What is CalamaresCalamares 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 BaseThe 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 lookSince 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.
A release with minor bugfixes and improvements specifically in the Arabic translation.
A reminder for distributions using Calamares with full disk encryption: if you are using the luksbootkeyfile module, it must be placed before the fstab module in settings.conf. If it comes after, then the keyfile will be missing from crypttab and the user will be asked for their password multiple times.
A release with bugfixes in several modules (especially the partition module), and a new feature in shellprocess and just about every place that runs commands – that includes contextualprocess jobs, process job modules, and other places.
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.