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27 <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2017.05-rc1 - codename <a href="/faq/#releasename">Freedatensuppe</a></h1>
29 <p><a href="/download/prerelease/">Download Now</a></p>
33 <p>Grml is a Debian based live system focusing on the needs of system administrators.
34 This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian testing (AKA stretch) and is the first Grml release using systemd as its init system.
35 As usual it also incorporates up2date hardware support and fixes known bugs from the previous Grml release.</p>
37 <h3>Important Changes</h3>
41 <li>Switch from file-rc to systemd as init system.
42 grml-live (the build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems) still supports non-systemd systems using file-rc, though we don't plan to maintain this in the long run.
43 Due to the change to systemd some boot options in the current release might not work as before and some further issues might have been unnoticed yet.
44 Please <a href="/bugs/">let us know</a> if you should stumble upon any such issues.</li>
46 <li>New Grml repository signing key: 4096R/21E0CA38EA2EA4AB.
47 If you're using the Grml repositories (<a href="https://deb.grml.org/">deb.grml.org</a> please make sure to use a current version of the grml-debian-keyring package.
48 The GPG key is also available via <a href="https://deb.grml.org/repo-key.gpg">https://deb.grml.org/repo-key.gpg</a>.</li>
50 <li>Switched from vlock to physlock for console/desktop locking</li>
56 <p>Highlighting the most relevant changes only:</p>
60 <li><a href="/grml2usb/">grml2usb</a> (tool to install Grml ISOs to USB devices):
63 <li>Support usage of grml2usb on EFI systems</li>
64 <li>New option --skip-usb-check to skip check whether target looks like a USB device</li>
65 <li>New option --rw-blockdev for usage with read-only/forensic like devices</li>
69 <li><a href="/grml-live/">grml-live</a> (build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems):
72 <li>Systemd support, providing backwards compatibility (non-systemd using file-rc) via FILE_RC class</li>
73 <li>Provide wayback machine via "-w <date>" to install Debian packages from specific date</li>
74 <li>Add support for netboot.xyz</li>
75 <li>Add SHA-256 and SHA-512 hashes</li>
76 <li>Generate /etc/issue with Grml release information</li>
77 <li>Switch from aptitude to apt usage for software installation</li>
78 <li>Output to "./grml" in current working directory by default</li>
79 <li>If locales-all package is installed skip locales generation</li>
80 <li>GRMLBASE/21-usersetup: add grml user to vboxsf group</li>
81 <li>New script 94-update-smart-drivedb to update smartmontools' drive database</li>
82 <li>templates: use net.ifnames=0 by default</li>
87 <li>grml-hwinfo (tool to collect hardware information):
90 <li>Support options --force + --quiet for usage with cron</li>
91 <li>Provide `acpi --everything` output in file `acpi.everything`</li>
92 <li>ip: also store table specific route information</li>
97 <li><a href="/zsh/">grml-zshrc</a>:
100 <li>Fall back to journalctl with llog + tlog aliases if /var/log/syslog doesn't exist</li>
101 <li>Make some ambiguous aliases optional via GRML_NO_APT_ALIASES + GRML_NO_SMALL_ALIASES</li>
102 <li>Sync zsh-lookup with its upstream repository</li>
103 <li>Add more robustness to completion caching setup</li>
104 <li>Drop 'setopt nonomatch' configuration</li>
105 <li>Rewrite large parts of persistent dirstack handling</li>
106 <li>No longer explicitly set SHELL</li>
107 <li>Add support for `fetch' in simple-extract()</li>
108 <li>Several updates to the bk function, incl. option '-ra' to removal all (even hidden) backups</li>
109 <li>Drop j alias (used for 'jobs -l')</li>
114 <li><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a>:
117 <li>Support Debian stretch and use Debian stretch as the new default release</li>
118 <li>Provide EFI support via --efi <device> option</li>
119 <li>Drop sysfsutils from default software package list</li>
120 <li>Don't generate rootfs entry in /etc/fstab if we don't know its UUID</li>
121 <li>Don't fiddle around with /etc/hosts</li>
122 <li>Honor GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true and don't set root=UUID then</li>
123 <li>Export TARGET_HOSTNAME before running post-scripts</li>
124 <li>Disable '^metadata_csum' feature when creating ext filesystem for jessie and older Debian releases</li>
125 <li>Ensure that grub-pc/install_devices is pointing to the requested device</li>
126 <li>Use parted to create partition table</li>
127 <li>Rename --scripts to --post-scripts for consistency, accordingly disable SCRIPTS by default, replaced by POST_SCRIPTS</li>
128 <li>Provide new option --remove-configs to delete grml-debootstrap configuration files from installed system</li>
129 <li>Ensure that grub-pc is installed in VMs even when using --nopackages</li>
130 <li>Provide hostname to pre-scripts by setting up /etc/hostname</li>
131 <li>Make it more friendly to install on non-Debian distributions</li>
132 <li>Drop contrib + non-free from default COMPONENTS, support --contrib + -non-free cmdline options</li>
133 <li>Install firmware-linux only when non-free is among the COMPONENTS</li>
134 <li>Use full fingerprint instead of short GPG key ids for Grml repository</li>
141 <h3>Bits & bolts</h3>
144 <li>Linux kernel is based on <b>4.9.17</b>.</li>
145 <li>Fixed several bugs from the <a href="https://bts.grml.org/grml/">bug tracking system</a>.</li>
150 <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions on Grml are
151 available in the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit
152 <a href="/files/grml64-full_2017.05/dpkg.list">dpkg_list</a> for a
153 detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2017.05(-rc1).</p>
157 <p>Packages are taken from Debian testing as of 5th of May 2017.
158 63 packages have been removed, and these 64 new packages
159 have been added (excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
162 apt-transport-https bats binwalk btrfs-progs cpp-6
163 distro-info-data espeak-ng-data exif firefox-esr
164 firmware-amd-graphics firmware-cavium firmware-intel-sound
165 firmware-misc-nonfree firmware-ti-connectivity freeipmi-common
166 gcc-6-base gnome-icon-theme gnupg-agent graphicsmagick
167 graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat gtk-update-icon-cache
168 initramfs-tools-core iptraf-ng keyutils linux-cpupower lynx
169 lynx-common nethogs nilfs-tools nvme-cli partclone
170 perl-modules-5.24 perl-openssl-defaults physlock pinentry-curses
171 policykit-1 python3-binwalk python3.5 python3.5-minimal rake
172 ruby-deep-merge ruby-did-you-mean ruby-minitest ruby-net-telnet
173 ruby-nokogiri ruby-pkg-config ruby-power-assert ruby-rgen
174 ruby-test-unit ruby2.3 sg3-utils-udev stress syslinux-utils
175 systemd systemd-container systemd-sysv uml-utilities vim-gtk
176 vim-gui-common wireshark-qt xorriso xserver-xorg-input-libinput
177 xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu xxd
180 <p>These Debian packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
183 alsa-base aufs-tools cpp-4.9 file-rc firmware-ralink
184 gcc-4.8-base gcc-4.9-base genext2fs iceweasel initscripts
185 insserv iptraf manpages mcollective mcollective-common multitail
186 netcat-traditional nfacct perl-modules puppet-common
187 python-configobj python-configshell python-epydoc python-ipaddr
188 python-netifaces python-ntdb python-prettytable python-pyparsing
189 python-rtslib python-simpleparse python-simpleparse-mxtexttools
190 python-six python-support python3.4 python3.4-minimal ruby-hiera
191 ruby-stomp ruby-systemu ruby2.1 samba-dsdb-modules startpar
192 sysvinit sysvinit-core targetcli traceroute vlock
193 xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-mouse
194 xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse
195 xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-intel
196 xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-mga
197 xserver-xorg-video-modesetting xserver-xorg-video-neomagic
198 xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-r128
199 xserver-xorg-video-savage xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion
200 xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx
201 xserver-xorg-video-trident
204 <h3>Known issues</h3>
206 <p>Please visit the <a href="/bugs/known/">known bugs</a> web page.</p>
208 <h3>Download Grml 2017.05-rc1</h3>
210 <p>Grml 2017.05-rc1 can be downloaded from
211 <a href="/grml.org/download/prerelease/">grml.org/download/prerelease/</a>.</p>
215 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help
216 fixing bugs and improving future releases. If you find a problem with
217 the release please check <a
218 href="/bugs/known/">the known bugs list</a> and report problems using information on <a
219 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>. Please send your feedback and
220 feature requests <a href="/contact/">to the Grml team</a>!</p>
222 <a name="thanks"></a>
225 <p>Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically)
227 Andreas "Jimmy" Gredler,
237 Christian Hofstaedtler,
252 Nicolas Braud-Santoni,
263 for their contributions.</p>
265 <h3>More Information</h3>
267 <p>You can find out more about Grml on <a href="/">our website</a>, <a
268 href="/contact/#irc">IRC channel</a>, and <a
269 href="https://wiki.grml.org/">wiki</a>.
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