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Release Notes: Grml 2017.05 - codename Freedatensuppe

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Grml is a Debian based live system focusing on the needs of system administrators. This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian testing (AKA stretch) and is the first Grml release using systemd as its init system. As usual it also incorporates up to date hardware support and fixes known bugs from the previous Grml release.

Important Changes

New features

Highlighting the most relevant changes only:

Bits & bolts

Changes between release candidate version 2017.05-rc1 and stable release

Packages

Details about shipped packages and their versions in Grml are available in the Debian section. Visit dpkg_list for a detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2017.05.

Updates

Packages are taken from Debian stretch/testing as of 30th of May 2017. 63 packages have been removed, and these 67 new packages have been added (excluding lib* and kernel image):

apt-transport-https bats binwalk btrfs-progs console-setup
cpp-6 distro-info-data espeak-ng-data exif firefox-esr
firmware-amd-graphics firmware-cavium firmware-intel-sound
firmware-misc-nonfree firmware-ti-connectivity freeipmi-common
gcc-6-base gnome-icon-theme gnupg-agent graphicsmagick
graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat gtk-update-icon-cache haveged
initramfs-tools-core iptraf-ng keyutils linux-cpupower lynx
lynx-common nethogs nilfs-tools nvme-cli partclone
perl-modules-5.24 perl-openssl-defaults physlock
pinentry-curses policykit-1 python3-binwalk python3.5
python3.5-minimal rake rng-tools ruby-deep-merge
ruby-did-you-mean ruby-minitest ruby-net-telnet ruby-nokogiri
ruby-pkg-config ruby-power-assert ruby-rgen ruby-test-unit
ruby2.3 sg3-utils-udev stress syslinux-utils systemd
systemd-container systemd-sysv uml-utilities vim-gtk
vim-gui-common wireshark-qt xorriso xserver-xorg-input-libinput
xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu xxd

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

alsa-base aufs-tools cpp-4.9 file-rc firmware-ralink
gcc-4.8-base gcc-4.9-base genext2fs iceweasel initscripts
insserv iptraf manpages mcollective mcollective-common multitail
netcat-traditional nfacct perl-modules puppet-common
python-configobj python-configshell python-epydoc python-ipaddr
python-netifaces python-ntdb python-prettytable python-pyparsing
python-rtslib python-simpleparse python-simpleparse-mxtexttools
python-six python-support python3.4 python3.4-minimal ruby-hiera
ruby-stomp ruby-systemu ruby2.1 samba-dsdb-modules startpar
sysvinit sysvinit-core targetcli traceroute vlock
xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-mouse
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse
xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-intel
xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-mga
xserver-xorg-video-modesetting xserver-xorg-video-neomagic
xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-r128
xserver-xorg-video-savage xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion
xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx
xserver-xorg-video-trident

Known issues

Please visit the known bugs web page.

Download Grml 2017.05

Grml 2017.05 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, Andreas "Jimmy" Gredler, Andrey Borzenkov, Antoine Beaupré, Axel Beckert, Ben Finney, Bernd Zeimetz, Bernhard Tittelbach, Brian M. Carlson, Carsten Hey, Christian Hesse, Christian Hofstaedtler, Christian Sturm, Christoph Berg, Daniel Hahler, Darshaka Pathirana, Dmitri Vereshchagin, Eric Keller, Felipe Sateler, Gregor Zattler, Guillem Jover, Haudegen, Karl Voit, Laurent Bigonville, Michael Vetter, Nicolas Braud-Santoni, Patrick Schleizer, Paul Menzel, Philip Hands, Sebastian Boehm, Sebastian Pipping, Stefan Schlesinger, Tamas Csillag, Thiago Perrotta, Thilo Six, Thomas Berger, Thomas Stewart and Yves-Alexis Perez for their contributions.

More Information

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