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27 <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2020.06-rc1 - codename <a href="/faq/#releasename">CODENAME</a></h1>
31 <p><strong>NOTE: the <a href="/changelogs/README-grml-2020.06/">stable release 2020.06</a> is already available!</strong></p>
34 <p><a href="/download/prerelease/">Download Now</a></p>
38 <p>Grml is a Debian based live system focusing on the needs of system administrators.
39 This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian testing (AKA bullseye).
40 As usual it also incorporates up to date hardware support and fixes known bugs from previous Grml releases.</p>
42 <h3>Important Changes</h3>
46 <li>The default mount point for the live system was changed from <em>/lib/live/mount/medium</em> to <em>/run/live/medium</em>.
47 This works around a regression which appears on-again-off-again, and follows upstream changes for Debian/bullseye.
48 If you don't have any custom tools which rely on <em>/lib/live/mount/medium</em> (or its ancestor <em>/live/image</em>),
49 then this change is irrelevant for you
51 <li>Tools like grml2usb and grml-x have been ported from Python2 to Python3 (AKA py3k).
57 <p>Highlighting the most relevant changes only:</p>
62 <li>cloud-init support (grml-full only): TODO
64 <li>qemu-guest-agent: TODO
67 <h4><a href="/grml-live/">grml-live</a> (build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems):</h4>
70 <li>Support for cloud-init (via GRML_FULL)
71 <li>sudoers: set Defaults secure_path to have sane default settings
72 <li>initramfs xz-compress: use default xz compression level
73 <li>GRMLBASE/98-clean-chroot: fix resolvconf symlink handling + get rid of resolvconf workarounds
74 <li>Rebuild /var/lib/dpkg/available to install not-yet-installed packages in update runs
75 <li>Sources list setup for security: switch from testing/updates to testing-security
76 <li>Switch default mount point from /lib/live/mount/medium to /run/live/medium
79 <h4><a href="/grml2usb/">grml2usb</a> (tool to install Grml ISO to usb device):</h4>
82 <li>Support more syslinux module locations and support setting custom ones via option <em>--syslinux-libs=...</em>
83 <li>No longer explicitly list addon files, instead copy all files from <em>/boot/addons/</em>
84 <li>Provide git-describe based version information when running from within git
85 <li>Fix path to syslinux *.c32 files
86 <li>Add smoke autopkgtests to Debian packaging
87 <li>Abort if required logo.16 file is missing
88 <li>Avoid custom boot options getting duplicated when used with multiple ISOs
91 <h4>grml-hwinfo (tool to collect hardware information):</h4>
94 <li>Store output of `lscpu -e` in file `lscpu_extended`
95 <li>Store cpuid output in file `cpuid`, add cpuid to Recommends
96 <li>Record uptime (/proc/uptime in `proc_uptime` and uptime(1) in file `uptime`)
97 <li>Report SecureBoot state via mokutil
98 <li>Store "$HOME"/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log (if available) as user_Xorg.0.log
99 <li>Log output of verbose lsusb run in file lsusb_verbose
100 <li>Provide output of verbose lspci run in file lspci_verbose
101 <li>Recommend acpica-tools package and provide acpidump output (as root)
104 <h4><a href="/zsh/">grml-zshrc</a> (Zsh configuration):</h4>
107 <li>Reset $REPLY parameter before calling prompt token functions
108 <li>Disable bracketed paste mode for dumb terminals
109 <li>Fix urxvt multi-line issue
110 <li>commit-to-history: keep escaped character
111 <li>Support PAGER='less -Mr' usage and fall back to vi if LESSOPEN is unset
114 <h4><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a> (wrapper around debootstrap for installing pure Debian):</h4>
117 <li>Support BOOT_APPEND usage outside of VMs
118 <li>Support <a href="https://gitlab.mister-muffin.de/josch/mmdebstrap">mmdebstrap</a> via DEBOOTSTRAP=mmdebstrap
119 <li>Use new security.debian.org repository layout for bullseye and newer
120 <li>Fix detection of predictable network interface names
121 <li>Add option <em>--sshcopyid</em> to authorise root login
122 <li>Provide workaround for Debian bug <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=918590">#918590</a> with lvm + udev in VM installations
123 <li>/etc/fstab: provide header comment, pointing to man pages and systemctl daemon-reload
124 <li>Add DHCP setting for Predictable Network Interface Names
127 <h3>Bits & bolts</h3>
130 <li>Linux kernel <b>5.6</b>.</li>
131 <li>Fixed several bugs from the <a href="https://github.com/grml/grml/issues/">issue tracking system</a>.</li>
136 <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions in Grml are
137 available in the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit
138 <a href="/files/grml64-full_2020.06/dpkg.list">dpkg_list</a> for a
139 detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2020.06(-rc1).</p>
143 <p>Packages are taken from Debian testing as of FIXME of FIXME 2020.
144 22 packages have been removed, and these 26 new packages
145 have been added (excluding lib*, *-common, python3-* and kernel image):</p>
150 <li>bind9-libs (dependency of avahi-daemon, bind9-dnsutils, bind9host + libnss-mdns)
153 <li>cpp-9 (replacement for cpp-8)
155 <li>fuse3 (dependency of borgbackup, exfat-fuse, ntfs-3g, sshfs + testdisk)
156 <li>gcc-10-base (replacement for gcc-8)
157 <li>gcc-9-base (replacement for gcc-8)
159 <li>logsave (dependency of e2fsprogs)
160 <li>lua-lpeg (dependency of nmap)
163 <li>perl-modules-5.30
164 <li>python3.8 (replacement for python3.7)
165 <li>python3.8-minimal (replacement for python3.7-minimal)
168 <li>ruby2.7 (replacement for ruby2.5)
169 <li>runit-helper (dependency of acpi-support, acpid, irqbalance + openssh-server)
170 <li>sound-theme-freedesktop (dependency of vim-gtk3)
172 <li>usb.ids (dependency of usbutils)
178 <p>These Debian packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib*, *-data, *-common, python-* and kernel image):</p>
183 <li>cpp-8 (replaced with cpp-9)
186 <li>gcc-8-base (replaced with gcc-9-base + gcc-10-base)
194 <li>python3-prettytable
196 <li>python3.7-minimal
199 <li>ruby-did-you-mean
201 <li>ruby2.5 (replaced with ruby2.7)
203 <li>vim-gtk (replaced with vim-gtk3)
207 <h3>Known issues</h3>
209 <p>Please visit the <a href="/bugs/known/">known bugs</a> web page.</p>
211 <h3>Download Grml 2020.06-rc1</h3>
213 <p>Grml 2020.06-rc1 can be downloaded from
214 <a href="/download/prerelease/">grml.org/download/prerelease/</a>.</p>
218 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help
219 fixing bugs and improving future releases. If you find a problem with
220 the release please check <a
221 href="/bugs/known/">the known bugs list</a> and report problems using information on <a
222 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>. Please send your feedback and
223 feature requests <a href="/contact/">to the Grml team</a>!</p>
225 <a name="thanks"></a>
228 <p>Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically)
238 Patrick Schleizer and
240 for their contributions.</p>
242 <h3>More Information</h3>
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