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This is the changelog for Calamares. For each release, the major changes and
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contributors are listed. Note that Calamares does not have a historical
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changelog -- this log starts with version 3.2.0. The release notes on the
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website will have to do for older versions.
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# 3.2.42 (unreleased) #
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This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
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 - Anke Boersma
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 - Artem Grinev
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## Core ##
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 - No core changes yet
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## Modules ##
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 - *networkcfg* now translates the "live user" on an ISO to the regular
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   user on the installed system, so that network configuration changes
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   made in the live system are automatically used after installation.
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 - *partition* no longer allows you to delete an extended partition with
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   children (which led to crashes). Thanks Artem!
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 - *welcome* can now check multiple URLs to determine if internet connectivity
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   is available. It is still recommended to check the distro home-page or
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   some special "ping" page of the distro, although that has some privacy
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   implications; using example.com or google.com may work as well. Listing
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   multiple URLs will ping each of them in turn until one succeeds.
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# 3.2.41.1 (2021-08-05) #
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This is a hotfix release for a crash in the *partition* module, reported on
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KDE neon. #1746
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# 3.2.41 (2021-07-31) #
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This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
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 - Anke Boersma
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 - Camilo Higuita
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## Core ##
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 - The (re)translation framework has been internally re-vamped to be
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   less resource-intensive and to work with all QObjects, not just
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   widgets. Consumers of the translations framework are expected to
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   set up the event filter on the top-level widget(s) manually. Since
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   Calamares and the Calamares-test-applications have been adjusted already,
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   no further action is needed.
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## Modules ##
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 - When the *keyboard* module is activated, it no longer replaces
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   an explicit user choice (e.g. for a Belgian layout) by a guessed-for-
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   this-language layout (e.g. Danish if you're installing in Danish).
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 - Logic for handling installation lists has been moved around in the
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   *packages* module so that package managers can, in principle,
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   adjust how to handle critical and non-critical package lists.
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 - In the *partition* module, translation code has been simplified.
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 - The *usersq* module has had a fair bit of QML rewritten to make it easier
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   to customize the colors used by the module in a consistent way.
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   (Thanks Anke)
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 - *Welcome* now uses a translated message from the Config object,
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   increasing the sharing between widgets- and QML-modules.
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# 3.2.40 (2021-07-14) #
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This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
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 - Anke Boersma
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 - Anubhav Choudhary (SoK success!)
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 - Emmanuel Arias (new contributor! welcome!)
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 - Erik Dubois
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 - Jerrod Frost (new contributor! welcome!)
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 - Jia Chao (new contributor! welcome!)
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 - Joe Kamprad
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 - Lisa Vitolo (blast from the past!)
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 - Omer I.S. (new contributor! welcome!)
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In project news, chat (instant-messaging) communications has largely
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moved to Matrix and Libera.Chat. CI notifications -- issues and build
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results -- are sent to Matrix only.
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## Core ##
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 - The CMake modules for consumption by external modules (e.g. the
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   calamares-extensions repository, but also any other modules built
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   by distro's for internal use) now support consistent skip-module
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   behavior and reporting. #1641 (one tiny part of this change)
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 - In global storage, the *filesystem_use* key now has an API in
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   libcalamares to systematically mark filesystem (types) as "in use"
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   or not. This, in turn, means that modules can depend on that information
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   for other work (e.g. removing drivers for unused filesystems). #1635
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 - The "upload log file" now has a configurable log-file-size. (Thanks Anubhav)
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## Modules ##
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 - *bootloader* can now install an aarch64 (ARM) compatible EFI GRUB. (Thanks Jia)
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 - *displaymanager* example configuration has been shuffled around a bit,
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   for better results when the live image is running XFCE. Also lists
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   more potential display managers. #1205 (Thanks Erik)
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 - *keyboard* now switches on an alternate `en_US` keyboard layout when
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   Arabic or Hebrew is selected as primary layout. (Thanks Omer)
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 - *localeq* now has a fully functional offline option (alongside the default
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   interactive map option, which requires internet).
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 - The *netinstall* module can now fall back to alternative URLs when
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   loading groups data. The first URL to yield a non-empty groups
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   collection is accepted. No changes are needed in the configuration. #1673
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 - *packagechooser* can now integrate with the *packages* module; that
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   means you can specify package names to install for a given selection,
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   and the regular package-installation mechanism will take care of it.
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   Legacy configurations that use *contextualprocess* are still supported.
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   See the `packagechooser.conf` file for details. #1550
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 - A long-neglected pull request from Lisa Vitolo for the *partition*
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   module -- allowing to set filesystem labels during manual partitioning --
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   has been revived and merged.
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 - The *partition* manager has had a long-standing bug with partition-flags
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   and manual partitioning resolved. This may help resolve some installation
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   issues on UEFI systems. #1724
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 - *usersq* is further implemented and can now be used for a successful install.
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   Not all warning messages available in the regular users module are implemented.
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# 3.2.39.3 (2021-04-14) #
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A minor bugfix tweak release. Since this contains yet **another**
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autologin-related fix, and there is nothing large enough to justify
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a 3.2.40 release yet, add it to the growing tail of 3.2.39. (Reported
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by Joe Kamprad, #1672). Also fixes a regression from 3.2.28 in
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localized packages (e.g. *package-LOCALE* did not work).
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# 3.2.39.2 (2021-04-02) #
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This is **another** hotfix release for issues around autologin ..
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autoLogin, really, since the whole problem is that internal capitalization
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changed. An unrelated bug in writing /etc/default/keyboard was
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also fixed. (Reported by pcrepix, #1668)
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# 3.2.39.1 (2021-03-30) #
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This hotfix release corrects a regression in the *displaymanager*
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module caused by changes in the *users* module; autologin was
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internally renamed and no longer recognized by the *displaymanager*
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module. (Reported by Erik Dubois, #1665)
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# 3.2.39 (2021-03-19) #
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This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
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 - Matti Hyttinen
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## Core ##
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 - A *packages* service has been added to the core, for use by
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   *netinstall* module and any others that need to set up
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   package information for the *packages* module.
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## Modules ##
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 - The *mount* module has gained a configurable setup for btrfs volumes.
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   If your distro has a default-to-btrfs setup, it can skip the hard-
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   coded setup (which Calamares has had for a long time with @home
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   and similar) and introduce a custom btrfs configuration through the
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   `mount.conf` file. See issues #1659 and #1661 for warnings about
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   using this in production.
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 - *netinstall* now supports fallbacks for the groups data.
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   Instead of a single URL, multiple URLs may be specified in
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   a list and Calamares goes through them until one is successfully
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   retrieved. Older configurations with a single string are
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   treated like a one-item list. #1579
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 - The *usersq* module now connects to the internal configuration
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   object and may be usable for regular installations.
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# 3.2.38.1 (2021-03-15) #
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This hotfix release is for this item in the release notes of 3.2.38:
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 - The .desktop file for Calamares now makes a longer trip, calling
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   `sh -c "pkexec calamares"`; distributions may still need to adjust.
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The change had been lost while updating other files. It has been restored
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in `calamares.desktop` and `calamares.desktop.in`. (Reported by Erik)
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Other minor changes and fixes:
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 - presets in the *users* module show the hostname, too,
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 - translations update for Korean, Ukranian and Chinese (zh_TW).
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# 3.2.38 (2021-03-14) #
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This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
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 - Anke Boersma
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 - Anubhav Choudhary
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 - Neal Gompa
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## Core ##
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 - Uploading your log files (in case of installation failure) has been
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   expanded and is now more configurable. Users should still take care
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   when uploading logs, and distro's should configure a URL with
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   no public viewing of those logs. (Thanks Anubhav)
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 - The .desktop file for Calamares now makes a longer trip, calling
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   `sh -c "pkexec calamares"`; distributions may still need to adjust.
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## Modules ##
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 - A new QML-based *finishedq* module has been added. (Thanks Anke)
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 - The *packages* module no longer supports *urpmi*; no Calamares-
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   consumers with that package manager seem to exist. (Thanks Neal)
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 - The *users* module now can set a fixed username and prevent editing.
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   The *presets* configuration entry in `users.conf` can set a *loginName*
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   and a *fullName* and (independently) enable or disable editing of
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   that value. You can, for instance, set *loginName* to "manjaro" if
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   you like; the user can change it afterwards. You could set the
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   *loginName* to "oem" and prevent editing it as well. #942
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# 3.2.37 (2021-02-23) #
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This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
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 - benne-dee
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## Core ##
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 - Calamares has a table of 'best guess' languages for each country
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   and when GeoIP is enabled, it will automatically select that
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   country's language as default -- the user can of course pick
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   a different one. The 'best guess' is based on Unicode / ISO
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   data, which is sometimes dubious. Based on some personal notes,
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   the 'best guess' language for Belarus has been changed to Russian.
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 - Calamares has a table of 'best guess' keyboard mappings,
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   allowing native language input. However, usernames and
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   passwords should be in US-ASCII (this is a limitation of
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   the login system -- **some** parts of the system will support
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   non-ASCII input, but it's better safe than sorry).
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   Add Greek to the list of languages that needs US-ASCII
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   in addition to native input.
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 - The CI infrastructure now builds Calamares and Calamares-extensions
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   on a nightly basis.
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## Modules ##
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 - The *netinstall* module has a YAML schema, allowing packagers
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   to validate and verify their netinstall configurations before
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   shipping an ISO (or writing bug reports). Thanks benne-dee.
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 - The *finished* module has been heavily refactored, opening
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   the way to a QML-based version of the same module. This is
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   also preparatory work for allowing packagers (e.g. PostmarketOS)
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   to customize the messages on the finished page.
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# 3.2.36 (2021-02-03) #
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This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
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 - Anubhav Choudhary
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 - benne-dee
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 - Gaël PORTAY
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 - Jonas Strassel
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 - Kevin Kofler
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 - Matti Hyttinen
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 - Neal Gompa
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## Core ##
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 - It is now possible to hide the *next* and *back* buttons during
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   the "exec" phase of installation. Thanks Anubhav.
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 - The Calamares CI has migrated to GitHub actions. Thanks Jonas.
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## Modules ##
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 - *bootloader* now uses the current file names for the UEFI Secure Boot
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   shim instead of obsolete ones.
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 - The *mount* module creates swap in its own subvolume, if btrfs is used.
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   Thanks Matti.
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 - *partition* includes more information about what it will do, including
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   GPT partition types (in human-readable format, if possible). Thanks Gaël.
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 - Some edge-cases with overlay filesystems have been resolved in the
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   *partition* module. Thanks Gaël.
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 - During the creation of filesystems and partitions, automounting is
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   turned off (if DBus is available, and the host system supports
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   KDE Solid automount control). This should reduce the number of
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   failed installations if automount grabs partitions while they are
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   being created. The code is prepared to handle other ways to control
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   automount-behavior as well.
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# 3.2.35.1 (2020-12-07) #
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This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
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 - Anubhav Choudhary
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 - Matti Hyttinen
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Some strange string artifacts appeared, leading to `{1?}` being
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displayed in various user-facing messages. These have been removed
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and the translations updated.
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## Modules ##
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 - The *initcpiocfg* module would sometimes configure the system to ask
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   for a passphrase, when none is needed.
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# 3.2.35 (2020-11-30) #
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This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
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 - Clarissa Borges
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 - Matti Hyttinen
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A new kind of issue template has been added for Calamares,
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for reporting (and adding tests for) usability issues. Thanks
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to Clarissa for leading that effort.
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## Core ##
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 - No core changes yet
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## Modules ##
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 - The *partition* module now supports a not-full-disk-encryption setup,
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   where `/boot` is not encrypted, but the rest of the system is.
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 - The *plasmalnf* module has been substantially rewritten, so that it
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   can support a QML version of the module in future. The UI has changed
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   a little, and now displays more themes than before.
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# 3.2.34 (2020-11-16) #
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This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
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 - Artem Grinev
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 - Gaël PORTAY
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## Core ##
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 - No core changes yet
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## Modules ##
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 - The *keyboard* module had a regression in which it no-longer painted
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   the keycaps in the keyboard preview. (reported by Vinnie)
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 - The *plasmalnf* module did not set all of the look-and-feel values
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   in the target system. (reported by Bluestar Linux)
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 - In the *users* module, warnings about the strength of the password
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   are now correctly pluralized when possible.
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 - In the *users* module, if ICU is installed, the user's full name is
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   automatically transliterated to US-ASCII (for some locales; this will
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   need tweaking) so that the login name is acceptable. (Thanks Artem)
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# 3.2.33 (2020-11-09) #
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This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
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 - Anke Boersma
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 - Andrius Štikonas
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 - Artem Grinev
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 - Gaël PORTAY
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 - Matti Hyttinen
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 - TTran Me
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## Core ##
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 - Calamares now sets the C++ standard for compilation to C++17; this
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   is for better compatibility and fewer warnings when building with
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   modern KDE Frameworks and KPMcore 4.2.0.
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 - Vietnamese translations have been added. Welcome! (Thanks TTran)
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## Modules ##
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 - The *initcpiocfg* module should support plymouth with encryption
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   now. (Thanks Matti)
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 - The *keyboard* and *keyboardq* modules now share backend code
 | 
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   and handle non-ASCII layouts better (for setting passwords
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   and usernames). (Thanks Artem)
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 - Various cleanups and documentation improvements in the *partition*
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   module, and configurable GPT name for swap. (Thanks Gaël)
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 - A long-standing bug related to GPT partition flags in the
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   *partition* module has been resolved. #1327 #1267
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 - The *users* module now has a more detailed way to specify
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   user groups -- which may be system groups rather than user-GIDs.
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   A new option in each group can require that the group already
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   exists in the target system, allowing for better consistency checks
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   with the squashfs. #1523
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# 3.2.32.1 (2020-10-17) #
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This is a release to address source-incompatible changes in KPMcore 4.2.0,
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which was released just before Calamares 3.2.32 and had not yet been
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compile-tested. There is also one changed message in the translations,
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reported by Yuri Chornoivan.
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# 3.2.32 (2020-10-16) #
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This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
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 - Fabian Tomat
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 - Gaël PORTAY
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## Core ##
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 - When doing GeoIP lookups, Calamares pretends to be Firefox.
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   This resolves an issue where the GeoIP provider was refusing
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   QNAM connections with the default User-Agent.
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 - New translation available, Friulian. Welcome!
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## Modules ##
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 - The *netinstall* module has some tricky configuration files;
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   it now complains about more cases of bad syntax or poor structure.
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 - The *partition* module can now be constrained to work only with
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   a particular kind of partition table. (thanks Gaël)
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 - The *partition* module is a little more resilient to variations
 | 
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   in btrfs notation from os-prober.
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 - The *shellprocess* module now supports having a different progress
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   message (other than "Shell Processes Job") through the config file.
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 # 3.2.31 (2020-10-06) #
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This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
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 - Corentin Noël
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 - kadler15 (new contributor! hi!)
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## Core ##
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 - At the start of the *exec* phase, an overview is given of the
 | 
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   various job weights, which allows you to tweak the overall
 | 
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   progress reporting during the installation.
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 - Problems with running Calamares on a 1-core single CPU have been resolved.
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 | 
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## 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.
 | 
						|
 - The *welcome* and *locale* modules that do GeoIP lookup can now also
 | 
						|
   use "fixed" style; this just negates the GeoIP lookup and substitutes a
 | 
						|
   constant (fixed) value; useful for testing specific locales.
 | 
						|
 - The *keyboard* module no longer uses *ca_eng* keyboards in Canada by
 | 
						|
   default, but sticks to the *us* keyboard. #1419
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
# 3.2.24 (2020-05-11) #
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
 | 
						|
 - Bill Auger
 | 
						|
 - Gaël PORTAY
 | 
						|
 - Luna Jernberg
 | 
						|
 - Philip Müller
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Core ##
 | 
						|
 - There is now a bash-completions script for Calamares; turn on
 | 
						|
   the (CMake-time) option INSTALL_COMPLETION to get it. (Thanks Gaël)
 | 
						|
 - The *productWallpaper* setting is documented and works. (Thanks Bill)
 | 
						|
 - GlobalStorage is available to QML modules as `Global`.
 | 
						|
 - The height of the navigation bar in QML can be set within the
 | 
						|
   QML code for the navigation; if not set, try something sensible.
 | 
						|
 - A regression in the requirements-checker which could block the
 | 
						|
   installer from proceeding without telling the user **why** it
 | 
						|
   was blocked, has been resolved.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Modules ##
 | 
						|
 - The *bootloader* module can force a UEFI-based machine to boot into
 | 
						|
   the newly-installed system. #1394 (Thanks Gaël)
 | 
						|
 - *partition* Pop-ups about boot flags use the right flag names. #1192
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
# 3.2.23 (2020-04-17) #
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
 | 
						|
 - FLVAL
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Core ##
 | 
						|
 - Some strange annotations were added to the *About* dialog text in
 | 
						|
   all the translations, like `{1?}`. These have been removed again.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Modules ##
 | 
						|
 - *locale* module had some errors in timezone data, where clicking
 | 
						|
   on a city would select a different timezone. Some of these are
 | 
						|
   now fixed (thanks FLVAL). #1374
 | 
						|
 - *netinstall* supports a wider variety of package naming schemes,
 | 
						|
   and is more flexible in loading a `netinstall.yaml` that is copied from
 | 
						|
   the example configuration file, *groups* key and all. #1369
 | 
						|
 - *users* module logs a full error message from libpwquality if something
 | 
						|
   is wrong internally.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
# 3.2.22 (2020-04-08) #
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
 | 
						|
 - Anke Boersma
 | 
						|
 - Camilo Higuita
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Core ##
 | 
						|
 - Both the sidebar (on the left) and the navigation buttons (along the
 | 
						|
   bottom of the window) can now be configured to use the traditional
 | 
						|
   *widgets*, to use *qml*, or *hidden* from view (hiding the navigation
 | 
						|
   is not recommended unless you have a pure-QML UI to run inside
 | 
						|
   Calamares). The example QML that is compiled into Calamares has
 | 
						|
   been improved. To use your own QML, put files `calamares-sidebar.qml`
 | 
						|
   or `calamares-navigation.qml` into the branding directory.
 | 
						|
 - The sidebar and navigation can now be placed on any side of the
 | 
						|
   main window. This is probably only useful for QML-based UIs.
 | 
						|
   See `branding.desc` for details.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Modules ##
 | 
						|
 - The *welcomeq* module has been improved with better layout and
 | 
						|
   nicer buttons in the example QML form. (Thanks to Anke Boersma)
 | 
						|
 - The *keyboardq* and *localeq* modules now provide some QML for
 | 
						|
   configuring these parts, although they are still very primitive.
 | 
						|
 - *netinstall* has had some minor layout fixes.
 | 
						|
 - *unpackfs* has much more detailed progress reporting and no
 | 
						|
   longer jumps around strangely in overall progress.
 | 
						|
 - *partition* now correctly marks a partition as bootable in BIOS + MBR
 | 
						|
   installs. #1175
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
# 3.2.21 (2020-03-27) #
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
 | 
						|
 - Anke Boersma
 | 
						|
 - Camilo Higuita
 | 
						|
 - Gabriel Craciunescu
 | 
						|
 - Gaël PORTAY
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Core ##
 | 
						|
 - Python job modules (such as *unpackfs* or *packages*) can now provide
 | 
						|
   a `pretty_status_message()` function, like the existing `pretty_name()`
 | 
						|
   function, that is used to update the status during install. #1330
 | 
						|
 - QML support-modules and objects are now registered into the io.calamares
 | 
						|
   namespace. This affects modules using Calamares models inside their
 | 
						|
   QML UI (at this point, very few). With this release, the necessary
 | 
						|
   `import` for Calamares parts looks like
 | 
						|
   > ```import io.calamares.ui 1.0```
 | 
						|
   A complete list of objects available from Calamares van be found in the
 | 
						|
   documentation in `Qml.h`.
 | 
						|
 - The sidebar (which shows overall progress in the installation) is now
 | 
						|
   more configurable: the branding key *sidebar* controls it. The sidebar
 | 
						|
   can be shown as a widget (default, as it has been), hidden, or use a
 | 
						|
   new QML view which is more easily customised.
 | 
						|
 - A new `settings.conf` key *quit-at-end* will automatically close
 | 
						|
   Calamares (by clicking on the *Done* button) when the end of the
 | 
						|
   sequence is reached. If *finished* is the last module in the sequence,
 | 
						|
   this will run whatever it is configured for; you can also leave out
 | 
						|
   the finished page and Calamares will close after the exec parts.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Modules ##
 | 
						|
 - *packages* now reports more details in the installation progress-bar.
 | 
						|
 - *netinstall* module supports an `expanded` key, which will pre-expand
 | 
						|
   a group (as if the user had pressed the arrow-button in the tree-view).
 | 
						|
   This only affects the UI, and only the **outermost** level of groups.
 | 
						|
 - *netinstall* module now supports a special value for *groupsUrl*.
 | 
						|
   Setting this to *local* will read the groups directly from the
 | 
						|
   configuration file.
 | 
						|
 - *netinstall* groups now support a new key `immutable` which prevents
 | 
						|
   their check-state from being changed (they are shown, or hidden,
 | 
						|
   as usual and can be expanded).
 | 
						|
 - Modules that use QML need a new import line. The QML file for the
 | 
						|
   module is configured through new keys *qmlSearch* and *qmlFilename*
 | 
						|
   (previously those were without the `qml` prefix, which invites name
 | 
						|
   collisions). The full module identifier is also used as a filename,
 | 
						|
   so that multiple instances of a module can use different QML files.
 | 
						|
 - *partition* module has a number of new features and settings for
 | 
						|
   type, UUID, and filesystem characteristics. Thanks to Gaël.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
# 3.2.20 (2020-02-27) #
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
 | 
						|
 - Bart Ribbers
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Core ##
 | 
						|
 - When logging level is set to 8 (eight), for instance via the `-D8`
 | 
						|
   logging flag, or the `-d` debug flag, the *Show debug information*
 | 
						|
   button will appear in the progress view. This helps with debugging
 | 
						|
   issues where the `-d` flag would be inappropriate.
 | 
						|
 - Calamares now starts at logging level 1 (warnings and errors to
 | 
						|
   the console) by default. Previously it (wrongly) started at level 8.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Modules ##
 | 
						|
 - The *partition* module now stores which filesystems are in use in
 | 
						|
   global storage.
 | 
						|
 - The *contextualprocess* module now understands "compound variable
 | 
						|
   names", where a dot (.) is used to index into structured data
 | 
						|
   stored in global storage. This allows it to use the map stored
 | 
						|
   by the partition module (but also other things, like looking into
 | 
						|
   the branding information).
 | 
						|
 - The *packages* module now understands "apk", the Alpine Linux
 | 
						|
   package manager.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
# 3.2.19.1 (2020-02-24) #
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
This is a hotfix release for bugs in the *users* module.
 | 
						|
Reported by Philip Mueller and Walter Lapchynski.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Modules ##
 | 
						|
 - The *users* module no longer wrote `/etc/hostname` at all.
 | 
						|
 - The *users* module erroneously shows the root password input fields.
 | 
						|
 - The *initramfs* module sets a resume-hook even when there is no swap.
 | 
						|
 - The partitioning service expects *udevadm* in `/sbin`, but some
 | 
						|
   distro's place it elsewhere.
 | 
						|
 - The mount service didn't unmount directories properly, leading to
 | 
						|
   blocked installations.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
# 3.2.19 (2020-02-21) #
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
 | 
						|
 - Anke Boersma
 | 
						|
 - Camilo Higuita
 | 
						|
 - Gabriel Craciunescu
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Core ##
 | 
						|
 - *Assamese* translation has been completed.
 | 
						|
 - Translations are now loaded from more places: instead of **only**
 | 
						|
   being compiled in to the Calamares executable, they can now be
 | 
						|
   read from the current directory (when Calamares is run in developer
 | 
						|
   mode) and from the application data directory.This allows updating the
 | 
						|
   translations without requiring a recompile: helpful for translators
 | 
						|
   and possibly for distributions with their own translation style.
 | 
						|
   See the translators and deployers wiki for details.
 | 
						|
 - A new `ViewStep` base class, `QmlViewStep`, has been added that loads
 | 
						|
   a configurable QML file and plays it. This is used by the new *notesqml*
 | 
						|
   module -- which is in itself a minimal wrapper around the same that
 | 
						|
   adds only a translatable module name.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Modules ##
 | 
						|
 - The *machineid* and *users* modules now prefer high-quality random
 | 
						|
   data from `/dev/urandom` rather than pseudo-random data. #1254
 | 
						|
 - A new *notesqml* module supports loading QML. This can be used for
 | 
						|
   "fancy" release notes as a QML application, rather than a webview
 | 
						|
   or text widget. Note that this does not replace the slideshow-during-
 | 
						|
   installation module.
 | 
						|
 - The *users* module now has knobs for setting the hostname and writing
 | 
						|
   the `/etc/hosts` file. The new configuration options are documented
 | 
						|
   in `users.conf`. #1140
 | 
						|
 - Multiple *netinstall* modules can exist side-by-side, and they each
 | 
						|
   control the package installation for their part of the package list.
 | 
						|
   Previously, a netinstall module would overwrite all of the package
 | 
						|
   configuration done by other netinstall modules. Translations can be
 | 
						|
   provided in the configuration file, `netinstall.conf`. #1303
 | 
						|
 - The *fstab* module no longer "claims" all the swap partitions it finds
 | 
						|
   on disk. It only uses swap specified for the current installation.
 | 
						|
   This means that "replace" and "alongside" installations will have
 | 
						|
   no swap configured in the target system.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
# 3.2.18 (2020-01-28) #
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
 | 
						|
 - Bill Auger
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Core ##
 | 
						|
 - *Assamese* translation has been added (still in preliminary state).
 | 
						|
 - Timezone support code has migrated into the core of Calamares. This
 | 
						|
   means that modules now have easier access to timezone information.
 | 
						|
   Translations for timezones have also been enabled, so it is **possible**
 | 
						|
   at least to translate the displayed zones in the *locale* module.
 | 
						|
 - Branding can now specify whether to (try to) display the Calamares window
 | 
						|
   in the middle of the desktop or not. The *windowPlacement* key in
 | 
						|
   `branding.desc` specifies *center* or *free* placement.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Modules ##
 | 
						|
 - All modules can now set a new key in `module.desc` called *noconfig*.
 | 
						|
   If this key is set to `true` (the default is `false), no configuration
 | 
						|
   file is searched-for or loaded, and no warning is printed if the
 | 
						|
   configuration is missing. This should tidy up some unnecessary warnings
 | 
						|
   on startup. #1302 #1301
 | 
						|
 - The *license* module has seen a significant change to its looks.
 | 
						|
   Actions are now labeled more clearly, and the URL (or filename)
 | 
						|
   for each license is displayed.
 | 
						|
 - The *locale* module now supports translations for timezone and
 | 
						|
   location names (e.g. "Berlin" is "Berlijn" in Dutch).
 | 
						|
 - *Packagechooser* is a little more careful with displaying
 | 
						|
   default and empty package names. (thanks to Bill Auger)
 | 
						|
 - The *unpackfs* module now carries a larger weight in the overall
 | 
						|
   progress of the installation, which should resolve downstream reports
 | 
						|
   like "progress stops at 24% for a long time". This is currently
 | 
						|
   hard-coded, but will become configurable in a future release. #1176
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
# 3.2.17.1 (2019-12-02) #
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
This is a hotfix release for a bug in the grubcfg module.
 | 
						|
Reported by Philip Mueller and Erik Dubois.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Modules ##
 | 
						|
 - The *grubcfg* module had a typo in it that made installations fail.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
# 3.2.17 (2019-11-28) #
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
 | 
						|
 - Bill Auger
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Core ##
 | 
						|
 - A translation "string freeze" is now enforced by the release scripts.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Modules ##
 | 
						|
 - A new module, *hostinfo*, places information about the host into
 | 
						|
   Global Storage. This can support contextualprocess modules that
 | 
						|
   need that information.
 | 
						|
 - The password-checks in the *users* module are now ordered consistently.
 | 
						|
   A new check *nonempty* can be used to explicitly check for a non-empty
 | 
						|
   password. This was previously hard-coded. If you have no other
 | 
						|
   password-requirements set (e.g. minimum-length) and rely on
 | 
						|
   Calamares to filter out empty passwords, add this check.
 | 
						|
 - The *grubcfg* module has a new configuration setting *keepDistributor*
 | 
						|
   which prevents replacing the `GRUB_DISTRIBUTION` line when writing
 | 
						|
   the new configuration. #1201
 | 
						|
 - *packagechooser* documentation has been updated.
 | 
						|
 - *welcome* module now works better with dark themes.
 | 
						|
 - The *license* module could get into a confused state, now fixed. #1271
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
# 3.2.16 (2019-11-01) #
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
 | 
						|
 - Bill Auger
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Core ##
 | 
						|
 - Some obscure build scenarios which would lead to bogus module-is-
 | 
						|
   misconfigured messages on startup have been resolved.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Modules ##
 | 
						|
 - The explanatory messages on the *users* page have moved to tooltips,
 | 
						|
   and placeholder text has been added to the fields. #1202
 | 
						|
 - The bad-password messages in the *users* page have been improved. #1261
 | 
						|
 - Password-checking in the *users* module has been substantially
 | 
						|
   changed. A new key *allowWeakPasswords* can be used to introduce
 | 
						|
   an additional checkbox to the page, which can then be used to
 | 
						|
   switch off strict password checking. (Thanks to Bill Auger)
 | 
						|
 - The icons used in password warnings on the *users* page have been
 | 
						|
   changed to the colorful status icons (rather than the thin red X).
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
# 3.2.15 (2019-10-11) #
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
 | 
						|
 - No other contributors this time around.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Core ##
 | 
						|
 - No changes to core functionality
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Modules ##
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - *displaymanager* module now treats *sysconfig* as a regular entry in the
 | 
						|
   *displaymanagers* list, and the *sysconfigSetup* key is used as a
 | 
						|
   shorthand to force **only** that entry in the list. #1253
 | 
						|
 - *machineid* module has been re-written in C++ and extended with
 | 
						|
   a new configuration key to generate urandom pool data. #1252
 | 
						|
 - *unpackfs* now supports a special *sourcefs* value of `file`
 | 
						|
   for copying single files (optionally with renaming) or directory
 | 
						|
   trees to the target system.
 | 
						|
 - *unpackfs* now support an *exclude* and *excludeFile* setting for
 | 
						|
   excluding particular files or patters from unpacking. #1229
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
# 3.2.14 (2019-09-30) #
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
 | 
						|
 - Andrius Štikonas
 | 
						|
 - Harald Sitter
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Core ##
 | 
						|
 - No changes to core functionality
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Modules ##
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - *locale* module no longer recognizes the legacy GeoIP configuration.
 | 
						|
   This has been deprecated since Calamares 3.2.8 and is now removed.
 | 
						|
 - *packagechooser* module can now be custom-labeled in the overall
 | 
						|
   progress (left-hand column). #1228
 | 
						|
 - *displaymanager* module now recognizes KDE Plasma 5.17.
 | 
						|
 - *displaymanager* module now can handle Wayland sessions and can detect
 | 
						|
   sessions from their .desktop files. #1247 #1248
 | 
						|
 - *unpackfs* now has special handling for *sourcefs* setting "file"
 | 
						|
   (so you can copy single files or directories that are on the source
 | 
						|
   system, directly to the target). #1188 #1181
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
# 3.2.13 (2019-08-30) #
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
 | 
						|
 - Arnaud Ferraris
 | 
						|
 - Arnaud Rebillout
 | 
						|
 - Bill Auger
 | 
						|
 - Kevin Kofler
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Core ##
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
- The Calamares standard coding style -- embodied in `ci/calamaresstyle`
 | 
						|
  has had a few updates and has now been consistently applied across
 | 
						|
  the core codebase (e.g. libcalamares, libcalamaresui, calamares, but
 | 
						|
  not the modules).
 | 
						|
- *KCoreAddons* is now a required dependency. This lets us drop a chunk
 | 
						|
  of code that was copied from KCoreAddons years ago, and use the
 | 
						|
  (maintained!) upstream version instead. It also gives us KMacroExpander
 | 
						|
  everywhere, which will simplify code for handling substitutions
 | 
						|
  in configuration files.
 | 
						|
- *Slideshows* now have a new property *activatedInCalamares* which
 | 
						|
  controls the keyboard shortcuts (and can control timers and other
 | 
						|
  properties of the slideshow, too).
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Modules ##
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
- The *packagechooser* module can load data from the config-file,
 | 
						|
  from AppData XML files referred by the config-file, and (new) also
 | 
						|
  from AppStream caches by referring to an application's AppStream id. #1212
 | 
						|
- The *partition* module now understands the units *KB*, *MB*, *GB* which
 | 
						|
  are powers-of-ten sizes, alongside the powers-of-two sizes that it already
 | 
						|
  used. (thanks to Arnaud)
 | 
						|
- The *welcome* module now supports a *Donate* button if *showDonateUrl*
 | 
						|
  is set to a non-empty URL. #1197
 | 
						|
- The *welcome* module can have URLs for the various buttons configured
 | 
						|
  directly in the module configuration (rather than in `branding.desc`).
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
# 3.2.12 (2019-08-07) #
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
 | 
						|
 - apt-ghetto
 | 
						|
 - Bill Auger
 | 
						|
 - embar
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Core ##
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - Preliminary work to allow jobs to have a *weight* assigned to them
 | 
						|
   has been added. This will allow the progress bar to better reflect
 | 
						|
   progress by the amount of work done rather than purely by the
 | 
						|
   number of jobs. (Thanks to Bill Auger)
 | 
						|
 - Preliminary work has been added to post the installation log to a
 | 
						|
   pastebin for bug reporting. (Thanks to Bill Auger)
 | 
						|
 - Support for translated human-readable strings in Calamares
 | 
						|
   config files has been added. This is used only in the *packagechooser*
 | 
						|
   module (see below) but will expand to those modules that need
 | 
						|
   user-visible strings from the configuration file (existing
 | 
						|
   solutions need either gettext or Qt support).
 | 
						|
 - Esperanto is now available when Qt version 5.12.2 or later is used.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Modules ##
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - *fstab* A new configuration key *efiMountOptions* has been added, to
 | 
						|
   allow setting filesystem options specifically for the EFI partition.
 | 
						|
   (Thanks to apt-ghetto)
 | 
						|
 - *packagechooser* is a new module for low-density package choices,
 | 
						|
   e.g. for selecting a default desktop environment, or adding some
 | 
						|
   proprietary drivers, or chosing browsers of office suites. It presents
 | 
						|
   **one** collection of items -- at most ten or so, because of the UI --
 | 
						|
   and the user can select zero or more of them. The behavior is
 | 
						|
   configurable, and package information can be set through the Calamares
 | 
						|
   configuration file or by reading AppData files for the packages. #426
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
# 3.2.11 (2019-07-06) #
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
 | 
						|
 - No other contributors this time around.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
This is a security release with no functional changes (except for
 | 
						|
improved security) relative to 3.2.10. The Calamares team would like
 | 
						|
to acknowledge the help of the following people in reporting and
 | 
						|
understanding the issues (alphabetically by first name):
 | 
						|
 - Kevin Kofler
 | 
						|
 - Seth Arnold
 | 
						|
 - Simon Quigley
 | 
						|
 - Thomas Ward
 | 
						|
Both CVE's have been resolved.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Core ##
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
No core changes.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Modules ##
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - *initramfs* could create an initramfs with insecure permissions.
 | 
						|
   Since the keyfile is included in the initramfs, an attacker could
 | 
						|
   read the file from the initramfs. #1190 CVE-2019-13178
 | 
						|
 - *luksbootkeyfile* created a key file where a window of opportunity
 | 
						|
   existed where the key file could have too-lax file permissions.
 | 
						|
   #1191 CVE-2019-13179
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
# 3.2.10 (2019-06-28) #
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
 | 
						|
 - No other contributors this time around.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Distributions are **advised** to check the slideshow they use for the
 | 
						|
installation step; changes in loading and translation mechanisms may
 | 
						|
require changes in the slideshow.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Core ##
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - With this release, option *WITH_PYTHONQT* changes default to **off**.
 | 
						|
   There does not seem to be any serious use of the PythonQt API and
 | 
						|
   the UI opportunities it offers, so begin the process of deprecating
 | 
						|
   and removing that. Sometime in the future, QML pages will fill the
 | 
						|
   gap for easily-prototyped-yet-slick UI elements.
 | 
						|
 - A crash when no *finished* page (or rather, no page at all) is
 | 
						|
   configured after the last *exec* section of the sequence has been
 | 
						|
   solved. The *finished* page can be left out (but then you don't get
 | 
						|
   the restart-now functionality). #1168
 | 
						|
 - The *slideshow* which is run during installation now has API versions.
 | 
						|
   API version 1 (the default) runs as before, where the slideshow is loaded
 | 
						|
   when the installation starts. API version 2 loads the slideshow on
 | 
						|
   Calamares startup, thus improving responsiveness. Documentation
 | 
						|
   in `src/branding/README.md`. #1152
 | 
						|
 - The example slideshow now uses API version 2.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Modules ##
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - *initramfs* has been changed from a Python module to a C++ module.
 | 
						|
   Packaging will need to adjust now it installs a .so instead of a .py.
 | 
						|
   The module itself functions as before. It does have a new configuration
 | 
						|
   option, to change the version passed as to the `-k` option of
 | 
						|
   update-initramfs. #1180
 | 
						|
 - *partition* Now has its own setting for *requiredStorage*, duplicating
 | 
						|
   the same setting in the *welcome* module. This is useful for
 | 
						|
   configurations where no *welcome* module is used, but a minimum
 | 
						|
   size must be checked anyway. #1169
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
# 3.2.9 (2019-06-03) #
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
 | 
						|
 - Kevin Kofler
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Core ##
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
No user- or deployer-visible changes. Bugfixing as usual, see the
 | 
						|
milestone for details.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Modules ##
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - *branding* now supports os-release variables in the *strings* section,
 | 
						|
   which allows re-using (at runtime) information set in /etc/os-release .
 | 
						|
   This requires KDE Frameworks 5.58. #1150
 | 
						|
 - *branding* allows the use of FreeDesktop.org icon names for the
 | 
						|
   *productLogo* and *productIcon* keys. If a file is named there, then
 | 
						|
   the file is used, and otherwise the icon is looked up in the current
 | 
						|
   theme. #1160
 | 
						|
 - *packages* On Arch, with the `pacman` package manager, avoid a hang
 | 
						|
   during system update. #1154
 | 
						|
 - *welcome* allows a custom image path or icon name to be set for the
 | 
						|
   language-selection drop-down (instead of the international standard one).
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
# 3.2.8 (2019-05-10) #
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
This is a **source-incompatible** release of Calamares. Include files
 | 
						|
have been shuffled around, so third-party C++ modules will need
 | 
						|
adjustment to the changed names.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
 | 
						|
 - Arnaud Ferraris
 | 
						|
 - Kevin Kofler
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Core ##
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - All user-visible texts referring to "MB" and "GB" now use the standard
 | 
						|
   "MiB" and "GiB" wording, which matches what we were actually calculating
 | 
						|
   with (i.e. 2^20 and 2^30 respectively). #1129
 | 
						|
 - The side-pane, which shows the list of steps that will be executed,
 | 
						|
   now tries to fit the text (name of each module) into the available space
 | 
						|
   by shrinking the font as needed. #1137
 | 
						|
 - *libcalamares* (accidentally) linked with Qt's GUI libraries when
 | 
						|
   PythonQt was found. This led to the odd situation where the non-GUI
 | 
						|
   Calamares library depends on a bunch of GUI libraries.
 | 
						|
 - *libcalamares* The `utils/` subdirectory has been hugely refactored,
 | 
						|
   with functionality split out into separate files. C++ modules will
 | 
						|
   need to have their `#include` names updated. Basically, users of
 | 
						|
   `utils/CalamaresUtils.h` will need to include the header file for
 | 
						|
   the functionality that is actually used.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Modules ##
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - *finished* has a new mechanism for configuring the behavior of the
 | 
						|
   *restart now* button. The old-style boolean configuration is still
 | 
						|
   supported but generates a warning. #1138
 | 
						|
 - *locale* module GeoIP configuration has a new preferred format.
 | 
						|
   See `locale.conf` for details. The old configuration is still
 | 
						|
   supported but will be phased out before 3.3.0 -- in particular,
 | 
						|
   support for "legacy" format will be removed, since that was a
 | 
						|
   crutch for the disappearance of one GeoIP provider in 2018.
 | 
						|
 - *oemid* is a new module for configuring OEM phase-0 (image pre-mastering,
 | 
						|
   or pre-deployment) things. It has limited functionality at the moment,
 | 
						|
   writing only a single batch-identifier file. #943
 | 
						|
 - *welcome* can now do GeoIP lookups as well (but be careful with the
 | 
						|
   configuration, since you need a GeoIP that provides country information,
 | 
						|
   not just timezones). This will let Calamares select a starting language
 | 
						|
   that matches where it is -- which might not be useful at all. #934
 | 
						|
 - All Python modules now bail out gracefully on (at least some) bad
 | 
						|
   configurations, rather than raising an exception. The pre-release
 | 
						|
   scripts now test for exceptions to avoid shipping modules with
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   ImportError or SyntaxError results.
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# 3.2.7 (2019-04-27) #
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This is a **hotfix** release for regressions introduced in the
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Python modules. The *localecfg* module was unusable because of
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a missing `import`.
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# 3.2.6 (2019-04-25) #
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 | 
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This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
 | 
						|
 - Arnaud Ferraris
 | 
						|
 - Dominic Hayes (feren)
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						|
 - Raul Rodrigo Segura (raurodse)
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 | 
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## Core ##
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 | 
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 * Under-the-hood code cleanups in lots of parts of the core. Calamares now
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						|
   builds without warnings when Clang 8 is used.
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						|
 * A new *disable-cancel-during-exec* setting provides more fine-grained
 | 
						|
   control than *disable-cancel*, which hides the button entirely.
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   #1122 (Thanks to Dominic, FerenOS)
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						|
 * A branding module can now also cause a stylesheet to be loaded, which
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						|
   will be applied to the widgets inside Calamares. #961 (Thanks to Raul)
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 | 
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## Modules ##
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 * All of the Python-based modules now have translations enabled. #991
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 * *Displaymanager* module has improved support for LightDM configuration.
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						|
   #1123 (Thanks to Dominic, FerenOS)
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						|
 * *License* module can now display local files inline, and scrolls to
 | 
						|
   allow longer lists of licenses and to support long license texts
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						|
   displayed inline. #1124 #1125 #1052
 | 
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 * *Partition* module has additional checks for validity partition layouts.
 | 
						|
   #1127 (Thanks to Arnaud)
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						|
 * *Welcome* module has improved usability: a standard icon
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						|
   alongside the *Language* label, for improved recognition,
 | 
						|
   and improved language-list display and sorting. #1107
 | 
						|
 | 
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 | 
						|
# 3.2.5 (2019-04-15) #
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 | 
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This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
 | 
						|
 - Arnaud Ferraris
 | 
						|
 - Dan Simmons
 | 
						|
 - Gabriel Craciunescu
 | 
						|
 | 
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## Core ##
 | 
						|
 | 
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 * View modules (in C++) can now perform their own requirements-checking
 | 
						|
   to see if installation makes sense. This expands upon the existing
 | 
						|
   requirements checks in the welcome module (RAM, disk space, ..).
 | 
						|
   The checks have been made asynchronous, so that responsiveness during
 | 
						|
   requirements-checking is improved and the user has better feedback.
 | 
						|
 * Support for building an AppImage of Calamares has been added to the
 | 
						|
   `ci/` directory. There are use-cases where a containerized build and
 | 
						|
   configuration make sense rather than having Calamares installed in the
 | 
						|
   host system. (Thanks to the AppImage team, Alexis)
 | 
						|
 * OEM mode (phase-1) now correctly refers to Calamares as a "Setup Program"
 | 
						|
   rather than an installer. #1100 (Thanks to Arnaud)
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Modules ##
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 * *Bootloader* module: a serious bug introduced in 3.2.4 which prevents
 | 
						|
   succesful boot after installation on EFI machines, has been repaired.
 | 
						|
   (Thanks to Gabriel) #1104
 | 
						|
 * *Displaymanager* module: it is no longer a fatal error to not have any
 | 
						|
   display-managers. #1095
 | 
						|
 * *Partition* module: it is now possible to build without libparted. Since
 | 
						|
   KPMCore may not need this library anymore, it is a dependency that will
 | 
						|
   be dropped as soon as it is feasible. Add this to the CMake flags:
 | 
						|
   `-DCMAKE_DISABLE_FIND_PACKAGE_LIBPARTED=ON`
 | 
						|
 * *Partition* module: the location that is selected for the bootloader,
 | 
						|
   no longer changes when a new partition is created. #1098
 | 
						|
 * Python modules: several modules have had translations added. This is
 | 
						|
   usually only visible when the module runs as part of the *exec* step,
 | 
						|
   when the module's *pretty name* is displayed. In addition, some error
 | 
						|
   messages are now translated.
 | 
						|
 * *UnpackFS* module: improved progress reporting and tests. #565
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
# 3.2.4 (2019-02-12) #
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 | 
						|
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
 | 
						|
 - Alf Gaida
 | 
						|
 - aliveafter1000
 | 
						|
 - Arnaud Ferraris
 | 
						|
 - Caio Jordão Carvalho
 | 
						|
 - Collabora LTD
 | 
						|
 - Gabriel Craciunescu
 | 
						|
 - Kevin Kofler
 | 
						|
 - Philip Mueller
 | 
						|
 - Scott Harvey
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Core ##
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 * The Calamares application now recognizes the `-X` or `--xdg-config`
 | 
						|
   option, which adds XDG_DATA_DIRS to the places used to find QML
 | 
						|
   and branding directories, and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS to the places used
 | 
						|
   to find the global settings and module configurations. This allows
 | 
						|
   a more fine-grained, and more layered, approach to setting up
 | 
						|
   Calamares configurations (in particular, distro's can **add**
 | 
						|
   configuration files and give them priority, instead of **forking**
 | 
						|
   configuration files).
 | 
						|
 * The *branding* file now contains settings that control the size
 | 
						|
   and resize behavior of Calamares. See the branding file for
 | 
						|
   more documentation. In particular, the setting *windowExpanding*
 | 
						|
   can be set to *normal*, *fullscreen* or *noexpand*.
 | 
						|
 * The `settings.conf` file can now configure whether the *Cancel* button
 | 
						|
   is shown (this isn't a branding thing, because it's quite fundamental
 | 
						|
   to the workflow of the installer).
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Modules ##
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 * The *partition* module supports RAID devices, but only when Calamares
 | 
						|
   is compiled with the newest KPMCore release (3.3.0).
 | 
						|
 * The calculation of required space -- including swap -- has been simplified,
 | 
						|
   and Calamares no longer reserves 2GiB of space in calculations for internal
 | 
						|
   use (this means that it no longer mysteriously drops swap when the disk
 | 
						|
   size is close to the required installation size).
 | 
						|
 * The name of the type of default filesystem (e.g. ext4 or btrfs) is now handled
 | 
						|
   case- and localization-insensitively. This means that *btrfs* is now always
 | 
						|
   an acceptable spelling.
 | 
						|
 * The currently-selected disk device is remembered between manual partitioning
 | 
						|
   and the partitioning-overview pages. (Thanks to Arnaud)
 | 
						|
 * *partition* There is new support for partitioning layout presets.
 | 
						|
   See `partition.conf` for documentation and details.
 | 
						|
 * The *keyboard* module now handles the (bogus) Austrian keymap for
 | 
						|
   the system console properly. (Thanks to Kevin)
 | 
						|
 * The *preservefiles* module now has a mechanism for setting the permissions
 | 
						|
   (and ownership) of preserved files. (Thanks to Scott)
 | 
						|
 * New module *fsresizer* can be used to resize filesystems. It is intended
 | 
						|
   for use in OEM installs where an image of fixed size is created,
 | 
						|
   and then sized to the actual SD card the user has used.
 | 
						|
 * The *mount* module now handles missing *extraMounts* and *extraMountsEfi*
 | 
						|
   keys gracefully (this is probably a misconfiguration, though, and gives a
 | 
						|
   warning).
 | 
						|
 * The *packages* module now supports pre- and post-script options
 | 
						|
   for all operations, not just during install (keep in mind that
 | 
						|
   these run as three separate shells, though).
 | 
						|
 * A new *rawfs* module supports straightforward copying of filesystems from
 | 
						|
   the installation media to the target stystem. This can be used, for instance,
 | 
						|
   for block-level-identical installations.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
# 3.2.3 (2019-01-09) #
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
 | 
						|
 - aliveafter1000
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Core ##
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
There are no core changes in this release.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Modules ##
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 * *partition* Fixed bug where, during detection of existing systems, the
 | 
						|
   existing system partitions may be mounted and then files deleted.
 | 
						|
   This is a **limited** version of the patch from aliveafter1000
 | 
						|
   that will be in 3.2.4, which tries harder to mount filesystems
 | 
						|
   read-only and unmodifiable.
 | 
						|
 * *locale* It was possible to set the installer and system language
 | 
						|
   (e.g. to German) while the global storage value for *locale*
 | 
						|
   remained set to English. Then no localization packages are installed
 | 
						|
   (see feature `${LOCALE}` in `packages.conf`). Reported downstream
 | 
						|
   in Netrunner.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
# 3.2.2 (2018-09-04) #
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
 | 
						|
 - Andrius Štikonas
 | 
						|
 - artoo@cromnix.org
 | 
						|
 - Caio Jordão Carvalho
 | 
						|
 - Harald Sitter
 | 
						|
 - Philip Müller
 | 
						|
 - Simon Quigley
 | 
						|
 - Walter Lapchynski
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Core ##
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 * Example configurations are **no longer installed** by default.
 | 
						|
   The default setting for *INSTALL_CONFIG* has changed. Distributions
 | 
						|
   are strongly encouraged to write their own configuration files and
 | 
						|
   not rely on the example configuration files. Example configurations
 | 
						|
   may change unpredictably.
 | 
						|
 * It is now possible to express module dependencies through the
 | 
						|
   *requiredModules* key in `module.desc`. All of the required modules
 | 
						|
   for a given module must occur in the sequence **before** the module
 | 
						|
   requiring them. None of the core modules use this facility.
 | 
						|
 * The search paths for QML files, branding descriptors and module
 | 
						|
   descriptors have been revamped and now self-document in the log.
 | 
						|
 * A new `ci/RELEASE.sh` script has been added to streamline releases;
 | 
						|
   it is not guaranteed to work anywhere in particular though.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Modules ##
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 * When multiple modules are mutually exclusive, or don't make sense
 | 
						|
   to enable concurrectly, a new `USE_<foo>` framework has been added
 | 
						|
   to CMake to simplify the selection of modules. This is in addition
 | 
						|
   to the existing `SKIP_MODULES` mechanism.
 | 
						|
 * Various off-by-one-sector errors in the automatic partitioning
 | 
						|
   mode have been corrected. In addition, swap space is calculated
 | 
						|
   a little more conservatively.
 | 
						|
 * A new module has been added to the core which can configure openrc
 | 
						|
   services. To make services configuration consistent:
 | 
						|
   - The *services* module has been **renamed** *services-systemd*,
 | 
						|
   - The openrc module is named *services-openrc*,
 | 
						|
   - At CMake time, it is possible to select all of the services modules,
 | 
						|
     or one specific one, by setting the *USE_services* CMake variable.
 | 
						|
     By default, all of the modules are built and installed.
 | 
						|
 * The systemd-services module can now disable targets and mask both
 | 
						|
   targets and services (which will allow you to break the system with
 | 
						|
   a bad configuration). The configuration is a little more flexible
 | 
						|
   because a service (or target) name can be used on its own with
 | 
						|
   sensible defaults.
 | 
						|
 * The displaymanager module has been entirely revamped. A long-standing
 | 
						|
   bug which ignored the settings for default desktop has been fixed
 | 
						|
   (thanks to Walter Lapchynski). Translations have been added to the
 | 
						|
   error messages. Each DM now has an implementation class for doing
 | 
						|
   all the configuration steps it needs. This groups the code needed for
 | 
						|
   a specific DM (and presumably, per-distro) in one place.
 | 
						|
   Distro's are **strongly advised** to re-test their DM configuration
 | 
						|
   and installation with the revamped code.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
# 3.2.1 (2018-06-25) #
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
 | 
						|
 - Bill Auguer
 | 
						|
 - Gabriel Craciunescu
 | 
						|
 - Phil Mueller
 | 
						|
 - Raul Rodrigo Segura
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Core ##
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 * Qt 5.7 is now the minimum required Qt version. Because KPMCore
 | 
						|
   (a fairly fundamental dependency) requires Qt 5.7, Calamares
 | 
						|
   has followed suit.
 | 
						|
 * New testing application `loadmodule` for loading and running a
 | 
						|
   single Calamares module.
 | 
						|
 * New translations Belarussian and Korean.
 | 
						|
 * Jobs can now be *emergency jobs* which run even after a failure.
 | 
						|
 * Improved debugging when modules fail to load.
 | 
						|
 * Bad configuration files will now cause the user-interface of
 | 
						|
   Calamares to display an error message, rather than silently
 | 
						|
   ignoring some configuration errors. This will certainly cause
 | 
						|
   problems for distributions with sloppy configurations.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Modules ##
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 * New module preservefiles, keeps (log) files around after install;
 | 
						|
   this duplicates functionality with the unmount module, but unmount
 | 
						|
   is very late, rather limited, and fragile.
 | 
						|
 * Interactiveterminal module now disables itself if build requirements
 | 
						|
   are not met, rather than blocking the build.
 | 
						|
 * Fixes in the timezone map data make the southern hemisphere more
 | 
						|
   usable and put Reykjavik in its place.
 | 
						|
 * The packages module can now update the target system if explicitly
 | 
						|
   told to do so.
 | 
						|
 * More paths and executables are configurable in the bootloader module.
 | 
						|
 * Distributions are advised to review the `users.conf` setup **again**,
 | 
						|
   as some changes in version 3.2.0 caused regressions downstream.
 | 
						|
 * Distributions are advised to review their `locale.gen` files
 | 
						|
   **again**. Previous changes were too restrictive, matching only
 | 
						|
   the specific format Chakra Linux uses. Calamares now preserves
 | 
						|
   all the comment-lines in the file and writes enabled locales
 | 
						|
   at the end, with a descriptive comment.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
# 3.2.0 (2018-05-17) #
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):
 | 
						|
 - Alf Gaida
 | 
						|
 - AlmAck
 | 
						|
 - Caio Jordão Carvalho
 | 
						|
 - Frede H
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
## Modules ##
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 * UI annoyances in the partitioning module were fixed; the
 | 
						|
   mount-point selector is now more obvious when no mount-point
 | 
						|
   has been chosen, and the mount-point and flags are preserved
 | 
						|
   when (re)editing partitions.
 | 
						|
 * The handling of `@@ROOT@@` substitution in shellprocesses was
 | 
						|
   backwards; this has been fixed (the substitution is made when
 | 
						|
   running in the **host**).
 | 
						|
 * The user shell is no longer hard-coded to `/bin/bash`,
 | 
						|
   but follows the default setting for useradd(8), e.g.
 | 
						|
   those set in `/etc/default/useradd`.
 |