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-<title>grml.org - Release Notes: Grml 2020.06-rc1 - Codename CODENAME</title>
-<meta name="Title" content="grml.org - Release Notes: Grml 2020.06-rc1 CODENAME" />
+<title>grml.org - Release Notes: Grml 2020.06-rc1 - Codename Ausgehfuahangl</title>
+<meta name="Title" content="grml.org - Release Notes: Grml 2020.06-rc1 Ausgehfuahangl" />
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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
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-        <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2020.06-rc1 - codename <a href="/faq/#releasename">CODENAME</a></h1>
+        <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2020.06-rc1 - codename <a href="/faq/#releasename">Ausgehfuahangl</a></h1>
 
 <!--
 FIXME
@@ -46,9 +46,11 @@ FIXME
           <li>The default mount point for the live system was changed from <em>/lib/live/mount/medium</em> to <em>/run/live/medium</em>.
           This works around a regression which appears on-again-off-again, and follows upstream changes for Debian/bullseye.
           If you don't have any custom tools which rely on <em>/lib/live/mount/medium</em> (or its ancestor <em>/live/image</em>),
-          then this change is irrelevant for you
+          then this change is irrelevant for you.
 
-          <li>Tools like grml2usb and grml-x have been ported from Python2 to Python3 (AKA py3k).
+          <li>Tools like grml2usb, grml-paste and grml-x have been ported from Python2 to Python3 (AKA py3k), we no longer support Python2 in our tools.
+
+          <li>The live system no longer uses a custom Grml kernel, instead we switched to the linux-image packages provided by Debian.
 
         </ul>
 
@@ -56,90 +58,88 @@ FIXME
 
         <p>Highlighting the most relevant changes only:</p>
 
-        <ul>
-
-          <li>Misc:
-
-            <ul>
-              <li>cloud-init support (grml-full only): TODO
-
-              <li>qemu-guest-agent: TODO
-            </ul>
+        <h4>Misc:</h4>
 
-          </li>
-
-
-          <li><a href="/grml-live/">grml-live</a> (build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems):
+        <ul>
 
-            <ul>
-              <li>Support for cloud-init (via GRML_FULL)
-              <li>sudoers: set Defaults secure_path to have sane default settings
-              <li>initramfs xz-compress: use default xz compression level
-              <li>GRMLBASE/98-clean-chroot: fix resolvconf symlink handling + get rid of resolvconf workarounds
-              <li>Rebuild /var/lib/dpkg/available to install not-yet-installed packages in update runs
-              <li>Sources list setup for security: switch from testing/updates to testing-security
-              <li>Switch default mount point from /lib/live/mount/medium to /run/live/medium
-            </ul>
+          <li><strong>cloud-init support</strong> (grml-full only): <a href="https://cloud-init.io/">cloud-init</a> is a standard multi-distribution method for cross-platform cloud instance initialization.
+          Cloud-init identifies the cloud it is running on and reads any provided metadata from the cloud and initializes the system accordingly.
+          This is useful for e.g. setting network configuration, SSH access key and hostname.
+          To enable it on Grml, boot with boot option <em>`services=cloud-init`</em>.
+          If you configured a SSH public, logging in as user `grml` works.
+          For static network configuration you need to boot with boot options <em>`nonetworking services=cloud-init,networking`</em>.
 
-          </li>
+          <li><strong>qemu-guest-agent support</strong>: when running in appropriate environments (like <a href="https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-ve">Proxmox VE</a>) this daemon exchanges information between the host and guest system (VM) (also see <a href="https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Qemu-guest-agent">Proxmox wiki</a> for further information).
+          When booting Grml as a VM in such an environment, the network information is visible in the VM summary then, like:</li>
 
-          <li><a href="/grml2usb/">grml2usb</a> (tool to install Grml ISO to usb device):
+            <img style="margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; border: 0" src="../../img/qemu-guest-agent.png" />
 
-            <ul>
-              <li>Support more syslinux module locations and support setting custom ones via option <em>--syslinux-libs=...</em>
-              <li>No longer explicitly list addon files, instead copy all files from <em>/boot/addons/</em>
-              <li>Provide git-describe based version information when running from within git
-              <li>Fix path to syslinux *.c32 files
-              <li>Add smoke autopkgtests to Debian packaging
-              <li>Abort if required logo.16 file is missing
-              <li>Avoid custom boot options getting duplicated when used with multiple ISOs
-            </li>
+          <li><strong>network information in grml-quickconfig</strong>: hostname, cloud-init, IP addresses and zeroconf/avahi information:</li>
 
-          </ul>
+            <img style="margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; border: 0" src="../../img/grml-quickconfig.png" />
 
+        </ul>
 
-          <li>grml-hwinfo (tool to collect hardware information):
+        <h4><a href="/grml-live/">grml-live</a> (build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems):</h4>
 
-            <ul>
-              <li>Store output of `lscpu -e` in file `lscpu_extended`
-              <li>Store cpuid output in file `cpuid`, add cpuid to Recommends
-              <li>Record uptime (/proc/uptime in `proc_uptime` and uptime(1) in file `uptime`)
-              <li>Report SecureBoot state via mokutil
-              <li>Store "$HOME"/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log (if available) as user_Xorg.0.log
-              <li>Log output of verbose lsusb run in file lsusb_verbose
-              <li>Provide output of verbose lspci run in file lspci_verbose
-              <li>Recommend acpica-tools package and provide acpidump output (as root)
-            </ul>
+        <ul>
+          <li>Support for cloud-init (via GRML_FULL)
+          <li>sudoers: set Defaults secure_path to have sane default settings
+          <li>initramfs xz-compress: use default xz compression level
+          <li>GRMLBASE/98-clean-chroot: fix resolvconf symlink handling + get rid of resolvconf workarounds
+          <li>Rebuild /var/lib/dpkg/available to install not-yet-installed packages in update runs
+          <li>Sources list setup for security: switch from testing/updates to testing-security
+          <li>Switch default mount point from /lib/live/mount/medium to /run/live/medium
+        </ul>
 
-          </li>
+        <h4><a href="/grml2usb/">grml2usb</a> (tool to install Grml ISO to usb device):</h4>
 
-          <li><a href="/zsh/">grml-zshrc</a> (Zsh configuration):
+        <ul>
+          <li>Support more syslinux module locations and support setting custom ones via option <em>--syslinux-libs=...</em>
+          <li>No longer explicitly list addon files, instead copy all files from <em>/boot/addons/</em>
+          <li>Provide git-describe based version information when running from within git
+          <li>Fix path to syslinux *.c32 files
+          <li>Add smoke autopkgtests to Debian packaging
+          <li>Abort if required logo.16 file is missing
+          <li>Avoid custom boot options getting duplicated when used with multiple ISOs
+        </ul>
 
-            <ul>
-              <li>Reset $REPLY parameter before calling prompt token functions
-              <li>Disable bracketed paste mode for dumb terminals
-              <li>Fix urxvt multi-line issue
-              <li>commit-to-history: keep escaped character
-              <li>Support PAGER='less -Mr' usage and fall back to vi if LESSOPEN is unset
-            </ul>
+        <h4>grml-hwinfo (tool to collect hardware information):</h4>
 
-          </li>
+        <ul>
+          <li>Store output of `lscpu -e` in file `lscpu_extended`
+          <li>Store cpuid output in file `cpuid`, add cpuid to Recommends
+          <li>Record uptime (/proc/uptime in `proc_uptime` and uptime(1) in file `uptime`)
+          <li>Report SecureBoot state via mokutil
+          <li>Store "$HOME"/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log (if available) as user_Xorg.0.log
+          <li>Log output of verbose lsusb run in file lsusb_verbose
+          <li>Provide output of verbose lspci run in file lspci_verbose
+          <li>Recommend acpica-tools package and provide acpidump output (as root)
+        </ul>
 
-          <li><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a> (wrapper around debootstrap for installing pure Debian):
+        <h4><a href="/zsh/">grml-zshrc</a> (Zsh configuration):</h4>
 
-            <ul>
-              <li>Support BOOT_APPEND usage outside of VMs
-              <li>Support <a href="https://gitlab.mister-muffin.de/josch/mmdebstrap">mmdebstrap</a> via DEBOOTSTRAP=mmdebstrap
-              <li>Use new security.debian.org repository layout for bullseye and newer
-              <li>Fix detection of predictable network interface names
-              <li>Add option <em>--sshcopyid</em> to authorise root login
-              <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
-              <li>/etc/fstab: provide header comment, pointing to man pages and systemctl daemon-reload
-              <li>Add DHCP setting for Predictable Network Interface Names
-            </ul>
+        <ul>
+          <li>Add zstd support to simple-extract()
+          <li>Reset $REPLY parameter before calling prompt token functions
+          <li>Disable bracketed paste mode for dumb terminals
+          <li>Fix urxvt multi-line issue
+          <li>commit-to-history: keep escaped character
+          <li>Support PAGER='less -Mr' usage and fall back to vi if LESSOPEN is unset
+        </ul>
 
-          </li>
+        <h4><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a> (wrapper around debootstrap for installing pure Debian):</h4>
 
+        <ul>
+          <li>Add support for .ssh/authorized_keys via cmdline option --sshcopyauth
+          <li>Support BOOT_APPEND usage outside of VMs
+          <li>Support <a href="https://gitlab.mister-muffin.de/josch/mmdebstrap">mmdebstrap</a> via DEBOOTSTRAP=mmdebstrap
+          <li>Use new security.debian.org repository layout for bullseye and newer
+          <li>Fix detection of predictable network interface names
+          <li>Add option <em>--sshcopyid</em> to authorise root login
+          <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
+          <li>/etc/fstab: provide header comment, pointing to man pages and systemctl daemon-reload
+          <li>Add DHCP setting for Predictable Network Interface Names
         </ul>
 
         <h3>Bits &amp; bolts</h3>
@@ -158,38 +158,40 @@ FIXME
 
         <h3>Updates</h3>
 
-        <p>Packages are taken from Debian testing as of FIXME of FIXME 2020.
-        22 packages have been removed, and these 26 new packages
+        <p>Packages are taken from Debian testing as of 6th of June 2020.
+        22 packages have been removed, and these 28 new packages
         have been added (excluding lib*, *-common, python3-* and kernel image):</p>
 
         <ul>
 
-          <li>bind9-dnsutils
+          <li>avahi-utils (Avahi browsing, publishing and discovery utilities)
+          <li>bind9-dnsutils (Clients provided with BIND 9)
           <li>bind9-libs (dependency of avahi-daemon, bind9-dnsutils, bind9host + libnss-mdns)
-          <li>borgbackup
-          <li>cloud-init
+          <li>borgbackup (deduplicating and compressing backup program)
+          <li>cloud-init (initialization system for infrastructure cloud instances)
           <li>cpp-9 (replacement for cpp-8)
-          <li>dnsutils
+          <li>dnsutils (Clients provided with BIND)
           <li>fuse3 (dependency of borgbackup, exfat-fuse, ntfs-3g, sshfs + testdisk)
           <li>gcc-10-base (replacement for gcc-8)
           <li>gcc-9-base (replacement for gcc-8)
-          <li>iperf3
+          <li>iperf3 (Internet Protocol bandwidth measuring tool)
           <li>logsave (dependency of e2fsprogs)
           <li>lua-lpeg (dependency of nmap)
-          <li>ncdu
-          <li>pci.ids
-          <li>perl-modules-5.30
+          <li>ncdu (ncurses disk usage viewer)
+          <li>pci.ids (dependency of sysfsutils)
+          <li>perl-modules-5.30 (related package for new perl version)
           <li>python3.8 (replacement for python3.7)
           <li>python3.8-minimal (replacement for python3.7-minimal)
-          <li>qemu-system-gui
-          <li>radvd
+          <li>qemu-system-gui (QEMU full system emulation binaries (user interface and audio support))
+          <li>radvd (Router Advertisement Daemon)
           <li>ruby2.7 (replacement for ruby2.5)
           <li>runit-helper (dependency of acpi-support, acpid, irqbalance + openssh-server)
           <li>sound-theme-freedesktop (dependency of vim-gtk3)
-          <li>tree
+          <li>tree (displays an indented directory tree, in color)
           <li>usb.ids (dependency of usbutils)
-          <li>vim-gtk3
-          <li>zstd
+          <li>vim-gtk3 (Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor - with GTK3 GUI, replacement for vim-gtk/GTK2)
+          <li>wireguard (fast, modern, secure kernel VPN tunnel)
+          <li>zstd (fast lossless compression algorithm -- CLI tool)
 
         </ul>
 
@@ -197,27 +199,27 @@ FIXME
 
         <ul>
 
-          <li>ash
+          <li>ash (replaced with dash)
           <li>cpp-8 (replaced with cpp-9)
-          <li>cryptsetup-run
-          <li>fuse
+          <li>cryptsetup-run (transitional package for cryptsetup)
+          <li>fuse (replaced with fuse3)
           <li>gcc-8-base (replaced with gcc-9-base + gcc-10-base)
-          <li>gdbm-l10n
-          <li>hfsprogs
-          <li>ipsec-tools
-          <li>lilo
-          <li>linux-libc-dev
-          <li>pm-utils
-          <li>powermgmt-base
-          <li>python3-prettytable
-          <li>python3.7
-          <li>python3.7-minimal
-          <li>racoon
-          <li>rng-tools
-          <li>ruby-did-you-mean
-          <li>ruby-json
+          <li>gdbm-l10n (reverse dependency only)
+          <li>hfsprogs (not DFSG-Free)
+          <li>ipsec-tools (dead upstream, consider using wireguard instead)
+          <li>lilo (should no longer be relevant nowadays)
+          <li>linux-libc-dev (reverse dependency only)
+          <li>pm-utils (reverse dependency only)
+          <li>powermgmt-base (reverse dependency only)
+          <li>python3-prettytable (reverse dependency only)
+          <li>python3.7 (replaced with python3.8)
+          <li>python3.7-minimal (replaced with  python3.8-minimal)
+          <li>racoon (dead upstream, consider using wireguard instead)
+          <li>rng-tools (unavailable in Debian/testing, see <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=951663">#951663</a>)
+          <li>ruby-did-you-mean (reverse dependency only)
+          <li>ruby-json (reverse dependency only)
           <li>ruby2.5 (replaced with ruby2.7)
-          <li>tasksel
+          <li>tasksel (became priority=optional in Debian)
           <li>vim-gtk (replaced with vim-gtk3)
 
         </ul>
@@ -246,15 +248,20 @@ FIXME
         <p>Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically)
         Albert Dengg,
         AndrÃ¡s Korn,
+        Antoine BeauprÃ©,
         Axel Beckert,
+        Chris Hofstaedtler,
         Florian Apolloner,
+        Garrett Holmstrom,
         Iru Cai,
         Joel WirÄmu Pauling,
         Lukas Prokop,
         Marc Haber,
         Michael Stone,
-        Patrick Schleizer and
-        Ralf Moll
+        Moviuro,
+        Patrick Schleizer,
+        Ralf Moll and
+        ur4t
         for their contributions.</p>
 
         <h3>More Information</h3>
