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30 <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2013.09 - codename <a
31 href="/faq/#releasename">Hefeknuddler</a></h1>
33 <p><a href="http://grml.org/download/">Download Now</a></p>
37 <p>This Grml release provides fresh software packages after the Debian
38 stable release (AKA wheezy) has been released. As usual it also
39 incorporates up2date hardware support and fixes known bugs from the
40 previous Grml release.</p>
46 <li>new boot option <em>encpasswd</em>: takes a hashed password as
47 argument, setting password of users root and grml to the specified
48 value (use e.g. 'mkpasswd -H md5' to generate such a hash)
50 <li><em>grml-hwinfo</em> supports iproute's ip tool, sg_inq from
51 sg3-utils and lscpu, lsblk, dmsetup ls --tree
53 <li>grml-lang includes <em>french keymap</em> support
57 <h3>Important Changes</h3>
61 <li><em>UTC</em> is used as default time zone, to use a different
62 setting you can use the <em>tz</em> boot option (usage example:
65 <li>To match the behaviour with the <em>ssh</em> boot option the
66 <em>passwd</em> boot option now also sets the password for user root -
67 and not only for user 'grml'.
69 <li>grml-autoconfig (and its GRMLCFG feature) doesn't support
70 <em>floppy</em> disks any longer
72 <li>zshrc: <em>new prompt handling</em>, see <a
73 href="http://blog.grml.org/archives/381-grml-zshrc-new-prompt-feature.html">Grml
74 blog for more details</a>
76 <li>zshrc: to enable <em>power completion</em> / abbreviation
77 expansion use "ctrl-x ." instead of ",." (see <a
78 href="http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-etc-core.git;a=blob;f=debian/NEWS;h=7c72c464a1b9c3de23b08670aac868b48bd76ec8;hb=HEAD">debian/NEWS
81 <li>Grml does not ship <em>clamav anti-virus definitions</em> any
82 longer due to space reasons (adding ~70MB to the ISO size). If you
83 want to get up2date anti-virus definitions please manually invoke the
88 <h3>Bits & bolts</h3>
91 <li>Linux kernel is based on <b>3.10.10</b>.</li>
92 <li>Fixed several bugs from the <a href="http://bts.grml.org/grml/">bug tracking system</a>.</li>
97 <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions on Grml are
98 available at the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit
99 <a href="/files/grml64-full_2013.09/dpkg.list">dpkg_list</a> for a
100 detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2013.09().</p>
104 <p>Packages are taken from Debian testing, 27th of September
105 2013. 5 packages have been removed, and these 32 new packages
106 have been added (plus dependencies, excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
109 ash augeas-lenses clonezilla dconf-gsettings-backend
110 dconf-service debugedit dh-python drbl fonts-dejavu-core
111 gcc-4.8-base info init-system-helpers iproute2 nwipe puppet
112 puppet-common python3 python3-minimal python3.3
113 python3.3-minimal ruby-augeas ruby-safe-yaml ruby-shadow
114 tasksel tasksel-data wakeonlan xdg-utils xpdf
115 xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse
116 xulrunner-17.0 zsh-common
119 <p>These Grml packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
122 epdfview febootstrap makedev python-gnupginterface xulrunner-10.0
125 <h3>Known issues</h3>
127 <p>Please visit <a href="/bugs/known/">the known bugs webpage</a>.</p>
129 <h3>Download Grml 2013.09</h3>
131 <p>Grml 2013.09 can be downloaded from
132 <a href="http://grml.org/download/">grml.org/download/</a>.</p>
136 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help
137 fixing bugs and improving future releases. If you find a problem with
138 the release please check <a
139 href="/bugs/known/">the known bugs list</a> and report problems using information on <a
140 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>. Please send your feedback and
141 feature requests <a href="/contact/">to the Grml team</a>!</p>
143 <a name="thanks"></a>
146 <p>Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically)
151 Christian Hofstaedtler,
168 for their contributions.</p>
170 <h3>More Information</h3>
172 <p>You can find out more about Grml on <a href="/">our website</a>, <a
173 href="/contact/#irc">IRC channel</a>, and <a
174 href="http://wiki.grml.org/">wiki</a>.
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