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27 <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2014.03-rc1 - codename <a
28 href="/faq/#releasename">Ponywagon</a></h1>
30 <p><a href="http://grml.org/download/prerelease/">Download Now</a></p>
34 <p>This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian
35 testing (AKA jessie). As usual it also incorporates up2date hardware
36 support and fixes known bugs from the previous Grml release.</p>
42 <li>new boot option <em>vlan</em>: this provides
43 support for e.g. using something like
44 'ip=10.10.10.42::10.10.10.1:255.255.255.0:grml:eth0:off
45 vlan=301:eth0' to use VID 301 for device eth0 (development sponsored
46 by <a href="http://www.sipwise.com/">Sipwise
49 <li>grml-debootstrap:</li>
52 <li>Support FIXED_DISK_IDENTIFIERS option, useful for reproducible builds</li>
53 <li>install bridge-utils, cryptsetup, ifenslave and vlan packages by default</li>
54 <li>Support overriding configuration via environment variables</li>
59 <h3>Important Changes</h3>
63 <li>forensic mode: the <em>readonly</em> boot option
64 was renamed to <em>read-only</em> (caused by change in
65 upstream's live-boot)</li>
69 <h3>Bits & bolts</h3>
72 <li>Linux kernel is based on <b>3.13.6</b>.</li>
73 <li>Fixed several bugs from the <a href="http://bts.grml.org/grml/">bug tracking system</a>.</li>
78 <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions on Grml are
79 available at the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit
80 <a href="/files/grml64-full_2014.03/dpkg.list">dpkg_list</a> for a
81 detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2014.03(-rc1).</p>
85 <p>Packages are taken from Debian testing, 22rd of March
86 2014. 18 packages have been removed, and these 22 new packages
87 have been added (plus dependencies, excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
90 dump ifenslave nocache openssh-sftp-server python-crypto
91 python-dnspython python-ldb python-lockfile python-ntdb
92 python-samba python-talloc python-tdb qemu-system-common
93 qemu-system-x86 samba-common-bin samba-dsdb-modules
94 samba-libs sysvinit-core tcplay tdb-tools
95 xserver-xorg-video-modesetting xulrunner-24.0
98 <p>These Debian packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
102 ifenslave-2.6 recover ruby1.8 rubygems ttf-dejavu-core ufsutils
103 vgabios xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark
104 xserver-xorg-video-chips xserver-xorg-video-i128
105 xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3
106 xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-sis
107 xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-voodoo
111 <h3>Known issues</h3>
115 <li>No known issues so far.</li>
119 <h3>Download Grml 2014.03-rc1</h3>
121 <p>Grml 2014.03-rc1 can be downloaded from
122 <a href="http://grml.org/download/prerelease/">grml.org/download/prerelease/</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)
140 Christian Hofstaedtler,
146 for their contributions.</p>
148 <h3>More Information</h3>
150 <p>You can find out more about Grml on <a href="/">our website</a>, <a
151 href="/contact/#irc">IRC channel</a>, and <a
152 href="http://wiki.grml.org/">wiki</a>.
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