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27 <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2018.12 - codename <a href="/faq/#releasename">Gnackwatschn</a></h1>
29 <p><a href="/download/">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 buster).
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>When using the `ssh` boot option Grml automatically starts haveged, an userspace entropy daemon which
42 uses HAVEGE (HArdware Volatile Entropy Gathering and Expansion).
43 If you should notice a slow boot and want to force the startup of the haveged service (independent of usage of ssh boot option)
44 you can start the service via boot option `services=haveged`.
45 See e.g. <a href="https://daniel-lange.com/archives/152-Openssh-taking-minutes-to-become-available,-booting-takes-half-an-hour-...-because-your-server-waits-for-a-few-bytes-of-randomness.html">Openssh
46 taking minutes to become available [...]</a> for further information.
48 <li>The cpufrequtils package with its loadcpufreq handling has been dropped. The cpufreq drivers are autoloaded and the powersave/ondemand driver is mature enough. The linux-cpupower tools provide the binaries as replacement for what cpufrequtils provided so far.
50 <li>If you're using Debian/stretch or newer and use the Grml repository on any of your systems, starting with version grml-debian-keyring (2018.06.02) of the grml-archive-keyring package you can use a
51 /etc/apt/sources.list.d/grml.sources setup like:
56 URIs: http://deb.grml.org/
57 Suites: grml-stable grml-testing
58 Architectures: i386 amd64
60 Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/grml-archive-keyring.gpg
64 or you prefer the common sources.list setup you can use a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/grml.list like:
68 deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/grml-archive-keyring.gpg] https://deb.grml.org/ grml-stable main
69 deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/grml-archive-keyring.gpg] https://deb.grml.org/ grml-testing main
73 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/UseThirdParty">https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/UseThirdParty</a> provides more general documentation about this setup.
79 <p>Highlighting the most relevant changes only:</p>
86 <li>netcardconfig: added support for VLAN configuration + non-interactive mode
87 <li>grml-chroot: mount /dev/pts as devpts inside chroot
88 <li>grml2usb: added support for Secure Boot (if present with ISO only)
94 <li><a href="/grml-live/">grml-live</a> (build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems):
97 <li>Added support for EFI on 32-bit systems and increased EFI image size
98 <li>Switched from isohybrid to xorriso/isohybrid combination
99 <li>Several software additions/changes to GRML_SMALL and GRML_FULL classes
100 <li>Several changes, fixes and workarounds for systemd integration
101 <li>Added support for Debian/buster
102 <li>Dropped support for Debian/wheezy
103 <li>Added Secure Boot support (disabled by default though)
104 <li>Updated defaults and documention to use and assume Debian/stretch by default
105 <li>Replaced /etc/apt/grml.key with /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/grml-archive-keyring.gpg
106 <li>Updated cheatcodes to clarify hardware clock and timezone defaults
107 <li>Enable serial-getty with root autologin on every given device
112 <li>grml-hwinfo (tool to collect hardware information):
115 <li>Provide output of `efibootmgr -v` in file efibootmgr
116 <li>sysdump: ignore files inside /sys/kernel/debug + /sys/kernel/security/apparmor/revision to avoid hanging
117 <li>Redirect `ip mrule show` errors to ip_mrule.error
122 <li><a href="/zsh/">grml-zshrc</a> (Zsh configuration):
125 <li>grml-lang zsh completion: add dvorak, es, fr, it + jp to list of supported languages
126 <li>Use `apt` instead of `apt-get` in aliases when applicable (acp, acs, acsh, adg, ag, agi)
127 <li>Moved insert-datestamp to 'C-x d' (from 'Ctrl-e d'), to avoid defalys in the default Ctrl-e binding in emacs mode
132 <li><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a> (wrapper around debootstrap for installing pure Debian):
135 <li>Identify UUID of target system even if it's SWRAID or a mountpoint
136 <li>Travis CI integration (running automated VM installation tests)
137 <li>Switched default mirror from httpredir.debian.org to deb.debian.org
138 <li>Improved checks to make sure loop and dm-mod module are present
139 <li>Ensure /etc/timezone also includes the TIMEZONE setting
140 <li>Support skipping installation of GRUB bootloader using GRUB_INSTALL='no'
141 <li>Do not create target directory in /dev
142 <li>packer: added support for building Debian/buster + updated VirtualBox Guest Additions to 5.2.22
149 <h3>Bits & bolts</h3>
152 <li>Linux kernel is based on <b>4.19.8</b>.</li>
153 <li>Fixed several bugs from the <a href="https://github.com/grml/grml/issues/">issue tracking system</a>.</li>
158 <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions in Grml are
159 available in the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit
160 <a href="/files/grml64-full_2018.12/dpkg.list">dpkg_list</a> for a
161 detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2018.12.</p>
165 <p>Packages are taken from Debian testing as of 30th of December 2018.
166 26 packages have been removed, and these 76 new packages
167 have been added (excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
170 bcache-tools binutils-common binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu cpp-8
171 cryptsetup-initramfs cryptsetup-run dbus-user-session dirmngr dislocker ed
172 fakeroot fdisk gcc-8-base gdbm-l10n gir1.2-glib-2.0 glusterfs-common
173 gnupg-l10n gnupg-utils gpg gpg-agent gpg-wks-client gpg-wks-server gpgconf
174 gpgsm iso-codes linux-libc-dev lm-sensors mcollective mcollective-common
175 ndisc6 nmap-common patchutils perl-modules-5.28 python-colorlog
176 python-fasteners python-humanize python-monotonic python-six python-talloc
177 python2 python2-minimal python3-certifi python3-chardet python3-configshell-fb
178 python3-gi python3-idna python3-jwt python3-pkg-resources python3-prettytable
179 python3-pyparsing python3-pyudev python3-requests python3-rtslib-fb
180 python3-six python3-urllib3 python3-urwid python3.7 python3.7-minimal
181 qemu-guest-agent qemu-system-data rdnssd restic ruby-stomp ruby-systemu
182 ruby-xmlrpc ruby2.5 stressant targetcli-fb tcl tcl8.6 thin-provisioning-tools
183 tk tk8.6 wdiff x11vnc x11vnc-data
186 <p>These 26 Debian packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
189 apt-transport-https aptitude-common btrfs-tools cpp-6 cpufrequtils
190 dh-python e2fslibs gcc-6-base gnome-icon-theme gnupg-agent iproute lynx-cur
191 multiarch-support perl-modules-5.24 python-talloc python-urwid python3.5
192 python3.5-minimal qemu-kvm realpath ruby-nokogiri ruby-pkg-config ruby-rgen
193 ruby-safe-yaml ruby2.3 xdg-utils
196 <h3>Known issues</h3>
198 <p>Please visit the <a href="/bugs/known/">known bugs</a> web page.</p>
200 <h3>Download Grml 2018.12</h3>
202 <p>Grml 2018.12 can be downloaded from
203 <a href="/download/">grml.org/download/</a>.</p>
207 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help
208 fixing bugs and improving future releases. If you find a problem with
209 the release please check <a
210 href="/bugs/known/">the known bugs list</a> and report problems using information on <a
211 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>. Please send your feedback and
212 feature requests <a href="/contact/">to the Grml team</a>!</p>
214 <a name="thanks"></a>
217 <p>Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically)
250 for their contributions.</p>
252 <h3>More Information</h3>
254 <p>You can find out more about Grml on <a href="/">our website</a>, <a
255 href="/contact/#irc">IRC channel</a>, and <a
256 href="https://wiki.grml.org/">wiki</a>.
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