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27 <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2018.12-rc1 - codename <a href="/faq/#releasename">Gnackwatschn</a></h1>
29 <p><strong>NOTE: the <a href="/changelogs/README-grml-2018.12/">stable release 2018.12</a> is already available!</strong></p>
31 <p><a href="/download/prerelease/">Download Now</a></p>
35 <p>Grml is a Debian based live system focusing on the needs of system administrators.
36 This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian testing (AKA buster).
37 As usual it also incorporates up to date hardware support and fixes known bugs from the previous Grml release.</p>
39 <h3>Important Changes</h3>
43 <li>When using the `ssh` boot option Grml automatically starts haveged, an userspace entropy daemon which
44 uses HAVEGE (HArdware Volatile Entropy Gathering and Expansion).
45 If you should notice a slow boot and want to force the startup of the haveged service (independent of usage of ssh boot option)
46 you can start the service via boot option `services=haveged`.
47 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
48 taking minutes to become available [...]</a> for further information.
50 <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.
52 <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
53 /etc/apt/sources.list.d/grml.sources setup like:
58 URIs: http://deb.grml.org/
59 Suites: grml-stable grml-testing
60 Architectures: i386 amd64
62 Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/grml-archive-keyring.gpg
66 or you prefer the common sources.list setup you can use a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/grml.list like:
70 deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/grml-archive-keyring.gpg] https://deb.grml.org/ grml-stable main
71 deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/grml-archive-keyring.gpg] https://deb.grml.org/ grml-testing main
75 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/UseThirdParty">https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/UseThirdParty</a> provides more general documentation about this setup.
81 <p>Highlighting the most relevant changes only:</p>
88 <li>netcardconfig: added support for VLAN configuration + non-interactive mode
89 <li>grml-chroot: mount /dev/pts as devpts inside chroot
90 <li>grml2usb: added support for Secure Boot (if present with ISO only)
96 <li><a href="/grml-live/">grml-live</a> (build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems):
99 <li>Added support for EFI on 32-bit systems and increased EFI image size
100 <li>Switched from isohybrid to xorriso/isohybrid combination
101 <li>Several software additions/changes to GRML_SMALL and GRML_FULL classes
102 <li>Several changes, fixes and workarounds for systemd integration
103 <li>Added support for Debian/buster
104 <li>Dropped support for Debian/wheezy
105 <li>Added Secure Boot support (disabled by default though)
106 <li>Updated defaults and documention to use and assume Debian/stretch by default
107 <li>Replaced /etc/apt/grml.key with /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/grml-archive-keyring.gpg
108 <li>Updated cheatcodes to clarify hardware clock and timezone defaults
109 <li>Enable serial-getty with root autologin on every given device
114 <li>grml-hwinfo (tool to collect hardware information):
117 <li>Provide output of `efibootmgr -v` in file efibootmgr
118 <li>sysdump: ignore files inside /sys/kernel/debug + /sys/kernel/security/apparmor/revision to avoid hanging
119 <li>Redirect `ip mrule show` errors to ip_mrule.error
124 <li><a href="/zsh/">grml-zshrc</a> (Zsh configuration):
127 <li>grml-lang zsh completion: add dvorak, es, fr, it + jp to list of supported languages
128 <li>Use `apt` instead of `apt-get` in aliases when applicable (acp, acs, acsh, adg, ag, agi)
129 <li>Moved insert-datestamp to 'C-x d' (from 'Ctrl-e d'), to avoid defalys in the default Ctrl-e binding in emacs mode
134 <li><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a> (wrapper around debootstrap for installing pure Debian):
137 <li>Identify UUID of target system even if it's SWRAID or a mountpoint
138 <li>Travis CI integration (running automated VM installation tests)
139 <li>Switched default mirror from httpredir.debian.org to deb.debian.org
140 <li>Improved checks to make sure loop and dm-mod module are present
141 <li>Ensure /etc/timezone also includes the TIMEZONE setting
142 <li>Support skipping installation of GRUB bootloader using GRUB_INSTALL='no'
143 <li>Do not create target directory in /dev
144 <li>packer: added support for building Debian/buster + updated VirtualBox Guest Additions to 5.2.22
151 <h3>Bits & bolts</h3>
154 <li>Linux kernel is based on <b>4.19.8</b>.</li>
155 <li>Fixed several bugs from the <a href="https://github.com/grml/grml/issues/">issue tracking system</a>.</li>
160 <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions in Grml are
161 available in the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit
162 <a href="/files/grml64-full_2018.12/dpkg.list">dpkg_list</a> for a
163 detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2018.12(-rc1).</p>
167 <p>Packages are taken from Debian testing as of 19th of December 2018.
168 27 packages have been removed, and these 76 new packages
169 have been added (excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
172 bcache-tools binutils-common binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu cpp-8
173 cryptsetup-initramfs cryptsetup-run dbus-user-session dirmngr dislocker ed
174 fakeroot fdisk gcc-8-base gdbm-l10n gir1.2-glib-2.0 glusterfs-common
175 gnupg-l10n gnupg-utils gpg gpg-agent gpg-wks-client gpg-wks-server gpgconf
176 gpgsm iso-codes linux-libc-dev lm-sensors mcollective mcollective-common
177 ndisc6 nmap-common patchutils perl-modules-5.28 python-colorlog
178 python-fasteners python-humanize python-monotonic python-six python-talloc
179 python2 python2-minimal python3-certifi python3-chardet python3-configshell-fb
180 python3-gi python3-idna python3-jwt python3-pkg-resources python3-prettytable
181 python3-pyparsing python3-pyudev python3-requests python3-rtslib-fb
182 python3-six python3-urllib3 python3-urwid python3.7 python3.7-minimal
183 qemu-guest-agent qemu-system-data rdnssd restic ruby-stomp ruby-systemu
184 ruby-xmlrpc ruby2.5 stressant targetcli-fb tcl tcl8.6 thin-provisioning-tools
185 tk tk8.6 wdiff x11vnc x11vnc-data
188 <p>These Debian packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
191 apt-transport-https aptitude aptitude-common btrfs-tools cpp-6 cpufrequtils
192 dh-python e2fslibs gcc-6-base gnome-icon-theme gnupg-agent iproute lynx-cur
193 multiarch-support perl-modules-5.24 python-talloc python-urwid python3.5
194 python3.5-minimal qemu-kvm realpath ruby-nokogiri ruby-pkg-config ruby-rgen
195 ruby-safe-yaml ruby2.3 xdg-utils
198 <h3>Known issues</h3>
200 <p>Please visit the <a href="/bugs/known/">known bugs</a> web page.</p>
202 <h3>Download Grml 2018.12-rc1</h3>
204 <p>Grml 2018.12-rc1 can be downloaded from
205 <a href="/download/prerelease/">grml.org/download/prerelease/</a>.</p>
209 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help
210 fixing bugs and improving future releases. If you find a problem with
211 the release please check <a
212 href="/bugs/known/">the known bugs list</a> and report problems using information on <a
213 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>. Please send your feedback and
214 feature requests <a href="/contact/">to the Grml team</a>!</p>
216 <a name="thanks"></a>
219 <p>Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically)
252 for their contributions.</p>
254 <h3>More Information</h3>
256 <p>You can find out more about Grml on <a href="/">our website</a>, <a
257 href="/contact/#irc">IRC channel</a>, and <a
258 href="https://wiki.grml.org/">wiki</a>.
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