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27 <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2013.09-rc1 - codename <a
28 href="/faq/#releasename">Hefeknuddler</a></h1>
30 <p><a href="http://grml.org/download/prerelease/">Download Now</a></p>
34 <p>This Grml release provides fresh software packages after the Debian
35 stable release (AKA wheezy) has been released. As usual it also
36 incorporates up2date hardware support and fixes known bugs from the
37 previous Grml release.</p>
43 <li>new boot option <em>encpasswd</em>: takes a hashed password as
44 argument, setting password of users root and grml to the specified
47 <li><em>grml-hwinfo</em> supports iproute's ip tool, sg_inq from
48 sg3-utils and lscpu, lsblk, dmsetup ls --tree
50 <li>grml-lang includes <em>french keymap</em> support
54 <h3>Important Changes</h3>
58 <li><em>UTC</em> is used as default time zone, to use a different
59 setting you can use the <em>tz</em> boot option (usage example:
62 <li>To match the behaviour with the <em>ssh</em> boot option the
63 <em>passwd</em> boot option now also sets the password for user root -
64 and not only for user 'grml'.
66 <li>grml-autoconfig (and its GRMLCFG feature) doesn't support
67 <em>floppy</em> disks any longer
69 <li>zshrc: <em>new prompt handling</em>, see <a
70 href="http://blog.grml.org/archives/381-grml-zshrc-new-prompt-feature.html">Grml
71 blog for more details</a>
73 <li>zshrc: to enable <em>power completion</em> / abbreviation
74 expansion use "ctrl-x ." instead of ",." (see <a
75 href="http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-etc-core.git;a=blob;f=debian/NEWS;h=7c72c464a1b9c3de23b08670aac868b48bd76ec8;hb=HEAD">debian/NEWS
78 <li>Grml does not ship <em>clamav anti-virus definitions</em> any
79 longer due to space reasons (adding ~70MB to the ISO size). If you
80 want to get up2date anti-virus definitions please manually invoke the
85 <h3>Bits & bolts</h3>
88 <li>Linux kernel is based on <b>3.10.10</b>.</li>
89 <li>Fixed several bugs from the <a href="http://bts.grml.org/grml/">bug tracking system</a>.</li>
94 <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions on Grml are
95 available at the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit
96 <a href="/files/grml64-full_2013.09/dpkg.list">dpkg_list</a> for a
97 detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2013.09(-rc1).</p>
101 <p>Packages are taken from Debian testing, 10th of September
102 2013. 5 packages have been removed, and these 32 new packages
103 have been added (plus dependencies, excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
106 ash augeas-lenses clonezilla dconf-gsettings-backend
107 dconf-service debugedit dh-python drbl fonts-dejavu-core
108 gcc-4.8-base info init-system-helpers iproute2 nwipe puppet
109 puppet-common python3 python3-minimal python3.3
110 python3.3-minimal ruby-augeas ruby-safe-yaml ruby-shadow
111 tasksel tasksel-data wakeonlan xdg-utils xpdf
112 xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse
113 xulrunner-17.0 zsh-common
116 <p>These Grml packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
119 epdfview febootstrap makedev python-gnupginterface xulrunner-10.0
122 <h3>Known issues</h3>
126 <li><a href="http://bts.grml.org/grml/issue1274">Issue1274</a>:
127 grml-terminalserver fails to set up NFS version 3, resulting in
128 unbootable PXE clients [fixed for stable release]
132 <h3>Download Grml 2013.09-rc1</h3>
134 <p>Grml 2013.09-rc1 can be downloaded from
135 <a href="http://grml.org/download/prerelease/">grml.org/download/prerelease/</a>.</p>
139 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help
140 fixing bugs and improving future releases. If you find a problem with
141 the release please check <a
142 href="/bugs/known/">the known bugs list</a> and report problems using information on <a
143 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>. Please send your feedback and
144 feature requests <a href="/contact/">to the Grml team</a>!</p>
146 <a name="thanks"></a>
149 <p>Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically)
154 Christian Hofstaedtler,
168 for their contributions.</p>
170 <h3>More Information</h3>
172 <p>You can find out more about Grml on <a href="/">our website</a>, <a
173 href="/contact/#irc">IRC channel</a>, and <a
174 href="http://wiki.grml.org/">wiki</a>.
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