Calamares 3.2.50 released

Jan 18, 2022

This is a regular short-cycle release, although the cycle is somewhat stretched over the holidays. There are fixes in many different modules. There is one important deprecation. Distributions are specifically reminded to update the umount module configuration (and to use preservefiles if needed).

This release introduces a new signing sub-key, 328D742D8807A435 used for release-tags and tarballs. The key is available though the Calamares website, or the maintainer’s websites, or GPG keyservers.

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

  • Anke Boersma
  • Erik Dubois
  • Evan James
  • Johannes Kamprad
  • Taejun Park (new contributor, welcome!)

Replacement notice: The umount module will be replaced by a C++ implementation in the next release. The “preserve log file” feature will be removed in that release. Use the preservefiles module instead.

Core

  • No core changes yet

Modules

  • initcpiocfg mentioned a special kernel-name “all”, which did not work, and a special kernel-name “$uname” which cannot work. Fixed the former and removed the “$uname” special key. (Thanks Evan)
  • luksswaphookcfg has been converted to a C++ module.
  • networkcfg could fail to update the NetworkManager configuration if the SSID or username contained non-ASCII characters and the default Python text-file encoding was set to ASCII. The files are now read and written in UTF-8, explicitly. #1848
  • partition always sets bigtime option on XFS filesystems, if possible. Requires sufficiently-recent xfsprogs. #1874
  • preservefiles was missing some necessary features, needed for it to replace the deprecated log-file-saving functionality in the umount module. (Thanks Erik and Joe for testing) #1851
  • umount is now marked as an emergency module in the example configuration, since it should probably be run as a cleanup. (Thanks Evan)
  • welcome and locale could be confusing, together, and configure the target system with a language that does not match the installer language, even though the user did not make any explicit choice. (Thanks Taejun) #1864

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If you experience an issue with Calamares, please tell us all about it on the Calamares issue tracker. For a full change list, see the full list of issues closed within the current generation (which is many releases).

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