Calamares 3.2.31 released

Oct 6, 2020

It took some time, with post-Akademy slowness and distractions, but Calamares 3.2.31 is here. This is a medium-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.

Note that this was initially released from git revision 40aa0fcaba, and then re-tagged and re-rolled from one revision later, 9ce08beead. The first release would not build with KPMcore4; there are no other changes.

This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name):

  • Corentin Noël
  • kadler15 (new contributor! hi!)

Core

  • At the start of the exec phase, an overview is given of the various job weights, which allows you to tweak the overall progress reporting during the installation.
  • Problems with running Calamares on a 1-core single CPU have been resolved.

Modules

  • The keyboard module now recognizes Turkish “F” layout and will set the vconsole keyboard layout correctly even if xkb keymaps are not found.
  • The machineid module, which generates UUIDs for systemd and dbus and can generate entropy files (filled from /dev/urandom in the host system) now supports more than one entropy file; generate them as needed (or copy a fixed value to all, depending on entropy-copy). Deprecate entropy (which generates a specific output file) as too inflexible.
  • In the partition module, swap can now be chosen as file, which is not create a swap partition, but write a /swapfile in the root directory, 512MiB large, and set that as swap. There is as yet no “smarts” about the size of the swap file.
  • Multiple problems in the partition module around partition sizing have been resolved by Corentin Noël.
  • The preservefiles module documentation did not match the functionality, and when used, didn’t work right. #1521 (thanks kadler15)
  • Progress reporting from the unpackfs module has been revamped: it reports more often now, so that it is more obvious that files are being transferred even when the percentage progress does not change.
  • The unpackfs module now supports a weight setting for each of the unpack entries. For a single entry this does not matter, but if there are multiple entries it allows tweaking the relative progress between each entry.

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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