Calamares 3.3.14 released
Feb 20, 2025
First of 2025, with a bunch of internal improvements in the Python bindings, an undo-hook for pages (which rolls back changes that the keyboard and timezone pages may have made to the system) and improvements to the partition module.
This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by given name):
- Adriaan de Groot
- Evan James
- TNE
- vincent PENVERN
Core
- The Python bindings have been re-organized (source) and made more consistent. At least one valid Python program would work with the Boost::Python bindings, but not the pybind11 bindings. A memory-corruption problem in the Boost::Python bindings was resolved.
- Steps in the UI now have a hook to undo any changes they have made to the live system, if the user cancels the installation.
Modules
- keyboard module undoes changes to the keyboard layout if the user cancels the installation (returning the system to whatever layout was in use when Calamares started). (#2377, #2431)
- locale module undoes changes to the timezone. (#2377, #2431)
- partition module stores a global storage value in luksPassphrase, for later modules that need to manipulate the encrypted partition. (thanks vincent, #2424)
- partition module no longer clear (unmounts) a Ventoy device. (thanks TNE, #2427)
- partition module has configurable exceptions for the clear-mounts (unmount) job. The exceptions have a few hard-coded “always included” entries, which now include Ventoy alongside some Fedora-specific entries.
Feedback
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