Calamares 3.2.37 released
Feb 23, 2021
Apparently the ball is not very round this year, since this is the second release that does not add a whole lot, but let’s get it out the door anyway. It is feature-light, although users in Belarus and Greece may notice. It is so light, that for 3.2.38 we will just reuse the current milestone.
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):
- benne-dee
Core
- Calamares has a table of ‘best guess’ languages for each country and when GeoIP is enabled, it will automatically select that country’s language as default – the user can of course pick a different one. The ‘best guess’ is based on Unicode / ISO data, which is sometimes dubious. Based on some personal notes, the ‘best guess’ language for Belarus has been changed to Russian.
- Calamares has a table of ‘best guess’ keyboard mappings, allowing native language input. However, usernames and passwords should be in US-ASCII (this is a limitation of the login system – some parts of the system will support non-ASCII input, but it’s better safe than sorry). Add Greek to the list of languages that needs US-ASCII in addition to native input.
- The CI infrastructure now builds Calamares and Calamares-extensions on a nightly basis.
Modules
- The netinstall module has a YAML schema, allowing packagers to validate and verify their netinstall configurations before shipping an ISO (or writing bug reports). Thanks benne-dee.
- The finished module has been heavily refactored, opening the way to a QML-based version of the same module. This is also preparatory work for allowing packagers (e.g. PostmarketOS) to customize the messages on the finished page.
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.