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30 <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2014.03 - codename <a
31 href="/faq/#releasename">Ponywagon</a></h1>
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37 <p>This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian
38 testing (AKA jessie). As usual it also incorporates up2date hardware
39 support and fixes known bugs from the previous Grml release.</p>
45 <li>new boot option <em>vlan</em>: this provides
46 support for e.g. using something like
47 'ip=10.10.10.42::10.10.10.1:255.255.255.0:grml:eth0:off
48 vlan=301:eth0' to use VID 301 for device eth0 (development sponsored
49 by <a href="http://www.sipwise.com/">Sipwise
55 <li>Support FIXED_DISK_IDENTIFIERS option, useful for reproducible builds</li>
56 <li>install bridge-utils, cryptsetup, ifenslave and vlan packages by default</li>
57 <li>Support overriding configuration via environment variables</li>
64 <h3>Important Changes</h3>
68 <li>forensic mode: the <em>readonly</em> boot option
69 was renamed to <em>read-only</em> (caused by change in
70 upstream's live-boot)</li>
74 <h3>Bits & bolts</h3>
77 <li>Linux kernel is based on <b>3.13.6</b>.</li>
78 <li>Fixed several bugs from the <a href="http://bts.grml.org/grml/">bug tracking system</a>.</li>
83 <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions on Grml are
84 available in the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit
85 <a href="/files/grml64-full_2014.03/dpkg.list">dpkg_list</a> for a
86 detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2014.03).</p>
90 <p>Packages are taken from Debian testing, 30th of March
91 2014. 18 packages have been removed, and these 22 new packages
92 have been added (plus dependencies, excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
95 dump ifenslave nocache openssh-sftp-server python-crypto
96 python-dnspython python-ldb python-lockfile python-ntdb
97 python-samba python-talloc python-tdb qemu-system-common
98 qemu-system-x86 samba-common-bin samba-dsdb-modules
99 samba-libs sysvinit-core tcplay tdb-tools
100 xserver-xorg-video-modesetting xulrunner-24.0
103 <p>These Debian packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
106 ifenslave-2.6 recover ruby1.8 rubygems ttf-dejavu-core ufsutils
107 vgabios xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark
108 xserver-xorg-video-chips xserver-xorg-video-i128
109 xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3
110 xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-sis
111 xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-voodoo
115 <h3>Known issues</h3>
117 <p>Please visit <a href="/bugs/known/">the known bugs webpage</a>.</p>
119 <h3>Download Grml 2014.03</h3>
121 <p>Grml 2014.03 can be downloaded from
122 <a href="http://grml.org/download/">grml.org/download/</a>.</p>
126 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help
127 fixing bugs and improving future releases. If you find a problem with
128 the release please check <a
129 href="/bugs/known/">the known bugs list</a> and report problems using information on <a
130 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>. Please send your feedback and
131 feature requests <a href="/contact/">to the Grml team</a>!</p>
133 <a name="thanks"></a>
136 <p>Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically)
141 Christian Hofstaedtler,
149 for their contributions.</p>
151 <h3>More Information</h3>
153 <p>You can find out more about Grml on <a href="/">our website</a>, <a
154 href="/contact/#irc">IRC channel</a>, and <a
155 href="http://wiki.grml.org/">wiki</a>.
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