Calamares 3.2.1 released

Jun 25, 2018

The Calamares team is happy to announce the availability of Calamares 3.2.1, the first update in the features-and-functionality series of Calamares 3.2.x.

Calamares is a distribution-independent system installer, with an advanced partitioning feature for both manual and automated partitioning operations. Calamares is designed to be customizable by distribution maintainers without need for cumbersome patching, thanks to third party branding and external modules support.

Changes in this release:

  • Contributions from the following people (alphabetically by first name):
    • Bill Auguer
    • Gabriel Craciunescu
    • Phil Mueller
    • Raul Rodrigo Segura
  • New translations Belarussian and Korean.
  • Improved debugging when modules fail to load.
  • 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.
  • Jobs can now be emergency jobs which run even after a failure.
  • The packages module can now update the target system if explicitly told to do so.

In addition:

  • 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.
  • More paths and executables are configurable in the bootloader module.
  • New testing application loadmodule for loading and running a single Calamares module.
  • Qt 5.7 is now the minimum required Qt version. Because KPMCore (a fairly fundamental dependency) requires Qt 5.7, Calamares has followed suit.
  • 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.

If you experience an issue with Calamares, please tell us all about it on the Calamares issue tracker. For a full change list, or the full list of issues closed with this release, please see the Calamares code repository. Work towards the next release continues.

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