Calamares 3.3.0-alpha3 released

Aug 29, 2023

This is the second announced release of an alpha of Calamares 3.3. It comes after a long long year of slow-progress, although there are lots of new contributors.

This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):

  • Adriaan de Groot
  • Aleksey Samoilov
  • Anke Boersma
  • Arjen Balfoort
  • Boria138
  • Brian Morison
  • Emir Sari
  • Evan Goode
  • Evan James
  • Ficelloo
  • Hector Martin
  • Jeremy Attall
  • Johannes Kamprad
  • Kasta Hashemi
  • Kevin Kofler
  • Mario Haustein
  • Masato TOYOSHIMA
  • Panda
  • Paolo Dongilli
  • Peter Jung
  • Philip Müller
  • Shivanand
  • Sławomir Lach
  • Sunderland93
  • wiz64

Core

  • Incompatible module-configuration changes, see #1438.
  • Branding entries use ${var} instead of @{var} for substitutions, in line with all the other substitution mechanisms used from C++ core. See documentation in branding.desc.
  • Boost::Python requires at least version 1.72.
  • KDE Frameworks must be version 5.58 or later.
  • The INSTALL_CONFIG option has been removed. If you are installing the example configuration files from the Calamares repository, just stop. That was never a good idea, and you should keep your configs elsewhere.
  • Progress percentage during install can now be localized. (thanks Emir)

Modules

  • dracut added a configurable kernel name. (thanks Anke)
  • initcpiocfg orders hookds slightly differently. (thanks Peter)
  • localeq moved to using Drawer instead of ComboBox in UI. (thanks Anke)
  • keyboardq moved to using Drawer instead of ComboBox in UI. (thanks Anke)
  • netinstall now has a new noncheckable option for groups, which prevent it a group from being checked/uncheckd as a whole. You can still check individual items in the group though. (thanks Shivanand)
  • partition can now pick LUKS or LUKS2. (thanks Jeremy)
  • zfs creates a hostid through zgenhostid.
  • zfshostid new module to copy zfs generated /etc/hostid

TODO

In the interest of planning the next release, here are some items that I think are required to get the 3.3.0 release out the door:

  • Complete the namespace-conversion (drop namespace CalamaresUtils)
  • Drop Boost::Python and write the (very small) Python bindings by hand
  • Restore the installation of config files from the repo. This was removed for 3.3.0-alpha2 because forking the repo to modify the configuration is a terrible idea. But this also breaks patching-the-configurations at build- or packaging-time, which is a legitimate use-case.

Feedback

If you experience an issue with Calamares, please tell us all about it on the Calamares issue tracker. For a full change list, see the full list of issues closed within the current generation (which is many releases).

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