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30 <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2011.05 - codename <a
31 href="/faq/#releasename">Just Mari</a></h1>
35 <p>Grml is a bootable live system (Live-CD) based on Debian. It
36 includes a collection of GNU/Linux software especially for system
37 administrators and users of texttools. Grml provides automatic hardware
38 detection. Grml is the perfect rescue system, but you can also use it for
39 analyzing systems/networks or as a working environment. It is not
40 necessary to install anything to a harddisk; you don't even need a
41 harddisk to run it. Due to on-the-fly decompression Grml includes about
42 2 GB of software and documentation on the live system.</p>
48 <li><strong>New Linux kernel version</strong> based on 2.6.38.7</li>
50 <li>Initramfs is now XZ compressed (smaller)</li>
52 <li><a href="http://bugs.freestandards.org/show_bug.cgi?id=718">/run</a> has been introduced</li>
56 <h4>Special new features:</h4>
60 <li><strong>dns= bootoption</strong> allows for specifying static nameservers.</li>
62 <li>grml-feedback, a commandline application for providing feedback to the Grml Team via <a href="http://feedback.grml.org/">feedback.grml.org</a>.</li>
64 <li>Easier syntax for grml-quickconfig menu files, existing menu files are still valid.</li>
67 <strong>grml2iso small ISOs:</strong> grml2iso can now output small ISOs (~ 20MB) with only kernel and initrd. These are meant to be used with fetch=.
72 <h3>Important Changes</h3>
75 <li>iPXE has replaced gPXE.</li>
76 <li>Core scripts previously found in grml-scripts are now shipped as grml-scripts-core to facilitate reuse on plain Debian systems.</li>
77 <li>Due to popular demand, the ratpoison window manager is included once again.</li>
78 <li>grml-debootstrap adds the security repository for stable and testing installations.</li>
79 <li>grml-quickconfig will be executed on grml-small.</li>
80 <li>More complicated disk configurations (LVM and SW-RAID, though not stacked on each other) are supported when booting Grml via grml-rescueboot or with the findiso= and live-media= bootoptions.</li>
86 <p>Based on vanilla kernel 2.6.38.7 including <a
87 href="/kernel/">several patches</a> and additional modules:</p>
90 aufs iscsitarget ndiswrapper openafs speakup sysprof
91 tp-smapi virtualbox-ose-guest xtables-addons
94 <p>Visit <a href="/kernel/">grml.org/kernel/</a> for more details
95 regarding Grml's kernel. (Note that lzma and squashfs are now part
96 of the mainline kernel.)</p>
100 <p>Fixed several bugs and issues reported in the
101 <a href="http://bts.grml.org/grml/">bug tracking system</a>.</p>
103 <h3>Packages / Software</h3>
105 <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions on Grml are
106 available at the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit
108 <a href="/files/release-2011.05/dpkg_get_selections">dpkg_get_selections</a>
109 for a main package listing and
111 <a href="/files/release-2011.05/dpkg_list">dpkg_list</a> for a
112 detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2011.05.</p>
116 <p>Updated all packages to Debian Unstable branch by 15th of May
117 2011 (plus some further selected updates).</p>
119 <p>Removed 80 packages (excluding lib* and *2.6.36-grml*) - please
120 notice that some of them are available under
121 different names/in different packages:</p>
126 3270-common asn1c backuppc c3270 cdda2wav cedet-common
127 cfengine2 console-terminus cpp-4.4 csstidy ctrlproxy
128 detachtty dired doxygen eieio ekeyd g++-4.4 gcc-4.2-base
129 gcc-4.4 glipper-nognome hal hal-info iamerican ispell
130 libafterimage0 libaudio-scrobbler-perl log2mail lua5.1
131 modconf mp3c muscletools nilfs2-tools noshell opie-client
132 orpheus perl-suid portmap postfix-ldap pperl prismstumbler
133 python-openssl pytris qprof rc s3switch samba-common-bin
134 sbm spell spellutils spicctrl tasksel tasksel-data tetradraw
135 tiny tn5250 unrar-free user-setup viewglob weechat
136 weechat-core weechat-curses weechat-plugins weechat-scripts
137 xcardii xfaces xmms2 xmms2-client-cli xmss2-core xmms2-icon
138 xmms2-plugin-alsa xmms2-plugin-id3v2 xmms2-plugin-jack
139 xmms2-plugin-mad xmms2-plugin-vorbis xserver-xorg-input-wacom
140 xserver-xorg-video-geode xserver-xorg-video-nv
141 xtables-addons-common yatm zec
144 <p>Added 27 new packages (exluding lib* and *2.6.38-grml*):</p>
147 clipit console-setup-linux cpp-4.6 etherboot-qemu
148 firmware-realtek g++-4.6 gcc-4.6 gcc-4.6-base gir1.2-glib-2.0
149 git-man grml-feedback grml-scripts-core gs-cjk-resource
150 nginx-common nginx-full nvidia-common openafs-client
151 qemu-keymaps qemu-utils ratpoison rdfind rpcbind rs
152 ruby-ncurses seabios snmp v4l-utils
155 <h3>Major news since release 2010.12</h3>
159 <li>Grml development blog <a href="http://blog.grml.org/archives/350-A-new-home.html">moved to a new home</a> - now available at <a href="http://blog.grml.org/">blog.grml.org</a>.</li>
162 <a href="http://grml.org/survey2011-results/">Results of the Grml user survey</a> have been published.
166 German magazine <a href="http://www.heise.de/ct/meldung/c-t-extra-Netzwerke-ab-sofort-bestellbar-1200214.html">c't extra Netzwerke 01/2011</a> featured a special edition of Grml 2010.12.
170 German <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/Heft-Abo/Ausgaben/2011/03">Linux Magazine 03/11</a> featured Grml 2010.12 on DVD (DELUG version).
175 <h3>Known issues</h3>
179 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=release_candidate">the release
180 candidate webpage in the grml-wiki</a>. Please report problems using
181 information on <a href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>.</p>
185 href="/bugs/known/">the known bugs list</a>.
186 Please report problems using information on <a
187 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>.</p>
189 <h3>Download Grml 2011.05</h3>
192 <p>Grml 2011.05 can be downloaded from
193 <a href="http://grml.org/download/prerelease/">grml.org/download/prerelease/</a>.</p>
196 <p>Grml 2011.05 can be downloaded from <a href="/download/">grml.org/download/</a>.</p>
200 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help
201 fixing bugs and improving future releases. If you find a problem with
202 the release please check <a
203 href="/bugs/known/">the known bugs list</a> and report problems using information on <a
204 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>. Please send your feedback and
205 feature requests <a href="/contact/">to the Grml team</a>!</p>
208 <li><a href="/contact/">grml.org/contact/</a>
209 <li><a href="/irc/">#grml on irc.freenode.org</a>
212 <a name="thanks"></a>
215 <p>The Grml team specially wants to thank <strong>Marianne</strong>, you know who you are!</p>
217 <p>Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically)
242 for their contributions.</p>
244 <p>We also would like to thank everyone who filled out the <a href="http://grml.org/survey2011-results/">Grml user survey 2011</a>.</p>
247 <h3>Release of the stable version</h3>
249 <p>The stable release of Grml 2011.05 is scheduled for end of May
253 <h3>More Information</h3>
255 <p>You can find out more about grml on <a href="/">our website</a>, <a
256 href="/irc/">IRC channel</a>, and <a
257 href="http://wiki.grml.org/">wiki</a>.
259 <p>To sign up for future Grml announcements, please subscribe to <a
260 href="http://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml-announce">Grml's
261 announcement list</a>.</p>
263 <p>If you are interested in development releases grab the daily ISOs
264 from <a href="http://daily.grml.org/">daily.grml.org</a>.</p>
266 <h3>Further Questions?</h3>
268 <p>Please feel free to <a href="http://grml.org/contact/">contact us.</a></p>
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