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30 <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2011.12 - codename <a
31 href="/faq/#releasename">Knecht Rootrecht</a></h1>
33 <p><a href="http://grml.org/download/">Download Now</a></p>
37 <p>This release brings a downsizing and cleanup: one flavour, two architectures.
38 The new, smaller flavour has a 350MB ISO size target, while still
39 delivering over 1.1GB of open source software relevant for system
46 <li>EFI Boot support from CD-ROM and USB keys (amd64 only)</li>
47 <li>mDNS support (try <tt>ping grml.local</tt> with libnss-mdns and avahi-daemon
48 or similar enabled on your host)</li>
49 <li>NFS Client support and d-bus start automatically</li>
50 <li><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a>, the tool of choice to install Debian,
51 can now directly build virtual machine images.</li>
52 <li><a href="/grml-live/">grml-live</a>, our build tool, was enhanced with new features to
53 better integrate with <a href="http://jenkins-ci.org/">Jenkins</a>.
54 This release, as well as the current <a href="/daily/">daily images</a>
55 are built from within Jenkins!</li>
58 <h3>Important Changes</h3>
61 <li>The live-media-path=... bootoption is mandatory now. If you're
62 booting Grml via PXE or from harddisk (e.g. using findiso) please make
63 sure to add live-media-path=/live/$FLAVOUR to the kernel commandline.
64 Further details are available at the <a
65 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=terminalserver">terminalserver
67 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=rescueboot">rescueboot page</a>
68 in the Grml-Wiki</a>.</li>
69 <li>Z-Shell configuration has been cleaned up. Quite a few functions
70 <a href="http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-etc-core.git;a=history;f=etc/zsh/zshrc">have been removed</a>
71 from the default configuration.</li>
72 <li>X11 environment has been downsized as well. The window manager is
73 now fluxbox. idesk has been removed, all available software is now
74 reachable from the fluxbox menu.</li>
75 <li>The accessibility support now consists of shipping standard speakup
76 and enabling sound during boot. A new beep sequence (4 tones) is sounded
77 just before the quickconfig menu starts. The isolinux menu will beep once,
78 and the grub menu will beep three times. (The accessibility boot options
79 have been removed.)</li>
80 <li>iSCSI Target is now provided by <a href="http://linux-iscsi.org/index.php/LIO-Target">LIO</a>.
81 The configuration tool <tt>targetcli</tt> is included.</li>
82 <li>xterm now uses the Terminus font, like the VT consoles.</li>
83 <li>Virtual Machines automatically get the "noprompt" behaviour.</li>
84 <li>Ancient config files and examples have been removed from grml-etc(-core).</li>
85 <li>Ancient scripts have been removed from grml-scripts(-core).</li>
87 <li>Anonymous stats are collected during boot up. This includes: Grml release name,
88 boot media type (local or remote), a random string, used boot option keys
89 (no values) and if your CPU is 64bit-capable. You can turn this off with the
90 <b>nostats</b> boot option.</li>
93 <h3>Bits & bolts</h3>
96 <li>Modem support has been removed from grml-network</li>
97 <li>VT consoles are driven by grml-runtty, our homegrown login and getty
98 replacement for Live CDs.</li>
99 <li>Netboot scenarios should no longer use the "nodhcp" boot option.</li>
100 <li>grml2hd is no longer in PATH to discourage its use even further.
101 The related boot options have been removed.</li>
102 <li>grml2usb: compat for releases < 2009.05, grub1 and lilo support
103 have been removed.</li>
104 <li>Release builds are now built from Debian's testing distribution, instead of unstable.</li>
105 <li>Linux kernel is based on <b>3.1.6</b>. No additional modules are shipped.</li>
106 <li>Fixed several bugs from the <a href="http://bts.grml.org/grml/">bug tracking system</a>.</li>
112 <li><a href="/files/grml32_2011.12/dpkg.list">32-bit package list</a></li>
113 <li><a href="/files/grml64_2011.12/dpkg.list">64-bit package list</a></li>
118 <p>Packages are taken from Debian testing, 23rd of December 2011. More
119 than 1700 packages have been removed, and these new packages have been
120 added (plus dependencies):</p>
123 afflib-tools atftp bacula-sd boot-info-script efibootmgr
124 extundelete grub-efi-amd64-bin hsetroot ia32-libs imvirt
125 ipxe libnss-myhostname lio-utils mcollective mtx
126 multiarch-support netcat-openbsd python2.7 sipcalc targetcli
129 <p>These Grml packages have been removed/replaced:</p>
132 grml-debugtools grml-docs grml-files grml-files64
133 grml-firefox grml-laptop grml-pylib grml-rebuildfstab
134 grml-rescueboot grml-sectools grml-templates grml-usleep
138 <h3>Known issues</h3>
140 <p>None at the time of the release!</p>
143 href="/bugs/known/">the known bugs list</a>.
144 Please report problems using information on <a
145 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>.</p>
147 <h3>Download Grml 2011.12</h3>
149 <p>Grml 2011.12 can be downloaded from
150 <a href="http://grml.org/download/">grml.org/download/</a>.</p>
154 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help
155 fixing bugs and improving future releases. If you find a problem with
156 the release please check <a
157 href="/bugs/known/">the known bugs list</a> and report problems using information on <a
158 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>. Please send your feedback and
159 feature requests <a href="/contact/">to the Grml team</a>!</p>
161 <a name="thanks"></a>
164 <p>Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically)
182 for their ideas and patches - as well as to our new <a href="/team/">contributors</a>.</p>
184 <h3>More Information</h3>
186 <p>You can find out more about Grml on <a href="/">our website</a>, <a
187 href="/contact/#irc">IRC channel</a>, and <a
188 href="http://wiki.grml.org/">wiki</a>.
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