This is the changelog for Calamares. For each release, the major changes and contributors are listed. Note that Calamares does not have a historical changelog -- this log starts with version 3.2.0. The release notes on the website will have to do for older versions. # 3.2.36 (unreleased) # This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - Anubhav Choudhary ## Core ## - No core changes yet ## Modules ## - No module changes yet # 3.2.35 (2020-11-30) # This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - Clarissa Borges - Matti Hyttinen A new kind of issue template has been added for Calamares, for reporting (and adding tests for) usability issues. Thanks to Clarissa for leading that effort. ## Core ## - No core changes yet ## Modules ## - The *partition* module now supports a not-full-disk-encryption setup, where `/boot` is not encrypted, but the rest of the system is. - The *plasmalnf* module has been substantially rewritten, so that it can support a QML version of the module in future. The UI has changed a little, and now displays more themes than before. # 3.2.34 (2020-11-16) # This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - Artem Grinev - Gaël PORTAY ## Core ## - No core changes yet ## Modules ## - The *keyboard* module had a regression in which it no-longer painted the keycaps in the keyboard preview. (reported by Vinnie) - The *plasmalnf* module did not set all of the look-and-feel values in the target system. (reported by Bluestar Linux) - In the *users* module, warnings about the strength of the password are now correctly pluralized when possible. - In the *users* module, if ICU is installed, the user's full name is automatically transliterated to US-ASCII (for some locales; this will need tweaking) so that the login name is acceptable. (Thanks Artem) # 3.2.33 (2020-11-09) # This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - Anke Boersma - Andrius Štikonas - Artem Grinev - Gaël PORTAY - Matti Hyttinen - TTran Me ## Core ## - Calamares now sets the C++ standard for compilation to C++17; this is for better compatibility and fewer warnings when building with modern KDE Frameworks and KPMcore 4.2.0. - Vietnamese translations have been added. Welcome! (Thanks TTran) ## Modules ## - The *initcpiocfg* module should support plymouth with encryption now. (Thanks Matti) - The *keyboard* and *keyboardq* modules now share backend code and handle non-ASCII layouts better (for setting passwords and usernames). (Thanks Artem) - Various cleanups and documentation improvements in the *partition* module, and configurable GPT name for swap. (Thanks Gaël) - A long-standing bug related to GPT partition flags in the *partition* module has been resolved. #1327 #1267 - The *users* module now has a more detailed way to specify user groups -- which may be system groups rather than user-GIDs. A new option in each group can require that the group already exists in the target system, allowing for better consistency checks with the squashfs. #1523 # 3.2.32.1 (2020-10-17) # This is a release to address source-incompatible changes in KPMcore 4.2.0, which was released just before Calamares 3.2.32 and had not yet been compile-tested. There is also one changed message in the translations, reported by Yuri Chornoivan. # 3.2.32 (2020-10-16) # This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - Fabian Tomat - Gaël PORTAY ## Core ## - When doing GeoIP lookups, Calamares pretends to be Firefox. This resolves an issue where the GeoIP provider was refusing QNAM connections with the default User-Agent. - New translation available, Friulian. Welcome! ## Modules ## - The *netinstall* module has some tricky configuration files; it now complains about more cases of bad syntax or poor structure. - The *partition* module can now be constrained to work only with a particular kind of partition table. (thanks Gaël) - The *partition* module is a little more resilient to variations in btrfs notation from os-prober. - The *shellprocess* module now supports having a different progress message (other than "Shell Processes Job") through the config file. # 3.2.31 (2020-10-06) # This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - Corentin Noël - kadler15 (new contributor! hi!) ## Core ## - At the start of the *exec* phase, an overview is given of the various job weights, which allows you to tweak the overall progress reporting during the installation. - Problems with running Calamares on a 1-core single CPU have been resolved. ## Modules ## - The *keyboard* module now recognizes Turkish "F" layout and will set the vconsole keyboard layout correctly even if xkb keymaps are not found. - The *machineid* module, which generates UUIDs for systemd and dbus and can generate entropy files (filled from `/dev/urandom` in the host system) now supports more than one entropy file; generate them as needed (or copy a fixed value to all, depending on *entropy-copy*). Deprecate *entropy* (which generates a specific output file) as too inflexible. - In the *partition* module, swap can now be chosen as *file*, which is **not** create a swap partition, but write a `/swapfile` in the root directory, 512MiB large, and set that as swap. There is as yet no "smarts" about the size of the swap file. - Multiple problems in the *partition* module around partition sizing have been resolved by Corentin Noël. - The *preservefiles* module documentation did not match the functionality, and when used, didn't work right. #1521 (thanks kadler15) - Progress reporting from the *unpackfs* module has been revamped: it reports more often now, so that it is more obvious that files are being transferred even when the percentage progress does not change. - The *unpackfs* module now supports a *weight* setting for each of the unpack entries. For a single entry this does not matter, but if there are multiple entries it allows tweaking the relative progress between each entry. # 3.2.30 (2020-09-03) # This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - Anke Boersma - Asif Mahmud Shimon - Manzoor Ahmed Munawar - Sai Kamal - Victor Ibragimov This release has two giant source-code changes that have no effect on functionality, but do touch each and every source file: - SPDX headers for licensing information, following the standard set by REUSE.software ; all source files and resources have SPDX-License-Identifier information and copyright notices. All of the boilerplate texts have been removed. - Calamares coding style has been mechanically applied to the entire codebase. This was already done to most of it, but there were some hold-outs. ## Core ## - Network access status is deprecated in Qt 5.15's QNetworkAccessManager, and was not useful already in some previous versions. Replace its use in the Calamares network service by testing-it-ourself directly via a synchronous ping. (Thanks to Asif) - New Telugu translation. (Thanks to Sai) - Urdu translation started. (Thanks to Manzoor) - Timezones translated in Tajik and Russian. (Thanks to Victor) ## Modules ## - *keyboardq* and *localeq* improvements. (Thanks to Anke) - *users* module did not set up autologin properly. This is yet another regression left over from 3.2.28. (Reported by Phil and pcrepix, #1498) - *welcome* module now sets the *LANG* key in the locale configuration (which is shared with the *locale* module and consumed by the *localecfg* module). This makes it feasible to drop the *locale* module and still set the installed system's language to the language selected in Calamares. (Reported by FerenOS) # 3.2.29 (2020-08-20) # This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - Asif Mahmud Shimon (new contributor! hi!) ## Core ## - Edge case in extracting string-lists from YAML, reported and fixed by Asif (#1491). - Progress reporting is now more flexible. Modules can have a weight assigned to them in the descriptor; module instances can have a weight assigned which overrides the module descriptor. When jobs are run for a module instance, the jobs report progress pro-rated by the module's weight. Or in other words, it is now possible to tweak the amount of the overall progress bar that different modules fill. The default settings give unpackfs a weight of 12. (#1176) ## Modules ## - The *users* module did not read the *defaultGroups* correctly. Fixed by the string-lists change mentioned above. # 3.2.28.3 (2020-08-18) # Another hotfix, for more issues reported by Marco Obaid. Users were not having a password set (#1489) # 3.2.28.2 (2020-08-12) # A second hotfix, for autologin support -- the autologin group was not created in the target system before assigning the user to it. Reported by Marco Obaid. # 3.2.28.1 (2020-08-10) # This is a hotfix release for #1482 and #1483, where no user was created during installation and a chmod was failing (resulting in a failed installation). Reported by Jonathan Riddell. With incidental improvements in SPDX tagging (code licensing) and some new icon options for the welcomeq and localeq modules. # 3.2.28 (2020-08-09) # This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - Anke Boersma - apt-ghetto - Victor Ibragimov ## Core ## - A new object *Network* is available to QML modules in `io.calamares.core`. It exposes network status through the *hasInternet* property. - Welcome to Tajik translations. The Tajik language has quickly reached 100% completion. Thanks Victor! - Welcome to [Interlingue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingue). The translation is at an early stage. Qt does not support language code *ie* though, so it may take some time to be integrated (much like Esperanto wasn't supported until Qt 5.12). ## Modules ## - The *locale* module has been completely redone on the inside. Users should see no changes. #1391 - The *localeq* module uses the redone internals of the locale module. It can now be used to set timezone, language and locale information and is a suitable alternative module. Thanks to Anke Boersma who did the work of figuring out maps. Note that the map uses several GeoIP and GeoData providers and you may need to configure the URLs with suitable usernames for those services. #1426 - Both *locale* and *localeq* can now be configured to use the system's timezone setting -- this can be useful to avoid both hard-coding an initial zone and doing extra GeoIP lookups, in the case where the live system already does so. #1391 - The *locale* and *localeq* modules have additional machinery for timezone lookups; please report cases where clicking on the map returns an obviously bogus timezone (up until this release, for instance, Cape Town). - The *users* module no longer accepts `root` as a username. #1462 - The *keyboardq* module is now more inline with the look of the rest of the Calamares modules, use of a background image is removed. - The *grubcfg* module now understands `/etc/default/grub.d`. #1457 # 3.2.27 (2020-07-11) # This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - Gaël PORTAY - Vitor Lopes (new! welcome!) ## Core ## - QML modules with no surrounding navigation -- this is basically a special case for full-screen Calamares -- now have margins suitable for full-screen use. - PythonQt modules are increasingly on the way out. ## Modules ## - The Manjaro package manager *pamac* has been added to those supported by the *packages* module. - The *netinstall* module has had some minor UI tweaks. - Partitioning now tries harder to avoid floppy drives. # 3.2.26.1 (2020-06-23) # This is a hotfix release for undefined behavior caused by an uninitialized integer variable. It includes new translations and features as well since those arrived independently. This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - Anke Boersma - Gaël PORTAY ## Core ## - Welcome to Azerbaijani translations. These are available in two variations, *Azerbaijani* and *Azerbaijani (Azerbaijan)*. [Wikipedia Azerbaijani](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijani_language#North_vs._South_Azerbaijani) has a nice overview. - Warnings while building with Qt 5.15 have been much reduced. ## Modules ## - *partitioning* has one case of undefined behavior (UB) due to a missing integer-initialization. (Thanks Gaël) - *keyboardq* QML module now works correctly. (Thanks Anke) # 3.2.26 (2020-06-18) # This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - Anke Boersma - Gaël PORTAY - Pablo Ovelleiro Corral - Philip Müller ## Core ## - The default branch for Calamares source repositories (calamares and calamares-extensions) is now *calamares*. - External modules can now be built again, outside of the Calamares source and build-tree. - The repository *calamares-tools* has been removed. The idea behind the tooling was to provide schema validation for Calamares configuration files. This has been merged into the primary repository, where it is now part of the test suite. ## Modules ## - *locale* put some more places into the correct timezone **visually**; for instance Norfolk Island gave up UTC+11.5 in 2015 and is now UTC+11, but Calamares still showed it in a zone separate from UTC+11. - *localeq* can now properly switch between on & offline mode, it detects internet status through js. - *packages* gained support for the Void Linux package manager, *xbps*. (thanks Pablo) - *tracking* now supports kuserfeedback configuration. - *welcomeq* added the GEOIP configuration option, so locale can be initially set according to IP address. # 3.2.25 (2020-06-06) # This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - Anke Boersma - Callum Farmer - FLVAL - Gaël PORTAY ## Core ## - The slideshow in `branding.desc` can be configured with QML (recommended, as it has been for the past umpteen releases) or with a list of images (new). - It is possible to turn off all the new QML code -- navigation, slideshow, QML-based modules -- with a single `-DWITH_QML=OFF` at CMake time. This removes QML from Calamares' dependency footprint (but only saves 200kB in Calamares itself). - Tests have been extended and now support a tests/CMakeTests.txt file for fine-tuning tests for Python modules. - SPDX identifiers are used much more widely and consistently in Calamares. (thanks Callum) ## Modules ## - The QML based *welcomeq* module is now a viable alternative to the *welcome*(widgets based) module. Using QML files means it no longer is needed to have pop-up windows for additional information or warnings, all loads in the Calamares window itself. Additional features include the option to customize the *About* info and load files like Release Notes direct into Calamares, QML files added to the branding directory can be used. - The *welcome* and *locale* modules that do GeoIP lookup can now also use "fixed" style; this just negates the GeoIP lookup and substitutes a constant (fixed) value; useful for testing specific locales. - The *keyboard* module no longer uses *ca_eng* keyboards in Canada by default, but sticks to the *us* keyboard. #1419 # 3.2.24 (2020-05-11) # This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - Bill Auger - Gaël PORTAY - Luna Jernberg - Philip Müller ## Core ## - There is now a bash-completions script for Calamares; turn on the (CMake-time) option INSTALL_COMPLETION to get it. (Thanks Gaël) - The *productWallpaper* setting is documented and works. (Thanks Bill) - GlobalStorage is available to QML modules as `Global`. - The height of the navigation bar in QML can be set within the QML code for the navigation; if not set, try something sensible. - A regression in the requirements-checker which could block the installer from proceeding without telling the user **why** it was blocked, has been resolved. ## Modules ## - The *bootloader* module can force a UEFI-based machine to boot into the newly-installed system. #1394 (Thanks Gaël) - *partition* Pop-ups about boot flags use the right flag names. #1192 # 3.2.23 (2020-04-17) # This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - FLVAL ## Core ## - Some strange annotations were added to the *About* dialog text in all the translations, like `{1?}`. These have been removed again. ## Modules ## - *locale* module had some errors in timezone data, where clicking on a city would select a different timezone. Some of these are now fixed (thanks FLVAL). #1374 - *netinstall* supports a wider variety of package naming schemes, and is more flexible in loading a `netinstall.yaml` that is copied from the example configuration file, *groups* key and all. #1369 - *users* module logs a full error message from libpwquality if something is wrong internally. # 3.2.22 (2020-04-08) # This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - Anke Boersma - Camilo Higuita ## Core ## - Both the sidebar (on the left) and the navigation buttons (along the bottom of the window) can now be configured to use the traditional *widgets*, to use *qml*, or *hidden* from view (hiding the navigation is not recommended unless you have a pure-QML UI to run inside Calamares). The example QML that is compiled into Calamares has been improved. To use your own QML, put files `calamares-sidebar.qml` or `calamares-navigation.qml` into the branding directory. - The sidebar and navigation can now be placed on any side of the main window. This is probably only useful for QML-based UIs. See `branding.desc` for details. ## Modules ## - The *welcomeq* module has been improved with better layout and nicer buttons in the example QML form. (Thanks to Anke Boersma) - The *keyboardq* and *localeq* modules now provide some QML for configuring these parts, although they are still very primitive. - *netinstall* has had some minor layout fixes. - *unpackfs* has much more detailed progress reporting and no longer jumps around strangely in overall progress. - *partition* now correctly marks a partition as bootable in BIOS + MBR installs. #1175 # 3.2.21 (2020-03-27) # This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - Anke Boersma - Camilo Higuita - Gabriel Craciunescu - Gaël PORTAY ## Core ## - Python job modules (such as *unpackfs* or *packages*) can now provide a `pretty_status_message()` function, like the existing `pretty_name()` function, that is used to update the status during install. #1330 - QML support-modules and objects are now registered into the io.calamares namespace. This affects modules using Calamares models inside their QML UI (at this point, very few). With this release, the necessary `import` for Calamares parts looks like > ```import io.calamares.ui 1.0``` A complete list of objects available from Calamares van be found in the documentation in `Qml.h`. - The sidebar (which shows overall progress in the installation) is now more configurable: the branding key *sidebar* controls it. The sidebar can be shown as a widget (default, as it has been), hidden, or use a new QML view which is more easily customised. - A new `settings.conf` key *quit-at-end* will automatically close Calamares (by clicking on the *Done* button) when the end of the sequence is reached. If *finished* is the last module in the sequence, this will run whatever it is configured for; you can also leave out the finished page and Calamares will close after the exec parts. ## Modules ## - *packages* now reports more details in the installation progress-bar. - *netinstall* module supports an `expanded` key, which will pre-expand a group (as if the user had pressed the arrow-button in the tree-view). This only affects the UI, and only the **outermost** level of groups. - *netinstall* module now supports a special value for *groupsUrl*. Setting this to *local* will read the groups directly from the configuration file. - *netinstall* groups now support a new key `immutable` which prevents their check-state from being changed (they are shown, or hidden, as usual and can be expanded). - Modules that use QML need a new import line. The QML file for the module is configured through new keys *qmlSearch* and *qmlFilename* (previously those were without the `qml` prefix, which invites name collisions). The full module identifier is also used as a filename, so that multiple instances of a module can use different QML files. - *partition* module has a number of new features and settings for type, UUID, and filesystem characteristics. Thanks to Gaël. # 3.2.20 (2020-02-27) # This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - Bart Ribbers ## Core ## - When logging level is set to 8 (eight), for instance via the `-D8` logging flag, or the `-d` debug flag, the *Show debug information* button will appear in the progress view. This helps with debugging issues where the `-d` flag would be inappropriate. - Calamares now starts at logging level 1 (warnings and errors to the console) by default. Previously it (wrongly) started at level 8. ## Modules ## - The *partition* module now stores which filesystems are in use in global storage. - The *contextualprocess* module now understands "compound variable names", where a dot (.) is used to index into structured data stored in global storage. This allows it to use the map stored by the partition module (but also other things, like looking into the branding information). - The *packages* module now understands "apk", the Alpine Linux package manager. # 3.2.19.1 (2020-02-24) # This is a hotfix release for bugs in the *users* module. Reported by Philip Mueller and Walter Lapchynski. ## Modules ## - The *users* module no longer wrote `/etc/hostname` at all. - The *users* module erroneously shows the root password input fields. - The *initramfs* module sets a resume-hook even when there is no swap. - The partitioning service expects *udevadm* in `/sbin`, but some distro's place it elsewhere. - The mount service didn't unmount directories properly, leading to blocked installations. # 3.2.19 (2020-02-21) # This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - Anke Boersma - Camilo Higuita - Gabriel Craciunescu ## Core ## - *Assamese* translation has been completed. - Translations are now loaded from more places: instead of **only** being compiled in to the Calamares executable, they can now be read from the current directory (when Calamares is run in developer mode) and from the application data directory.This allows updating the translations without requiring a recompile: helpful for translators and possibly for distributions with their own translation style. See the translators and deployers wiki for details. - A new `ViewStep` base class, `QmlViewStep`, has been added that loads a configurable QML file and plays it. This is used by the new *notesqml* module -- which is in itself a minimal wrapper around the same that adds only a translatable module name. ## Modules ## - The *machineid* and *users* modules now prefer high-quality random data from `/dev/urandom` rather than pseudo-random data. #1254 - A new *notesqml* module supports loading QML. This can be used for "fancy" release notes as a QML application, rather than a webview or text widget. Note that this does not replace the slideshow-during- installation module. - The *users* module now has knobs for setting the hostname and writing the `/etc/hosts` file. The new configuration options are documented in `users.conf`. #1140 - Multiple *netinstall* modules can exist side-by-side, and they each control the package installation for their part of the package list. Previously, a netinstall module would overwrite all of the package configuration done by other netinstall modules. Translations can be provided in the configuration file, `netinstall.conf`. #1303 - The *fstab* module no longer "claims" all the swap partitions it finds on disk. It only uses swap specified for the current installation. This means that "replace" and "alongside" installations will have no swap configured in the target system. # 3.2.18 (2020-01-28) # This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - Bill Auger ## Core ## - *Assamese* translation has been added (still in preliminary state). - Timezone support code has migrated into the core of Calamares. This means that modules now have easier access to timezone information. Translations for timezones have also been enabled, so it is **possible** at least to translate the displayed zones in the *locale* module. - Branding can now specify whether to (try to) display the Calamares window in the middle of the desktop or not. The *windowPlacement* key in `branding.desc` specifies *center* or *free* placement. ## Modules ## - All modules can now set a new key in `module.desc` called *noconfig*. If this key is set to `true` (the default is `false), no configuration file is searched-for or loaded, and no warning is printed if the configuration is missing. This should tidy up some unnecessary warnings on startup. #1302 #1301 - The *license* module has seen a significant change to its looks. Actions are now labeled more clearly, and the URL (or filename) for each license is displayed. - The *locale* module now supports translations for timezone and location names (e.g. "Berlin" is "Berlijn" in Dutch). - *Packagechooser* is a little more careful with displaying default and empty package names. (thanks to Bill Auger) - The *unpackfs* module now carries a larger weight in the overall progress of the installation, which should resolve downstream reports like "progress stops at 24% for a long time". This is currently hard-coded, but will become configurable in a future release. #1176 # 3.2.17.1 (2019-12-02) # This is a hotfix release for a bug in the grubcfg module. Reported by Philip Mueller and Erik Dubois. ## Modules ## - The *grubcfg* module had a typo in it that made installations fail. # 3.2.17 (2019-11-28) # This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - Bill Auger ## Core ## - A translation "string freeze" is now enforced by the release scripts. ## Modules ## - A new module, *hostinfo*, places information about the host into Global Storage. This can support contextualprocess modules that need that information. - The password-checks in the *users* module are now ordered consistently. A new check *nonempty* can be used to explicitly check for a non-empty password. This was previously hard-coded. If you have no other password-requirements set (e.g. minimum-length) and rely on Calamares to filter out empty passwords, add this check. - The *grubcfg* module has a new configuration setting *keepDistributor* which prevents replacing the `GRUB_DISTRIBUTION` line when writing the new configuration. #1201 - *packagechooser* documentation has been updated. - *welcome* module now works better with dark themes. - The *license* module could get into a confused state, now fixed. #1271 # 3.2.16 (2019-11-01) # This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - Bill Auger ## Core ## - Some obscure build scenarios which would lead to bogus module-is- misconfigured messages on startup have been resolved. ## Modules ## - The explanatory messages on the *users* page have moved to tooltips, and placeholder text has been added to the fields. #1202 - The bad-password messages in the *users* page have been improved. #1261 - Password-checking in the *users* module has been substantially changed. A new key *allowWeakPasswords* can be used to introduce an additional checkbox to the page, which can then be used to switch off strict password checking. (Thanks to Bill Auger) - The icons used in password warnings on the *users* page have been changed to the colorful status icons (rather than the thin red X). # 3.2.15 (2019-10-11) # This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - No other contributors this time around. ## Core ## - No changes to core functionality ## Modules ## - *displaymanager* module now treats *sysconfig* as a regular entry in the *displaymanagers* list, and the *sysconfigSetup* key is used as a shorthand to force **only** that entry in the list. #1253 - *machineid* module has been re-written in C++ and extended with a new configuration key to generate urandom pool data. #1252 - *unpackfs* now supports a special *sourcefs* value of `file` for copying single files (optionally with renaming) or directory trees to the target system. - *unpackfs* now support an *exclude* and *excludeFile* setting for excluding particular files or patters from unpacking. #1229 # 3.2.14 (2019-09-30) # This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - Andrius Štikonas - Harald Sitter ## Core ## - No changes to core functionality ## Modules ## - *locale* module no longer recognizes the legacy GeoIP configuration. This has been deprecated since Calamares 3.2.8 and is now removed. - *packagechooser* module can now be custom-labeled in the overall progress (left-hand column). #1228 - *displaymanager* module now recognizes KDE Plasma 5.17. - *displaymanager* module now can handle Wayland sessions and can detect sessions from their .desktop files. #1247 #1248 - *unpackfs* now has special handling for *sourcefs* setting "file" (so you can copy single files or directories that are on the source system, directly to the target). #1188 #1181 # 3.2.13 (2019-08-30) # This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - Arnaud Ferraris - Arnaud Rebillout - Bill Auger - Kevin Kofler ## Core ## - The Calamares standard coding style -- embodied in `ci/calamaresstyle` has had a few updates and has now been consistently applied across the core codebase (e.g. libcalamares, libcalamaresui, calamares, but not the modules). - *KCoreAddons* is now a required dependency. This lets us drop a chunk of code that was copied from KCoreAddons years ago, and use the (maintained!) upstream version instead. It also gives us KMacroExpander everywhere, which will simplify code for handling substitutions in configuration files. - *Slideshows* now have a new property *activatedInCalamares* which controls the keyboard shortcuts (and can control timers and other properties of the slideshow, too). ## Modules ## - The *packagechooser* module can load data from the config-file, from AppData XML files referred by the config-file, and (new) also from AppStream caches by referring to an application's AppStream id. #1212 - The *partition* module now understands the units *KB*, *MB*, *GB* which are powers-of-ten sizes, alongside the powers-of-two sizes that it already used. (thanks to Arnaud) - The *welcome* module now supports a *Donate* button if *showDonateUrl* is set to a non-empty URL. #1197 - The *welcome* module can have URLs for the various buttons configured directly in the module configuration (rather than in `branding.desc`). # 3.2.12 (2019-08-07) # This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - apt-ghetto - Bill Auger - embar ## Core ## - Preliminary work to allow jobs to have a *weight* assigned to them has been added. This will allow the progress bar to better reflect progress by the amount of work done rather than purely by the number of jobs. (Thanks to Bill Auger) - Preliminary work has been added to post the installation log to a pastebin for bug reporting. (Thanks to Bill Auger) - Support for translated human-readable strings in Calamares config files has been added. This is used only in the *packagechooser* module (see below) but will expand to those modules that need user-visible strings from the configuration file (existing solutions need either gettext or Qt support). - Esperanto is now available when Qt version 5.12.2 or later is used. ## Modules ## - *fstab* A new configuration key *efiMountOptions* has been added, to allow setting filesystem options specifically for the EFI partition. (Thanks to apt-ghetto) - *packagechooser* is a new module for low-density package choices, e.g. for selecting a default desktop environment, or adding some proprietary drivers, or chosing browsers of office suites. It presents **one** collection of items -- at most ten or so, because of the UI -- and the user can select zero or more of them. The behavior is configurable, and package information can be set through the Calamares configuration file or by reading AppData files for the packages. #426 # 3.2.11 (2019-07-06) # This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - No other contributors this time around. This is a security release with no functional changes (except for improved security) relative to 3.2.10. The Calamares team would like to acknowledge the help of the following people in reporting and understanding the issues (alphabetically by first name): - Kevin Kofler - Seth Arnold - Simon Quigley - Thomas Ward Both CVE's have been resolved. ## Core ## No core changes. ## Modules ## - *initramfs* could create an initramfs with insecure permissions. Since the keyfile is included in the initramfs, an attacker could read the file from the initramfs. #1190 CVE-2019-13178 - *luksbootkeyfile* created a key file where a window of opportunity existed where the key file could have too-lax file permissions. #1191 CVE-2019-13179 # 3.2.10 (2019-06-28) # This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - No other contributors this time around. Distributions are **advised** to check the slideshow they use for the installation step; changes in loading and translation mechanisms may require changes in the slideshow. ## Core ## - With this release, option *WITH_PYTHONQT* changes default to **off**. There does not seem to be any serious use of the PythonQt API and the UI opportunities it offers, so begin the process of deprecating and removing that. Sometime in the future, QML pages will fill the gap for easily-prototyped-yet-slick UI elements. - A crash when no *finished* page (or rather, no page at all) is configured after the last *exec* section of the sequence has been solved. The *finished* page can be left out (but then you don't get the restart-now functionality). #1168 - The *slideshow* which is run during installation now has API versions. API version 1 (the default) runs as before, where the slideshow is loaded when the installation starts. API version 2 loads the slideshow on Calamares startup, thus improving responsiveness. Documentation in `src/branding/README.md`. #1152 - The example slideshow now uses API version 2. ## Modules ## - *initramfs* has been changed from a Python module to a C++ module. Packaging will need to adjust now it installs a .so instead of a .py. The module itself functions as before. It does have a new configuration option, to change the version passed as to the `-k` option of update-initramfs. #1180 - *partition* Now has its own setting for *requiredStorage*, duplicating the same setting in the *welcome* module. This is useful for configurations where no *welcome* module is used, but a minimum size must be checked anyway. #1169 # 3.2.9 (2019-06-03) # This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - Kevin Kofler ## Core ## No user- or deployer-visible changes. Bugfixing as usual, see the milestone for details. ## Modules ## - *branding* now supports os-release variables in the *strings* section, which allows re-using (at runtime) information set in /etc/os-release . This requires KDE Frameworks 5.58. #1150 - *branding* allows the use of FreeDesktop.org icon names for the *productLogo* and *productIcon* keys. If a file is named there, then the file is used, and otherwise the icon is looked up in the current theme. #1160 - *packages* On Arch, with the `pacman` package manager, avoid a hang during system update. #1154 - *welcome* allows a custom image path or icon name to be set for the language-selection drop-down (instead of the international standard one). # 3.2.8 (2019-05-10) # This is a **source-incompatible** release of Calamares. Include files have been shuffled around, so third-party C++ modules will need adjustment to the changed names. This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - Arnaud Ferraris - Kevin Kofler ## Core ## - All user-visible texts referring to "MB" and "GB" now use the standard "MiB" and "GiB" wording, which matches what we were actually calculating with (i.e. 2^20 and 2^30 respectively). #1129 - The side-pane, which shows the list of steps that will be executed, now tries to fit the text (name of each module) into the available space by shrinking the font as needed. #1137 - *libcalamares* (accidentally) linked with Qt's GUI libraries when PythonQt was found. This led to the odd situation where the non-GUI Calamares library depends on a bunch of GUI libraries. - *libcalamares* The `utils/` subdirectory has been hugely refactored, with functionality split out into separate files. C++ modules will need to have their `#include` names updated. Basically, users of `utils/CalamaresUtils.h` will need to include the header file for the functionality that is actually used. ## Modules ## - *finished* has a new mechanism for configuring the behavior of the *restart now* button. The old-style boolean configuration is still supported but generates a warning. #1138 - *locale* module GeoIP configuration has a new preferred format. See `locale.conf` for details. The old configuration is still supported but will be phased out before 3.3.0 -- in particular, support for "legacy" format will be removed, since that was a crutch for the disappearance of one GeoIP provider in 2018. - *oemid* is a new module for configuring OEM phase-0 (image pre-mastering, or pre-deployment) things. It has limited functionality at the moment, writing only a single batch-identifier file. #943 - *welcome* can now do GeoIP lookups as well (but be careful with the configuration, since you need a GeoIP that provides country information, not just timezones). This will let Calamares select a starting language that matches where it is -- which might not be useful at all. #934 - All Python modules now bail out gracefully on (at least some) bad configurations, rather than raising an exception. The pre-release scripts now test for exceptions to avoid shipping modules with ImportError or SyntaxError results. # 3.2.7 (2019-04-27) # This is a **hotfix** release for regressions introduced in the Python modules. The *localecfg* module was unusable because of a missing `import`. # 3.2.6 (2019-04-25) # This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - Arnaud Ferraris - Dominic Hayes (feren) - Raul Rodrigo Segura (raurodse) ## Core ## * Under-the-hood code cleanups in lots of parts of the core. Calamares now builds without warnings when Clang 8 is used. * A new *disable-cancel-during-exec* setting provides more fine-grained control than *disable-cancel*, which hides the button entirely. #1122 (Thanks to Dominic, FerenOS) * A branding module can now also cause a stylesheet to be loaded, which will be applied to the widgets inside Calamares. #961 (Thanks to Raul) ## Modules ## * All of the Python-based modules now have translations enabled. #991 * *Displaymanager* module has improved support for LightDM configuration. #1123 (Thanks to Dominic, FerenOS) * *License* module can now display local files inline, and scrolls to allow longer lists of licenses and to support long license texts displayed inline. #1124 #1125 #1052 * *Partition* module has additional checks for validity partition layouts. #1127 (Thanks to Arnaud) * *Welcome* module has improved usability: a standard icon alongside the *Language* label, for improved recognition, and improved language-list display and sorting. #1107 # 3.2.5 (2019-04-15) # This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - Arnaud Ferraris - Dan Simmons - Gabriel Craciunescu ## Core ## * View modules (in C++) can now perform their own requirements-checking to see if installation makes sense. This expands upon the existing requirements checks in the welcome module (RAM, disk space, ..). The checks have been made asynchronous, so that responsiveness during requirements-checking is improved and the user has better feedback. * Support for building an AppImage of Calamares has been added to the `ci/` directory. There are use-cases where a containerized build and configuration make sense rather than having Calamares installed in the host system. (Thanks to the AppImage team, Alexis) * OEM mode (phase-1) now correctly refers to Calamares as a "Setup Program" rather than an installer. #1100 (Thanks to Arnaud) ## Modules ## * *Bootloader* module: a serious bug introduced in 3.2.4 which prevents succesful boot after installation on EFI machines, has been repaired. (Thanks to Gabriel) #1104 * *Displaymanager* module: it is no longer a fatal error to not have any display-managers. #1095 * *Partition* module: it is now possible to build without libparted. Since KPMCore may not need this library anymore, it is a dependency that will be dropped as soon as it is feasible. Add this to the CMake flags: `-DCMAKE_DISABLE_FIND_PACKAGE_LIBPARTED=ON` * *Partition* module: the location that is selected for the bootloader, no longer changes when a new partition is created. #1098 * Python modules: several modules have had translations added. This is usually only visible when the module runs as part of the *exec* step, when the module's *pretty name* is displayed. In addition, some error messages are now translated. * *UnpackFS* module: improved progress reporting and tests. #565 # 3.2.4 (2019-02-12) # This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - Alf Gaida - aliveafter1000 - Arnaud Ferraris - Caio Jordão Carvalho - Collabora LTD - Gabriel Craciunescu - Kevin Kofler - Philip Mueller - Scott Harvey ## Core ## * The Calamares application now recognizes the `-X` or `--xdg-config` option, which adds XDG_DATA_DIRS to the places used to find QML and branding directories, and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS to the places used to find the global settings and module configurations. This allows a more fine-grained, and more layered, approach to setting up Calamares configurations (in particular, distro's can **add** configuration files and give them priority, instead of **forking** configuration files). * The *branding* file now contains settings that control the size and resize behavior of Calamares. See the branding file for more documentation. In particular, the setting *windowExpanding* can be set to *normal*, *fullscreen* or *noexpand*. * The `settings.conf` file can now configure whether the *Cancel* button is shown (this isn't a branding thing, because it's quite fundamental to the workflow of the installer). ## Modules ## * The *partition* module supports RAID devices, but only when Calamares is compiled with the newest KPMCore release (3.3.0). * The calculation of required space -- including swap -- has been simplified, and Calamares no longer reserves 2GiB of space in calculations for internal use (this means that it no longer mysteriously drops swap when the disk size is close to the required installation size). * The name of the type of default filesystem (e.g. ext4 or btrfs) is now handled case- and localization-insensitively. This means that *btrfs* is now always an acceptable spelling. * The currently-selected disk device is remembered between manual partitioning and the partitioning-overview pages. (Thanks to Arnaud) * *partition* There is new support for partitioning layout presets. See `partition.conf` for documentation and details. * The *keyboard* module now handles the (bogus) Austrian keymap for the system console properly. (Thanks to Kevin) * The *preservefiles* module now has a mechanism for setting the permissions (and ownership) of preserved files. (Thanks to Scott) * New module *fsresizer* can be used to resize filesystems. It is intended for use in OEM installs where an image of fixed size is created, and then sized to the actual SD card the user has used. * The *mount* module now handles missing *extraMounts* and *extraMountsEfi* keys gracefully (this is probably a misconfiguration, though, and gives a warning). * The *packages* module now supports pre- and post-script options for all operations, not just during install (keep in mind that these run as three separate shells, though). * A new *rawfs* module supports straightforward copying of filesystems from the installation media to the target stystem. This can be used, for instance, for block-level-identical installations. # 3.2.3 (2019-01-09) # This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - aliveafter1000 ## Core ## There are no core changes in this release. ## Modules ## * *partition* Fixed bug where, during detection of existing systems, the existing system partitions may be mounted and then files deleted. This is a **limited** version of the patch from aliveafter1000 that will be in 3.2.4, which tries harder to mount filesystems read-only and unmodifiable. * *locale* It was possible to set the installer and system language (e.g. to German) while the global storage value for *locale* remained set to English. Then no localization packages are installed (see feature `${LOCALE}` in `packages.conf`). Reported downstream in Netrunner. # 3.2.2 (2018-09-04) # This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - Andrius Štikonas - artoo@cromnix.org - Caio Jordão Carvalho - Harald Sitter - Philip Müller - Simon Quigley - Walter Lapchynski ## Core ## * Example configurations are **no longer installed** by default. The default setting for *INSTALL_CONFIG* has changed. Distributions are strongly encouraged to write their own configuration files and not rely on the example configuration files. Example configurations may change unpredictably. * It is now possible to express module dependencies through the *requiredModules* key in `module.desc`. All of the required modules for a given module must occur in the sequence **before** the module requiring them. None of the core modules use this facility. * The search paths for QML files, branding descriptors and module descriptors have been revamped and now self-document in the log. * A new `ci/RELEASE.sh` script has been added to streamline releases; it is not guaranteed to work anywhere in particular though. ## Modules ## * When multiple modules are mutually exclusive, or don't make sense to enable concurrectly, a new `USE_` framework has been added to CMake to simplify the selection of modules. This is in addition to the existing `SKIP_MODULES` mechanism. * Various off-by-one-sector errors in the automatic partitioning mode have been corrected. In addition, swap space is calculated a little more conservatively. * A new module has been added to the core which can configure openrc services. To make services configuration consistent: - The *services* module has been **renamed** *services-systemd*, - The openrc module is named *services-openrc*, - At CMake time, it is possible to select all of the services modules, or one specific one, by setting the *USE_services* CMake variable. By default, all of the modules are built and installed. * The systemd-services module can now disable targets and mask both targets and services (which will allow you to break the system with a bad configuration). The configuration is a little more flexible because a service (or target) name can be used on its own with sensible defaults. * The displaymanager module has been entirely revamped. A long-standing bug which ignored the settings for default desktop has been fixed (thanks to Walter Lapchynski). Translations have been added to the error messages. Each DM now has an implementation class for doing all the configuration steps it needs. This groups the code needed for a specific DM (and presumably, per-distro) in one place. Distro's are **strongly advised** to re-test their DM configuration and installation with the revamped code. # 3.2.1 (2018-06-25) # This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - Bill Auguer - Gabriel Craciunescu - Phil Mueller - Raul Rodrigo Segura ## Core ## * Qt 5.7 is now the minimum required Qt version. Because KPMCore (a fairly fundamental dependency) requires Qt 5.7, Calamares has followed suit. * New testing application `loadmodule` for loading and running a single Calamares module. * New translations Belarussian and Korean. * Jobs can now be *emergency jobs* which run even after a failure. * Improved debugging when modules fail to load. * Bad configuration files will now cause the user-interface of Calamares to display an error message, rather than silently ignoring some configuration errors. This will certainly cause problems for distributions with sloppy configurations. ## Modules ## * New module preservefiles, keeps (log) files around after install; this duplicates functionality with the unmount module, but unmount is very late, rather limited, and fragile. * Interactiveterminal module now disables itself if build requirements are not met, rather than blocking the build. * Fixes in the timezone map data make the southern hemisphere more usable and put Reykjavik in its place. * The packages module can now update the target system if explicitly told to do so. * More paths and executables are configurable in the bootloader module. * Distributions are advised to review the `users.conf` setup **again**, as some changes in version 3.2.0 caused regressions downstream. * Distributions are advised to review their `locale.gen` files **again**. Previous changes were too restrictive, matching only the specific format Chakra Linux uses. Calamares now preserves all the comment-lines in the file and writes enabled locales at the end, with a descriptive comment. # 3.2.0 (2018-05-17) # This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): - Alf Gaida - AlmAck - Caio Jordão Carvalho - Frede H ## Modules ## * UI annoyances in the partitioning module were fixed; the mount-point selector is now more obvious when no mount-point has been chosen, and the mount-point and flags are preserved when (re)editing partitions. * The handling of `@@ROOT@@` substitution in shellprocesses was backwards; this has been fixed (the substitution is made when running in the **host**). * The user shell is no longer hard-coded to `/bin/bash`, but follows the default setting for useradd(8), e.g. those set in `/etc/default/useradd`.