Calamares 3.2.19 released

Feb 21, 2020

The Calamares team is happy to announce the availability of Calamares 3.2.19, a bugfixes-and-translations release in the Calamares 3.2.x series. This tried to be a short-cycle release, but went 50% over.

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):

  • Anke Boersma
  • Camilo Higuita
  • Gabriel Craciunescu

Core

  • Assamese translation has been completed.
  • Translations are now loaded from more places: instead of only being compiled in to the Calamares executable, they can now be read from the current directory (when Calamares is run in developer mode) and from the application data directory.This allows updating the translations without requiring a recompile: helpful for translators and possibly for distributions with their own translation style. See the translators and deployers wiki for details.
  • A new ViewStep base class, QmlViewStep, has been added that loads a configurable QML file and plays it. This is used by the new notesqml module – which is in itself a minimal wrapper around the same that adds only a translatable module name.

Modules

  • The machineid and users modules now prefer high-quality random data from /dev/urandom rather than pseudo-random data. #1254
  • A new notesqml module supports loading QML. This can be used for “fancy” release notes as a QML application, rather than a webview or text widget. Note that this does not replace the slideshow-during- installation module.
  • The users module now has knobs for setting the hostname and writing the /etc/hosts file. The new configuration options are documented in users.conf. #1140
  • Multiple netinstall modules can exist side-by-side, and they each control the package installation for their part of the package list. Previously, a netinstall module would overwrite all of the package configuration done by other netinstall modules. Translations can be provided in the configuration file, netinstall.conf. #1303
  • The fstab module no longer “claims” all the swap partitions it finds on disk. It only uses swap specified for the current installation. This means that “replace” and “alongside” installations will have no swap configured in the target system.

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.

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