Calamares 3.2.12 released

Aug 7, 2019

The Calamares team is happy to announce the availability of Calamares 3.2.12, a feature release in the Calamares 3.2.x series. A new module, packagechooser, has been added to complement the netinstall module. Esperanto is now available as a translation. This is a short-cycle release.

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.

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. See the deployment wiki for more details. #426

Feedback

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

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