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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 up to date 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 For the reasons <em>why</em> we actually switched to systemd please visit the <a href="/faq/#systemd">FAQ</a>.
44 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.
45 Please <a href="/bugs/">let us know</a> if you should stumble upon any such issues.</li>
47 <li>New Grml repository signing key: 4096R/21E0CA38EA2EA4AB.
48 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.
49 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>
55 <p>Highlighting the most relevant changes only:</p>
59 <li><a href="/grml2usb/">grml2usb</a> (tool to install Grml ISOs to USB devices):
62 <li>Support usage of grml2usb on EFI systems</li>
63 <li>New option --skip-usb-check to skip check whether target looks like a USB device</li>
64 <li>New option --rw-blockdev for usage with read-only/forensic like devices</li>
68 <li><a href="/grml-live/">grml-live</a> (build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems):
71 <li>Systemd support, providing backwards compatibility (non-systemd using file-rc) via FILE_RC class</li>
72 <li>Provide wayback machine via "-w <date>" to install Debian packages from specific date</li>
73 <li>Add support for netboot.xyz</li>
74 <li>Add SHA-256 and SHA-512 hashes</li>
75 <li>Generate /etc/issue with Grml release information</li>
76 <li>Switch from aptitude to apt usage for software installation</li>
77 <li>Output to "./grml" in current working directory by default</li>
78 <li>If locales-all package is installed skip locales generation</li>
79 <li>GRMLBASE/21-usersetup: add grml user to vboxsf group</li>
80 <li>New script 94-update-smart-drivedb to update smartmontools' drive database</li>
81 <li>templates: use net.ifnames=0 by default</li>
86 <li>grml-hwinfo (tool to collect hardware information):
89 <li>Support options --force + --quiet for usage with cron</li>
90 <li>Provide `acpi --everything` output in file `acpi.everything`</li>
91 <li>ip: also store table specific route information</li>
96 <li><a href="/zsh/">grml-zshrc</a> (Zsh configuration):
99 <li>Fall back to journalctl with llog + tlog aliases if /var/log/syslog doesn't exist</li>
100 <li>Make some ambiguous aliases optional via GRML_NO_APT_ALIASES + GRML_NO_SMALL_ALIASES</li>
101 <li>Sync zsh-lookup with its upstream repository</li>
102 <li>Add more robustness to completion caching setup</li>
103 <li>Drop 'setopt nonomatch' configuration</li>
104 <li>Rewrite large parts of persistent dirstack handling</li>
105 <li>No longer explicitly set SHELL</li>
106 <li>Add support for `fetch' in simple-extract()</li>
107 <li>Several updates to the bk function, e.g. new option '-ra' to remove all (even hidden) backups</li>
108 <li>Drop j alias (used for 'jobs -l')</li>
113 <li><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a> (wrapper around debootstrap for installing pure Debian):
116 <li>Support Debian stretch and use Debian stretch as the new default release</li>
117 <li>Provide EFI support via --efi <device> option</li>
118 <li>Drop sysfsutils from default software package list</li>
119 <li>Don't generate rootfs entry in /etc/fstab if we don't know its UUID</li>
120 <li>Don't fiddle around with /etc/hosts</li>
121 <li>Honor GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true and don't set root=UUID then</li>
122 <li>Export TARGET_HOSTNAME before running post-scripts</li>
123 <li>Disable '^metadata_csum' feature when creating ext filesystem for jessie and older Debian releases</li>
124 <li>Ensure that grub-pc/install_devices is pointing to the requested device</li>
125 <li>Use parted to create partition table</li>
126 <li>Rename --scripts to --post-scripts for consistency, accordingly disable SCRIPTS by default, replaced by POST_SCRIPTS</li>
127 <li>Provide new option --remove-configs to delete grml-debootstrap configuration files from installed system</li>
128 <li>Ensure that grub-pc is installed in VMs even when using --nopackages</li>
129 <li>Provide hostname to pre-scripts by setting up /etc/hostname</li>
130 <li>Make it more friendly to install on non-Debian distributions</li>
131 <li>Drop contrib + non-free from default COMPONENTS, support --contrib + --non-free cmdline options</li>
132 <li>Install firmware-linux only when non-free is among the COMPONENTS</li>
133 <li>Use full fingerprint instead of short GPG key ids for Grml repository</li>
140 <h3>Bits & bolts</h3>
143 <li>Linux kernel is based on <b>4.9.17</b>.</li>
144 <li>Fixed several bugs from the <a href="https://bts.grml.org/grml/">bug tracking system</a>.</li>
149 <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions in Grml are
150 available in the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit
151 <a href="/files/grml64-full_2017.05/dpkg.list">dpkg_list</a> for a
152 detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2017.05(-rc1).</p>
156 <p>Packages are taken from Debian testing as of 7th of May 2017.
157 63 packages have been removed, and these 64 new packages
158 have been added (excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
161 apt-transport-https bats binwalk btrfs-progs cpp-6
162 distro-info-data espeak-ng-data exif firefox-esr
163 firmware-amd-graphics firmware-cavium firmware-intel-sound
164 firmware-misc-nonfree firmware-ti-connectivity freeipmi-common
165 gcc-6-base gnome-icon-theme gnupg-agent graphicsmagick
166 graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat gtk-update-icon-cache
167 initramfs-tools-core iptraf-ng keyutils linux-cpupower lynx
168 lynx-common nethogs nilfs-tools nvme-cli partclone
169 perl-modules-5.24 perl-openssl-defaults physlock pinentry-curses
170 policykit-1 python3-binwalk python3.5 python3.5-minimal rake
171 ruby-deep-merge ruby-did-you-mean ruby-minitest ruby-net-telnet
172 ruby-nokogiri ruby-pkg-config ruby-power-assert ruby-rgen
173 ruby-test-unit ruby2.3 sg3-utils-udev stress syslinux-utils
174 systemd systemd-container systemd-sysv uml-utilities vim-gtk
175 vim-gui-common wireshark-qt xorriso xserver-xorg-input-libinput
176 xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu xxd
179 <p>These Debian packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
182 alsa-base aufs-tools cpp-4.9 file-rc firmware-ralink
183 gcc-4.8-base gcc-4.9-base genext2fs iceweasel initscripts
184 insserv iptraf manpages mcollective mcollective-common multitail
185 netcat-traditional nfacct perl-modules puppet-common
186 python-configobj python-configshell python-epydoc python-ipaddr
187 python-netifaces python-ntdb python-prettytable python-pyparsing
188 python-rtslib python-simpleparse python-simpleparse-mxtexttools
189 python-six python-support python3.4 python3.4-minimal ruby-hiera
190 ruby-stomp ruby-systemu ruby2.1 samba-dsdb-modules startpar
191 sysvinit sysvinit-core targetcli traceroute vlock
192 xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-mouse
193 xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse
194 xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-intel
195 xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-mga
196 xserver-xorg-video-modesetting xserver-xorg-video-neomagic
197 xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-r128
198 xserver-xorg-video-savage xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion
199 xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx
200 xserver-xorg-video-trident
203 <h3>Known issues</h3>
205 <p>Please visit the <a href="/bugs/known/">known bugs</a> web page.</p>
207 <h3>Download Grml 2017.05-rc1</h3>
209 <p>Grml 2017.05-rc1 can be downloaded from
210 <a href="/grml.org/download/prerelease/">grml.org/download/prerelease/</a>.</p>
214 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help
215 fixing bugs and improving future releases. If you find a problem with
216 the release please check <a
217 href="/bugs/known/">the known bugs list</a> and report problems using information on <a
218 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>. Please send your feedback and
219 feature requests <a href="/contact/">to the Grml team</a>!</p>
221 <a name="thanks"></a>
224 <p>Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically)
226 Andreas "Jimmy" Gredler,
236 Christian Hofstaedtler,
250 Nicolas Braud-Santoni,
262 for their contributions.</p>
264 <h3>More Information</h3>
266 <p>You can find out more about Grml on <a href="/">our website</a>, <a
267 href="/contact/#irc">IRC channel</a>, and <a
268 href="https://wiki.grml.org/">wiki</a>.
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271 href="http://ml.grml.org/mailman/listinfo/grml-announce">Grml's
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