Release Notes for Grml 2013.02 - codename Grumpy Grinch

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About

This release brings the Grml tools towards the upcoming Debian stable release (AKA wheezy), provides up2date hardware support and fixes known bugs from the previous Grml release.

New features

• ssh boot option: display SSH server key fingerprints
• grml-hwinfo: added support for lsscsi, iscsiadm, proxmox/libvirt/openvz/vserver information retrieval, swapon, mdadm, LVM + dmsetup, now using 'lspci -nn' for lspci output
• grml-live: handling firmware related packages in GRMLBASE, added uuid-runtime to GRMLBASE
• grml-network: netcardconfig provides support to scan for available wireless networks
• grml-udev-config: Do not set mount options for NTFS partitions to "ro" any longer
• grml2usb: verify that the bootflag is enabled
• grml2iso: ISOs are dd-able by default
• grml-debootstrap:
  • Use http.debian.net as default mirror
  • Set wheezy as the new default release
  • Add acpi-support-base + firmware-linux-free to default package selection

Important Changes

• /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list no longer uses cdn.debian.net for the Debian repository, instead uses snapshot.debian.org with the according release date. This should make installation of additional software with regards to additional dependencies easier for users.
• Debian's live-boot changed the path from /live/image to /lib/live/mount/medium. If you're using /live/image anywhere inside your own custom scripts please adopt your code to use /lib/live/mount/medium starting with Grml 2013.02.
• Debian's live-boot changed some persistency related settings. Please visit the persistency page in the Grml wiki for further details.

Bits & bolts

• Linux kernel is based on 3.7.9. No additional modules are shipped.
• Fixed several bugs from the bug tracking system.

Packages

Details about shipped packages and their versions on Grml are available at the Debian section. Visit dpkg.list for a detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2013.02.

Updates

Packages are taken from Debian testing, 26th of February 2013. 13 packages have been removed, and these 22 new packages have been added (plus dependencies, excluding lib* and kernel image):

  aptitude-common atmel-firmware bluez-firmware cpp-4.7 cryptsetup-bin epdfview
  firmware-atheros firmware-bnx2 firmware-bnx2x firmware-intelwimax
  firmware-libertas firmware-linux genisoimage ifenslave-2.6 insserv
  libertas-firmware netsniff-ng ruby1.9.1 ssmping uuid-runtime virt-what
  zd1211-firmware

These Grml packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib* and kernel image):

  arrayprobe consolekit cpp-4.6 fuse-utils gcc-4.5-base gcc-4.6-base
  grub info linux-sound-base smbfs tasksel tasksel-data xorriso

Known issues

None at the time of the release!

Take a look at the known bugs list. Please report problems using information on grml.org/bugs/.

Download Grml 2013.02

Grml 2013.02 can be downloaded from grml.org/download/.

Feedback

Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help fixing bugs and improving future releases. If you find a problem with the release please check the known bugs list and report problems using information on grml.org/bugs/. Please send your feedback and feature requests to the Grml team!

Thanks

Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically) Andras Korn, Bernhard Tittelbach, Charles A. Hewson, Christian Hesse, Christian Hofstaedtler, Christoph Biedl, Csillag Tamas, Dominik Schips, Evan Pitstick, Florian Apolloner, Florian Klien, frenbu, Gregor Herrmann, Hendrik Jaeger, Lukas Anzinger, Pawel Sadkowski , Peter Palfrader, Pierre Schmitz, Raoul Raminder Andreas, Thorsten Glaser and Ulrich Dangel for their contributions.

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