Calamares 3.3.7 released

Jun 20, 2024

A release mostly intended to get the process moving again, although it has a few new features and some bugfixes. Since 3.3.6 did not get a release announcement, that is included in this post as well.

What does “get the process moving” mean? Well, it’s been two months since the last release, and planning the release for “when this issue is fixed” – whatever I happen to be working on – is taking too long. There are a couple of tough bugs to investigate, but they should not hold up progress on other fronts.

Calamares 3.3.7 (2024-06-20)

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

  • Adriaan de Groot
  • Eugene San
  • Evan James
  • Ivan Borzenkov
  • Sohrab Behdani
  • Vincent Penvern
  • Vladislav Nepogodin

Core

  • Updated clang-formatting
  • Some C++20 future-proofing (thanks Vladislav)
  • CommandList (used by contextualprocess and shellprocess) now supports globalstorage keys as substitutable variables.

Modules

  • contextualprocess see shellprocess.
  • fstab module does not add an encryption keyfile if it does not exist. (thanks Eugene)
  • initcpiocfg has some new configuration settings to more carefully adjust hooks for initcpio.
  • keyboard module handles Persian (fa) layout better. (thanks Sohrab)
  • keyboard module handles other non-ascii layout better. (thanks Ivan)
  • partition module did not filter out invalid fstab entries; they were not written, either, so no net change.
  • partition module now has a configurable default check-state for the encryption checkbox. (thanks Vincent)
  • shellprocess commands now support globalstorage variables, which are written as ${gs[key]}, where key is a dotted string that selects the globalstorage key to use (like in contextualprocess variable-selectors) and ${gs[ and ]} are literal characters.

Calamares 3.3.6 (2024-04-16)

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

  • Adriaan de Groot
  • Anke Boersma
  • Eugene San
  • Evan James
  • Harald Sitter
  • Mike Stemle
  • Peter Jung
  • Simon Quigley

Core

  • Various Qt6-related fixes.
  • Calamares now prevents sleep and suspend while the installation is running, so that unattended installs do not accidentally fall asleep.

Modules

  • bootloader Adds “splash” to kernel parameters if plymouth is present. (thanks Eugene)
  • locale Now picks the correct timezone for Dubai, Muscat, Tehran.
  • plymouthcfg Use plymouth-set-default-theme to avoid issues with configuration. (thanks Peter)
  • users module now supports enrolling in Active Directory, if enabled. (thanks Simon)

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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