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Release Notes: Grml 2026.04 - codename CashFloh

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About

Grml is a Debian-based live system focusing on the needs of system administrators. The 2026.04 release provides fresh software packages from Debian testing/forky. As usual it also incorporates up to date hardware support and fixes known bugs from previous Grml releases.

About the codename.

Important changes

New and removed features

New software since the Grml 2025.12 release is included, and we continued to clean up the house. Noteworthy changes are:

grml-live - build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems:

Detailed changes: grml-live v0.55.1 to v0.56.0 [1]

grml-debootstrap - Debian system install tool:

Detailed changes: grml-debootstrap v0.123 to v0.127

grml-terminalserver - terminalserver for Grml:

grml2usb - install Grml ISOs to USB keys:

Detailed changes: grml2usb v0.20.10..v0.20.13

Bits & bolts

Packages

Details about shipped packages and their versions in Grml are available in the Debian section.

Packages for individual Grml software is now also available directly from their GitHub release pages, for example grml2usb.

Updates

Packages are taken from Debian testing/forky, as of April 29, 2026.

The following relevant package has been added (excluding e.g. lib*, fonts*, *-{base,bin,common,core,data}, {gcc,cpp}-*, perl*, python*, ruby* and kernel image):

The following Debian packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib*, fonts*, *-{base,bin,common,core,data}, {gcc,cpp}-*, perl*, python*, ruby* and kernel image):

Known issues

Please visit the known bugs web page.

Download Grml 2026.04

Grml 2026.04 can be downloaded from the download page.

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/. We also welcome feature requests and any kind of constructive feedback. If you want to reach out to the Grml team, please visit our contact webpage.

The next stable Grml release is scheduled for 2026.07 at the Debian Conference Debconf26. See you there. :)

The Grml team is available also for commercial support and services. If you are interested in our consulting services, need a special feature in Grml or a custom branded Grml version with your company logo, please reach out to business (at) grml.org

Thanks

Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically)

Antoine Beaupré, Aaron Rainbolt, damianoognissanti, Christopher Bock, Evgeni Golov, and Glenn Washburn for their contributions. ❤️

Once again netcup contributed financially, this time specifically to this release. Thank you, netcup ❤️

We also want to thank our individual sponsors donating through GitHub. If you like what we are doing, please join in!

No new sponsors joined in for this release.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to Grml and this release, stay healthy and happy Grml-ing! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

More Information

You can find out more about Grml on our website, IRC channel, and the wiki.

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  1. [1]: Note, that when comparing the changes between grml-live v0.55.1 to v0.56.0 it includes all commits from grml-scripts. To only list the changes from grml-live v0.55.1 to v0.56.0 use the following git command to exclude all commits from grml-scripts which were created before grml-live v0.55.1 was released.

    git log --oneline --no-merges --after "2025-12-11 18:41:18 +0100" ↩︎