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Release Notes for Grml 2022.11-rc1 - codename MalGuckes

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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 bookworm. + 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 Grml live system now uses the merged-/usr layout +
Updated Perl from v5.32 to v5.36 +
Updated Python3 from v3.9 to v3.10 +
Updated Ruby from v2.7 to v3.0 + +

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New features

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Highlighting the most relevant changes only:

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Misc:

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grml-terminalserver: suggest a proper IP range usage when configuring DHCP clients +
netcardconfig: netcardconfig: avoid suggesting default gateway if a default route exists already +

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grml-live (build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems):

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Support Memtest86+ with UEFI +
Support Debian/bookworm +
Support for ZFS via new ZFS FAI class +
Provide workaround for kmod/initramfs-tools issue with NFS/netboot +
Exclude /var/lib/dkms/* from squashfs +
GRMLBASE/50-lvm: also clear /lib/udev/rules.d/69-lvm.rules +
Disable man-db settings to speed up package installation +
Use grubx64.efi file from grml_chroot, instead of relying on host system +
isolinux: fix toram=... variable usage within isolinux configs +
Provide information how ISO was generated in file conf/buildinfo.json +
Misc software related changes in GRMLBASE, GRML_SMALL + GRML_FULL classes +

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grml2usb (tool to install Grml ISO to usb device):

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grml2iso: support parallel execution +

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grml-hwinfo (tool to collect hardware information):

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Iterate over present disks to collect sfdisk -d information +

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grml-zshrc (Zsh configuration):

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zshrc: run tlog alias with --follow=name +
zshrc: support setting title in foot terminal emulator +
zshrc: use ip from iproute2 with color support +
zshrc: support NOETCHOSTS option to deactivate parsing of "/etc/hosts" for host completion +
zshrc: do not unconditionally overwrite $COLORTERM +
tmux.conf: source user-specific local conf file ~/.tmux.conf.local +
tmux.conf: Add bind-key J to join marked pane to active window +

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grml-debootstrap (wrapper around debootstrap for installing pure Debian):

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EFI support: fix for grub-install usage with efivarfs +
Install dbus by default +
VMs: create partition with alignment starting at 4MiB + ending at 100% +

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Bits & bolts

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Linux kernel 6.0.
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 2022.11(-rc1).

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Updates

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Packages are taken from Debian bookworm/testing as of 11th of November 2022. + The following 18 packages have been added (excluding lib*, *-base/*-bin/*-common/*-core/*-data, cpp-*, perl*, python*, ruby* and kernel image):

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dbus-daemon: simple interprocess messaging system +
exfatprogs: exFAT file system utilities +
f2fs-tools: Tools for Flash-Friendly File System +
hping3: Active Network Smashing Tool +
inetutils-telnet: telnet client +
jo: command-line processor to output JSON from a shell +
mbuffer: tool for buffering data streams +
myrescue: rescue data from damaged disks +
nftables: Program to control packet filtering rules by Netfilter project +
ntpsec: Network Time Protocol daemon and utility programs +
ntpsec-ntpdate: client for setting system time from NTP servers +
ntpsec-ntpdig: ntpdig SNTP client +
pkexec: run commands as another user with polkit authorization +
polkitd: framework for managing administrative policies and privileges +
sqlite3: Command line interface for SQLite 3 +
stenc: SCSI Tape Encryption Manager +
usrmerge: Convert the system to the merged /usr directories scheme +
util-linux-extra: interactive login tools +

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The following 26 Debian packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib*, *-base/-bin/*-common/*-core/*-data, cpp-*, perl*, python*, ruby* and kernel image):

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bacula-console/bacula-fd/bacula-sd (no longer considered relevant for the live system) +
bonnie++ (use fio for benchmarking) +
bsdmainutils (transitional package, replaced by bsdutils, debianutils, bsdextrautils and ncal (ncal not being shipped by Grml)) +
espeak (replaced by espeak-ng) +
exfat-utils (replaced by exfatprogs) +
facter/hiera/mcollective/puppet (no longer considered relevant for the live system) +
firmware-intelwimax (no longer shipped with firmware-nonfree) +
glib-networking/glib-networking-services/gsettings-desktop-schemas (used to be dependencies of firefox/qemu-system-gui/usbview/vim-gtk3) +
mercurial (no longer considered relevant for the live system) +
ncal (no longer considered relevant for the live system) +
nilfs-tools (used to be a dependency of partclone) +
ntp (replaced by ntpsec/ntpsec-ntpdate/ntpsec-ntpdig) +
ntpdate (replaced by ntpsec/ntpsec-ntpdate/ntpsec-ntpdig) +
slurm (no longer available in Debian/testing, see #993874) +
subversion (no longer considered relevant for the live system) +
tshark (requires ~155MB of disk space, please raise your voice if it should be part of the stable release) +
update-inetd (used to be a dependecy of atftpd) +
wireshark/wireshark-qt (requires ~155MB of disk space, please raise your voice if it should be part of the stable release) +

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Known issues

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Please visit the known bugs web page.

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Download Grml 2022.11-rc1

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Grml 2022.11-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 (pre-)release, please check the known bugs list and report problems using information on grml.org/bugs/. + We also welcome feature requests and any kind of constructive feedback. + If you want to reach out to the Grml team, please visit our contact webpage.

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Thanks

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Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically) + Alexander Kobel, + AndrÃ¡s Korn, + Arun, + Atrate, + Bhoppi Chaw, + Chris Hofstaedtler, + Chris S, + Christian Hesse, + Christoph Biedl, + d630, + Evgeni Golov, + Frank Terbeck, + Hanabishi, + Karl Voit, + Manuel Rom, + miles170, + PÃ¡sztor JÃ¡nos, + Ralf Moll, + Roman Volosatovs and + Thorsten Glaser + for their contributions.

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More Information

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