Calamares 3.3.13 released

Dec 31, 2024

A last-minute (of 2024) release, which brings a bunch of improvements from Lubuntu and elsewhere, mostly for the partition module.

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

  • Aaron Rainbolt
  • Adriaan de Groot
  • Anke Boersma
  • Ching Hsü
  • Jakob Petsovits
  • Masato TOYOSHIMA
  • Simon Quigley
  • Vladyslav Prudius

Core

  • Fewer compile warnings with most-recent Qt versions.
  • Support systemd and consolekit block-suspend, not just KDE Plasma block-suspend, during installation. (thanks Jakob, #2404)

Modules

  • dracut module has more freedom to specify program options. (thanks Simon, #2401)
  • partition module improved some user-visible messages. (thanks Masato, #2412)
  • partition module re-scans available devices when selecting “manual” partitioning mode, avoiding a crash. (thanks Masato, #2414)
  • partition module can hide the LVM buttons during manual partitioning, if the distro does not want to support LVM. (#2413)
  • partition module can restrict what filesystems a user applies where, e.g. ensuring EFI is a FAT32 partition. (thanks Aaron, #2400)
  • unpackfs module supports skipping installation media if it is not present, e.g. depending on how the live media is booted. (thanks Simon, #2410)

Translations

Calamares translations are usually done through Transifex, but some users provide translation updates via patches, instead.

  • uk thanks Vladyslav Prudius
  • zh_CN thanks Ching Hsü

Feedback

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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