Calamares 3.2.30 released
Sep 3, 2020
Just before KDE’s Akademy conference, a new Calamares release. Do not expect much Calamares work during the conference. This is a regular short-cycle release with bugfixes, some new features, and translation updates 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):
- Anke Boersma
- Asif Mahmud Shimon
- Manzoor Ahmed Munawar
- Sai Kamal
- Victor Ibragimov
This release has two giant source-code changes that have no effect on functionality, but do touch each and every source file:
- SPDX headers for licensing information, following the standard set by REUSE.software ; all source files and resources have SPDX-License-Identifier information and copyright notices. All of the boilerplate texts have been removed.
- Calamares coding style has been mechanically applied to the entire codebase. This was already done to most of it, but there were some hold-outs.
Core
- Network access status is deprecated in Qt 5.15’s QNetworkAccessManager, and was not useful already in some previous versions. Replace its use in the Calamares network service by testing-it-ourself directly via a synchronous ping. (Thanks to Asif)
- New Telugu translation. (Thanks to Sai)
- Urdu translation started. (Thanks to Manzoor)
- Timezones translated in Tajik and Russian. (Thanks to Victor)
Modules
- keyboardq and localeq improvements. (Thanks to Anke)
- users module did not set up autologin properly. This is yet another regression left over from 3.2.28. (Reported by Phil and pcrepix, #1498)
- welcome module now sets the LANG key in the locale configuration (which is shared with the locale module and consumed by the localecfg module). This makes it feasible to drop the locale module and still set the installed system’s language to the language selected in Calamares. (Reported by FerenOS)
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.