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27 <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2020.06-rc1 - codename <a href="/faq/#releasename">CODENAME</a></h1>
31 <p><strong>NOTE: the <a href="/changelogs/README-grml-2020.06/">stable release 2020.06</a> is already available!</strong></p>
34 <p><a href="/download/prerelease/">Download Now</a></p>
38 <p>Grml is a Debian based live system focusing on the needs of system administrators.
39 This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian testing (AKA bullseye).
40 As usual it also incorporates up to date hardware support and fixes known bugs from previous Grml releases.</p>
42 <h3>Important Changes</h3>
46 <li>The default mount point for the live system was changed from <em>/lib/live/mount/medium</em> to <em>/run/live/medium</em>.
47 This works around a regression which appears on-again-off-again, and follows upstream changes for Debian/bullseye.
48 If you don't have any custom tools which rely on <em>/lib/live/mount/medium</em> (or its ancestor <em>/live/image</em>),
49 then this change is irrelevant for you
51 <li>Tools like grml2usb and grml-x have been ported from Python2 to Python3 (AKA py3k).
57 <p>Highlighting the most relevant changes only:</p>
62 <li>cloud-init support (grml-full only): TODO
64 <li>qemu-guest-agent: TODO
66 <li>grml-quickconfig: network information (TODO)
70 <h4><a href="/grml-live/">grml-live</a> (build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems):</h4>
73 <li>Support for cloud-init (via GRML_FULL)
74 <li>sudoers: set Defaults secure_path to have sane default settings
75 <li>initramfs xz-compress: use default xz compression level
76 <li>GRMLBASE/98-clean-chroot: fix resolvconf symlink handling + get rid of resolvconf workarounds
77 <li>Rebuild /var/lib/dpkg/available to install not-yet-installed packages in update runs
78 <li>Sources list setup for security: switch from testing/updates to testing-security
79 <li>Switch default mount point from /lib/live/mount/medium to /run/live/medium
82 <h4><a href="/grml2usb/">grml2usb</a> (tool to install Grml ISO to usb device):</h4>
85 <li>Support more syslinux module locations and support setting custom ones via option <em>--syslinux-libs=...</em>
86 <li>No longer explicitly list addon files, instead copy all files from <em>/boot/addons/</em>
87 <li>Provide git-describe based version information when running from within git
88 <li>Fix path to syslinux *.c32 files
89 <li>Add smoke autopkgtests to Debian packaging
90 <li>Abort if required logo.16 file is missing
91 <li>Avoid custom boot options getting duplicated when used with multiple ISOs
94 <h4>grml-hwinfo (tool to collect hardware information):</h4>
97 <li>Store output of `lscpu -e` in file `lscpu_extended`
98 <li>Store cpuid output in file `cpuid`, add cpuid to Recommends
99 <li>Record uptime (/proc/uptime in `proc_uptime` and uptime(1) in file `uptime`)
100 <li>Report SecureBoot state via mokutil
101 <li>Store "$HOME"/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log (if available) as user_Xorg.0.log
102 <li>Log output of verbose lsusb run in file lsusb_verbose
103 <li>Provide output of verbose lspci run in file lspci_verbose
104 <li>Recommend acpica-tools package and provide acpidump output (as root)
107 <h4><a href="/zsh/">grml-zshrc</a> (Zsh configuration):</h4>
110 <li>Reset $REPLY parameter before calling prompt token functions
111 <li>Disable bracketed paste mode for dumb terminals
112 <li>Fix urxvt multi-line issue
113 <li>commit-to-history: keep escaped character
114 <li>Support PAGER='less -Mr' usage and fall back to vi if LESSOPEN is unset
117 <h4><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a> (wrapper around debootstrap for installing pure Debian):</h4>
120 <li>Support BOOT_APPEND usage outside of VMs
121 <li>Support <a href="https://gitlab.mister-muffin.de/josch/mmdebstrap">mmdebstrap</a> via DEBOOTSTRAP=mmdebstrap
122 <li>Use new security.debian.org repository layout for bullseye and newer
123 <li>Fix detection of predictable network interface names
124 <li>Add option <em>--sshcopyid</em> to authorise root login
125 <li>Provide workaround for Debian bug <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=918590">#918590</a> with lvm + udev in VM installations
126 <li>/etc/fstab: provide header comment, pointing to man pages and systemctl daemon-reload
127 <li>Add DHCP setting for Predictable Network Interface Names
130 <h3>Bits & bolts</h3>
133 <li>Linux kernel <b>5.6</b>.</li>
134 <li>Fixed several bugs from the <a href="https://github.com/grml/grml/issues/">issue tracking system</a>.</li>
139 <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions in Grml are
140 available in the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit
141 <a href="/files/grml64-full_2020.06/dpkg.list">dpkg_list</a> for a
142 detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2020.06(-rc1).</p>
146 <p>Packages are taken from Debian testing as of FIXME of FIXME 2020.
147 22 packages have been removed, and these 26 new packages
148 have been added (excluding lib*, *-common, python3-* and kernel image):</p>
153 <li>bind9-libs (dependency of avahi-daemon, bind9-dnsutils, bind9host + libnss-mdns)
156 <li>cpp-9 (replacement for cpp-8)
158 <li>fuse3 (dependency of borgbackup, exfat-fuse, ntfs-3g, sshfs + testdisk)
159 <li>gcc-10-base (replacement for gcc-8)
160 <li>gcc-9-base (replacement for gcc-8)
162 <li>logsave (dependency of e2fsprogs)
163 <li>lua-lpeg (dependency of nmap)
166 <li>perl-modules-5.30
167 <li>python3.8 (replacement for python3.7)
168 <li>python3.8-minimal (replacement for python3.7-minimal)
171 <li>ruby2.7 (replacement for ruby2.5)
172 <li>runit-helper (dependency of acpi-support, acpid, irqbalance + openssh-server)
173 <li>sound-theme-freedesktop (dependency of vim-gtk3)
175 <li>usb.ids (dependency of usbutils)
181 <p>These Debian packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib*, *-data, *-common, python-* and kernel image):</p>
186 <li>cpp-8 (replaced with cpp-9)
189 <li>gcc-8-base (replaced with gcc-9-base + gcc-10-base)
197 <li>python3-prettytable
199 <li>python3.7-minimal
202 <li>ruby-did-you-mean
204 <li>ruby2.5 (replaced with ruby2.7)
206 <li>vim-gtk (replaced with vim-gtk3)
210 <h3>Known issues</h3>
212 <p>Please visit the <a href="/bugs/known/">known bugs</a> web page.</p>
214 <h3>Download Grml 2020.06-rc1</h3>
216 <p>Grml 2020.06-rc1 can be downloaded from
217 <a href="/download/prerelease/">grml.org/download/prerelease/</a>.</p>
221 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help
222 fixing bugs and improving future releases. If you find a problem with
223 the release please check <a
224 href="/bugs/known/">the known bugs list</a> and report problems using information on <a
225 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>. Please send your feedback and
226 feature requests <a href="/contact/">to the Grml team</a>!</p>
228 <a name="thanks"></a>
231 <p>Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically)
242 Patrick Schleizer and
244 for their contributions.</p>
246 <h3>More Information</h3>
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