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+ <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2022.11-rc1 - codename <a href="/faq/#releasename">MalGuckes</a></h1>
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+ <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 bookworm.
+ As usual it also incorporates up to date hardware support and fixes known bugs from previous Grml releases.</p>
+
+ <h3>Important Changes</h3>
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li>The Grml live system now uses the merged-/usr layout
+ <li>Updated Perl from v5.32 to v5.36
+ <li>Updated Python3 from v3.9 to v3.10
+ <li>Updated Ruby from v2.7 to v3.0
+
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>New features</h3>
+
+ <p>Highlighting the most relevant changes only:</p>
+
+ <h4>Misc:</h4>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li><strong>grml-terminalserver</strong>: suggest a proper IP range usage when configuring DHCP clients
+ <li><strong>netcardconfig</strong>: netcardconfig: avoid suggesting default gateway if a default route exists already
+ </ul>
+
+ <h4><a href="/grml-live/">grml-live</a> (build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems):</h4>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Support Memtest86+ with UEFI
+ <li>Support Debian/bookworm
+ <li>Support for ZFS via new ZFS FAI class
+ <li>Provide workaround for kmod/initramfs-tools issue with NFS/netboot
+ <li>Exclude /var/lib/dkms/* from squashfs
+ <li>GRMLBASE/50-lvm: also clear /lib/udev/rules.d/69-lvm.rules
+ <li>Disable man-db settings to speed up package installation
+ <li>Use grubx64.efi file from grml_chroot, instead of relying on host system
+ <li>isolinux: fix toram=... variable usage within isolinux configs
+ <li>Provide information how ISO was generated in file conf/buildinfo.json
+ <li>Misc software related changes in GRMLBASE, GRML_SMALL + GRML_FULL classes
+ </ul>
+
+ <h4><a href="/grml2usb/">grml2usb</a> (tool to install Grml ISO to usb device):</h4>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>grml2iso: support parallel execution
+ </ul>
+
+ <h4>grml-hwinfo (tool to collect hardware information):</h4>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Iterate over present disks to collect <em>sfdisk -d</em> information
+ </ul>
+
+ <h4><a href="/zsh/">grml-zshrc</a> (Zsh configuration):</h4>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>zshrc: run <em>tlog</em> alias with --follow=name
+ <li>zshrc: support setting title in <em>foot</em> terminal emulator
+ <li>zshrc: use <em>ip</em> from iproute2 with color support
+ <li>zshrc: support <em>NOETCHOSTS</em> option to deactivate parsing of "/etc/hosts" for host completion
+ <li>zshrc: do not unconditionally overwrite <em>$COLORTERM</em>
+ <li>tmux.conf: source user-specific local conf file <em>~/.tmux.conf.local</em>
+ <li>tmux.conf: Add <em>bind-key J</em> to join marked pane to active window
+ </ul>
+
+ <h4><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a> (wrapper around debootstrap for installing pure Debian):</h4>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>EFI support: fix for grub-install usage with efivarfs
+ <li>Install dbus by default
+ <li>VMs: create partition with alignment starting at 4MiB + ending at 100%
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>Bits & bolts</h3>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Linux kernel <b>6.0</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_2022.11/dpkg.list">dpkg_list</a> for a
+ detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2022.11(-rc1).</p>
+
+ <h3>Updates</h3>
+
+ <p>Packages are taken from Debian bookworm/testing as of 11th of November 2022.
+ The following 18 packages have been added (excluding lib*, *-base/*-bin/*-common/*-core/*-data, cpp-*, perl*, python*, ruby* and kernel image):</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>dbus-daemon: simple interprocess messaging system
+ <li>exfatprogs: exFAT file system utilities
+ <li>f2fs-tools: Tools for Flash-Friendly File System
+ <li>hping3: Active Network Smashing Tool
+ <li>inetutils-telnet: telnet client
+ <li>jo: command-line processor to output JSON from a shell
+ <li>mbuffer: tool for buffering data streams
+ <li>myrescue: rescue data from damaged disks
+ <li>nftables: Program to control packet filtering rules by Netfilter project
+ <li>ntpsec: Network Time Protocol daemon and utility programs
+ <li>ntpsec-ntpdate: client for setting system time from NTP servers
+ <li>ntpsec-ntpdig: ntpdig SNTP client
+ <li>pkexec: run commands as another user with polkit authorization
+ <li>polkitd: framework for managing administrative policies and privileges
+ <li>sqlite3: Command line interface for SQLite 3
+ <li>stenc: SCSI Tape Encryption Manager
+ <li>usrmerge: Convert the system to the merged /usr directories scheme
+ <li>util-linux-extra: interactive login tools
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>The following 26 Debian packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib*, *-base/-bin/*-common/*-core/*-data, cpp-*, perl*, python*, ruby* and kernel image):</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>bacula-console/bacula-fd/bacula-sd (no longer considered relevant for the live system)
+ <li>bonnie++ (use fio for benchmarking)
+ <li>bsdmainutils (transitional package, replaced by bsdutils, debianutils, bsdextrautils and ncal (ncal not being shipped by Grml))
+ <li>espeak (replaced by espeak-ng)
+ <li>exfat-utils (replaced by exfatprogs)
+ <li>facter/hiera/mcollective/puppet (no longer considered relevant for the live system)
+ <li>firmware-intelwimax (no longer shipped with firmware-nonfree)
+ <li>glib-networking/glib-networking-services/gsettings-desktop-schemas (used to be dependencies of firefox/qemu-system-gui/usbview/vim-gtk3)
+ <li>mercurial (no longer considered relevant for the live system)
+ <li>ncal (no longer considered relevant for the live system)
+ <li>nilfs-tools (used to be a dependency of partclone)
+ <li>ntp (replaced by ntpsec/ntpsec-ntpdate/ntpsec-ntpdig)
+ <li>ntpdate (replaced by ntpsec/ntpsec-ntpdate/ntpsec-ntpdig)
+ <li>slurm (no longer available in Debian/testing, see <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=993874">#993874</a>)
+ <li>subversion (no longer considered relevant for the live system)
+ <li>tshark (requires ~155MB of disk space, please raise your voice if it should be part of the stable release)
+ <li>update-inetd (used to be a dependecy of atftpd)
+ <li>wireshark/wireshark-qt (requires ~155MB of disk space, please raise your voice if it should be part of the stable release)
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>Known issues</h3>
+
+ <p>Please visit the <a href="/bugs/known/">known bugs</a> web page.</p>
+
+ <h3>Download Grml 2022.11-rc1</h3>
+
+ <p>Grml 2022.11-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 (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>.
+ We also welcome feature requests and any kind of constructive feedback.
+ If you want to reach out to the Grml team, please visit our <a href="/contact/">contact webpage</a>.</p>
+
+ <a name="thanks"></a>
+ <h3>Thanks</h3>
+
+ <p>Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically)
+ Alexander Kobel,
+ András Korn,
+ Arun,
+ Atrate,
+ Bhoppi Chaw,
+ Chris Hofstaedtler,
+ Chris S,
+ Christian Hesse,
+ Christoph Biedl,
+ d630,
+ Evgeni Golov,
+ Frank Terbeck,
+ Hanabishi,
+ Karl Voit,
+ Manuel Rom,
+ miles170,
+ Pásztor János,
+ Ralf Moll,
+ Roman Volosatovs and
+ Thorsten Glaser
+ 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>.
+
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