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27 <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2021.07-rc1 - codename <a href="/faq/#releasename">JauKerl</a></h1>
30 <p><strong>NOTE: the <a href="/changelogs/README-grml-2021.07/">stable release 2021.07</a> is already available!</strong></p>
33 <p><a href="/download/prerelease/">Download Now</a></p>
37 <p>Grml is a Debian based live system focusing on the needs of system administrators.
38 This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian bullseye.
39 As usual it also incorporates up to date hardware support and fixes known bugs from previous Grml releases.</p>
41 <h3>Important Changes</h3>
45 <li>The <a href="https://blog.grml.org/archives/405-Grml-IRC-channel-moving-to-OFTC.html">Grml IRC channel moved to OFTC</a>
47 <li>The network configuration tool <em>netcardconfig</em> no longer prompts for uncommon wireless/WiFi options, to simplify and speed up its usage
53 <p>Highlighting the most relevant changes only:</p>
58 <li><strong>grml-terminalserver</strong>: support for UEFI PXE boot (now supporting BIOS boot via pxelinux and EFI boot via GRUB)
59 <li><strong>netcardconfig</strong>: support for enabling blocked devices via rfkill
60 <li><strong>forensic mode</strong>: improved handling for block device changes and parent device handling
61 <li><strong>grml-chroot</strong>: support efivarfs in EFI environments
64 <h4><a href="/grml-live/">grml-live</a> (build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems):</h4>
67 <li>Support EFI capable ipxe.efi boot addon
68 <li>GRUB: don't display BIOS only addons when running in EFI mode
69 <li>Provide setup files for EFI boot in netboot package
70 <li>initramfs-tools: use upstream's xz handling to support multithreading
71 <li>GRMLBASE/16-depmod: no longer rely on /boot/System.map-* file
72 <li>Use 1m as new default squashfs block size
73 <li>GRUB templates: do not set root/chainloader but just exit for boot from next device
74 <li>GRUB templates: provide menu entry for UEFI Firmware Settings
75 <li>GRMLBASE/01-packages: also detect and report unknown package names
76 <li>Several software packaging related changes in GRMLBASE, GRML_SMALL + GRML_FULL
79 <h4><a href="/grml2usb/">grml2usb</a> (tool to install Grml ISO to usb device):</h4>
82 <li>Use <em>GRML</em> as FAT label when creating the file system
83 <li>Fix race condition with blockdev/BLKRRPART due to lack of fsync
86 <h4>grml-hwinfo (tool to collect hardware information):</h4>
89 <li>store <em>ip netconf</em> output in file <em>ip_netconf</em>
90 <li><em>sysdump</em>: rework ignore list code and ignore further files
91 <li>provide information to user if <em>sysdump</em> might be hanging
94 <h4><a href="/zsh/">grml-zshrc</a> (Zsh configuration):</h4>
97 <li>zshrc: no longer set histignorealldups
98 <li>zshrc: add lrzip support for simple-extract()
99 <li>zshrc: set title in alacritty
100 <li>zshrc: enable transient_rprompt to fix sad-smiley situation in rprompt
103 <h4><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a> (wrapper around debootstrap for installing pure Debian):</h4>
106 <li>Use bullseye as default Debian release
107 <li>No longer automatically install os-prober
108 <li>Support XFS and F2FS in VMs
109 <li>EFI support: check + mount efivarfs to support Debian kernels >=5.10
110 <li>Improve EFI detection
111 <li>Bail out if architecture isn't set nor can be identified automatically
112 <li>Use shorter fs label for EFI partition to not break with recent dosfstools
113 <li>Do not enable escape characters on dumb terminals
116 <h3>Bits & bolts</h3>
119 <li>Linux kernel <b>5.10</b>.</li>
120 <li>Fixed several bugs from the <a href="https://github.com/grml/grml/issues/">issue tracking system</a>.</li>
125 <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions in Grml are
126 available in the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit
127 <a href="/files/grml64-full_2021.07/dpkg.list">dpkg_list</a> for a
128 detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2021.07(-rc1).</p>
132 <p>Packages are taken from Debian bullseye/testing as of 12th of July 2021.
133 The following 19 packages have been added (excluding lib*, *-common, perl-*, python3-* and kernel image):</p>
136 <li>bsdextrautils (extra utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite, via util-linux)
137 <li>cpp-10 (replacement for cpp-9, dependency of x11-xserver-utils)
138 <li>firmware-ath9k-htc (firmware for AR7010 and AR9271 USB wireless adapters)
139 <li>grub-efi-amd64-signed (signed GRUB package, for EFI PXE boot support in grml-terminalserver)
140 <li>inxi (full featured system information script)
141 <li>jq (lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor)
142 <li>media-types (List of standard media types and their usual file extension)
143 <li>mmdebstrap (create a Debian chroot)
144 <li>mokutil (tools for manipulating machine owner keys)
145 <li>ncal (display a calendar, dependency of bsdmainutils)
146 <li>python3.9 / python3.9-minimal (replacement for python3.8, new python version)
147 <li>ruby-rubygems (Package management framework for Ruby)
148 <li>shim-helpers-amd64-signed / shim-signed / shim-signed-common / shim-unsigned (Secure Boot chain-loading bootloader, for EFI PXE boot support in grml-terminalserver)
149 <li>speedtest-cli (command line interface for testing internet bandwidth using speedtest.net)
150 <li>wireless-regdb (wireless regulatory database for Linux)
153 <p>The following 12 Debian packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib*, *-data, *-common, perl-*, python-* and kernel image):</p>
156 <li>comgt (Option GlobeTrotter and Vodafone datacard control tool, no longer considered relevant, please raise your voice if it should be part of the stable release!)
157 <li>cpp-9 (replaced by cpp-10)
158 <li>mime-support (replaced by media-types)
159 <li>moblin-icon-theme (unmaintained upstream)
160 <li>python2 / python2-minimal / python2.7 / python2.7-minimal / python3.8 / python3.8-minimal (python2 is deprecated and python3.8 got replaced by python3.9)
161 <li>usb.ids (USB ID Repository, no longer required by usbutils)
162 <li>wvdial (Point-to-Point Protocol dialer, no longer considered relevant nowadays, please raise your voice if it should be part of the stable release!)
165 <h3>Known issues</h3>
167 <p>Please visit the <a href="/bugs/known/">known bugs</a> web page.</p>
169 <h3>Download Grml 2021.07-rc1</h3>
171 <p>Grml 2021.07-rc1 can be downloaded from
172 <a href="/download/prerelease/">grml.org/download/prerelease/</a>.</p>
176 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help fixing bugs and improving future releases.
177 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>.
178 We also welcome feature requests and any kind of constructive feedback.
179 If you want to reach out to the Grml team, please visit our <a href="/contact/">contact webpage</a>.</p>
181 <a name="thanks"></a>
184 <p>Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically)
199 for their contributions.</p>
201 <h3>More Information</h3>
203 <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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