Calamares 3.2.5 released
Apr 15, 2019
The Calamares team is happy to announce the availability of Calamares 3.2.5, the fifth update in the features-and-functionality series of Calamares 3.2.x. This is a features and an important bugfix release.
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):
- Arnaud Ferraris
- Dan Simmons
- Gabriel Craciunescu
Core
- View modules (in C++) can now perform their own requirements-checking to see if installation makes sense. This expands upon the existing requirements checks in the welcome module (RAM, disk space, ..). The checks have been made asynchronous, so that responsiveness during requirements-checking is improved and the user has better feedback.
- Support for building an AppImage of Calamares has been added to the
ci/directory. There are use-cases where a containerized build and configuration make sense rather than having Calamares installed in the host system. (Thanks to the AppImage team, Alexis) - OEM mode (phase-1) now correctly refers to Calamares as a “Setup Program” rather than an installer. #1100 (Thanks to Arnaud)
Modules
- Bootloader module: a serious bug introduced in 3.2.4 which prevents succesful boot after installation on EFI machines, has been repaired. (Thanks to Gabriel) #1104
- Displaymanager module: it is no longer a fatal error to not have any display-managers. #1095
- Partition module: it is now possible to build without libparted. Since
KPMCore may not need this library anymore, it is a dependency that will
be dropped as soon as it is feasible. Add this to the CMake flags:
-DCMAKE_DISABLE_FIND_PACKAGE_LIBPARTED=ON - Partition module: the location that is selected for the bootloader, no longer changes when a new partition is created. #1098
- Python modules: several modules have had translations added. This is usually only visible when the module runs as part of the exec step, when the module’s pretty name is displayed. In addition, some error messages are now translated.
- UnpackFS module: improved progress reporting and tests. #565
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. Work towards the next release continues.