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+ <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2024.02-rc1 - codename <a href="/faq/#releasename">Glumpad</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 bookworm.
+ As usual it also incorporates up to date hardware support and fixes known bugs from previous Grml releases.</p>
+
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+ <h3>Important Changes</h3>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>TODO
+ </ul>
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+
+ <h3>New features</h3>
+
+ <p>Highlighting the most relevant changes only:</p>
+
+ <h4>Misc:</h4>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li><strong>grml-hwinfo</strong>: add inxi output and collect information about network devices via ethtool
+ </ul>
+
+ <h4><a href="/grml-live/">grml-live</a> (build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems):</h4>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Initial arm64 / aarch64 support
+ <li>Add support for Debian/trixie (current Debian/testing)
+ <li>Use serial console with a setting of 115200n8 by default
+ <li>Update zsh completion + ship it via Debian package
+ <li>Unify boot options order between isolinux/syslinux and GRUB
+ <li>Improved memtest + chainloader handling
+ <li>Remove Grml release name from the boot options
+ <li>Misc software related changes in GRMLBASE, GRML_SMALL + GRML_FULL classes
+ </ul>
+
+ <h4><a href="/zsh/">grml-zshrc</a> (Zsh configuration):</h4>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>zshrc: fixed outdated url in <em>weather</em> function
+ <li>/etc/skel/.zshrc: suggest J as global alias for jq usage
+ </ul>
+
+ <h4><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a> (wrapper around debootstrap for installing pure Debian):</h4>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Initial arm64 support
+ <li>Add EFI support for VMs
+ <li>Don't install busybox any longer by default
+ <li>Refactored error handling
+ <li>Dropped support for installing releases before jessie
+ <li>Use persistent device names under /dev/disk/by-id/ for GRUB's install_devices
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>Bits & bolts</h3>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Linux kernel <b>6.5</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_2024.02/dpkg.list">dpkg_list</a> for a
+ detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2024.02(-rc1).</p>
+
+ <h3>Updates</h3>
+
+ <p>Packages are taken from Debian trixie/testing as of 2nd of February 2024.
+ The following 9 relevant packages have been added (excluding e.g. lib*, fonts*, *-base/*-bin/*-common/*-core/*-data, gcc-*/cpp-*, perl*, python*, ruby* and kernel image):</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>dhcpcd: DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 dual-stack client (replacement for deprecated isc-dhcp-client)
+ <li>f3: test real flash memory capacity
+ <li>fwupd/fwupd-amd64-signed: Tools to manage UEFI firmware updates
+ <li>lolcat: colorful `cat`
+ <li>lz4: Fast LZ compression algorithm library - tool
+ <li>pixz: (dependency of clonezilla)
+ <li>toilet: display large colourful characters in text mode
+ <li>udisks2: D-Bus service to access and manipulate storage devices
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>The following 9 Debian packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib*, *-base/-bin/*-common/*-core/*-data, gcc-*/cpp-*, perl*, python*, ruby* and kernel image):</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>dmraid: obsolete (see <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/1056944">#1056944</a>)
+ <li>dstat: unmaintained upstream (see <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/1034856">#1034856</a>)
+ <li>fai-server: irrelevant, no longer a dependency of grml-live
+ <li>fakeroot: irrelevant, no longer a dependency of devscripts1056944
+ <li>firmware-ath9k-htc: conflicts with/replaced by firmware-atheros
+ <li>iso-codes: irrelevant, no longer a dependency of qemu-system-*
+ <li>lsb-base: irrelevant, no longer a dependency of uml-utilities
+ <li>lua-lpeg: irrelevant, no longer a dependency of nmap
+ <li>thin-provisioning-tools: broken in Debian/testing (see <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/1041089">#1041089</a>)
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>Known issues</h3>
+
+ <p>Please visit the <a href="/bugs/known/">known bugs</a> web page.</p>
+
+ <h3>Download Grml 2024.02-rc1</h3>
+
+ <p>Grml 2024.02-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 (pre-)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>.
+ We also welcome feature requests and any kind of constructive feedback.
+ If you want to reach out to the Grml team, please visit our <a href="/contact/">contact webpage</a>.</p>
+
+ <a name="thanks"></a>
+ <h3>Thanks</h3>
+
+ <p>Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically)
+ 2f2a,
+ Alhyene,
+ anarcat,
+ András Korn,
+ Chris Hofstaedtler,
+ Christopher Bock,
+ Csillag Tamas,
+ Daniel Richard G,
+ Daniel Winzen,
+ Felix Egli,
+ flobee,
+ GavinPacini,
+ Giovanni Rosa,
+ János Pásztor,
+ Keith Irwin,
+ Marc Haber,
+ Michael Schierl,
+ Patrick Schleizer,
+ Roland Sommer and
+ willmcginnis
+ 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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