grml development blog

As written in the announce for the new develrelease 0.9-1 a first version of 2.6.19-grml is available.

We have a new develrelease. grml 0.9-1 is available for beta-testers and grml-developers.

Quoting the main changelog:

  * kernel 2.6.19-grml

  * use utf8 by default:

    - when using lang=$LANG it defaults to utf8, it's possible to
      use lang=$LANG-utf8 as well for backward compability
    - fallback to iso is possible through bootoption lang=$LANG-iso
    - now using Uni3-Terminus14 as default font instead of
      Lat15-Terminus16 which should improve use of utf8 on console;
      very probably I'll change the font to Uni3-Terminus16

  * update Debian packages to pool by today (except initramfs-tools
    which is once again broken, using an older version therefore)

  * grml2hd should work on SW-RAID again, installs
    /etc/grml2hd/config with permissions 600 now so possible sensible
    data can't be read by non-root

  * zsh: use of global dirstack, this allows switching directories
    via "cd -<press_tab>" also when running a new/fresh shell
    session (thanks schula + ft)

  * some minor bugfixes, improvements,...

We have a new release: grml 0.9 with codename 'Dioptrienotto' and grml-small 0.3 with codename 'Zwergenaufstand' are available for public download.

The final release is on its way, should be available on 6th of december. JFTR:

Changes from grml 0.9-rc1 to stable release:

* Update packages to Debian pool by 4th of december 2006

* sw-raid: do not automatically assemble md arrays anymore,
  instead create /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf by default (disable via
  bootoption noswraid) and boot using swraid to enable automatic
  assembling of swraid/md arrays or run 'Start mdadm-raid' then

* added iscsitarget-2.6.18-grml

* removed thc-ipv6, ipmasqadm, tex-refs, open-iscsi, pnpbios-tools
  thc-pptp-bruter, ndiswrapper-utils-1.8, giflib-bin, giflib3g

* renamed script fma into qma (quick manual access) and provide
  less-like vim (thanks to wuehlmaus)

* zsh: new default umask setting is 002

* grml-terminalserver: some small fixes (including the
  /etc/resolv.conf issue, thanks to Wolfgang Karall)

* fixed problem when booting via firewire (thanks for noticing,
  Hendrik Scholz!)

Please notice that grml has new Debian package repositories as announced on the grml user mailinglist. Please adjust the line containing grml.org/repos/ in your /etc/apt/sources.list to something like:

# stable grml repository:
  deb     http://deb.grml.org/ grml-stable  main
  deb-src http://deb.grml.org/ grml-stable  main

See the announce mail for more details.