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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>
64 <li>cloud-init support (grml-full only): TODO
66 <li>qemu-guest-agent: TODO
72 <li><a href="/grml-live/">grml-live</a> (build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems):
75 <li>Support for cloud-init (via GRML_FULL)
76 <li>sudoers: set Defaults secure_path to have sane default settings
77 <li>initramfs xz-compress: use default xz compression level
78 <li>GRMLBASE/98-clean-chroot: fix resolvconf symlink handling + get rid of resolvconf workarounds
79 <li>Rebuild /var/lib/dpkg/available to install not-yet-installed packages in update runs
80 <li>Sources list setup for security: switch from testing/updates to testing-security
81 <li>Switch default mount point from /lib/live/mount/medium to /run/live/medium
87 <li>grml2usb (tool to install Grml ISO to usb device)</li>
90 <li>Support more syslinux module locations and support setting custom ones via option <em>--syslinux-libs=...</em>
91 <li>No longer explicitly list addon files, instead copy all files from <em>/boot/addons/</em>
92 <li>Provide git-describe based version information when running from within git
93 <li>Fix path to syslinux *.c32 files
94 <li>Add smoke autopkgtests to Debian packaging
95 <li>Abort if required logo.16 file is missing
96 <li>Avoid custom boot options getting duplicated when used with multiple ISOs
100 <li>grml-hwinfo (tool to collect hardware information):
103 <li>Store output of `lscpu -e` in file `lscpu_extended`
104 <li>Store cpuid output in file `cpuid`, add cpuid to Recommends
105 <li>Record uptime (/proc/uptime in `proc_uptime` and uptime(1) in file `uptime`)
106 <li>Report SecureBoot state via mokutil
107 <li>Store "$HOME"/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log (if available) as user_Xorg.0.log
108 <li>Log output of verbose lsusb run in file lsusb_verbose
109 <li>Provide output of verbose lspci run in file lspci_verbose
110 <li>Recommend acpica-tools package and provide acpidump output (as root)
115 <li><a href="/zsh/">grml-zshrc</a> (Zsh configuration):
118 <li>Reset $REPLY parameter before calling prompt token functions
119 <li>Disable bracketed paste mode for dumb terminals
120 <li>Fix urxvt multi-line issue
121 <li>commit-to-history: keep escaped character
122 <li>Support PAGER='less -Mr' usage and fall back to vi if LESSOPEN is unset
127 <li><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a> (wrapper around debootstrap for installing pure Debian):
130 <li>Support BOOT_APPEND usage outside of VMs
131 <li>Support <a href="https://gitlab.mister-muffin.de/josch/mmdebstrap">mmdebstrap</a> via DEBOOTSTRAP=mmdebstrap
132 <li>Use new security.debian.org repository layout for bullseye and newer
133 <li>Fix detection of predictable network interface names
134 <li>Add option <em>--sshcopyid</em> to authorise root login
135 <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
136 <li>/etc/fstab: provide header comment, pointing to man pages and systemctl daemon-reload
137 <li>Add DHCP setting for Predictable Network Interface Names
144 <h3>Bits & bolts</h3>
147 <li>Linux kernel <b>5.6</b>.</li>
148 <li>Fixed several bugs from the <a href="https://github.com/grml/grml/issues/">issue tracking system</a>.</li>
153 <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions in Grml are
154 available in the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit
155 <a href="/files/grml64-full_2020.06/dpkg.list">dpkg_list</a> for a
156 detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2020.06(-rc1).</p>
160 <p>Packages are taken from Debian testing as of FIXME of FIXME 2020.
161 22 packages have been removed, and these 26 new packages
162 have been added (excluding lib*, *-common, python3-* and kernel image):</p>
166 bind9-libs (dependency of avahi-daemon, bind9-dnsutils, bind9host + libnss-mdns)
169 cpp-9 (replacement for cpp-8)
171 fuse3 (dependency of borgbackup, exfat-fuse, ntfs-3g, sshfs + testdisk)
172 gcc-10-base (replacement for gcc-8)
173 gcc-9-base (replacement for gcc-8)
175 logsave (dependency of e2fsprogs)
176 lua-lpeg (dependency of nmap)
180 python3.8 (replacement for python3.7)
181 python3.8-minimal (replacement for python3.7-minimal)
184 ruby2.7 (replacement for ruby2.5)
185 runit-helper (dependency of acpi-support, acpid, irqbalance + openssh-server)
186 sound-theme-freedesktop (dependency of vim-gtk3)
188 usb.ids (dependency of usbutils)
193 <p>These Debian packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib*, *-data, *-common, python-* and kernel image):</p>
197 cpp-8 (replaced with cpp-9)
200 gcc-8-base (replaced with gcc-9-base + gcc-10-base)
215 ruby2.5 (replaced with ruby2.7)
217 vim-gtk (replaced with vim-gtk3)
220 <h3>Known issues</h3>
222 <p>Please visit the <a href="/bugs/known/">known bugs</a> web page.</p>
224 <h3>Download Grml 2020.06-rc1</h3>
226 <p>Grml 2020.06-rc1 can be downloaded from
227 <a href="/download/prerelease/">grml.org/download/prerelease/</a>.</p>
231 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help
232 fixing bugs and improving future releases. If you find a problem with
233 the release please check <a
234 href="/bugs/known/">the known bugs list</a> and report problems using information on <a
235 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>. Please send your feedback and
236 feature requests <a href="/contact/">to the Grml team</a>!</p>
238 <a name="thanks"></a>
241 <p>Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically)
251 Patrick Schleizer and
253 for their contributions.</p>
255 <h3>More Information</h3>
257 <p>You can find out more about Grml on <a href="/">our website</a>, <a
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