Calamares 3.2.20 released
Feb 27, 2020
Hot on the heels of 3.2.19.1, the Calamares team is happy to announce the availability of Calamares 3.2.20, a small features-and-bugfixes release. This was a very short cycle. The next release is probably at the end of March, due to international travel. Hopefully before FOSS-North.
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):
- Bart Ribbers
Core
- When logging level is set to 8 (eight), for instance via the
-D8logging flag, or the-ddebug flag, the Show debug information button will appear in the progress view. This helps with debugging issues where the-dflag would be inappropriate. - Calamares now starts at logging level 1 (warnings and errors to the console) by default. Previously it (wrongly) started at level 8.
Modules
- The partition module now stores which filesystems are in use in global storage.
- The contextualprocess module now understands “compound variable names”, where a dot (.) is used to index into structured data stored in global storage. This allows it to use the map stored by the partition module (but also other things, like looking into the branding information).
- The packages module now understands “apk”, the Alpine Linux package manager.
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.