calamares

The Calamares team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Calamares 2.4.5, a bug fix release that delivers improvements and fixes for recently discovered issues.

Calamares is a distribution-independent system installer, with an advanced partitioning feature for both manual and automated partitioning operations. It is the first installer with an automated "Replace Partition" option, which makes it easy to reuse a partition over and over for distribution testing. Calamares is designed to be customizable by distribution maintainers without need for cumbersome patching, thanks to third party branding and external modules support.

Highlights of this release include:

• fixed a path handling issue which could sometimes occur when reusing an existing EFI system partition;
• fixes and reliability improvements for the internet connection check in the welcome module;
• fixed GRUB deployment with 32-bit UEFI firmware (note: this also affects some 64-bit systems which ship a 32-bit UEFI firmware);
• fixed operating system detection for automatic dual boot setup in GRUB;
• added Btrfs subvolumes setup for @ and @home in automated install modes (note: manual partitioning still doesn't support Btrfs subvolumes, as this requires further work in both KPMcore and Calamares);
• fixed a security issue which could happen when using manual partitioning to set up a system with an encrypted root partition, but with an unencrypted separate /boot partition.

Notes for packagers and system integrators:

• system integrators who ship their own modified mount.conf should update it so it bind-mounts /run/udev like the upstream mount.conf, otherwise GRUB's os-prober instance will fail to detect existing operating systems;
• with Calamares 2.4.5 it is still possible for a user to set up encrypted / with unencrypted /boot, but such a setup is not recommended and obsolete for most use cases since GRUB supports booting from an encrypted /boot partition or directory;
• it is advised for system integrators who use Dracut or Debian-initramfs to test various scenarios with encrypted and unencrypted /boot partitions thoroughly because of the changes mentioned above.

The partitioning module of Calamares 2.4.5 requires KPMcore 2.2 or 2.2.1. Further distribution-specific deployment adjustments may be needed for full LUKS support, for more details see the Calamares wiki.

If you experience an issue with Calamares, please tell us all about it on the Calamares issue tracker.

MD5: ec4805b7322748d13d869e7f3e1b42f7
SHA1: ece125baeb35dfd61b404187c6e0e89d7af051ec

The Calamares team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Calamares 2.4.4, a bug fix release that delivers improvements and fixes for recently discovered issues.

Calamares is a distribution-independent system installer, with an advanced partitioning feature for both manual and automated partitioning operations. It is the first installer with an automated "Replace Partition" option, which makes it easy to reuse a partition over and over for distribution testing. Calamares is designed to be customizable by distribution maintainers without need for cumbersome patching, thanks to third party branding and external modules support.

Highlights of this release include:

• improved EFI system partition flag management (this removes a dependency on sgdisk);
• improved parsing of SDDM configuration;
• support for selecting visible groups by default in the netinstall module;
• added option of updating the packages database before performing package operations;
• added support for try_install and try_remove entries in the packages module configuration;
• fixed potential failure in unpackfs module (caused by inability to write extended attributes to a filesystem which doesn't support them).

The partitioning module of Calamares 2.4.4 requires KPMcore 2.2 or 2.2.1. Further distribution-specific deployment adjustments may be needed for full LUKS support, for more details see the Calamares wiki.

If you experience an issue with Calamares, please tell us all about it on the Calamares issue tracker.

MD5: d95c1ae841f2bbe32cd39c1836dc3576
SHA1: 2a30c6535bf04f94e8deb582430671e7b072096c

The Calamares team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Calamares 2.4.3, a bug fix release that delivers improvements and fixes for recently discovered issues.

Calamares is a distribution-independent system installer, with an advanced partitioning feature for both manual and automated partitioning operations. It is the first installer with an automated "Replace Partition" option, which makes it easy to reuse a partition over and over for distribution testing. Calamares is designed to be customizable by distribution maintainers without need for cumbersome patching, thanks to third party branding and external modules support.

Highlights of this release include:

• added support for C++/Qt batch job plugins;
• new dummycpp job module as an example for module developers;
• added support for early LUKS unlocking with Debian initramfs (new initramfscfg module);
• added support for early LUKS unlocking with Dracut (new dracutlukscfg module);
• multiple fixes to /etc/crypttab handling to improve LUKS support on Debian and related distributions;
• fixed user creation so it obeys the list of default groups for new users;
• added Deepin support to the displaymanager module;
• fixed an issue which could cause a failed install with LUKS if other LUKS partitions are already present.

The partitioning module of Calamares 2.4.3 requires KPMcore 2.2 or 2.2.1. Further distribution-specific deployment adjustments may be needed for full LUKS support, for more details see the Calamares wiki.

If you experience an issue with Calamares, please tell us all about it on the Calamares issue tracker.

MD5: fbae7c3e23b0a6ed07aa7daba18753d8
SHA1: 2da2263a8f8fa97ae485d1a98fae3c976a0f2cc2

The Calamares team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Calamares 2.4.2, a bug fix release that delivers improvements and fixes for recently discovered issues.

Calamares is a distribution-independent system installer, with an advanced partitioning feature for both manual and automated partitioning operations. It is the first installer with an automated "Replace Partition" option, which makes it easy to reuse a partition over and over for distribution testing. Calamares is designed to be customizable by distribution maintainers without need for cumbersome patching, thanks to third party branding and external modules support.

Highlights of this release include:

• improved system requirements configuration checking;
• fixed case-insensitive path handling when installing GRUB on VFAT filesystems;
• removed dependency on chfn in the users module;
• added support for Debian-style /etc/default/keyboard configuration as an option;
• fixed an issue which could cause a failed install when resolv.conf is a broken symlink in the target rootfs;
• fixed locale filtering for UTF-8 on Fedora and related distributions;
• added support for disabling LUKS-related UI elements;
• fixed an issue in the summary page, which caused the target root partition to be mislabeled in the UI.

The partitioning module of Calamares 2.4.2 depends on KPMcore 2.2 or later. Further distribution-specific deployment adjustments may be needed for full LUKS support, for more details see the Calamares wiki.

If you experience an issue with Calamares, please tell us all about it on the Calamares issue tracker.

MD5: 2f560be68f22db7e799770779d30af7c
SHA1: 3f1fd4805f5a2237f0d654483ed2e75b1f39778b

The Calamares team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Calamares 2.4.1, a bug fix release that solves a few issues that were discovered since the Calamares 2.4 release.

Calamares is a distribution-independent system installer, with an advanced partitioning feature for both manual and automated partitioning operations. It is the first installer with an automated "Replace Partition" option, which makes it easy to reuse a partition over and over for distribution testing. Calamares is designed to be customizable by distribution maintainers without need for cumbersome patching, thanks to third party branding and external modules support.

Highlights of this release include:

• fixed how the timezone setting is applied, so certain environments like KDE Plasma always obey the setting on first boot;
• fixed timezone selector behavior, so that a timezone changes affect the live system immediately;
• improved partition scanner code so it always excludes ISO9660 volumes (to avoid showing the live USB stick or optical disk in the devices list);
• future-proofed and optimized the codebase a bit to remove the soon to be deprecated Q_FOREACH construct and avoid deep copies of Qt containers.

The partitioning module of Calamares 2.4.1 depends on KPMcore 2.2 or later. Further distribution-specific deployment adjustments may be needed for full LUKS support, for more details see the Calamares wiki.

If you experience an issue with Calamares, please tell us all about it on the Calamares issue tracker.

MD5: 8019a3e11aefeadcc990f2bc744daf2f
SHA1: fe31004c9abc936669eb0301afc3343e1f475660

The Calamares team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Calamares 2.4, a feature release that brings many incremental improvements over Calamares 2.3, as well as new features.

Calamares is a distribution-independent system installer, with an advanced partitioning feature for both manual and automated partitioning operations. It is the first installer with an automated "Replace Partition" option, which makes it easy to reuse a partition over and over for distribution testing. Calamares is designed to be customizable by distribution maintainers without need for cumbersome patching, thanks to third party branding and external modules support.

The focus of the Calamares 2.4 development cycle was fixing bugs and polishing existing functionality, including locales management and partitioning, but we're also shipping an all-new package selection module.

Highlights of this release include:

• added support for reusing an existing /home partition if detected in the /etc/fstab file of an already installed operating system;
• new netinstall module which offers a choice of packages to install;
• rewritten large portions of the locale module, with new locale and timezone autodetection functionality and smarter management of locale.conf values;
• added support for an already mounted loop filesystem as source for the unpackfs operation;
• improved handling of partition colors in the partitioning interface when operating on logical partitions;
• fixed a user name validation issue which could in some specific situations cause a failed installation;
• improved defaults in several configuration files;
• improved bootloader deployment on EFI systems with an existing EFI system partition;
• countless other bug fixes.

The partitioning module of Calamares 2.4 depends on KPMcore 2.2 or later. Further distribution-specific deployment adjustments may be needed for full LUKS support, for more details see the Calamares wiki.

If you experience an issue with Calamares, please tell us all about it on the Calamares issue tracker.

MD5: aa5d37fe02ff8beaec273576b66b8495
SHA1: 695d12cc0023350108993fa91f6b936cf2a0f224

The Calamares team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Calamares 2.3, a feature release that brings many incremental improvements over the Calamares 2.2 series, as well as new features such as full disk encryption.

Calamares is a distribution-independent system installer, with an advanced partitioning feature for both manual and automated partitioning operations. It is the first installer with an automated "Replace Partition" option, which makes it easy to reuse a partition over and over for distribution testing. Calamares is designed to be customizable by distribution maintainers without need for cumbersome patching, thanks to third party branding and external modules support.

The big focus of the Calamares 2.3 development cycle was implementing support for installing with full disk encryption. A lot of work was put into KPMcore, KDE Partition Manager, the Calamares partitioning module, and a number of other modules. The encryption feature in Calamares 2.3 acts as a basic configuration interface for LUKS, with the goal of making it as as easy and newbie-proof as possible without sacrificing security. If the encryption feature is enabled, Calamares 2.3 also encrypts the boot loader, and the user is only prompted for the passphrase once. Swap partition encryption is also supported, as well as resuming from suspend-to-disk with an encrypted swap partition.

Other highlights of this release include:

• fixed a long standing and hard to debug issue with occasional unwanted resize operations being executed;
• added a partitioning module configuration option for showing partition labels in the manual partitioning interface;
• improved support for NVME devices in fstab;
• much improved mke2fs and e2fsck handling, which fixes a multitude of random (but not very frequent) install failures;
• improved restart command configuration handling in the finished module;
• implemented type to search support in the keyboard module;
• added a partitioning module configuration option for selecting the default filesystem type;
• countless other bug fixes.

The partitioning module of Calamares 2.3 depends on KPMcore 2.2 or later. Further distribution-specific deployment adjustments may be needed for full LUKS support, for more details see the Calamares wiki.

If you experience an issue with Calamares, please tell us all about it on the Calamares issue tracker.

MD5: c032dfbd5dd9c8d26fdcdd1f5090916a
SHA1: 49ab7fe7cc351282be3e92926636bef1e5f2ef8a

The Calamares team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Calamares 2.2.3, a maintenance release that fixes several issues which were discovered since Calamares 2.2.2.

Calamares is a distribution-independent system installer, with an advanced partitioning feature for both manual and automated partitioning operations. It is the first installer with an automated "Replace Partition" option, which makes it easy to reuse a partition over and over for distribution testing. Calamares is designed to be customizable by distribution maintainers without need for cumbersome patching, thanks to third party branding and external modules support.

Highlights of this release include:

• fixed an issue which caused zram devices to be included in the devices list;
• greatly improved startup time;
• fixed an issue which could cause the boot loader location choice to be reset in situations when it's preferable for the choice to be preserved;
• added support for locale choice and locale.gen configuration on Debian based systems.

Please be advised that as of Calamares 2.2, if you are building from git master, you must initialize the libcrashreporter-qt submodule as documented in README.md. End users and packagers who use our 2.2.3 tarball are not affected.

The partitioning module of Calamares 2.2.3 depends on KPMcore 2.1 or later, with KPMcore 2.1.1 recommended for NVME devices support.

If you experience an issue with Calamares, please tell us all about it on the Calamares issue tracker.

MD5: f110aaf63ff0ab94a58c3fda514431af
SHA1: de89ec513a3910b9e864f58cc83ce929879525fc

The Calamares team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Calamares 2.2.2, a maintenance release that fixes several issues which were discovered since Calamares 2.2 and 2.2.1.

Calamares is a distribution-independent system installer, with an advanced partitioning feature for both manual and automated partitioning operations. It is the first installer with an automated "Replace Partition" option, which makes it easy to reuse a partition over and over for distribution testing. Calamares is designed to be customizable by distribution maintainers without need for cumbersome patching, thanks to third party branding and external modules support.

Highlights of this release include:

• fixed a build issue with very recent (unreleased git master) KPMcore;
• fixed an issue with minimum RAM and storage requirements being ignored in some corner cases;
• improved error reporting in the unpackfs module;
• added CMake option WEBVIEW_FORCE_WEBKIT for deployers who wish to build with QtWebKit instead of QWebEngine even with Qt 5.6 or newer.

Please be advised that as of Calamares 2.2, if you are building from git master, you must initialize the libcrashreporter-qt submodule as documented in README.md. End users and packagers who use our 2.2.2 tarball are not affected.

The partitioning module of Calamares 2.2.2 depends on KPMcore 2.1, with KPMcore 2.1.1 recommended for NVME devices support.

If you experience an issue with Calamares, please tell us all about it on the Calamares issue tracker.

MD5: 54637dbfaa1ffd646e568dc33897b9f2
SHA1: 65c67810575445df725a61ca39ca07cf2b4b990d

The Calamares team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Calamares 2.2.1, a maintenance release that fixes several issues which were discovered since Calamares 2.2.

Calamares is a distribution-independent system installer, with an advanced partitioning feature for both manual and automated partitioning operations. It is the first installer with an automated "Replace Partition" option, which makes it easy to reuse a partition over and over for distribution testing. Calamares is designed to be customizable by distribution maintainers without need for cumbersome patching, thanks to third party branding and external modules support.

Highlights of this release include:

• fixed build issue with incorrectly detected YAML-cpp;
• replaced QtWebKit with QtWebEngine in webview module if building with Qt 5.6 or greater;
• fixed locale.gen parser to correctly exclude comments from the locales list;
• updated to newer libcrashreporter-qt submodule;
• added much deserved credit for translators in About dialog.

Please be advised that as of Calamares 2.2, if you are building from git master, you must initialize the libcrashreporter-qt submodule as documented in README.md. End users and packagers who use our 2.2.1 tarball are not affected.

The partitioning module of Calamares 2.2.1 depends on KPMcore 2.1, with KPMcore 2.1.1 recommended for NVME devices support.

If you experience an issue with Calamares, please tell us all about it on the Calamares issue tracker.

MD5: 44c1d71b6a6ed4f3f30d3a87c5247023
SHA1: d01dbdc461fa572d9452c9a11baca203df58e877

The Calamares team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Calamares 2.2, a feature release that brings many incremental improvements over Calamares 2.1.

Calamares is a distribution-independent system installer, with an advanced partitioning feature for both manual and automated partitioning operations. It is the first installer with an automated "Replace Partition" option, which makes it easy to reuse a partition over and over for distribution testing. Calamares is designed to be customizable by distribution maintainers without need for cumbersome patching, thanks to third party branding and external modules support.

Highlights of this release include:

• automated Breakpad and GDB-based crash reporting with libcrashreporter-qt;
• support for 32-bit UEFI GRUB;
• support for NVME SSDs (requires KPMcore 2.1.1);
• support for "replacing" free space;
• improvements in the debug interface (for distribution maintainers);
• miscellaneous bug fixes in the partitioning module.

Please be advised that as of Calamares 2.2, if you are building from git master, you now need to initialize the libcrashreporter-qt submodule as documented in README.md. End users and packagers who use our 2.2 tarball are not affected.

The partitioning module of Calamares 2.2 depends on KPMcore 2.1, with KPMcore 2.1.1 recommended for NVME devices support.

If you experience an issue with Calamares, please tell us all about it on the Calamares issue tracker.

MD5: 4260038f9589640985ed49a04e6b2dd3
SHA1: 628119c94741fe5d7a75720069f6d0875580f949

The Calamares team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Calamares 2.1, a feature release that brings many incremental improvements over Calamares 2.0.

Calamares is a distribution-independent system installer, with an advanced partitioning feature for both manual and automated partitioning operations. It is the first installer with an automated "Replace Partition" option, which makes it easy to reuse a partition over and over for distribution testing. Calamares is designed to be customizable by distribution maintainers without need for cumbersome patching, thanks to third party branding and external modules support.

Highlights of this release include:

• partition flags support while creating or editing a partition in the manual partitioning page;
• added a check and warning when installing in EFI mode with manual partitioning without setting up a mount point and/or flag for the EFI system partition;
• fixed an issue with settings loading that wrongly defaulted to post-install mode in some cases;
• fixed a critical issue which could lead to data loss when trying to use the "Replace partition" feature on empty space;
• other miscellaneous fixes.

The partitioning module of Calamares 2.1 depends on KPMcore 2.1, also released today.

If you experience an issue with Calamares, please tell us all about it on the Calamares issue tracker.

MD5: 34bef38a89b13900282646bad82471b4
SHA1: cfcb571b013d9477fe095b2ef886a796bf6c6d9b

The Calamares team is proud to announce the immediate availability of Calamares 2.0, a major release that brings countless new features and improvements over the 1.1 series.

Calamares is a distribution-independent system installer, with an advanced partitioning feature for both manual and automated partitioning operations. It is the first installer with an automated "Replace Partition" option, which makes it easy to reuse a partition over and over for distribution testing. Calamares is designed to be customizable by distribution maintainers without need for cumbersome patching, thanks to third party branding and external modules support.

Highlights of this release include:

• thoroughly rewritten partitioning feature, now based on KPMcore (the same library used by KDE Partition Manager);
• overhauled modules system, allowing for much more flexibility in configuring and arranging views and jobs;
• support for post-install mode, which turns Calamares into a first run configuration tool;
• improvements in many modules, including locale, bootloader and displaymanager.

If you experience an issue with Calamares, please tell us all about it on the Calamares issue tracker.

MD5: 404bd58f03b0969b4d8cb82794c4013c
SHA1: 90f8179f48fabc6bbe65fb16aecb2ed7bbf6a0df

The Calamares team is proud to announce the immediate availability of Calamares 1.1.4.2, a maintenance release that fixes several issues that were discovered since 1.1.3.

Calamares is a distribution-independent system installer, with an advanced partitioning feature for both manual and automated partitioning operations. It is the first installer with an automated "Replace Partition" option, which makes it easy to reuse a partition over and over for distribution testing. Calamares is designed to be customizable by distribution maintainers without need for cumbersome patching, thanks to third party branding and external modules support.

The change log for this release includes two important partitioning related fixes:

• Fixed a bug with swap partitions needlessly getting new UUIDs.
• Fixed a bug with alongside install being allowed even if the DOS MBR partition table limit of 4 primary partitions is reached.

If you experience an issue with Calamares, please tell us all about it on the Calamares issue tracker.

MD5: 800eae08cc12113e2f5445719509e192
SHA1: 32c3a6bd38a88f388d8b3c4888c48d1c3ed2f6e5

The Calamares team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Calamares 1.1.3, a maintenance and feature release that fixes several issues that were discovered since 1.1.2 and adds some exciting new modules.

Calamares is a distribution-independent system installer, with an advanced partitioning feature for both manual and automated partitioning operations. It is the first installer with an automated "Replace Partition" option, which makes it easy to reuse a partition over and over for distribution testing. Calamares is designed to be customizable by distribution maintainers without need for cumbersome patching, thanks to third party branding and external modules support.

The change log for this release includes:

• An all new WebView module, which allows the deployer to show any web page in a WebKit environment.
• An all new License module, which allows the deployer to require acceptance of licensing terms for proprietary components.
• Enhanced autologin defaults customization.
• Support for blacklisting modules at build time.
• Service disabling support in the Services module.
• Several bug fixes in the partitioning component.

If you experience an issue with Calamares, please tell us all about it on the Calamares issue tracker.

MD5: 43645d4c6a5e59055e099fd062b158a8
SHA1: b6c71625e2c60b1479fb25ea7c9ab9b162f6f7e3

The Calamares team is proud to announce the immediate availability of Calamares 1.1.2, a maintenance release that fixes several issues that were discovered since the last bug fix release two weeks ago.

Calamares is a distribution-independent system installer, with an advanced partitioning feature for both manual and automated partitioning operations. It is the first installer with an automated "Replace Partition" option, which makes it easy to reuse a partition over and over for distribution testing. Calamares is designed to be customizable by distribution maintainers without need for cumbersome patching, thanks to third party branding and external modules support.

The change log for this release includes:

• Improved window size calculation on small displays.
• Added the option of not installing a boot loader on MBR (legacy BIOS boot) systems.
• Added the option of changing the file system type when editing a partition.
• Fixed an issue which sometimes allowed Calamares to try to mount certain non-mountable file systems.
• Fixed an issue with the time zone choice not being immediately applied in some cases.
• Fixed a crash which could sometimes happen when advancing through the installer with the diagnostics interface open.

If you experience an issue with Calamares, please tell us all about it on the Calamares issue tracker.

MD5: b2dda1519a32bd002b712c9673c912e3
SHA1: 1c4453d80a6726f71b09c21b930e1b71519da981

Hot on the heels of Calamares 1.1, the Calamares team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Calamares 1.1.1, a maintenance release that fixes several issues that were discovered since the last major release.

Calamares is a distribution-independent system installer, with an advanced partitioning feature for both manual and automated partitioning operations. It is the first installer with an automated "Replace Partition" option, which makes it easy to reuse a partition over and over for distribution testing. Calamares is designed to be customizable by distribution maintainers without need for cumbersome patching, thanks to third party branding and external modules support.

The change log for this release includes:

• Adjusted the Install page so that the QML slideshow is loaded and started exactly when the install operation starts.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the exit confirmation dialog to pop up in some rare cases.
• Fixed an issue with the next button being disabled if the root password field is also disabled in the Users page (CAL-248).
• Fixed an issue which could result in the wrong mount point being set for a swap partition (CAL-249).
• Improved defaults and documentation in settings.conf.

If you experience an issue with Calamares, please tell us all about it on the Calamares issue tracker.

MD5: a17aec04348049e9895f9476c24cd4e4
SHA1: 32be901d0316db787d9125df8215cefa3739bc86

The Calamares team is proud to announce the immediate availability of Calamares 1.1.

Calamares is a distribution-independent system installer, with support for branding and external modules.

After almost six months of intense development since the last major release, Calamares 1.1 is a product for end users. It has been carefully engineered and thoroughly tested over countless pre-release builds and three release candidates. Calamares 1.1 brings a multitude of major improvements over 1.0.

Highlights of this release include:

• An improved boot loader module with GRUB2 and systemd-boot support
• EFI support
• More robust partition detection and mounting/unmounting
• Swap partition support in automatic partitioning
• An improved Python modules API
• User experience improvements, including all new Welcome and Summary pages
• A greatly improved branding mechanism, with QML and translations support
• An all new diagnostics interface for system integrators

If you experience an issue with Calamares, please tell us all about it on the Calamares issue tracker.

MD5: 973aad5c3e7b52e8da64bdd34dee425e
SHA1: c47b9c6ef4bc4cce896f9a752745f6ae60c6e0d8

The Calamares team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Calamares 1.1-RC3.

This is a pre-release product for testers and early adopters. It brings countless improvements over 1.0 and fixes for issues that have been discovered since 1.1-RC1 and 1.1-RC2. Testing is of utmost importance to ensure the quality of the upcoming final 1.1 release, so play with it, try to break it, and tell us all about it on the Calamares issue tracker.

Change log since 1.1-RC2:

• Fixed several memory leaks and other minor issues detected by static code analysis.
• Fixed a GDM auto-login issue.
• Fixed an issue with zram, loop and possibly other unusable devices not being filtered out in the Partition module.
• Updated the display manager module to work with latest Cinnamon.
• Refactored the left side tasks tree interface into a flat list.
• Multiple layout improvements in the Welcome page.
• Added a brandable welcome picture in the Welcome page.
• Fixed an issue with swap partitions not being cleared after an unresumed suspend to disk by another operating system, causing a failed resume attempt after installing.

MD5: 3a6561f5dd46404f3dcc292b645a065c
SHA1: 10151f31e3e36812cfd3e0a7da0d859c4f1187f1

Hot on the heels of the first release candidate for the upcoming Calamares 1.1 release, the Calamares team hereby announces the immediate availability of Calamares 1.1-RC2.

This is a pre-release product for testers and early adopters. It brings countless improvements over 1.0 and fixes for issues that have been discovered since 1.1-RC1. Testing is of utmost importance to ensure the quality of the final 1.1 release in a few weeks, so play with it, try to break it, and tell us all about it on the Calamares issue tracker.

Change log since 1.1-RC1:

• Fixed issue with Boost.Python built against Python 3 not being found on Debian derivatives in some cases
• Fixed issue which caused Calamares to crash on systems with LVM
• Added support for not setting the root password in the Users module
• Fixed build with GCC 4.8.4
• Replaced Gummiboot with systemd-boot
• Improved job status messages while installing
• Updated translation languages
• Improved documentation

MD5: 1770d309028c696ff66f9f871da220ad
SHA1: f021f671ab4df56cedb742baa360e9b122291761