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Release Notes for Grml 2020.06-rc1 - codename CODENAME

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About

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Grml is a Debian based live system focusing on the needs of system administrators. + This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian testing (AKA bullseye). + As usual it also incorporates up to date hardware support and fixes known bugs from previous Grml releases.

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Important Changes

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The default mount point for the live system was changed from /lib/live/mount/medium to /run/live/medium. + 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 /lib/live/mount/medium (or its ancestor /live/image), + then this change is irrelevant for you + +
Tools like grml2usb and grml-x have been ported from Python2 to Python3 (AKA py3k). + +

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New features

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Highlighting the most relevant changes only:

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Misc: + +
- cloud-init support (grml-full only): TODO + +
- qemu-guest-agent: TODO +
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grml-live (build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems): + +
- Support for cloud-init (via GRML_FULL) +
- sudoers: set Defaults secure_path to have sane default settings +
- initramfs xz-compress: use default xz compression level +
- GRMLBASE/98-clean-chroot: fix resolvconf symlink handling + get rid of resolvconf workarounds +
- Rebuild /var/lib/dpkg/available to install not-yet-installed packages in update runs +
- Sources list setup for security: switch from testing/updates to testing-security +
- Switch default mount point from /lib/live/mount/medium to /run/live/medium +
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grml2usb (tool to install Grml ISO to usb device)

Support more syslinux module locations and support setting custom ones via option --syslinux-libs=... +
No longer explicitly list addon files, instead copy all files from /boot/addons/ +
Provide git-describe based version information when running from within git +
Fix path to syslinux *.c32 files +
Add smoke autopkgtests to Debian packaging +
Abort if required logo.16 file is missing +
Avoid custom boot options getting duplicated when used with multiple ISOs +

grml-hwinfo (tool to collect hardware information): + +
- Store output of `lscpu -e` in file `lscpu_extended` +
- Store cpuid output in file `cpuid`, add cpuid to Recommends +
- Record uptime (/proc/uptime in `proc_uptime` and uptime(1) in file `uptime`) +
- Report SecureBoot state via mokutil +
- Store "$HOME"/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log (if available) as user_Xorg.0.log +
- Log output of verbose lsusb run in file lsusb_verbose +
- Provide output of verbose lspci run in file lspci_verbose +
- Recommend acpica-tools package and provide acpidump output (as root) +
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grml-zshrc (Zsh configuration): + +
- Reset $REPLY parameter before calling prompt token functions +
- Disable bracketed paste mode for dumb terminals +
- Fix urxvt multi-line issue +
- commit-to-history: keep escaped character +
- Support PAGER='less -Mr' usage and fall back to vi if LESSOPEN is unset +
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grml-debootstrap (wrapper around debootstrap for installing pure Debian): + +
- Support BOOT_APPEND usage outside of VMs +
- Support mmdebstrap via DEBOOTSTRAP=mmdebstrap +
- Use new security.debian.org repository layout for bullseye and newer +
- Fix detection of predictable network interface names +
- Add option --sshcopyid to authorise root login +
- Provide workaround for Debian bug #918590 with lvm + udev in VM installations +
- /etc/fstab: provide header comment, pointing to man pages and systemctl daemon-reload +
- Add DHCP setting for Predictable Network Interface Names +
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Bits & bolts

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Linux kernel 5.6.
Fixed several bugs from the issue tracking system.

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Packages

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Details about shipped packages and their versions in Grml are + available in the Debian section. Visit + dpkg_list for a + detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2020.06(-rc1).

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Updates

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Packages are taken from Debian testing as of FIXME of FIXME 2020. + 22 packages have been removed, and these 26 new packages + have been added (excluding lib*, *-common, python3-* and kernel image):

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+  bind9-dnsutils
+  bind9-libs (dependency of avahi-daemon, bind9-dnsutils, bind9host + libnss-mdns)
+  borgbackup
+  cloud-init
+  cpp-9 (replacement for cpp-8)
+  dnsutils
+  fuse3 (dependency of borgbackup, exfat-fuse, ntfs-3g, sshfs + testdisk)
+  gcc-10-base (replacement for gcc-8)
+  gcc-9-base (replacement for gcc-8)
+  iperf3
+  logsave (dependency of e2fsprogs)
+  lua-lpeg (dependency of nmap)
+  ncdu
+  pci.ids
+  perl-modules-5.30
+  python3.8 (replacement for python3.7)
+  python3.8-minimal (replacement for python3.7-minimal)
+  qemu-system-gui
+  radvd
+  ruby2.7 (replacement for ruby2.5)
+  runit-helper (dependency of acpi-support, acpid, irqbalance + openssh-server)
+  sound-theme-freedesktop (dependency of vim-gtk3)
+  tree
+  usb.ids (dependency of usbutils)
+  vim-gtk3
+  zstd
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These Debian packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib*, *-data, *-common, python-* and kernel image):

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+  ash
+  cpp-8 (replaced with cpp-9)
+  cryptsetup-run
+  fuse
+  gcc-8-base (replaced with gcc-9-base + gcc-10-base)
+  gdbm-l10n
+  hfsprogs
+  ipsec-tools
+  lilo
+  linux-libc-dev
+  pm-utils
+  powermgmt-base
+  python3-prettytable
+  python3.7
+  python3.7-minimal
+  racoon
+  rng-tools
+  ruby-did-you-mean
+  ruby-json
+  ruby2.5 (replaced with ruby2.7)
+  tasksel
+  vim-gtk (replaced with vim-gtk3)
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Known issues

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Please visit the known bugs web page.

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Download Grml 2020.06-rc1

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Grml 2020.06-rc1 can be downloaded from + grml.org/download/prerelease/.

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Feedback

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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 the known bugs list and report problems using information on grml.org/bugs/. Please send your feedback and + feature requests to the Grml team!

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Thanks

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Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically) + Albert Dengg, + AndrÃ¡s Korn, + Axel Beckert, + Florian Apolloner, + Iru Cai, + Joel WirÄmu Pauling, + Lukas Prokop, + Marc Haber, + Michael Stone, + Patrick Schleizer and + Ralf Moll + for their contributions.

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More Information

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You can find out more about Grml on our website, IRC channel, and wiki. + +

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