-Bus service to access and manipulate storage devices
108 <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>
111 <li>dmraid: obsolete (see <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/1056944">#1056944</a>)
112 <li>dstat: unmaintained upstream (see <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/1034856">#1034856</a>)
113 <li>fai-server: irrelevant, no longer a dependency of grml-live
114 <li>fakeroot: irrelevant, no longer a dependency of devscripts
115 <li>firmware-ath9k-htc: conflicts with/replaced by firmware-atheros
116 <li>iso-codes: irrelevant, no longer a dependency of qemu-system-*
117 <li>lsb-base: irrelevant, no longer a dependency of uml-utilities
118 <li>lua-lpeg: irrelevant, no longer a dependency of nmap
119 <li>thin-provisioning-tools: broken in Debian/testing (see <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/1041089">#1041089</a>)
122 <h3>Known issues</h3>
124 <p>Please visit the <a href="/bugs/known/">known bugs</a> web page.</p>
126 <h3>Download Grml 2024.02</h3>
128 <p>Grml 2024.02 can be downloaded from
129 <a href="/download/">grml.org/download/</a>.</p>
133 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help fixing bugs and improving future releases.
134 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>.
135 We also welcome feature requests and any kind of constructive feedback.
136 If you want to reach out to the Grml team, please visit our <a href="/contact/">contact webpage</a>.</p>
138 <a name="thanks"></a>
141 <p>Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically)
162 for their contributions.</p>
164 <h3>More Information</h3>
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