Calamares 3.2.25 released

Jun 6, 2020

The Calamares team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Calamares 3.2.25, a bugfixes-and-features release. There was some slip on this release, and in the end not all the desired features landed.

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
  • Callum Farmer
  • FLVAL
  • Gaël PORTAY

Core

  • The slideshow in branding.desc can be configured with QML (recommended, as it has been for the past umpteen releases) or with a list of images (new).
  • It is possible to turn off all the new QML code – navigation, slideshow, QML-based modules – with a single -DWITH_QML=OFF at CMake time. This removes QML from Calamares’ dependency footprint (but only saves 200kB in Calamares itself).
  • Tests have been extended and now support a tests/CMakeTests.txt file for fine-tuning tests for Python modules.
  • SPDX identifiers are used much more widely and consistently in Calamares. (thanks Callum)

Modules

  • The QML based welcomeq module is now a viable alternative to the welcome(widgets based) module. Using QML files means it no longer is needed to have pop-up windows for additional information or warnings, all loads in the Calamares window itself. Additional features include the option to customize the About info and load files like Release Notes direct into Calamares, QML files added to the branding directory can be used.
  • The welcome and locale modules that do GeoIP lookup can now also use “fixed” style; this just negates the GeoIP lookup and substitutes a constant (fixed) value; useful for testing specific locales.
  • The keyboard module no longer uses ca_eng keyboards in Canada by default, but sticks to the us keyboard. #1419

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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