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<h1>Release Notes for Grml 2013.09-rc1 - codename <a
- href="/faq/#releasename">Ponywagon</a></h1>
+ href="/faq/#releasename">Hefeknuddler</a></h1>
<p><a href="http://grml.org/download/prerelease/">Download Now</a></p>
<h3>About</h3>
- <p>This Grml release provides fresh software packages after the
- Debian stable release (AKA wheezy) has been released. As usual it also
- incorporates up2date hardware support and fixes known bugs from the previous Grml release.</p>
+ <p>This Grml release provides fresh software packages after the Debian
+ stable release (AKA wheezy) has been released. As usual it also
+ incorporates up2date hardware support and fixes known bugs from the
+ previous Grml release.</p>
<h3>New features</h3>
argument, setting password of users root and grml to the specified
value
+ <li><em>grml-hwinfo</em> supports iproute's ip tool, sg_inq from
+ sg3-utils and lscpu, lsblk, dmsetup ls --tree
+
+ <li>grml-lang includes <em>french keymap</em> support
+
</ul>
<h3>Important Changes</h3>
<ul>
- <li>UTC is used as default time zone, to use a different setting
- you can use the <em>tz</em> boot option (usage example: tz=Europe/Vienna)
+ <li><em>UTC</em> is used as default time zone, to use a different
+ setting you can use the <em>tz</em> boot option (usage example:
+ tz=Europe/Vienna)
<li>To match the behaviour with the <em>ssh</em> boot option the
<em>passwd</em> boot option now also sets the password for user root -
and not only for user 'grml'.
- <li>grml-autoconfig (and its GRMLCFG feature) doesn't support floppy
- disks any longer
+ <li>grml-autoconfig (and its GRMLCFG feature) doesn't support
+ <em>floppy</em> disks any longer
+
+ <li>zshrc: <em>new prompt handling</em>, see <a
+ href="http://blog.grml.org/archives/381-grml-zshrc-new-prompt-feature.html">Grml
+ blog for more details</a>
+
+ <li>zshrc: to enable <em>power completion</em> / abbreviation
+ expansion use "ctrl-x ." instead of ",." (see <a
+ href="http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-etc-core.git;a=blob;f=debian/NEWS;h=7c72c464a1b9c3de23b08670aac868b48bd76ec8;hb=HEAD">debian/NEWS
+ for details</a>)
+
+ <li>Grml does not ship <em>clamav anti-virus definitions</em> any
+ longer due to space reasons (adding ~70MB to the ISO size). If you
+ want to get up2date anti-virus definitions please manually invoke the
+ freshclam utility.
</ul>
<h3>Bits & bolts</h3>
<ul>
- <li>Linux kernel is based on <b>3.X.X</b>. No additional modules are shipped.</li>
+ <li>Linux kernel is based on <b>3.10.10</b>.</li>
<li>Fixed several bugs from the <a href="http://bts.grml.org/grml/">bug tracking system</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Updates</h3>
- <p>Packages are taken from Debian testing, XXth of XXX
- 2013. XX packages have been removed, and these XX new packages
+ <p>Packages are taken from Debian testing, 10th of September
+ 2013. 5 packages have been removed, and these 32 new packages
have been added (plus dependencies, excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
<pre class="rahmen">
- TODO
+ ash augeas-lenses clonezilla dconf-gsettings-backend
+ dconf-service debugedit dh-python drbl fonts-dejavu-core
+ gcc-4.8-base info init-system-helpers iproute2 nwipe puppet
+ puppet-common python3 python3-minimal python3.3
+ python3.3-minimal ruby-augeas ruby-safe-yaml ruby-shadow
+ tasksel tasksel-data wakeonlan xdg-utils xpdf
+ xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse
+ xulrunner-17.0 zsh-common
</pre>
<p>These Grml packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
<pre class="rahmen">
- TODO
+ epdfview febootstrap makedev python-gnupginterface xulrunner-10.0
</pre>
<h3>Known issues</h3>
<ul>
- <li>no known issues so far
+ <li><a href="http://bts.grml.org/grml/issue1274">Issue1274</a>:
+ grml-terminalserver fails to set up NFS version 3, resulting in
+ unbootable PXE clients [fixed for stable release]
</ul>
<h3>Thanks</h3>
<p>Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically)
+ Andreas Gredler,
+ Benedikt Morbach,
+ Bernhard Tittelbach,
+ Christian Hesse,
+ Christian Hofstaedtler,
+ Falko Mach,
+ Jan Hruban,
+ Jordan Uggla,
+ Joe Stingel,
+ ludinator.
+ Lukas Prokop,
+ Martin Ć louf,
+ Moritz Molle,
+ Peter Palfrader,
+ Thorsten Glaser,
Till Maas,
+ Ulrich Dangel and
+ Ziirish
for their contributions.</p>
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