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27 <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2013.02-rc1 - codename <a
28 href="/faq/#releasename">Grumpy Grinch</a></h1>
30 <p><a href="http://grml.org/download/prerelease/">Download Now</a></p>
34 <p>This release brings the Grml tools towards the upcoming Debian stable
35 release (AKA wheezy), provides up2date hardware support and fixes known
36 bugs from the previous Grml release.</p>
42 <li>ssh boot option: display SSH server key fingerprints
44 <li>grml-hwinfo: added support for lsscsi, iscsiadm,
45 proxmox/libvirt/openvz/vserver information retrieval, swapon, mdadm,
46 LVM + dmsetup, now using 'lspci -nn' for lspci output
48 <li>grml-live: handling firmware related packages in GRMLBASE, added
49 uuid-runtime to GRMLBASE
51 <li>grml-network: netcardconfig provides support to scan for available
54 <li>grml-udev-config: Do not set mount options for NTFS partitions to
57 <li>grml2usb: verify that the bootflag is enabled
59 <li>grml2iso: ISOs are dd-able by default
65 <li>Use http.debian.net as default mirror
66 <li>Set wheezy as the new default release
67 <li>Add acpi-support-base + firmware-linux-free to default package selection
73 <h3>Important Changes</h3>
77 <li>Debian's live-boot changed the path from /live/image to
78 /lib/live/mount/medium. If you're using /live/image anywhere inside
79 your own custom scripts please adopt your code to use /lib/live/mount/medium
80 starting with Grml 2013.02-rc1.
82 <li>Debian's live-boot changed some persistency related settings.
83 Please visit <a href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=persistency">
84 the persistency page in the Grml wiki</a> for further details.
88 <h3>Bits & bolts</h3>
91 <li>Linux kernel is based on <b>3.7.6</b>. No additional modules are shipped.</li>
92 <li>Fixed several bugs from the <a href="http://bts.grml.org/grml/">bug tracking system</a>.</li>
97 <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions on Grml are
98 available at the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit
99 <a href="/files/release-2013.02-rc1/dpkg_list">dpkg_list</a> for a
100 detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2013.02-rc1.</p>
104 <p>Packages are taken from Debian testing, 11th of February
105 2013. 12 packages have been removed, and these 21 new packages
106 have been added (plus dependencies, excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
109 aptitude-common atmel-firmware bluez-firmware cpp-4.7 cryptsetup-bin epdfview
110 firmware-atheros firmware-bnx2 firmware-bnx2x firmware-intelwimax
111 firmware-libertas firmware-linux ifenslave-2.6 insserv libertas-firmware
112 netsniff-ng ruby1.9.1 ssmping uuid-runtime virt-what zd1211-firmware
115 <p>These Grml packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
118 arrayprobe consolekit cpp-4.6 fuse-utils gcc-4.5-base gcc-4.6-base
119 grub info linux-sound-base smbfs tasksel tasksel-data
122 <h3>Known issues</h3>
126 <li>grml2hd isn't shipped
128 <li>grml-live-remaster doesn't work out-of-the-box because neither
129 mkisofs nor genisoimage are available
133 <h3>Download Grml 2013.02-rc1</h3>
135 <p>Grml 2013.02-rc1 can be downloaded from
136 <a href="http://grml.org/download/prerelease/">grml.org/download/prerelease/</a>.</p>
140 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help
141 fixing bugs and improving future releases. If you find a problem with
142 the release please check <a
143 href="/bugs/known/">the known bugs list</a> and report problems using information on <a
144 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>. Please send your feedback and
145 feature requests <a href="/contact/">to the Grml team</a>!</p>
147 <a name="thanks"></a>
150 <p>Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically)
156 Christian Hofstaedtler,
168 Raoul Raminder Andreas,
171 for their contributions.</p>
173 <h3>More Information</h3>
175 <p>You can find out more about Grml on <a href="/">our website</a>, <a
176 href="/contact/#irc">IRC channel</a>, and <a
177 href="http://wiki.grml.org/">wiki</a>.
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