Initial release notes for 2013.02-rc1 release
authorMichael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:34:59 +0000 (23:34 +0100)
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+        <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2013.02-rc1 - codename <a
+        href="/faq/#releasename">Grumpy Grinch</a></h1>
+
+        <p><a href="http://grml.org/download/prerelease/">Download Now</a></p>
+
+        <h3>About</h3>
+
+       <p>This release brings the Grml tools towards the upcoming Debian stable
+       release (AKA wheezy), provides up2date hardware support and fixes known
+       bugs from the previous Grml release.</p>
+
+        <h3>New features</h3>
+
+        <ul>
+
+          <li>ssh boot option: display SSH server key fingerprints
+
+         <li>grml-hwinfo: added support for lsscsi, iscsiadm,
+         proxmox/libvirt/openvz/vserver information retrieval, swapon, mdadm,
+         LVM + dmsetup, now using 'lspci -nn' for lspci output
+
+         <li>grml-live: handling firmware related packages in GRMLBASE, added
+         uuid-runtime to GRMLBASE
+
+         <li>grml-network: netcardconfig provides support to scan for available
+         wireless networks
+
+         <li>grml-udev-config: Do not set mount options for NTFS partitions to
+         "ro" any longer
+
+          <li>grml2usb: verify that the bootflag is enabled
+
+          <li>grml2iso: ISOs are dd-able by default
+
+         <li>grml-debootstrap:
+
+          <ul>
+
+            <li>Use http.debian.net as default mirror
+            <li>Set wheezy as the new default release
+            <li>Add acpi-support-base + firmware-linux-free to default package selection
+
+         </ul>
+
+        </ul>
+
+        <h3>Important Changes</h3>
+
+       <ul>
+
+          <li>Debian's live-boot changed the path from /live/image to
+         /lib/live/mount/medium. If you're using /live/image anywhere inside
+         your own custom scripts please adopt your code to use /lib/live/mount/medium
+          starting with Grml 2013.02-rc1.
+
+        </ul>
+
+        <h3>Bits &amp; bolts</h3>
+
+        <ul>
+          <li>Linux kernel is based on <b>3.7.6</b>. No additional modules are shipped.</li>
+          <li>Fixed several bugs from the <a href="http://bts.grml.org/grml/">bug tracking system</a>.</li>
+        </ul>
+
+        <h3>Packages</h3>
+
+        <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions on Grml are
+        available at the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit
+        <a href="/files/release-2013.02-rc1/dpkg_list">dpkg_list</a> for a
+        detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2013.02-rc1.</p>
+
+        <h3>Updates</h3>
+
+        <p>Packages are taken from Debian testing, 11th of February
+        2013. 12 packages have been removed, and these 21 new packages
+        have been added (plus dependencies, excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
+
+<pre class="rahmen">
+  aptitude-common atmel-firmware bluez-firmware cpp-4.7 cryptsetup-bin epdfview
+  firmware-atheros firmware-bnx2 firmware-bnx2x firmware-intelwimax
+  firmware-libertas firmware-linux ifenslave-2.6 insserv libertas-firmware
+  netsniff-ng ruby1.9.1 ssmping uuid-runtime virt-what zd1211-firmware
+</pre>
+
+        <p>These Grml packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
+
+<pre class="rahmen">
+  arrayprobe consolekit cpp-4.6 fuse-utils gcc-4.5-base gcc-4.6-base
+  grub info linux-sound-base smbfs tasksel tasksel-data
+</pre>
+
+        <h3>Known issues</h3>
+
+        <ul>
+
+          <li>grml2hd isn't shipped
+
+         <li>grml-live-remaster doesn't work out-of-the-box because neither
+         mkisofs nor genisoimage are available
+
+        </ul>
+
+        <h3>Download Grml 2013.02-rc1</h3>
+
+        <p>Grml 2013.02-rc1 can be downloaded from
+        <a href="http://grml.org/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)
+       Andras Korn,
+       Bernhard Tittelbach,
+       Charles A. Hewson,
+       Christian Hesse,
+       Christian Hesse ,
+       Christian Hofstaedtler,
+       Christoph Biedl,
+       Csillag Tamas,
+       Dominik Schips,
+       Florian Klien,
+       frenbu,
+       Gregor Herrmann,
+       Lukas Anzinger,
+       Pawel Sadkowski ,
+       Peter Palfrader,
+       Pierre Schmitz,
+       Raoul Raminder Andreas,
+       Thorsten Glaser and
+       Ulrich Dangel
+       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="http://wiki.grml.org/">wiki</a>.
+
+        <p>To sign up for future Grml announcements, please subscribe to <a
+          href="http://ml.grml.org/mailman/listinfo/grml-announce">Grml's
+          announcement list</a>.</p>
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