A last-minute (of 2024) release, which brings a bunch of improvements from Lubuntu and elsewhere, mostly for the partition module.
What is Calamares
Calamares is an installer framework. By design it is very customizable, in order to satisfy a wide variety of needs and use cases. Calamares aims to be easy, usable & beautiful while remaining independent of any particular Linux distribution.
Knowledge Base
The Guide linked above has documentation for end-users, the wiki is mostly for distro developers. The developer’s guide contains information on building Calamares, on its design, and localization.
Calamares look
Since Calamares is designed to be customized, themed and branded by individual distributions, it can look very different when used by specific distributions. A separate extensions package contains examples and custom modules.
Latest News:
Calamares 3.3.13 released
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Calamares 3.3.12 released
Another quick release, primarily to resolve build issues with the calamares-extensions repository.
Calamares 3.3.11 released
A quick release with an important crash fix in the partition module, new features in the unpackfs module (from Lubuntu) and a new unpackfsc module (moved from the calamares-extensions repository) for an alternative way to unpack filesystems into the target system.