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30 <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2017.05 - codename <a href="/faq/#releasename">Freedatensuppe</a></h1>
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36 <p>Grml is a Debian based live system focusing on the needs of system administrators.
37 This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian testing (AKA stretch) and is the first Grml release using systemd as its init system.
38 As usual it also incorporates up to date hardware support and fixes known bugs from the previous Grml release.</p>
40 <h3>Important Changes</h3>
44 <li>Switch from file-rc to systemd as init system.
45 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.
46 For the reasons <em>why</em> we actually switched to systemd please visit the <a href="/faq/#systemd">FAQ</a>.
47 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.
48 Please <a href="/bugs/">let us know</a> if you should stumble upon any such issues.</li>
50 <li>New Grml repository signing key: 4096R/21E0CA38EA2EA4AB.
51 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.
52 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>
54 <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.
55 The new baseline is the i686, although some i586 processors (e.g. the 'AMD Geode') will remain supported.
56 The following shell script may be a useful indicator (assuming only one processor is installed in the machine):
59 if grep -q '^flags.*\bfpu\b.*\btsc\b.*\bcx8\b.*\bcmov\b' /proc/cpuinfo; then
60 echo "OK (assuming all CPUs are of the same type)"
62 echo "NOT OK: Missing one or more of the required CPU extensions"
71 <p>Highlighting the most relevant changes only:</p>
75 <li><a href="/grml2usb/">grml2usb</a> (tool to install Grml ISOs to USB devices):
78 <li>Support usage of grml2usb on EFI systems</li>
79 <li>New option --skip-usb-check to skip check whether target looks like a USB device</li>
80 <li>New option --rw-blockdev for usage with read-only/forensic like devices</li>
84 <li><a href="/grml-live/">grml-live</a> (build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems):
87 <li>Systemd support, providing backwards compatibility (non-systemd using file-rc) via FILE_RC class</li>
88 <li>Provide wayback machine via "-w <date>" to install Debian packages from specific date</li>
89 <li>Add support for netboot.xyz</li>
90 <li>Add SHA-256 and SHA-512 hashes</li>
91 <li>Generate /etc/issue with Grml release information</li>
92 <li>Switch from aptitude to apt usage for software installation</li>
93 <li>Output to "./grml" in current working directory by default</li>
94 <li>If locales-all package is installed skip locales generation</li>
95 <li>GRMLBASE/21-usersetup: add grml user to vboxsf group</li>
96 <li>New script 94-update-smart-drivedb to update smartmontools' drive database</li>
97 <li>templates: use net.ifnames=0 by default</li>
102 <li>grml-hwinfo (tool to collect hardware information):
105 <li>Support options --force + --quiet for usage with cron</li>
106 <li>Provide `acpi --everything` output in file `acpi.everything`</li>
107 <li>ip: also store table specific route information</li>
112 <li><a href="/zsh/">grml-zshrc</a> (Zsh configuration):
115 <li>Fall back to journalctl with llog + tlog aliases if /var/log/syslog doesn't exist</li>
116 <li>Make some ambiguous aliases optional via GRML_NO_APT_ALIASES + GRML_NO_SMALL_ALIASES</li>
117 <li>Sync zsh-lookup with its upstream repository</li>
118 <li>Add more robustness to completion caching setup</li>
119 <li>Drop 'setopt nonomatch' configuration</li>
120 <li>Rewrite large parts of persistent dirstack handling</li>
121 <li>No longer explicitly set SHELL</li>
122 <li>Add support for `fetch' in simple-extract()</li>
123 <li>Several updates to the bk function, e.g. new option '-ra' to remove all (even hidden) backups</li>
124 <li>Drop j alias (used for 'jobs -l')</li>
129 <li><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a> (wrapper around debootstrap for installing pure Debian):
132 <li>Support Debian stretch and use Debian stretch as the new default release</li>
133 <li>Provide EFI support via --efi <device> option</li>
134 <li>Drop sysfsutils from default software package list</li>
135 <li>Don't generate rootfs entry in /etc/fstab if we don't know its UUID</li>
136 <li>Don't fiddle around with /etc/hosts</li>
137 <li>Honor GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true and don't set root=UUID then</li>
138 <li>Export TARGET_HOSTNAME before running post-scripts</li>
139 <li>Disable '^metadata_csum' feature when creating ext filesystem for jessie and older Debian releases</li>
140 <li>Ensure that grub-pc/install_devices is pointing to the requested device</li>
141 <li>Use parted to create partition table</li>
142 <li>Rename --scripts to --post-scripts for consistency, accordingly disable SCRIPTS by default, replaced by POST_SCRIPTS</li>
143 <li>Provide new option --remove-configs to delete grml-debootstrap configuration files from installed system</li>
144 <li>Ensure that grub-pc is installed in VMs even when using --nopackages</li>
145 <li>Provide hostname to pre-scripts by setting up /etc/hostname</li>
146 <li>Make it more friendly to install on non-Debian distributions</li>
147 <li>Drop contrib + non-free from default COMPONENTS, support --contrib + --non-free cmdline options</li>
148 <li>Install firmware-linux only when non-free is among the COMPONENTS</li>
149 <li>Use full fingerprint instead of short GPG key ids for Grml repository</li>
156 <h3>Major changes between 2017.05-rc1 and stable release</h3>
159 <li>Updated kernel to 4.9.29</li>
160 <li>Avoid automatic LVM scanning</li>
161 <li>Avoid automatic mdadm scanning</li>
162 <li>Enable autologin for user root on serial console ttyS0</li>
163 <li>Enable systemd specific debug boot options in debugging mode</li>
164 <li>Fix GRUB error message ('error: null src bitmap in grub_video_bitmap_create_scaled') when choosing boot sub-menu in EFI mode</li>
165 <li>Fix console-setup related error message</li>
166 <li>Fix grml-x startup issues</li>
167 <li>Fix several aoe-tools related issues</li>
168 <li>Software changes: added console-setup, haveged, rng-tools and added cpufrequtils + lsscsi to grml-small</li>
169 <li>Switched from grml-runtty to agetty</li>
170 <li>Warn in initramfs if there is <256MB memory</li>
171 <li>grml-autoconfig: don't warn but just inform if SecureBoot isn't enabled</li>
172 <li>grml-autoconfig: drop some deprecated/non-working config_* settings</li>
173 <li>grml-autoconfig: ensure that grml-autoconfig service is finished before tty1 is enabled</li>
174 <li>grml-autoconfig: no longer warn about missing amixer binary on grml-small</li>
175 <li>grml-autoconfig: updated, improved and fixed LVM + mdadm related startup code</li>
176 <li>grml2usb: don't fail hard if installing on partition number >4, instead warn user</li>
177 <li>grml2usb: support netboot.xyz.lkrn addon (to fix missing binary on grml96)</li>
178 <li>screenrc: drop keybindings G (google) + H (heise.de)</li>
179 <li>sshd: ensure that login as root via password works again</li>
180 <li>systemd: no longer mask systemd-machine-id-commit.service to fix login issues</li>
181 <li>tmux: drop deprecated status-utf8 option</li>
182 <li>vimrc: disable mouse usage in all modes, being the default in Vim >=8</li>
185 <h3>Bits & bolts</h3>
188 <li>Linux kernel is based on <b>4.9.29</b>.</li>
189 <li>Fixed several bugs from the <a href="https://github.com/grml/grml/issues">bug tracking system</a>.</li>
194 <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions in Grml are
195 available in the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit
196 <a href="/files/grml64-full_2017.05/dpkg.list">dpkg_list</a> for a
197 detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2017.05.</p>
201 <p>Packages are taken from Debian stretch/testing as of 30th of May 2017.
202 63 packages have been removed, and these 64 new packages
203 have been added (excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
206 apt-transport-https bats binwalk btrfs-progs cpp-6
207 distro-info-data espeak-ng-data exif firefox-esr
208 firmware-amd-graphics firmware-cavium firmware-intel-sound
209 firmware-misc-nonfree firmware-ti-connectivity freeipmi-common
210 gcc-6-base gnome-icon-theme gnupg-agent graphicsmagick
211 graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat gtk-update-icon-cache
212 initramfs-tools-core iptraf-ng keyutils linux-cpupower lynx
213 lynx-common nethogs nilfs-tools nvme-cli partclone
214 perl-modules-5.24 perl-openssl-defaults physlock pinentry-curses
215 policykit-1 python3-binwalk python3.5 python3.5-minimal rake
216 ruby-deep-merge ruby-did-you-mean ruby-minitest ruby-net-telnet
217 ruby-nokogiri ruby-pkg-config ruby-power-assert ruby-rgen
218 ruby-test-unit ruby2.3 sg3-utils-udev stress syslinux-utils
219 systemd systemd-container systemd-sysv uml-utilities vim-gtk
220 vim-gui-common wireshark-qt xorriso xserver-xorg-input-libinput
221 xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu xxd
224 <p>These Debian packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
227 alsa-base aufs-tools cpp-4.9 file-rc firmware-ralink
228 gcc-4.8-base gcc-4.9-base genext2fs iceweasel initscripts
229 insserv iptraf manpages mcollective mcollective-common multitail
230 netcat-traditional nfacct perl-modules puppet-common
231 python-configobj python-configshell python-epydoc python-ipaddr
232 python-netifaces python-ntdb python-prettytable python-pyparsing
233 python-rtslib python-simpleparse python-simpleparse-mxtexttools
234 python-six python-support python3.4 python3.4-minimal ruby-hiera
235 ruby-stomp ruby-systemu ruby2.1 samba-dsdb-modules startpar
236 sysvinit sysvinit-core targetcli traceroute vlock
237 xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-mouse
238 xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse
239 xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-intel
240 xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-mga
241 xserver-xorg-video-modesetting xserver-xorg-video-neomagic
242 xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-r128
243 xserver-xorg-video-savage xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion
244 xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx
245 xserver-xorg-video-trident
248 <h3>Known issues</h3>
250 <p>Please visit the <a href="/bugs/known/">known bugs</a> web page.</p>
252 <h3>Download Grml 2017.05</h3>
254 <p>Grml 2017.05 can be downloaded from
255 <a href="/download/">grml.org/download/<a>.</p>
259 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help
260 fixing bugs and improving future releases. If you find a problem with
261 the release please check <a
262 href="/bugs/known/">the known bugs list</a> and report problems using information on <a
263 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>. Please send your feedback and
264 feature requests <a href="/contact/">to the Grml team</a>!</p>
266 <a name="thanks"></a>
269 <p>Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically)
271 Andreas "Jimmy" Gredler,
281 Christian Hofstaedtler,
295 Nicolas Braud-Santoni,
308 for their contributions.</p>
310 <h3>More Information</h3>
312 <p>You can find out more about Grml on <a href="/">our website</a>, <a
313 href="/contact/#irc">IRC channel</a>, and <a
314 href="https://wiki.grml.org/">wiki</a>.
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