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27 <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2024.02-rc1 - codename <a href="/faq/#releasename">Glumpad</a></h1>
29 <p><strong>NOTE: the <a href="/changelogs/README-grml-2024.02/">stable release 2024.02</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 trixie.
37 As usual it also incorporates up to date hardware support and fixes known bugs from previous Grml releases.</p>
41 <p>Highlighting the most relevant changes only:</p>
46 <li><strong>grml-hwinfo</strong>: add inxi output and collect information about network devices via ethtool
49 <h4><a href="/grml-live/">grml-live</a> (build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems):</h4>
52 <li>Initial arm64 / aarch64 support
53 <li>Add support for Debian/trixie (current Debian/testing)
54 <li>Use serial console with a setting of 115200n8 by default
55 <li>Update zsh completion + ship it via Debian package
56 <li>Unify boot options order between isolinux/syslinux and GRUB
57 <li>Improved memtest + chainloader handling
58 <li>Remove Grml release name from the boot options
59 <li>Misc software related changes in GRMLBASE, GRML_SMALL + GRML_FULL classes
62 <h4><a href="/zsh/">grml-zshrc</a> (Zsh configuration):</h4>
65 <li>zshrc: fixed outdated url in <em>weather</em> function
66 <li>/etc/skel/.zshrc: suggest J as global alias for jq usage
69 <h4><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a> (wrapper around debootstrap for installing pure Debian):</h4>
72 <li>Initial arm64 support
73 <li>Add EFI support for VMs
74 <li>Don't install busybox any longer by default
75 <li>Refactored error handling
76 <li>Dropped support for installing releases before jessie
77 <li>Use persistent device names under /dev/disk/by-id/ for GRUB's install_devices
80 <h3>Bits & bolts</h3>
83 <li>Linux kernel <b>6.5</b>.</li>
84 <li>Fixed several bugs from the <a href="https://github.com/grml/grml/issues/">issue tracking system</a>.</li>
89 <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions in Grml are
90 available in the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit
91 <a href="/files/grml64-full_2024.02/dpkg.list">dpkg_list</a> for a
92 detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2024.02(-rc1).</p>
96 <p>Packages are taken from Debian trixie/testing as of 2nd of February 2024.
97 The following 9 relevant packages have been added (excluding e.g. lib*, fonts*, *-base/*-bin/*-common/*-core/*-data, gcc-*/cpp-*, perl*, python*, ruby* and kernel image):</p>
100 <li>dhcpcd: DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 dual-stack client (replacement for deprecated isc-dhcp-client)
101 <li>f3: test real flash memory capacity
102 <li>fwupd/fwupd-amd64-signed: Tools to manage UEFI firmware updates
103 <li>lolcat: colorful `cat`
104 <li>lz4: Fast LZ compression algorithm library - tool
105 <li>pixz: (dependency of clonezilla)
106 <li>toilet: display large colourful characters in text mode
107 <li>udisks2: D-Bus service to access and manipulate storage devices
110 <p>The following 9 Debian packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib*, *-base/-bin/*-common/*-core/*-data, gcc-*/cpp-*, perl*, python*, ruby* and kernel image):</p>
113 <li>dmraid: obsolete (see <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/1056944">#1056944</a>)
114 <li>dstat: unmaintained upstream (see <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/1034856">#1034856</a>)
115 <li>fai-server: irrelevant, no longer a dependency of grml-live
116 <li>fakeroot: irrelevant, no longer a dependency of devscripts
117 <li>firmware-ath9k-htc: conflicts with/replaced by firmware-atheros
118 <li>iso-codes: irrelevant, no longer a dependency of qemu-system-*
119 <li>lsb-base: irrelevant, no longer a dependency of uml-utilities
120 <li>lua-lpeg: irrelevant, no longer a dependency of nmap
121 <li>thin-provisioning-tools: broken in Debian/testing (see <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/1041089">#1041089</a>)
124 <h3>Known issues</h3>
126 <p>Please visit the <a href="/bugs/known/">known bugs</a> web page.</p>
128 <h3>Download Grml 2024.02-rc1</h3>
130 <p>Grml 2024.02-rc1 can be downloaded from
131 <a href="/download/prerelease/">grml.org/download/prerelease/</a>.</p>
135 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help fixing bugs and improving future releases.
136 If you find a problem with the (pre-)release, please check <a href="/bugs/known/">the known bugs list</a> and report problems using information on <a href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>.
137 We also welcome feature requests and any kind of constructive feedback.
138 If you want to reach out to the Grml team, please visit our <a href="/contact/">contact webpage</a>.</p>
140 <a name="thanks"></a>
143 <p>Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically)
164 for their contributions.</p>
166 <h3>More Information</h3>
168 <p>You can find out more about Grml on <a href="/">our website</a>, <a href="/contact/#irc">IRC channel</a>, and <a href="https://wiki.grml.org/">wiki</a>.
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