Calamares 3.2.17 released
Nov 28, 2019
After a month of too-much-travel and slow development, the Calamares team is happy to announce the availability of Calamares 3.2.17, a minor features-and-bugfix release in the Calamares 3.2.x series. This tried to be 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):
- 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_DISTRIBUTIONline 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
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.