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- <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2021.07-rc1 - codename <a href="/faq/#releasename">Jaukerl</a></h1>
+ <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2021.07-rc1 - codename <a href="/faq/#releasename">JauKerl</a></h1>
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<p><strong>NOTE: the <a href="/changelogs/README-grml-2021.07/">stable release 2021.07</a> is already available!</strong></p>
<ul>
- <li>The <a href="https://blog.grml.org/archives/405-Grml-IRC-channel-moving-to-OFTC.html">the Grml IRC channel moved to OFTC</a>
+ <li>The <a href="https://blog.grml.org/archives/405-Grml-IRC-channel-moving-to-OFTC.html">Grml IRC channel moved to OFTC</a>
- <li>The network configuration tool <em>netcardconfig</em> no longer prompts for uncommon wireless/WiFi options, and therefore simplifying and speeding up its usage
-
- <li>
+ <li>The network configuration tool <em>netcardconfig</em> no longer prompts for uncommon wireless/WiFi options, to simplify and speed up its usage
</ul>
<h4>Misc:</h4>
<ul>
-
<li><strong>grml-terminalserver</strong>: support for UEFI PXE boot (now supporting BIOS boot via pxelinux and EFI boot via GRUB)
<li><strong>netcardconfig</strong>: support for enabling blocked devices via rfkill
<li><strong>forensic mode</strong>: improved handling for block device changes and parent device handling
<li><strong>grml-chroot</strong>: support efivarfs in EFI environments
+ </ul>
<h4><a href="/grml-live/">grml-live</a> (build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems):</h4>
<h4>grml-hwinfo (tool to collect hardware information):</h4>
<ul>
- <li>store `ip netconf` output in file `ip_netconf`
- <li>sysdump: rework ignore list code and ignore further files
- <li>provide information to user if sysdump might be hanging
+ <li>store <em>ip netconf</em> output in file <em>ip_netconf</em>
+ <li><em>sysdump</em>: rework ignore list code and ignore further files
+ <li>provide information to user if <em>sysdump</em> might be hanging
</ul>
<h4><a href="/zsh/">grml-zshrc</a> (Zsh configuration):</h4>
<h3>Updates</h3>
<p>Packages are taken from Debian bullseye/testing as of 12th of July 2021.
- 12 packages have been removed, and these 17 new packages
- have been added (excluding lib*, *-common, perl-*, python3-* and kernel image):</p>
+ The following 19 packages have been added (excluding lib*, *-common, perl-*, python3-* and kernel image):</p>
<ul>
-
<li>bsdextrautils (extra utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite, via util-linux)
<li>cpp-10 (replacement for cpp-9, dependency of x11-xserver-utils)
<li>firmware-ath9k-htc (firmware for AR7010 and AR9271 USB wireless adapters)
<li>grub-efi-amd64-signed (signed GRUB package, for EFI PXE boot support in grml-terminalserver)
+ <li>inxi (full featured system information script)
<li>jq (lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor)
<li>media-types (List of standard media types and their usual file extension)
<li>mmdebstrap (create a Debian chroot)
<li>python3.9 / python3.9-minimal (replacement for python3.8, new python version)
<li>ruby-rubygems (Package management framework for Ruby)
<li>shim-helpers-amd64-signed / shim-signed / shim-signed-common / shim-unsigned (Secure Boot chain-loading bootloader, for EFI PXE boot support in grml-terminalserver)
+ <li>speedtest-cli (command line interface for testing internet bandwidth using speedtest.net)
<li>wireless-regdb (wireless regulatory database for Linux)
</ul>
- <p>These Debian packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib*, *-data, *-common, perl-*, python-* and kernel image):</p>
+ <p>The following 12 Debian packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib*, *-data, *-common, perl-*, python-* and kernel image):</p>
<ul>
-
<li>comgt (Option GlobeTrotter and Vodafone datacard control tool, no longer considered relevant, please raise your voice if it should be part of the stable release!)
<li>cpp-9 (replaced by cpp-10)
- <li>python2 / python2-minimal / python2.7 / python2.7-minimal / python3.8 / python3.8-minimal (python2 is deprecated and python3.8 got replaced by python3.9)
+ <li>mime-support (replaced by media-types)
<li>moblin-icon-theme (unmaintained upstream)
+ <li>python2 / python2-minimal / python2.7 / python2.7-minimal / python3.8 / python3.8-minimal (python2 is deprecated and python3.8 got replaced by python3.9)
<li>usb.ids (USB ID Repository, no longer required by usbutils)
<li>wvdial (Point-to-Point Protocol dialer, no longer considered relevant nowadays, please raise your voice if it should be part of the stable release!)
-
</ul>
<h3>Known issues</h3>
<h3>Feedback</h3>
- <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help
- fixing bugs and improving future releases. If you find a problem with
- the 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>. Please send your feedback and
- feature requests <a href="/contact/">to the Grml team</a>!</p>
+ <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help fixing bugs and improving future releases.
+ 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>.
+ We also welcome feature requests and any kind of constructive feedback.
+ If you want to reach out to the Grml team, please visit our <a href="/contact/">contact webpage</a>.</p>
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<h3>Thanks</h3>
<h3>More Information</h3>
- <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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+ <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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