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+ <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2018.12-rc1 - codename <a href="/faq/#releasename">Gnackwatschn</a></h1>
+
+ <p><a href="/download/prerelease/">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 buster).
+ 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>haveged is started when booting with boot option `ssh` (Boot option `services=haveged` starts it as well)
+
+ <li>The cpufrequtils package with its loadcpufreq handling has been dropped. The cpufreq drivers are autoloaded and the powersave/ondemand driver is mature enough. The linux-cpupower tools provide the binaries as replacement for what cpufrequtils provided so far.
+
+ <li>If you're using Debian/stretch or newer and use the Grml repository on any of your systems, starting with version grml-debian-keyring (2018.06.02) of the grml-archive-keyring package you can use a
+/etc/apt/sources.list.d/grml.sources setup like:
+
+<pre>
+Types: deb deb-src
+URIs: http://deb.grml.org/
+Suites: grml-stable grml-testing
+Architectures: i386 amd64
+Components: main
+Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/grml-archive-keyring.gpg
+</pre>
+
+or you prefer the common sources.list setup you can use a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/grml.list like:
+
+<pre>
+deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/grml-archive-keyring.gpg] https://deb.grml.org/ grml-stable main
+deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/grml-archive-keyring.gpg] https://deb.grml.org/ grml-testing main
+</pre>
+
+ <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/UseThirdParty">https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/UseThirdParty</a> provides more general documentation about this setup.
+
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>New features</h3>
+
+ <p>Highlighting the most relevant changes only:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li>Misc:
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>netcardconfig: added support for VLAN configuration + non-interactive mode
+ <li>grml-chroot: mount /dev/pts as devpts inside chroot
+ <li>grml2usb: added support for Secure Boot (if present with ISO only)
+ </ul>
+
+ </li>
+
+
+ <li><a href="/grml-live/">grml-live</a> (build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems):
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Added support for EFI on 32-bit systems and increased EFI image size
+ <li>Switched from isohybrid to xorriso/isohybrid combination
+ <li>Several software additions/changes to GRML_SMALL and GRML_FULL classes
+ <li>Several changes, fixes and workarounds for systemd integration
+ <li>Added support for Debian/buster
+ <li>Dropped support for Debian/wheezy
+ <li>Added Secure Boot support (disabled by default though)
+ <li>Updated defaults and documention to use and assume Debian/stretch by default
+ <li>Replaced /etc/apt/grml.key with /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/grml-archive-keyring.gpg
+ <li>Updated cheatcodes to clarify hardware clock and timezone defaults
+ <li>Enable serial-getty with root autologin on every given device
+ </ul>
+
+ </li>
+
+ <li>grml-hwinfo (tool to collect hardware information):
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Provide output of `efibootmgr -v` in file efibootmgr
+ <li>sysdump: ignore files inside /sys/kernel/debug + /sys/kernel/security/apparmor/revision to avoid hanging
+ <li>Redirect `ip mrule show` errors to ip_mrule.error
+ </ul>
+
+ </li>
+
+ <li><a href="/zsh/">grml-zshrc</a> (Zsh configuration):
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>grml-lang zsh completion: add dvorak, es, fr, it + jp to list of supported languages
+ <li>Use `apt` instead of `apt-get` in aliases when applicable (acp, acs, acsh, adg, ag, agi)
+ <li>Moved insert-datestamp to 'C-x d' (from 'Ctrl-e d'), to avoid defalys in the default Ctrl-e binding in emacs mode
+ </ul>
+
+ </li>
+
+ <li><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a> (wrapper around debootstrap for installing pure Debian):
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Identify UUID of target system even if it's SWRAID or a mountpoint
+ <li>Travis CI integration (running automated VM installation tests)
+ <li>Switched default mirror from httpredir.debian.org to deb.debian.org
+ <li>Improved checks to make sure loop and dm-mod module are present
+ <li>Ensure /etc/timezone also includes the TIMEZONE setting
+ <li>Support skipping installation of GRUB bootloader using GRUB_INSTALL='no'
+ <li>Do not create target directory in /dev
+ <li>packer: added support for building Debian/buster + updated VirtualBox Guest Additions to 5.2.22
+ </ul>
+
+ </li>
+
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>Bits & bolts</h3>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Linux kernel is based on <b>4.19.8</b>.</li>
+ <li>Fixed several bugs from the <a href="https://github.com/grml/grml/issues/">issue 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_2018.12/dpkg.list">dpkg_list</a> for a
+ detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2018.12(-rc1).</p>
+
+ <h3>Updates</h3>
+
+ <p>Packages are taken from Debian testing as of 19th of December 2018.
+ 27 packages have been removed, and these 76 new packages
+ have been added (excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
+
+<pre class="rahmen">
+ bcache-tools binutils-common binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu cpp-8
+ cryptsetup-initramfs cryptsetup-run dbus-user-session dirmngr dislocker ed
+ fakeroot fdisk gcc-8-base gdbm-l10n gir1.2-glib-2.0 glusterfs-common
+ gnupg-l10n gnupg-utils gpg gpg-agent gpg-wks-client gpg-wks-server gpgconf
+ gpgsm iso-codes linux-libc-dev lm-sensors mcollective mcollective-common
+ ndisc6 nmap-common patchutils perl-modules-5.28 python-colorlog
+ python-fasteners python-humanize python-monotonic python-six python-talloc
+ python2 python2-minimal python3-certifi python3-chardet python3-configshell-fb
+ python3-gi python3-idna python3-jwt python3-pkg-resources python3-prettytable
+ python3-pyparsing python3-pyudev python3-requests python3-rtslib-fb
+ python3-six python3-urllib3 python3-urwid python3.7 python3.7-minimal
+ qemu-guest-agent qemu-system-data rdnssd restic ruby-stomp ruby-systemu
+ ruby-xmlrpc ruby2.5 stressant targetcli-fb tcl tcl8.6 thin-provisioning-tools
+ tk tk8.6 wdiff x11vnc x11vnc-data
+</pre>
+
+ <p>These Debian packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
+
+<pre class="rahmen">
+ apt-transport-https aptitude aptitude-common btrfs-tools cpp-6 cpufrequtils
+ dh-python e2fslibs gcc-6-base gnome-icon-theme gnupg-agent iproute lynx-cur
+ multiarch-support perl-modules-5.24 python-talloc python-urwid python3.5
+ python3.5-minimal qemu-kvm realpath ruby-nokogiri ruby-pkg-config ruby-rgen
+ ruby-safe-yaml ruby2.3 xdg-utils
+</pre>
+
+ <h3>Known issues</h3>
+
+ <p>Please visit the <a href="/bugs/known/">known bugs</a> web page.</p>
+
+ <h3>Download Grml 2018.12-rc1</h3>
+
+ <p>Grml 2018.12-rc1 can be downloaded from
+ <a href="/download/prerelease/">grml.org/download/prerelease/</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)
+András Korn,
+Andreas Henriksson,
+Antoine Beaupré,
+Bernhard Tittelbach,
+Bigo,
+Chris Hofstaedtler,
+David Prévot,
+f0,
+Grégoire Sutre,
+Guillem Jover,
+Helmut Grohne,
+hex2a,
+James Tocknell
+Leo Bergolth,
+luke2261git,
+Marc Haber,
+Marcos Mello,
+Markus Lindberg,
+Martin Besser,
+Michael Biebl,
+Michael Eischer,
+Michael Schierl,
+Moviuro,
+Patrick Schleizer,
+Paul Menzel,
+Ralf Moll,
+sl0n,
+maximebuy,
+Mykola Malkov,
+karlh1,
+Patrick Neumann,
+joeran,
+
+ 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
+ href="http://ml.grml.org/mailman/listinfo/grml-announce">Grml's
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