Calamares 3.2.13 released

Aug 30, 2019

The Calamares team is happy to announce the availability of Calamares 3.2.13, a features-and-bugfix release in the Calamares 3.2.x series. There are improvements in the packagechooser module, an optional Donate button on the welcome page, and better QML support. 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):

  • 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).

Feedback

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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