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27 <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2024.02-rc1 - codename <a href="/faq/#releasename">Glumpad</a></h1>
30 <p><strong>NOTE: the <a href="/changelogs/README-grml-2024.02/">stable release 2024.02</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 bookworm.
39 As usual it also incorporates up to date hardware support and fixes known bugs from previous Grml releases.</p>
42 <h3>Important Changes</h3>
51 <p>Highlighting the most relevant changes only:</p>
56 <li><strong>grml-hwinfo</strong>: add inxi output and collect information about network devices via ethtool
59 <h4><a href="/grml-live/">grml-live</a> (build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems):</h4>
62 <li>Initial arm64 / aarch64 support
63 <li>Add support for Debian/trixie (current Debian/testing)
64 <li>Use serial console with a setting of 115200n8 by default
65 <li>Update zsh completion + ship it via Debian package
66 <li>Unify boot options order between isolinux/syslinux and GRUB
67 <li>Improved memtest + chainloader handling
68 <li>Remove Grml release name from the boot options
69 <li>Misc software related changes in GRMLBASE, GRML_SMALL + GRML_FULL classes
72 <h4><a href="/zsh/">grml-zshrc</a> (Zsh configuration):</h4>
75 <li>zshrc: fixed outdated url in <em>weather</em> function
76 <li>/etc/skel/.zshrc: suggest J as global alias for jq usage
79 <h4><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a> (wrapper around debootstrap for installing pure Debian):</h4>
82 <li>Initial arm64 support
83 <li>Add EFI support for VMs
84 <li>Don't install busybox any longer by default
85 <li>Refactored error handling
86 <li>Dropped support for installing releases before jessie
87 <li>Use persistent device names under /dev/disk/by-id/ for GRUB's install_devices
90 <h3>Bits & bolts</h3>
93 <li>Linux kernel <b>6.5</b>.</li>
94 <li>Fixed several bugs from the <a href="https://github.com/grml/grml/issues/">issue tracking system</a>.</li>
99 <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions in Grml are
100 available in the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit
101 <a href="/files/grml64-full_2024.02/dpkg.list">dpkg_list</a> for a
102 detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2024.02(-rc1).</p>
106 <p>Packages are taken from Debian trixie/testing as of 2nd of February 2024.
107 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>
110 <li>dhcpcd: DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 dual-stack client (replacement for deprecated isc-dhcp-client)
111 <li>f3: test real flash memory capacity
112 <li>fwupd/fwupd-amd64-signed: Tools to manage UEFI firmware updates
113 <li>lolcat: colorful `cat`
114 <li>lz4: Fast LZ compression algorithm library - tool
115 <li>pixz: (dependency of clonezilla)
116 <li>toilet: display large colourful characters in text mode
117 <li>udisks2: D-Bus service to access and manipulate storage devices
120 <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>
123 <li>dmraid: obsolete (see <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/1056944">#1056944</a>)
124 <li>dstat: unmaintained upstream (see <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/1034856">#1034856</a>)
125 <li>fai-server: irrelevant, no longer a dependency of grml-live
126 <li>fakeroot: irrelevant, no longer a dependency of devscripts
127 <li>firmware-ath9k-htc: conflicts with/replaced by firmware-atheros
128 <li>iso-codes: irrelevant, no longer a dependency of qemu-system-*
129 <li>lsb-base: irrelevant, no longer a dependency of uml-utilities
130 <li>lua-lpeg: irrelevant, no longer a dependency of nmap
131 <li>thin-provisioning-tools: broken in Debian/testing (see <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/1041089">#1041089</a>)
134 <h3>Known issues</h3>
136 <p>Please visit the <a href="/bugs/known/">known bugs</a> web page.</p>
138 <h3>Download Grml 2024.02-rc1</h3>
140 <p>Grml 2024.02-rc1 can be downloaded from
141 <a href="/download/prerelease/">grml.org/download/prerelease/</a>.</p>
145 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help fixing bugs and improving future releases.
146 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>.
147 We also welcome feature requests and any kind of constructive feedback.
148 If you want to reach out to the Grml team, please visit our <a href="/contact/">contact webpage</a>.</p>
150 <a name="thanks"></a>
153 <p>Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically)
174 for their contributions.</p>
176 <h3>More Information</h3>
178 <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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