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27 <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2018.12-rc1 - codename <a href="/faq/#releasename">Gnackwatschn</a></h1>
29 <p><a href="/download/prerelease/">Download Now</a></p>
33 <p>Grml is a Debian based live system focusing on the needs of system administrators.
34 This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian testing (AKA buster).
35 As usual it also incorporates up to date hardware support and fixes known bugs from the previous Grml release.</p>
37 <h3>Important Changes</h3>
41 <li>haveged is started when booting with boot option `ssh` (Boot option `services=haveged` starts it as well)
43 <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.
45 <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
46 /etc/apt/sources.list.d/grml.sources setup like:
50 URIs: http://deb.grml.org/
51 Suites: grml-stable grml-testing
52 Architectures: i386 amd64
54 Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/grml-archive-keyring.gpg
57 or you prefer the common sources.list setup you can use a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/grml.list like:
60 deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/grml-archive-keyring.gpg] https://deb.grml.org/ grml-stable main
61 deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/grml-archive-keyring.gpg] https://deb.grml.org/ grml-testing main
64 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/UseThirdParty">https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/UseThirdParty</a> provides more general documentation about this setup.
70 <p>Highlighting the most relevant changes only:</p>
77 <li>netcardconfig: added support for VLAN configuration + non-interactive mode
78 <li>grml-chroot: mount /dev/pts as devpts inside chroot
79 <li>grml2usb: added support for Secure Boot (if present with ISO only)
85 <li><a href="/grml-live/">grml-live</a> (build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems):
88 <li>Added support for EFI on 32-bit systems and increased EFI image size
89 <li>Switched from isohybrid to xorriso/isohybrid combination
90 <li>Several software additions/changes to GRML_SMALL and GRML_FULL classes
91 <li>Several changes, fixes and workarounds for systemd integration
92 <li>Added support for Debian/buster
93 <li>Dropped support for Debian/wheezy
94 <li>Added Secure Boot support (disabled by default though)
95 <li>Updated defaults and documention to use and assume Debian/stretch by default
96 <li>Replaced /etc/apt/grml.key with /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/grml-archive-keyring.gpg
97 <li>Updated cheatcodes to clarify hardware clock and timezone defaults
98 <li>Enable serial-getty with root autologin on every given device
103 <li>grml-hwinfo (tool to collect hardware information):
106 <li>Provide output of `efibootmgr -v` in file efibootmgr
107 <li>sysdump: ignore files inside /sys/kernel/debug + /sys/kernel/security/apparmor/revision to avoid hanging
108 <li>Redirect `ip mrule show` errors to ip_mrule.error
113 <li><a href="/zsh/">grml-zshrc</a> (Zsh configuration):
116 <li>grml-lang zsh completion: add dvorak, es, fr, it + jp to list of supported languages
117 <li>Use `apt` instead of `apt-get` in aliases when applicable (acp, acs, acsh, adg, ag, agi)
118 <li>Moved insert-datestamp to 'C-x d' (from 'Ctrl-e d'), to avoid defalys in the default Ctrl-e binding in emacs mode
123 <li><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a> (wrapper around debootstrap for installing pure Debian):
126 <li>Identify UUID of target system even if it's SWRAID or a mountpoint
127 <li>Travis CI integration (running automated VM installation tests)
128 <li>Switched default mirror from httpredir.debian.org to deb.debian.org
129 <li>Improved checks to make sure loop and dm-mod module are present
130 <li>Ensure /etc/timezone also includes the TIMEZONE setting
131 <li>Support skipping installation of GRUB bootloader using GRUB_INSTALL='no'
132 <li>Do not create target directory in /dev
133 <li>packer: added support for building Debian/buster + updated VirtualBox Guest Additions to 5.2.22
140 <h3>Bits & bolts</h3>
143 <li>Linux kernel is based on <b>4.19.8</b>.</li>
144 <li>Fixed several bugs from the <a href="https://github.com/grml/grml/issues/">issue tracking system</a>.</li>
149 <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions in Grml are
150 available in the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit
151 <a href="/files/grml64-full_2018.12/dpkg.list">dpkg_list</a> for a
152 detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2018.12(-rc1).</p>
156 <p>Packages are taken from Debian testing as of 19th of December 2018.
157 27 packages have been removed, and these 76 new packages
158 have been added (excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
161 bcache-tools binutils-common binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu cpp-8
162 cryptsetup-initramfs cryptsetup-run dbus-user-session dirmngr dislocker ed
163 fakeroot fdisk gcc-8-base gdbm-l10n gir1.2-glib-2.0 glusterfs-common
164 gnupg-l10n gnupg-utils gpg gpg-agent gpg-wks-client gpg-wks-server gpgconf
165 gpgsm iso-codes linux-libc-dev lm-sensors mcollective mcollective-common
166 ndisc6 nmap-common patchutils perl-modules-5.28 python-colorlog
167 python-fasteners python-humanize python-monotonic python-six python-talloc
168 python2 python2-minimal python3-certifi python3-chardet python3-configshell-fb
169 python3-gi python3-idna python3-jwt python3-pkg-resources python3-prettytable
170 python3-pyparsing python3-pyudev python3-requests python3-rtslib-fb
171 python3-six python3-urllib3 python3-urwid python3.7 python3.7-minimal
172 qemu-guest-agent qemu-system-data rdnssd restic ruby-stomp ruby-systemu
173 ruby-xmlrpc ruby2.5 stressant targetcli-fb tcl tcl8.6 thin-provisioning-tools
174 tk tk8.6 wdiff x11vnc x11vnc-data
177 <p>These Debian packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
180 apt-transport-https aptitude aptitude-common btrfs-tools cpp-6 cpufrequtils
181 dh-python e2fslibs gcc-6-base gnome-icon-theme gnupg-agent iproute lynx-cur
182 multiarch-support perl-modules-5.24 python-talloc python-urwid python3.5
183 python3.5-minimal qemu-kvm realpath ruby-nokogiri ruby-pkg-config ruby-rgen
184 ruby-safe-yaml ruby2.3 xdg-utils
187 <h3>Known issues</h3>
189 <p>Please visit the <a href="/bugs/known/">known bugs</a> web page.</p>
191 <h3>Download Grml 2018.12-rc1</h3>
193 <p>Grml 2018.12-rc1 can be downloaded from
194 <a href="/download/prerelease/">grml.org/download/prerelease/</a>.</p>
198 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help
199 fixing bugs and improving future releases. If you find a problem with
200 the release please check <a
201 href="/bugs/known/">the known bugs list</a> and report problems using information on <a
202 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>. Please send your feedback and
203 feature requests <a href="/contact/">to the Grml team</a>!</p>
205 <a name="thanks"></a>
208 <p>Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically)
242 for their contributions.</p>
244 <h3>More Information</h3>
246 <p>You can find out more about Grml on <a href="/">our website</a>, <a
247 href="/contact/#irc">IRC channel</a>, and <a
248 href="https://wiki.grml.org/">wiki</a>.
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