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<!-- SPDX-FileCopyrightText: no
SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0
-->
This is the changelog for Calamares. For each release, the major changes and
contributors are listed. Note that Calamares does not have a historical
changelog -- this log starts with version 3.2.0. The release notes on the
website will have to do for older versions.
# 3.2.53 (3022-03-04) #
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
- Huang Jia Wen (new contributor! Welcome!)
## Core ##
- Automount-manipulation (to switch off KDE Plasma automounting new devices)
now logs slightly more as it works. Defaults have changed in KDE Plasma
5.24 and it turns out the automount-manipulation does not work well.
Distro's are encouraged to turn off automount in the live ISO (see #1885).
## Modules ##
- *bootloader* now knows about loongarch64 and can install suitable EFI
files for this CPU type. (Thanks Huang Jia Wen)
- Progress reporting for `pacman` from the *packages* module has been switched
off. The progress reporting works under low load, but there are many reports
of it crashing (from XeroLinux and from Evan James, who has been debugging
the issue) during a regular installation with thousands of updates. This
will be revisited in the next release.
- The *umount* module was buggy and did not actually unmount anything.
# 3.2.52 (2022-02-25) #
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
- Evan James
## Core ##
- No core changes yet
## Modules ##
- *fstab* recognizes nvme and mmc devices correctly as SSDs now. #1883
- *luksbootkeyfile* handles trailing slashes in mount point
- *partition* can be built with a new `SKIP` option, which skips
the actual formatting steps but does not fail. The old `LAME`
option is renamed `BAIL_OUT`.
- *users* has a new key *sudoersConfigureWithGroup* to allow for
different styles of sudo configuration. #1887
# 3.2.51 (2022-02-01) #
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
- Evan James
**WARNING** The *umount* module has been rewritten in C++. Check your
configuration if you previously used the copy-a-log functionality.
## Core ##
- Evan has made a start on documenting which Global Storage keys there
are and how they tie modules together. This can be found in the
`src/modules/README.md` documentation.
## Modules ##
- *bootloader* can now be configured to try to generate a unique
suffix for the bootloader-id. #1820
- *grubcfg* now has a configurable default for kernel parameters,
which allows distributions to change the value from `quiet`.
The default, if nothing is set, remains `quiet`. Use an explicitly-
empty list to specify no-arguments-at-all.
- *packagechooser* can now export its choices for use by the *netinstall*
module. This makes it possible to use *packagechooser* for large-scale
choices, followed by *netinstall* for fine-grained control. (Thanks Evan)
- When the *partition* module has a conflicting configuration for the
swap choices, it prints a warning and uses the configured choice, rather
than always using "suspend". #1881
- The *umount* module has been re-written in C++. The copy-a-log-file
functionality has been removed. Use the *preservefiles* module for that.
# 3.2.50 (2022-01-18) #
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
- Anke Boersma
- Erik Dubois
- Evan James
- Johannes Kamprad
- Taejun Park (new contributor, welcome!)
**Replacement notice:** The *umount* module will be replaced by a C++
implementation in the next release. The "preserve log file" feature
will be removed in that release. Use the *preservefiles* module instead.
## Core ##
- No core changes yet
## Modules ##
- *initcpiocfg* mentioned a special kernel-name "all", which did not work,
and a special kernel-name "$uname" which cannot work. Fixed the former
and removed the "$uname" special key. (Thanks Evan)
- *luksswaphookcfg* has been converted to a C++ module.
- *networkcfg* could fail to update the NetworkManager configuration
if the SSID or username contained non-ASCII characters **and** the
default Python text-file encoding was set to ASCII. The files are
now read and written in UTF-8, explicitly. #1848
- *partition* always sets *bigtime* option on XFS filesystems, if possible.
Requires sufficiently-recent xfsprogs. #1874
- *preservefiles* was missing some necessary features, needed for it
to replace the deprecated log-file-saving functionality in the *umount*
module. (Thanks Erik and Joe for testing) #1851
- *umount* is now marked as an emergency module in the example configuration,
since it should **probably** be run as a cleanup. (Thanks Evan)
- *welcome* and *locale* could be confusing, together, and configure
the target system with a language that does not match the installer
language, even though the user did not make any explicit choice.
(Thanks Taejun) #1864
# 3.2.49.1 (2021-12-11) #
This is a hot-fix release, to fix a regression in the calculation of
swap-size. Reported by EndeavourOS (Joe Kamprad) and Xero Linux.
# 3.2.49 (2021-12-10) #
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
- Artem Grinev
- Evan James
Distributions are **specifically** reminded to update the *umount* module
configuration (and to use *preservefiles* if needed).
## Core ##
- Errors (e.g. when an installation fails for whatever reason) are displayed
in a dialog with a scrollable details panel, rather than growing up
to the size of the screen. (Thanks Artem)
## Modules ##
- *bootloader* better supports multiple installations of the same OS.
- *mount* supports btrfs subvolumes on subdirectories of / now.
- *partition* now supports "deep" btrfs subvolume names, e.g. a
separate subvolume for `/usr/local`. (Thanks Evan)
- The *umount* module now warns if the "preserve log file" feature is used.
This has been deprecated for a long time: use the *preservefiles* module
instead. A future release will turn this into an error.
# 3.2.48 (2021-12-03) #
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
- Evan James
## Core ##
- Python modules now have `warn()` and `error()` methods they can call,
alongside the existing `debug()` and `warning()` (all live in the
*libcalamares.utils* module).
- Python modules can load YAML files via `libcalamares.utils.load_yaml()`.
This may be the most useful for test-scripts.
## Modules ##
- *fstab* now has a separate, special, flags-setting for swap subvolumes
on btrfs. A swap subvolume is created if a swap **file** (not a separate
partition) is selected in the auto-partitioning page. (Thanks Evan)
- When using btrfs, the *mount* module creates subvolumes. It was not
possible to **avoid** having a subvolume name created for the root.
This is now possible. #1837
- The *packages* module now has some special settings for the `pacman`
package manager (generally used on Arch-derivatives). This allows
tweaking of the installation process, if downloads are slow or
packages may fail to install. See the `packages.conf` file for
details. (Thanks Evan)
# 3.2.47 (2021-11-19) #
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
- Evan James
- Jonas Strassel
## Core ##
- The translation for Sinhala (`si`) has reached 100%. Thank you to
හෙළබස and Sandaruwan, translators for Sinhala, for special effort
in completing that translation.
- Logging now supports Redacted names. This reduces the scope for
leaking names or other private information through the logs
(if they are posted to a pastebin). A name is redacted consistently
within one run of Calamares, but differently each time.
## Modules ##
- *bootloader* with systemd-boot now handles root subvolumes better
(Thanks Evan)
- *displaymanager* supports the *greetd* display manager, which is a
kind of meta-DM itself, supporting multiple greeters. (Thanks Jonas)
- *finishedq* now has an extra example QML file that builds the UI in
a different fashion, demonstrating how a mobile-OS customization of
Calamares would present the "all done" message.
- *fstab* has an example configuration file that mentioned `space_cache`
as an option. Since 2014 there was only one possible value, so this
option matched the default-and-only value. Newer kernels with newer
btrfs versions have a `v2` option value as well. Remove the example
option, since the kernel automatically picks the right value, while
setting it to the wrong one may prevent the system from booting.
(Thanks Evan)
- The *partition* module no longer logs recognizable disk names or
UUIDs. These are redacted in the logs. #1593
- The *partition* module, together with the new *zfs* module and changes
in *mount* and *bootloader* can install to ZFS **if** the distribution
kernel supports it. ZFS tools are required, as well as the relevant
kernel modules. See the `README.md` in the *zfs* module. (Thanks Evan)
# 3.2.46 (2021-11-09) #
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
- Philip Müller
## Core ##
- A new core class `Runner` is now responsible for running commands
either in the host or in the target system. This is invisible for
end-users, but **does** expand the API available to consumers inside
Calamares modules. In particular, Python modules can now easily read
and respond to command output. #1740
## Modules ##
- *fstab* writes a slightly different message in `/etc/crypttab`
about the root filesystem. Since Calamares itself ignores the
(previous wording of) message, it was confusing. #1811
- *packages* module has some support for reporting progress while
the packages are installed. This depends on the package-manager itself
reporting useful progress information **and** the *packages* module having
support-code to interpret that progress. A proof-of-concept for `pacman`
has been implemented. #1582
- *partition* has a number of edge-cases for LVM and LUKS resolved. #1564 #1817
- *partition* module once again always offers `/boot` as a mount-point, even
when EFI would want `/boot/efi`. (Thanks Phil)
- *summary* had a regression and showed some descriptive texts twice.
# 3.2.45 (2021-10-31) #
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
- Evan James (new contributor, welcome!)
## Core ##
- New internal convenience functions from Evan
## Modules ##
- *packagechooser* now displays screenshots nicely-scaled
rather than jagged. (#1807)
- *partition* module removes ZFS partitions directly. At install-time,
we think that the partitions should be handled separately from a
zpool that potentially includes those partitions. (Thanks Evan)
- *services-systemd* supports timers, e.g. for weekly trim on SSDs.
(Thanks Evan)
# 3.2.44.3 (2021-10-04) #
This is not a hotfix release, but a tiny-tiny incremental improvement
that fixes one hugely annoying -- user-facing message presenting
bytes as mebibytes -- bug in the partition module.
## Modules ##
- The *partition* module now consistently uses the configured EFI
partition size (defaults to 300MiB).
- Internal changes in the *summary* module to increase consistency
between *summary* and *summaryq*.
# 3.2.44.2 (2021-09-27) #
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
- Corey Lang (new contributor, welcome!)
This is a hotfix for a typo -- not a syntax error -- that affects the
*networkcfg* module. Reported and fixed by Corey.
# 3.2.44.1 (2021-09-24) #
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
- Anke Boersma
This is a hotfix for a typo -- not a syntax error -- that affects the
*initcpiocfg* module. Reported and fixed by Anke.
# 3.2.44 (2021-09-24) #
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
- Anke Boersma
- Shrinivas Vishnu Kumbhar (new contributor, welcome!)
- whorfin (new contributor, welcome!)
## Core ##
- "Log spam" has been reduced a little in the partitioning module.
## Modules ##
- *initcpiocfg* has had a number of internal code-fixes, and now adds
the `consolefont` hook by default as well. (Thanks Shrinivas)
- Both *locale* and *keyboard* have received some tweaks for configurations
in India; unless the user selects otherwise, English is preferred.
- The *luksbootkeyfile* module was reported to be too quick to declare
a timeout when applying the keyfile. The timeout has been increased
to one minute. (Thanks whorfin)
- *networkcfg* tries harder to find the live-user login for re-working
networking settings. This fixes a regression on FerenOS, where the
installer was crashing because it could not find the live-user login.
# 3.2.43 (2021-09-17) #
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
- Anke Boersma
- Joe Kamprad
## Core ##
- Translations have been made more consistent. In particular, some *OK*,
*Yes*, *No* and *Cancel* buttons that were previously untranslated
or "stuck" in the language that Calamares started in, are now
changed to the current language as selected in the welcome page.
- Documentation improvements from Joe Kamprad. A *sizeLimit* of zero
(which is the default if nothing is set in the branding configuration)
disables log uploads.
## Modules ##
- The *keyboardq* module (QML-based UI for keyboard-layout-selection)
now features an interactive keyboard preview and has the
layout adjusted. (Thanks Anke)
# 3.2.42 (2021-09-06) #
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
- Anke Boersma
- Artem Grinev
- Nico 'dr460nf1r3' (new contributor, welcome!)
- Waneon Kim (new contributor, welcome!)
## Core ##
- No core changes yet
## Modules ##
- BTRFS partitions are no longer listed as "check in phase 2" in
the *fstab* module. (Thanks Nico)
- The *keyboard* module (and *keyboardq*) now pick an English layout
(with Rupee) for keyboards when the language is English and locale is India,
rather than Hindi layout.
- The *localeq* module had the i18n.qml rewritten to make it easier
to customize. A bug in the layout has been fixed, and the overall
look has been updated.
- *networkcfg* now translates the "live user" on an ISO to the regular
user on the installed system, so that network configuration changes
made in the live system are automatically used after installation. #1755
- *partition* no longer allows you to delete an extended partition with
children (which led to crashes). #1749 (Thanks Artem)
- *partition* complains in more detail about the state of the UEFI
boot partition (under manual partitioning schemes). #1761
- *welcome* can now check multiple URLs to determine if internet connectivity
is available. It is still recommended to check the distro home-page or
some special "ping" page of the distro, although that has some privacy
implications; using example.com or google.com may work as well. Listing
multiple URLs will ping each of them in turn until one succeeds. #1669
- The work to make a QML version available for all view modules is almost
completed. Two new QML modules have been added *packagechooserq* and *summaryq*.
Summaryq brings the option to present the summary page in a customizable
way, with a bit more of a contemporary look. Packagechooserq adds the option
to preselect an item and displays all options in one overview.
(Thanks Anke)
# 3.2.41.1 (2021-08-05) #
This is a hotfix release for a crash in the *partition* module, reported on
KDE neon. #1746
# 3.2.41 (2021-07-31) #
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
- Anke Boersma
- Camilo Higuita
## Core ##
- The (re)translation framework has been internally re-vamped to be
less resource-intensive and to work with all QObjects, not just
widgets. Consumers of the translations framework are expected to
set up the event filter on the top-level widget(s) manually. Since
Calamares and the Calamares-test-applications have been adjusted already,
no further action is needed.
## Modules ##
- When the *keyboard* module is activated, it no longer replaces
an explicit user choice (e.g. for a Belgian layout) by a guessed-for-
this-language layout (e.g. Danish if you're installing in Danish).
- Logic for handling installation lists has been moved around in the
*packages* module so that package managers can, in principle,
adjust how to handle critical and non-critical package lists.
- In the *partition* module, translation code has been simplified.
- The *usersq* module has had a fair bit of QML rewritten to make it easier
to customize the colors used by the module in a consistent way.
(Thanks Anke)
- *Welcome* now uses a translated message from the Config object,
increasing the sharing between widgets- and QML-modules.
# 3.2.40 (2021-07-14) #
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
- Anke Boersma
- Anubhav Choudhary (SoK success!)
- Emmanuel Arias (new contributor! welcome!)
- Erik Dubois
- Jerrod Frost (new contributor! welcome!)
- Jia Chao (new contributor! welcome!)
- Joe Kamprad
- Lisa Vitolo (blast from the past!)
- Omer I.S. (new contributor! welcome!)
In project news, chat (instant-messaging) communications has largely
moved to Matrix and Libera.Chat. CI notifications -- issues and build
results -- are sent to Matrix only.
## Core ##
- The CMake modules for consumption by external modules (e.g. the
calamares-extensions repository, but also any other modules built
by distro's for internal use) now support consistent skip-module
behavior and reporting. #1641 (one tiny part of this change)
- In global storage, the *filesystem_use* key now has an API in
libcalamares to systematically mark filesystem (types) as "in use"
or not. This, in turn, means that modules can depend on that information
for other work (e.g. removing drivers for unused filesystems). #1635
- The "upload log file" now has a configurable log-file-size. (Thanks Anubhav)
## Modules ##
- *bootloader* can now install an aarch64 (ARM) compatible EFI GRUB. (Thanks Jia)
- *displaymanager* example configuration has been shuffled around a bit,
for better results when the live image is running XFCE. Also lists
more potential display managers. #1205 (Thanks Erik)
- *keyboard* now switches on an alternate `en_US` keyboard layout when
Arabic or Hebrew is selected as primary layout. (Thanks Omer)
- *localeq* now has a fully functional offline option (alongside the default
interactive map option, which requires internet).
- The *netinstall* module can now fall back to alternative URLs when
loading groups data. The first URL to yield a non-empty groups
collection is accepted. No changes are needed in the configuration. #1673
- *packagechooser* can now integrate with the *packages* module; that
means you can specify package names to install for a given selection,
and the regular package-installation mechanism will take care of it.
Legacy configurations that use *contextualprocess* are still supported.
See the `packagechooser.conf` file for details. #1550
- A long-neglected pull request from Lisa Vitolo for the *partition*
module -- allowing to set filesystem labels during manual partitioning --
has been revived and merged.
- The *partition* manager has had a long-standing bug with partition-flags
and manual partitioning resolved. This may help resolve some installation
issues on UEFI systems. #1724
- *usersq* is further implemented and can now be used for a successful install.
Not all warning messages available in the regular users module are implemented.
# 3.2.39.3 (2021-04-14) #
A minor bugfix tweak release. Since this contains yet **another**
autologin-related fix, and there is nothing large enough to justify
a 3.2.40 release yet, add it to the growing tail of 3.2.39. (Reported
by Joe Kamprad, #1672). Also fixes a regression from 3.2.28 in
localized packages (e.g. *package-LOCALE* did not work).
# 3.2.39.2 (2021-04-02) #
This is **another** hotfix release for issues around autologin ..
autoLogin, really, since the whole problem is that internal capitalization
changed. An unrelated bug in writing /etc/default/keyboard was
also fixed. (Reported by pcrepix, #1668)
# 3.2.39.1 (2021-03-30) #
This hotfix release corrects a regression in the *displaymanager*
module caused by changes in the *users* module; autologin was
internally renamed and no longer recognized by the *displaymanager*
module. (Reported by Erik Dubois, #1665)
# 3.2.39 (2021-03-19) #
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
- Matti Hyttinen
## Core ##
- A *packages* service has been added to the core, for use by
*netinstall* module and any others that need to set up
package information for the *packages* module.
## Modules ##
- The *mount* module has gained a configurable setup for btrfs volumes.
If your distro has a default-to-btrfs setup, it can skip the hard-
coded setup (which Calamares has had for a long time with @home
and similar) and introduce a custom btrfs configuration through the
`mount.conf` file. See issues #1659 and #1661 for warnings about
using this in production.
- *netinstall* now supports fallbacks for the groups data.
Instead of a single URL, multiple URLs may be specified in
a list and Calamares goes through them until one is successfully
retrieved. Older configurations with a single string are
treated like a one-item list. #1579
- The *usersq* module now connects to the internal configuration
object and may be usable for regular installations.
# 3.2.38.1 (2021-03-15) #
This hotfix release is for this item in the release notes of 3.2.38:
- The .desktop file for Calamares now makes a longer trip, calling
`sh -c "pkexec calamares"`; distributions may still need to adjust.
The change had been lost while updating other files. It has been restored
in `calamares.desktop` and `calamares.desktop.in`. (Reported by Erik)
Other minor changes and fixes:
- presets in the *users* module show the hostname, too,
- translations update for Korean, Ukranian and Chinese (zh_TW).
# 3.2.38 (2021-03-14) #
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
- Anke Boersma
- Anubhav Choudhary
- Neal Gompa
## Core ##
- Uploading your log files (in case of installation failure) has been
expanded and is now more configurable. Users should still take care
when uploading logs, and distro's should configure a URL with
no public viewing of those logs. (Thanks Anubhav)
- The .desktop file for Calamares now makes a longer trip, calling
`sh -c "pkexec calamares"`; distributions may still need to adjust.
## Modules ##
- A new QML-based *finishedq* module has been added. (Thanks Anke)
- The *packages* module no longer supports *urpmi*; no Calamares-
consumers with that package manager seem to exist. (Thanks Neal)
- The *users* module now can set a fixed username and prevent editing.
The *presets* configuration entry in `users.conf` can set a *loginName*
and a *fullName* and (independently) enable or disable editing of
that value. You can, for instance, set *loginName* to "manjaro" if
you like; the user can change it afterwards. You could set the
*loginName* to "oem" and prevent editing it as well. #942
# 3.2.37 (2021-02-23) #
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
- benne-dee
## Core ##
- Calamares has a table of 'best guess' languages for each country
and when GeoIP is enabled, it will automatically select that
country's language as default -- the user can of course pick
a different one. The 'best guess' is based on Unicode / ISO
data, which is sometimes dubious. Based on some personal notes,
the 'best guess' language for Belarus has been changed to Russian.
- Calamares has a table of 'best guess' keyboard mappings,
allowing native language input. However, usernames and
passwords should be in US-ASCII (this is a limitation of
the login system -- **some** parts of the system will support
non-ASCII input, but it's better safe than sorry).
Add Greek to the list of languages that needs US-ASCII
in addition to native input.
- The CI infrastructure now builds Calamares and Calamares-extensions
on a nightly basis.
## Modules ##
- The *netinstall* module has a YAML schema, allowing packagers
to validate and verify their netinstall configurations before
shipping an ISO (or writing bug reports). Thanks benne-dee.
- The *finished* module has been heavily refactored, opening
the way to a QML-based version of the same module. This is
also preparatory work for allowing packagers (e.g. PostmarketOS)
to customize the messages on the finished page.
# 3.2.36 (2021-02-03) #
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
- Anubhav Choudhary
- benne-dee
- Gaël PORTAY
- Jonas Strassel
- Kevin Kofler
- Matti Hyttinen
- Neal Gompa
## Core ##
- It is now possible to hide the *next* and *back* buttons during
the "exec" phase of installation. Thanks Anubhav.
- The Calamares CI has migrated to GitHub actions. Thanks Jonas.
## Modules ##
- *bootloader* now uses the current file names for the UEFI Secure Boot
shim instead of obsolete ones.
- The *mount* module creates swap in its own subvolume, if btrfs is used.
Thanks Matti.
- *partition* includes more information about what it will do, including
GPT partition types (in human-readable format, if possible). Thanks Gaël.
- Some edge-cases with overlay filesystems have been resolved in the
*partition* module. Thanks Gaël.
- During the creation of filesystems and partitions, automounting is
turned off (if DBus is available, and the host system supports
KDE Solid automount control). This should reduce the number of
failed installations if automount grabs partitions while they are
being created. The code is prepared to handle other ways to control
automount-behavior as well.
# 3.2.35.1 (2020-12-07) #
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
- Anubhav Choudhary
- Matti Hyttinen
Some strange string artifacts appeared, leading to `{1?}` being
displayed in various user-facing messages. These have been removed
and the translations updated.
## Modules ##
- The *initcpiocfg* module would sometimes configure the system to ask
for a passphrase, when none is needed.
# 3.2.35 (2020-11-30) #
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
- Clarissa Borges
- Matti Hyttinen
A new kind of issue template has been added for Calamares,
for reporting (and adding tests for) usability issues. Thanks
to Clarissa for leading that effort.
## Core ##
- No core changes yet
## Modules ##
- The *partition* module now supports a not-full-disk-encryption setup,
where `/boot` is not encrypted, but the rest of the system is.
- The *plasmalnf* module has been substantially rewritten, so that it
can support a QML version of the module in future. The UI has changed
a little, and now displays more themes than before.
# 3.2.34 (2020-11-16) #
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
- Artem Grinev
- Gaël PORTAY
## Core ##
- No core changes yet
## Modules ##
- The *keyboard* module had a regression in which it no-longer painted
the keycaps in the keyboard preview. (reported by Vinnie)
- The *plasmalnf* module did not set all of the look-and-feel values
in the target system. (reported by Bluestar Linux)
- In the *users* module, warnings about the strength of the password
are now correctly pluralized when possible.
- In the *users* module, if ICU is installed, the user's full name is
automatically transliterated to US-ASCII (for some locales; this will
need tweaking) so that the login name is acceptable. (Thanks Artem)
# 3.2.33 (2020-11-09) #
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
- Anke Boersma
- Andrius Štikonas
- Artem Grinev
- Gaël PORTAY
- Matti Hyttinen
- TTran Me
## Core ##
- Calamares now sets the C++ standard for compilation to C++17; this
is for better compatibility and fewer warnings when building with
modern KDE Frameworks and KPMcore 4.2.0.
- Vietnamese translations have been added. Welcome! (Thanks TTran)
## Modules ##
- The *initcpiocfg* module should support plymouth with encryption
now. (Thanks Matti)
- The *keyboard* and *keyboardq* modules now share backend code
and handle non-ASCII layouts better (for setting passwords
and usernames). (Thanks Artem)
- Various cleanups and documentation improvements in the *partition*
module, and configurable GPT name for swap. (Thanks Gaël)
- A long-standing bug related to GPT partition flags in the
*partition* module has been resolved. #1327 #1267
- The *users* module now has a more detailed way to specify
user groups -- which may be system groups rather than user-GIDs.
A new option in each group can require that the group already
exists in the target system, allowing for better consistency checks
with the squashfs. #1523
# 3.2.32.1 (2020-10-17) #
This is a release to address source-incompatible changes in KPMcore 4.2.0,
which was released just before Calamares 3.2.32 and had not yet been
compile-tested. There is also one changed message in the translations,
reported by Yuri Chornoivan.
# 3.2.32 (2020-10-16) #
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
- Fabian Tomat
- Gaël PORTAY
## Core ##
- When doing GeoIP lookups, Calamares pretends to be Firefox.
This resolves an issue where the GeoIP provider was refusing
QNAM connections with the default User-Agent.
- New translation available, Friulian. Welcome!
## Modules ##
- The *netinstall* module has some tricky configuration files;
it now complains about more cases of bad syntax or poor structure.
- The *partition* module can now be constrained to work only with
a particular kind of partition table. (thanks Gaël)
- The *partition* module is a little more resilient to variations
in btrfs notation from os-prober.
- The *shellprocess* module now supports having a different progress
message (other than "Shell Processes Job") through the config file.
# 3.2.31 (2020-10-06) #
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
- Corentin Noël
- kadler15 (new contributor! hi!)
## Core ##
- At the start of the *exec* phase, an overview is given of the
various job weights, which allows you to tweak the overall
progress reporting during the installation.
- Problems with running Calamares on a 1-core single CPU have been resolved.
## Modules ##
- The *keyboard* module now recognizes Turkish "F" layout and
will set the vconsole keyboard layout correctly even if xkb
keymaps are not found.
- The *machineid* module, which generates UUIDs for systemd and dbus
and can generate entropy files (filled from `/dev/urandom` in the host
system) now supports more than one entropy file; generate them as needed
(or copy a fixed value to all, depending on *entropy-copy*). Deprecate
*entropy* (which generates a specific output file) as too inflexible.
- In the *partition* module, swap can now be chosen as *file*, which is
**not** create a swap partition, but write a `/swapfile` in the root
directory, 512MiB large, and set that as swap. There is as yet no
"smarts" about the size of the swap file.
- Multiple problems in the *partition* module around partition
sizing have been resolved by Corentin Noël.
- The *preservefiles* module documentation did not match the functionality,
and when used, didn't work right. #1521 (thanks kadler15)
- Progress reporting from the *unpackfs* module has been revamped:
it reports more often now, so that it is more obvious that files
are being transferred even when the percentage progress does not
change.
- The *unpackfs* module now supports a *weight* setting for each
of the unpack entries. For a single entry this does not matter,
but if there are multiple entries it allows tweaking the relative
progress between each entry.
# 3.2.30 (2020-09-03) #
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
- Anke Boersma
- Asif Mahmud Shimon
- Manzoor Ahmed Munawar
- Sai Kamal
- Victor Ibragimov
This release has two giant source-code changes that have no effect
on functionality, but do touch each and every source file:
- SPDX headers for licensing information, following the standard
set by REUSE.software ; all source files and resources have
SPDX-License-Identifier information and copyright notices. All
of the boilerplate texts have been removed.
- Calamares coding style has been mechanically applied to the entire
codebase. This was already done to most of it, but there were
some hold-outs.
## Core ##
- Network access status is deprecated in Qt 5.15's QNetworkAccessManager,
and was not useful already in some previous versions. Replace its
use in the Calamares network service by testing-it-ourself directly
via a synchronous ping. (Thanks to Asif)
- New Telugu translation. (Thanks to Sai)
- Urdu translation started. (Thanks to Manzoor)
- Timezones translated in Tajik and Russian. (Thanks to Victor)
## Modules ##
- *keyboardq* and *localeq* improvements. (Thanks to Anke)
- *users* module did not set up autologin properly. This is yet another
regression left over from 3.2.28. (Reported by Phil and pcrepix, #1498)
- *welcome* module now sets the *LANG* key in the locale configuration
(which is shared with the *locale* module and consumed by the
*localecfg* module). This makes it feasible to drop the *locale*
module and still set the installed system's language to the language
selected in Calamares. (Reported by FerenOS)
# 3.2.29 (2020-08-20) #
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
- Asif Mahmud Shimon (new contributor! hi!)
## Core ##
- Edge case in extracting string-lists from YAML, reported and fixed
by Asif (#1491).
- Progress reporting is now more flexible. Modules can have a weight
assigned to them in the descriptor; module instances can have a weight
assigned which overrides the module descriptor. When jobs are run
for a module instance, the jobs report progress pro-rated by the
module's weight. Or in other words, it is now possible to tweak
the amount of the overall progress bar that different modules fill.
The default settings give unpackfs a weight of 12. (#1176)
## Modules ##
- The *users* module did not read the *defaultGroups* correctly.
Fixed by the string-lists change mentioned above.
# 3.2.28.3 (2020-08-18) #
Another hotfix, for more issues reported by Marco Obaid. Users
were not having a password set (#1489)
# 3.2.28.2 (2020-08-12) #
A second hotfix, for autologin support -- the autologin group was not
created in the target system before assigning the user to it. Reported
by Marco Obaid.
# 3.2.28.1 (2020-08-10) #
This is a hotfix release for #1482 and #1483, where no user was
created during installation and a chmod was failing (resulting in
a failed installation). Reported by Jonathan Riddell.
With incidental improvements in SPDX tagging (code licensing)
and some new icon options for the welcomeq and localeq modules.
# 3.2.28 (2020-08-09) #
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
- Anke Boersma
- apt-ghetto
- Victor Ibragimov
## Core ##
- A new object *Network* is available to QML modules in `io.calamares.core`.
It exposes network status through the *hasInternet* property.
- Welcome to Tajik translations. The Tajik language has quickly reached
100% completion. Thanks Victor!
- Welcome to [Interlingue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingue).
The translation is at an early stage. Qt does not support language
code *ie* though, so it may take some time to be integrated (much
like Esperanto wasn't supported until Qt 5.12).
## Modules ##
- The *locale* module has been completely redone on the inside.
Users should see no changes. #1391
- The *localeq* module uses the redone internals of the locale module.
It can now be used to set timezone, language and locale information
and is a suitable alternative module. Thanks to Anke Boersma who did
the work of figuring out maps. Note that the map uses several GeoIP
and GeoData providers and you may need to configure the URLs
with suitable usernames for those services. #1426
- Both *locale* and *localeq* can now be configured to use the system's
timezone setting -- this can be useful to avoid both hard-coding an
initial zone and doing extra GeoIP lookups, in the case where the
live system already does so. #1391
- The *locale* and *localeq* modules have additional machinery for
timezone lookups; please report cases where clicking on the map
returns an obviously bogus timezone (up until this release, for
instance, Cape Town).
- The *users* module no longer accepts `root` as a username. #1462
- The *keyboardq* module is now more inline with the look of the rest
of the Calamares modules, use of a background image is removed.
- The *grubcfg* module now understands `/etc/default/grub.d`. #1457
# 3.2.27 (2020-07-11) #
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
- Gaël PORTAY
- Vitor Lopes (new! welcome!)
## Core ##
- QML modules with no surrounding navigation -- this is basically a
special case for full-screen Calamares -- now have margins suitable
for full-screen use.
- PythonQt modules are increasingly on the way out.
## Modules ##
- The Manjaro package manager *pamac* has been added to those supported by
the *packages* module.
- The *netinstall* module has had some minor UI tweaks.
- Partitioning now tries harder to avoid floppy drives.
# 3.2.26.1 (2020-06-23) #
This is a hotfix release for undefined behavior caused by an
uninitialized integer variable. It includes new translations
and features as well since those arrived independently.
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
- Anke Boersma
- Gaël PORTAY
## Core ##
- Welcome to Azerbaijani translations. These are available
in two variations, *Azerbaijani* and *Azerbaijani (Azerbaijan)*.
[Wikipedia Azerbaijani](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijani_language#North_vs._South_Azerbaijani)
has a nice overview.
- Warnings while building with Qt 5.15 have been much reduced.
## Modules ##
- *partitioning* has one case of undefined behavior (UB) due
to a missing integer-initialization. (Thanks Gaël)
- *keyboardq* QML module now works correctly. (Thanks Anke)
# 3.2.26 (2020-06-18) #
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
- Anke Boersma
- Gaël PORTAY
- Pablo Ovelleiro Corral
- Philip Müller
## Core ##
- The default branch for Calamares source repositories (calamares
and calamares-extensions) is now *calamares*.
- External modules can now be built again, outside of the Calamares
source and build-tree.
- The repository *calamares-tools* has been removed. The idea behind
the tooling was to provide schema validation for Calamares configuration
files. This has been merged into the primary repository, where it
is now part of the test suite.
## Modules ##
- *locale* put some more places into the correct timezone **visually**;
for instance Norfolk Island gave up UTC+11.5 in 2015 and is now
UTC+11, but Calamares still showed it in a zone separate from UTC+11.
- *localeq* can now properly switch between on & offline mode,
it detects internet status through js.
- *packages* gained support for the Void Linux package manager,
*xbps*. (thanks Pablo)
- *tracking* now supports kuserfeedback configuration.
- *welcomeq* added the GEOIP configuration option, so locale can be
initially set according to IP address.
# 3.2.25 (2020-06-06) #
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
- Anke Boersma
- Callum Farmer
- FLVAL
- Gaël PORTAY
## Core ##
- The slideshow in `branding.desc` can be configured with QML (recommended,
as it has been for the past umpteen releases) or with a list of
images (new).
- It is possible to turn off all the new QML code -- navigation, slideshow,
QML-based modules -- with a single `-DWITH_QML=OFF` at CMake time.
This removes QML from Calamares' dependency footprint (but only saves
200kB in Calamares itself).
- Tests have been extended and now support a tests/CMakeTests.txt file
for fine-tuning tests for Python modules.
- SPDX identifiers are used much more widely and consistently in Calamares.
(thanks Callum)
## Modules ##
- The QML based *welcomeq* module is now a viable alternative to the
*welcome*(widgets based) module. Using QML files means it no longer
is needed to have pop-up windows for additional information or warnings,
all loads in the Calamares window itself. Additional features include the
option to customize the *About* info and load files like Release Notes
direct into Calamares, QML files added to the branding directory can be used.