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+ <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2021.07-rc1 - codename <a href="/faq/#releasename">Jaukerl</a></h1>
+
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+ <h3>About</h3>
+
+ <p>Grml is a Debian based live system focusing on the needs of system administrators.
+ This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian bullseye.
+ As usual it also incorporates up to date hardware support and fixes known bugs from previous Grml releases.</p>
+
+ <h3>Important Changes</h3>
+
+ <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 network configuration tool <em>netcardconfig</em> no longer prompts for uncommon wireless/WiFi options, and therefore simplifying and speeding up its usage
+
+ <li>
+
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>New features</h3>
+
+ <p>Highlighting the most relevant changes only:</p>
+
+ <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
+
+ <h4><a href="/grml-live/">grml-live</a> (build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems):</h4>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Support EFI capable ipxe.efi boot addon
+ <li>GRUB: don't display BIOS only addons when running in EFI mode
+ <li>Provide setup files for EFI boot in netboot package
+ <li>initramfs-tools: use upstream's xz handling to support multithreading
+ <li>GRMLBASE/16-depmod: no longer rely on /boot/System.map-* file
+ <li>Use 1m as new default squashfs block size
+ <li>GRUB templates: do not set root/chainloader but just exit for boot from next device
+ <li>GRUB templates: provide menu entry for UEFI Firmware Settings
+ <li>GRMLBASE/01-packages: also detect and report unknown package names
+ <li>Several software packaging related changes in GRMLBASE, GRML_SMALL + GRML_FULL
+ </ul>
+
+ <h4><a href="/grml2usb/">grml2usb</a> (tool to install Grml ISO to usb device):</h4>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Use <em>GRML</em> as FAT label when creating the file system
+ <li>Fix race condition with blockdev/BLKRRPART due to lack of fsync
+ </ul>
+
+ <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
+ </ul>
+
+ <h4><a href="/zsh/">grml-zshrc</a> (Zsh configuration):</h4>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>zshrc: no longer set histignorealldups
+ <li>zshrc: add lrzip support for simple-extract()
+ <li>zshrc: set title in alacritty
+ <li>zshrc: enable transient_rprompt to fix sad-smiley situation in rprompt
+ </ul>
+
+ <h4><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a> (wrapper around debootstrap for installing pure Debian):</h4>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Use bullseye as default Debian release
+ <li>No longer automatically install os-prober
+ <li>Support XFS and F2FS in VMs
+ <li>EFI support: check + mount efivarfs to support Debian kernels >=5.10
+ <li>Improve EFI detection
+ <li>Bail out if architecture isn't set nor can be identified automatically
+ <li>Use shorter fs label for EFI partition to not break with recent dosfstools
+ <li>Do not enable escape characters on dumb terminals
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>Bits & bolts</h3>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Linux kernel <b>5.10</b>.</li>
+ <li>Fixed several bugs from the <a href="https://github.com/grml/grml/issues/">issue tracking system</a>.</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>Packages</h3>
+
+ <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions in Grml are
+ available in the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit
+ <a href="/files/grml64-full_2021.07/dpkg.list">dpkg_list</a> for a
+ detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2021.07(-rc1).</p>
+
+ <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>
+
+ <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>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>mokutil (tools for manipulating machine owner keys)
+ <li>ncal (display a calendar, dependency of bsdmainutils)
+ <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>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>
+
+ <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>moblin-icon-theme (unmaintained upstream)
+ <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>
+
+ <p>Please visit the <a href="/bugs/known/">known bugs</a> web page.</p>
+
+ <h3>Download Grml 2021.07-rc1</h3>
+
+ <p>Grml 2021.07-rc1 can be downloaded from
+ <a href="/download/prerelease/">grml.org/download/prerelease/</a>.</p>
+
+ <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>
+
+ <a name="thanks"></a>
+ <h3>Thanks</h3>
+
+ <p>Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically)
+ a-wing,
+ Chris Hofstaedtler,
+ dann frazier,
+ Evgeni Golov,
+ Guillem Jover,
+ Helmut Grohne,
+ lunik1,
+ Manuel Montecelo,
+ Manuel Rom,
+ Mihai Moldovan,
+ Paul Menzel,
+ Ralf Moll,
+ Simon Bruder and
+ Volodymyr Fedorov
+ for their contributions.</p>
+
+ <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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