Release Notes for Grml 2013.09-rc1 - codename Ponywagon
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-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.
+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.
New features
@@ -43,28 +44,48 @@ argument, setting password of users root and grml to the specified value +Important Changes
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- UTC is used as default time zone, to use a different setting - you can use the tz boot option (usage example: tz=Europe/Vienna) +
- UTC is used as default time zone, to use a different + setting you can use the tz boot option (usage example: + tz=Europe/Vienna)
- To match the behaviour with the ssh boot option the passwd boot option now also sets the password for user root - and not only for user 'grml'. -
- grml-autoconfig (and its GRMLCFG feature) doesn't support floppy - disks any longer +
- grml-autoconfig (and its GRMLCFG feature) doesn't support + floppy disks any longer + +
- zshrc: new prompt handling, see Grml + blog for more details + +
- zshrc: to enable power completion / abbreviation + expansion use "ctrl-x ." instead of ",." (see debian/NEWS + for details) + +
- Grml does not ship clamav anti-virus definitions 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.
Bits & bolts
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- Linux kernel is based on 3.X.X. No additional modules are shipped. +
- Linux kernel is based on 3.10.10.
- Fixed several bugs from the bug tracking system.
Updates
-Packages are taken from Debian testing, XXth of XXX - 2013. XX packages have been removed, and these XX new packages +
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):
- 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
These Grml packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib* and kernel image):
- TODO + epdfview febootstrap makedev python-gnupginterface xulrunner-10.0
Known issues
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- no known issues so far +
- Issue1274: + grml-terminalserver fails to set up NFS version 3, resulting in + unbootable PXE clients [fixed for stable release]
Thanks
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 Å louf, + Moritz Molle, + Peter Palfrader, + Thorsten Glaser, Till Maas, + Ulrich Dangel and + Ziirish for their contributions.