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+ <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2017.05 - codename <a href="/faq/#releasename">Freedatensuppe</a></h1>
+
+ <p><a href="/download/">Download Now</a></p>
+
+ <h3>About</h3>
+
+ <p>Grml is a Debian based live system focusing on the needs of system administrators.
+ This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian testing (AKA stretch) and is the first Grml release using systemd as its init system.
+ As usual it also incorporates up to date hardware support and fixes known bugs from the previous Grml release.</p>
+
+ <h3>Important Changes</h3>
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li>Switch from file-rc to systemd as init system.
+ grml-live (the build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems) still supports non-systemd systems using file-rc, though we don't plan to maintain this in the long run.
+ For the reasons <em>why</em> we actually switched to systemd please visit the <a href="/faq/#systemd">FAQ</a>.
+ Due to the change to systemd some boot options in the current release might not work as before and some further issues might have been unnoticed yet.
+ Please <a href="/bugs/">let us know</a> if you should stumble upon any such issues.</li>
+
+ <li>New Grml repository signing key: 4096R/21E0CA38EA2EA4AB.
+ If you're using the Grml repositories (<a href="https://deb.grml.org/">deb.grml.org</a>) please make sure to use a current version of the grml-debian-keyring package.
+ The GPG key is also available via <a href="https://deb.grml.org/repo-key.gpg">https://deb.grml.org/repo-key.gpg</a>.</li>
+
+ <li>Following <a href="https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/i386/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#i386-is-now-almost-i686">Debian's switch</a>, the 32-bit PC support (known as the architecture 'i386' and what's provided by '<a href="/faq/#flavours">grml32</a>') now no longer covers a plain i586 processor.
+ The new baseline is the i686, although some i586 processors (e.g. the 'AMD Geode') will remain supported.
+ The following shell script may be a useful indicator (assuming only one processor is installed in the machine):
+
+<pre>
+ if grep -q '^flags.*\bfpu\b.*\btsc\b.*\bcx8\b.*\bcmov\b' /proc/cpuinfo; then
+ echo "OK (assuming all CPUs are of the same type)"
+ else
+ echo "NOT OK: Missing one or more of the required CPU extensions"
+ fi
+</pre>
+ </li>
+
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>New features</h3>
+
+ <p>Highlighting the most relevant changes only:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li><a href="/grml2usb/">grml2usb</a> (tool to install Grml ISOs to USB devices):
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Support usage of grml2usb on EFI systems</li>
+ <li>New option --skip-usb-check to skip check whether target looks like a USB device</li>
+ <li>New option --rw-blockdev for usage with read-only/forensic like devices</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><a href="/grml-live/">grml-live</a> (build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems):
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Systemd support, providing backwards compatibility (non-systemd using file-rc) via FILE_RC class</li>
+ <li>Provide wayback machine via "-w <date>" to install Debian packages from specific date</li>
+ <li>Add support for netboot.xyz</li>
+ <li>Add SHA-256 and SHA-512 hashes</li>
+ <li>Generate /etc/issue with Grml release information</li>
+ <li>Switch from aptitude to apt usage for software installation</li>
+ <li>Output to "./grml" in current working directory by default</li>
+ <li>If locales-all package is installed skip locales generation</li>
+ <li>GRMLBASE/21-usersetup: add grml user to vboxsf group</li>
+ <li>New script 94-update-smart-drivedb to update smartmontools' drive database</li>
+ <li>templates: use net.ifnames=0 by default</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ </li>
+
+ <li>grml-hwinfo (tool to collect hardware information):
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Support options --force + --quiet for usage with cron</li>
+ <li>Provide `acpi --everything` output in file `acpi.everything`</li>
+ <li>ip: also store table specific route information</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ </li>
+
+ <li><a href="/zsh/">grml-zshrc</a> (Zsh configuration):
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Fall back to journalctl with llog + tlog aliases if /var/log/syslog doesn't exist</li>
+ <li>Make some ambiguous aliases optional via GRML_NO_APT_ALIASES + GRML_NO_SMALL_ALIASES</li>
+ <li>Sync zsh-lookup with its upstream repository</li>
+ <li>Add more robustness to completion caching setup</li>
+ <li>Drop 'setopt nonomatch' configuration</li>
+ <li>Rewrite large parts of persistent dirstack handling</li>
+ <li>No longer explicitly set SHELL</li>
+ <li>Add support for `fetch' in simple-extract()</li>
+ <li>Several updates to the bk function, e.g. new option '-ra' to remove all (even hidden) backups</li>
+ <li>Drop j alias (used for 'jobs -l')</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ </li>
+
+ <li><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a> (wrapper around debootstrap for installing pure Debian):
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Support Debian stretch and use Debian stretch as the new default release</li>
+ <li>Provide EFI support via --efi <device> option</li>
+ <li>Drop sysfsutils from default software package list</li>
+ <li>Don't generate rootfs entry in /etc/fstab if we don't know its UUID</li>
+ <li>Don't fiddle around with /etc/hosts</li>
+ <li>Honor GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true and don't set root=UUID then</li>
+ <li>Export TARGET_HOSTNAME before running post-scripts</li>
+ <li>Disable '^metadata_csum' feature when creating ext filesystem for jessie and older Debian releases</li>
+ <li>Ensure that grub-pc/install_devices is pointing to the requested device</li>
+ <li>Use parted to create partition table</li>
+ <li>Rename --scripts to --post-scripts for consistency, accordingly disable SCRIPTS by default, replaced by POST_SCRIPTS</li>
+ <li>Provide new option --remove-configs to delete grml-debootstrap configuration files from installed system</li>
+ <li>Ensure that grub-pc is installed in VMs even when using --nopackages</li>
+ <li>Provide hostname to pre-scripts by setting up /etc/hostname</li>
+ <li>Make it more friendly to install on non-Debian distributions</li>
+ <li>Drop contrib + non-free from default COMPONENTS, support --contrib + --non-free cmdline options</li>
+ <li>Install firmware-linux only when non-free is among the COMPONENTS</li>
+ <li>Use full fingerprint instead of short GPG key ids for Grml repository</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ </li>
+
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>Major changes between 2017.05-rc1 and stable release</h3>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Updated kernel to 4.9.29</li>
+ <li>Avoid automatic LVM scanning</li>
+ <li>Avoid automatic mdadm scanning</li>
+ <li>Enable autologin for user root on serial console ttyS0</li>
+ <li>Enable systemd specific debug boot options in debugging mode</li>
+ <li>Fix GRUB error message ('error: null src bitmap in grub_video_bitmap_create_scaled') when choosing boot sub-menu in EFI mode</li>
+ <li>Fix console-setup related error message</li>
+ <li>Fix grml-x startup issues</li>
+ <li>Fix several aoe-tools related issues</li>
+ <li>Software changes: added console-setup, haveged, rng-tools and added cpufrequtils + lsscsi to grml-small</li>
+ <li>Switched from grml-runtty to agetty</li>
+ <li>Warn in initramfs if there is <256MB memory</li>
+ <li>grml-autoconfig: don't warn but just inform if SecureBoot isn't enabled</li>
+ <li>grml-autoconfig: drop some deprecated/non-working config_* settings</li>
+ <li>grml-autoconfig: ensure that grml-autoconfig service is finished before tty1 is enabled</li>
+ <li>grml-autoconfig: no longer warn about missing amixer binary on grml-small</li>
+ <li>grml-autoconfig: updated, improved and fixed LVM + mdadm related startup code</li>
+ <li>grml2usb: don't fail hard if installing on partition number >4, instead warn user</li>
+ <li>grml2usb: support netboot.xyz.lkrn addon (to fix missing binary on grml96)</li>
+ <li>screenrc: drop keybindings G (google) + H (heise.de)</li>
+ <li>sshd: ensure that login as root via password works again</li>
+ <li>systemd: no longer mask systemd-machine-id-commit.service to fix login issues</li>
+ <li>tmux: drop deprecated status-utf8 option</li>
+ <li>vimrc: disable mouse usage in all modes, being the default in Vim >=8</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>Bits & bolts</h3>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Linux kernel is based on <b>4.9.29</b>.</li>
+ <li>Fixed several bugs from the <a href="https://github.com/grml/grml/issues">bug tracking system</a>.</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>Packages</h3>
+
+ <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions in Grml are
+ available in the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit
+ <a href="/files/grml64-full_2017.05/dpkg.list">dpkg_list</a> for a
+ detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2017.05.</p>
+
+ <h3>Updates</h3>
+
+ <p>Packages are taken from Debian stretch/testing as of 30th of May 2017.
+ 63 packages have been removed, and these 64 new packages
+ have been added (excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
+
+<pre class="rahmen">
+ apt-transport-https bats binwalk btrfs-progs cpp-6
+ distro-info-data espeak-ng-data exif firefox-esr
+ firmware-amd-graphics firmware-cavium firmware-intel-sound
+ firmware-misc-nonfree firmware-ti-connectivity freeipmi-common
+ gcc-6-base gnome-icon-theme gnupg-agent graphicsmagick
+ graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat gtk-update-icon-cache
+ initramfs-tools-core iptraf-ng keyutils linux-cpupower lynx
+ lynx-common nethogs nilfs-tools nvme-cli partclone
+ perl-modules-5.24 perl-openssl-defaults physlock pinentry-curses
+ policykit-1 python3-binwalk python3.5 python3.5-minimal rake
+ ruby-deep-merge ruby-did-you-mean ruby-minitest ruby-net-telnet
+ ruby-nokogiri ruby-pkg-config ruby-power-assert ruby-rgen
+ ruby-test-unit ruby2.3 sg3-utils-udev stress syslinux-utils
+ systemd systemd-container systemd-sysv uml-utilities vim-gtk
+ vim-gui-common wireshark-qt xorriso xserver-xorg-input-libinput
+ xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu xxd
+</pre>
+
+ <p>These Debian packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
+
+<pre class="rahmen">
+ alsa-base aufs-tools cpp-4.9 file-rc firmware-ralink
+ gcc-4.8-base gcc-4.9-base genext2fs iceweasel initscripts
+ insserv iptraf manpages mcollective mcollective-common multitail
+ netcat-traditional nfacct perl-modules puppet-common
+ python-configobj python-configshell python-epydoc python-ipaddr
+ python-netifaces python-ntdb python-prettytable python-pyparsing
+ python-rtslib python-simpleparse python-simpleparse-mxtexttools
+ python-six python-support python3.4 python3.4-minimal ruby-hiera
+ ruby-stomp ruby-systemu ruby2.1 samba-dsdb-modules startpar
+ sysvinit sysvinit-core targetcli traceroute vlock
+ xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-mouse
+ xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse
+ xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-intel
+ xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-mga
+ xserver-xorg-video-modesetting xserver-xorg-video-neomagic
+ xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-r128
+ xserver-xorg-video-savage xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion
+ xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx
+ xserver-xorg-video-trident
+</pre>
+
+ <h3>Known issues</h3>
+
+ <p>Please visit the <a href="/bugs/known/">known bugs</a> web page.</p>
+
+ <h3>Download Grml 2017.05</h3>
+
+ <p>Grml 2017.05 can be downloaded from
+ <a href="/download/">grml.org/download/<a>.</p>
+
+ <h3>Feedback</h3>
+
+ <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help
+ fixing bugs and improving future releases. If you find a problem with
+ the 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>. Please send your feedback and
+ feature requests <a href="/contact/">to the Grml team</a>!</p>
+
+ <a name="thanks"></a>
+ <h3>Thanks</h3>
+
+ <p>Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically)
+ Andras Korn,
+ Andreas "Jimmy" Gredler,
+ Andrey Borzenkov,
+ Antoine Beaupré,
+ Axel Beckert,
+ Ben Finney,
+ Bernd Zeimetz,
+ Bernhard Tittelbach,
+ Brian M. Carlson,
+ Carsten Hey,
+ Christian Hesse,
+ Christian Hofstaedtler,
+ Christian Sturm,
+ Christoph Berg,
+ Daniel Hahler,
+ Darshaka Pathirana,
+ Dmitri Vereshchagin,
+ Eric Keller,
+ Felipe Sateler,
+ Gregor Zattler,
+ Guillem Jover,
+ Haudegen,
+ Karl Voit,
+ Laurent Bigonville,
+ Michael Vetter,
+ Nicolas Braud-Santoni,
+ Patrick Schleizer,
+ Paul Menzel,
+ Philip Hands,
+ Sebastian Boehm,
+ Sebastian Pipping,
+ Stefan Schlesinger,
+ Tamas Csillag,
+ Thiago Perrotta,
+ Thilo Six,
+ Thomas Berger,
+ Thomas Stewart and
+ Yves-Alexis Perez
+ for their contributions.</p>
+
+ <h3>More Information</h3>
+
+ <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>.
+
+ <p>To sign up for future Grml announcements, please subscribe to <a
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