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30 <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2011.12-rc1 - codename <a
31 href="/faq/#releasename">Knecht Rootrecht</a></h1>
33 <p><a href="http://grml.org/download/prerelease/">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>Z-Shell configuration has been cleaned up. Quite a few functions
62 <a href="http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-etc-core.git;a=history;f=etc/zsh/zshrc">have been removed</a>
63 from the default configuration.</li>
64 <li>X11 environment has been downsized as well. The window manager is
65 now fluxbox. idesk has been removed, all available software is now
66 reachable from the fluxbox menu.</li>
67 <li>The accessibility support now consists of shipping standard speakup
68 and enabling sound during boot. A new beep sequence (4 tones) is sounded
69 just before the quickconfig menu starts. (The boot options have been
71 <li>xterm now uses the Terminus font, like the VT consoles.</li>
72 <li>Virtual Machines automatically get the "noprompt" behaviour.</li>
73 <li>Ancient config files and examples have been removed from grml-etc(-core).</li>
74 <li>Ancient scripts have been removed from grml-scripts(-core).</li>
76 <li>Anonymous stats are collected during boot up. This includes: Grml release name,
77 boot media type (local or remote), a random string, used boot option keys
78 (no values) and if your CPU is 64bit-capable. You can turn this off with the
79 <b>nostats</b> boot option.</li>
82 <h3>Bits & bolts</h3>
85 <li>Modem support has been removed from grml-network</li>
86 <li>VT consoles are driven by grml-runtty, our homegrown login and getty
87 replacement for Live CDs.</li>
88 <li>Netboot scenarios should no longer use the "nodhcp" boot option.</li>
89 <li>grml2hd is no longer in PATH to discourage its use even further.
90 The related boot options have been removed.</li>
91 <li>grml2usb: compat for releases < 2009.05, grub1 and lilo support
92 have been removed.</li>
93 <li>Release builds are now built from Debian's testing distribution, instead of unstable.</li>
94 <li>Linux kernel is based on <b>3.1.4</b>. No additional modules are shipped.</li>
95 <li>Fixed several bugs from the <a href="http://bts.grml.org/grml/">bug tracking system</a>.</li>
100 <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions on Grml are
101 available at the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit
103 <a href="/files/release-2011.12-rc1/dpkg_get_selections">dpkg_get_selections</a>
104 for a main package listing and
106 <a href="/files/release-2011.12-rc1/dpkg_list">dpkg_list</a> for a
107 detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2011.12-rc1.</p>
111 <p>Packages are taken from Debian testing, 11th of December
112 2011. 1745 packages have been removed, and these new packages
113 have been added (plus dependencies):</p>
115 afflib-tools aoetool atftp bacula-sd efibootmgr
116 grub-efi-amd64-bin ia32-libs imvirt ipxe mcollective
117 mtx multiarch-support netcat-openbsd python2.7 sipcalc
121 <p>These Grml packages have been removed/replaced:</p>
124 grml-debugtools grml-docs grml-files grml-files64
125 grml-firefox grml-laptop grml-pylib grml-rebuildfstab
126 grml-rescueboot grml-sectools grml-templates grml-usleep
130 <h3>Known issues</h3>
132 <p><b>iSCSI Target</b> support is currently in limbo, as
133 the user land tools for the new in-kernel iSCSI target are not yet
134 in Debian unstable/testing and shipping the old iscsitarget modules
135 in binary form appears to be almost impossible with the new DKMS packaging.
136 As a workaround you may consider using Ata Over Ethernet with vblade.
139 <p><b>dns bootoption</b> does not work as expected. See <a
140 href="http://bts.grml.org/grml/issue1099">issue1099</a> for details.</p>
144 href="/bugs/known/">the known bugs list</a>.
145 Please report problems using information on <a
146 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>.</p>
149 <h3>Download Grml 2011.12-rc1</h3>
151 <p>Grml 2011.12-rc1 can be downloaded from
152 <a href="http://grml.org/download/prerelease/">grml.org/download/prerelease/</a>.</p>
155 <p>Grml 2011.12-rc1 can be downloaded from <a href="/download/">grml.org/download/</a>.</p>
160 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help
161 fixing bugs and improving future releases. If you find a problem with
162 the release please check <a
163 href="/bugs/known/">the known bugs list</a> and report problems using information on <a
164 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>. Please send your feedback and
165 feature requests <a href="/contact/">to the Grml team</a>!</p>
168 <a name="thanks"></a>
171 <p>Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically)
173 for their contributions.</p>
176 <h3>More Information</h3>
178 <p>You can find out more about Grml on <a href="/">our website</a>, <a
179 href="/contact/#irc">IRC channel</a>, and <a
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