Calamares 3.2.29 released
Aug 20, 2020
In some ways, you could call this 3.2.28.4, except there’s some important new functionality regarding progress reporting. One regression in user-group settings has been fixed (thanks to Asif for reporting it). We’re now at Calamares 3.2.29. This is a somewhat regular features-and-fixes release in the Calamares 3.2 series.
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):
- Asif Mahmud Shimon (new contributor! hi!)
Core
- Edge case in extracting string-lists from YAML, reported and fixed by Asif (#1491).
- Progress reporting is now more flexible. Modules can have a weight assigned to them in the descriptor; module instances can have a weight assigned which overrides the module descriptor. When jobs are run for a module instance, the jobs report progress pro-rated by the module’s weight. Or in other words, it is now possible to tweak the amount of the overall progress bar that different modules fill. The default settings give unpackfs a weight of 12. (#1176)
- The debug window currently does not show the right job queue. This will be fixed in an upcoming release.
Modules
- The users module did not read the defaultGroups correctly. Fixed by the string-lists change mentioned above.
GPG Signatures
This release has one GPG signatures attached on the GitHub releases page. This uses the new signing key, valid until 2022 and introduced for Calamares 3.2.27.
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.