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30 <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2011.12 - codename <a
31 href="/faq/#releasename">Knecht Rootrecht</a></h1>
33 <p><a href="http://grml.org/download/">Download Now</a></p>
37 <p>This release brings a downsizing and cleanup: one flavour, two architectures.
38 The new, smaller flavour has a 350MB ISO size target, while still
39 delivering over 1.1GB of open source software relevant for system
46 <li>EFI Boot support from CD-ROM and USB keys (amd64 only)</li>
47 <li>mDNS support (try <tt>ping grml.local</tt> with libnss-mdns and avahi-daemon
48 or similar enabled on your host)</li>
49 <li>NFS Client support and d-bus start automatically</li>
50 <li><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a>, the tool of choice to install Debian,
51 can now directly build virtual machine images.</li>
52 <li><a href="/grml-live/">grml-live</a>, our build tool, was enhanced with new features to
53 better integrate with <a href="http://jenkins-ci.org/">Jenkins</a>.
54 This release, as well as the current <a href="/daily/">daily images</a>
55 are built from within Jenkins!</li>
58 <h3>Important Changes</h3>
61 <li>Z-Shell configuration has been cleaned up. Quite a few functions
62 <a href="http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-etc-core.git;a=history;f=etc/zsh/zshrc">have been removed</a>
63 from the default configuration.</li>
64 <li>X11 environment has been downsized as well. The window manager is
65 now fluxbox. idesk has been removed, all available software is now
66 reachable from the fluxbox menu.</li>
67 <li>The accessibility support now consists of shipping standard speakup
68 and enabling sound during boot. A new beep sequence (4 tones) is sounded
69 just before the quickconfig menu starts. The isolinux menu will beep once,
70 and the grub menu will beep three times. (The accessibility boot options
71 have been removed.)</li>
72 <li>iSCSI Target is now provided by <a href="http://linux-iscsi.org/index.php/LIO-Target">LIO</a>.
73 The configuration tool <tt>targetcli</tt> is included.</li>
74 <li>xterm now uses the Terminus font, like the VT consoles.</li>
75 <li>Virtual Machines automatically get the "noprompt" behaviour.</li>
76 <li>Ancient config files and examples have been removed from grml-etc(-core).</li>
77 <li>Ancient scripts have been removed from grml-scripts(-core).</li>
79 <li>Anonymous stats are collected during boot up. This includes: Grml release name,
80 boot media type (local or remote), a random string, used boot option keys
81 (no values) and if your CPU is 64bit-capable. You can turn this off with the
82 <b>nostats</b> boot option.</li>
85 <h3>Bits & bolts</h3>
88 <li>Modem support has been removed from grml-network</li>
89 <li>VT consoles are driven by grml-runtty, our homegrown login and getty
90 replacement for Live CDs.</li>
91 <li>Netboot scenarios should no longer use the "nodhcp" boot option.</li>
92 <li>grml2hd is no longer in PATH to discourage its use even further.
93 The related boot options have been removed.</li>
94 <li>grml2usb: compat for releases < 2009.05, grub1 and lilo support
95 have been removed.</li>
96 <li>Release builds are now built from Debian's testing distribution, instead of unstable.</li>
97 <li>Linux kernel is based on <b>3.1.6</b>. No additional modules are shipped.</li>
98 <li>Fixed several bugs from the <a href="http://bts.grml.org/grml/">bug tracking system</a>.</li>
104 <li><a href="/files/grml32_2011.12/dpkg.list">32-bit package list</a></li>
105 <li><a href="/files/grml64_2011.12/dpkg.list">64-bit package list</a></li>
110 <p>Packages are taken from Debian testing, 23rd of December 2011. More
111 than 1700 packages have been removed, and these new packages have been
112 added (plus dependencies):</p>
115 afflib-tools atftp bacula-sd boot-info-script efibootmgr
116 extundelete grub-efi-amd64-bin hsetroot ia32-libs imvirt
117 ipxe libnss-myhostname lio-utils mcollective mtx
118 multiarch-support netcat-openbsd python2.7 sipcalc targetcli
121 <p>These Grml packages have been removed/replaced:</p>
124 grml-debugtools grml-docs grml-files grml-files64
125 grml-firefox grml-laptop grml-pylib grml-rebuildfstab
126 grml-rescueboot grml-sectools grml-templates grml-usleep
130 <h3>Known issues</h3>
132 <p>None at the time of the release!</p>
135 href="/bugs/known/">the known bugs list</a>.
136 Please report problems using information on <a
137 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>.</p>
139 <h3>Download Grml 2011.12</h3>
141 <p>Grml 2011.12 can be downloaded from
142 <a href="http://grml.org/download/">grml.org/download/</a>.</p>
146 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help
147 fixing bugs and improving future releases. If you find a problem with
148 the release please check <a
149 href="/bugs/known/">the known bugs list</a> and report problems using information on <a
150 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>. Please send your feedback and
151 feature requests <a href="/contact/">to the Grml team</a>!</p>
153 <a name="thanks"></a>
156 <p>Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically)
174 for their ideas and patches - as well as to our new <a href="/team/">contributors</a>.</p>
176 <h3>More Information</h3>
178 <p>You can find out more about Grml on <a href="/">our website</a>, <a
179 href="/contact/#irc">IRC channel</a>, and <a
180 href="http://wiki.grml.org/">wiki</a>.
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