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diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4214f09f0 --- /dev/null +++ b/CHANGES @@ -0,0 +1,290 @@ +This is the changelog for Calamares. For each release, the major changes and +contributors are listed. Note that Calamares does not have a historical +changelog -- this log starts with version 3.2.0. The release notes on the +website will have to do for older versions. + +# 3.2.7 (unreleased) # + +This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): + +## Core ## + +## Modules ## + + +# 3.2.6 (unreleased) # + +This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): + - Arnaud Ferraris + - Dominic Hayes (feren) + - Raul Rodrigo Segura (raurodse) + +## Core ## + + * Under-the-hood code cleanups in lots of parts of the core. Calamares now + builds without warnings when Clang 8 is used. + * A new *disable-cancel-during-exec* setting provides more fine-grained + control than *disable-cancel* (which hides the button entirely). + * A branding module can now also cause a stylesheet to be loaded, which + will be applied to the widgets inside Calamares. (Thanks to Raul) + +## Modules ## + + * All of the Python-based modules now have translations enabled. + * *Displaymanager* module has improved support for LightDM configuration. + (Thanks to Dominic, FerenOS) + * *Partition* module has additional checks for validity partition layouts. + (Thanks to Arnaud) + * *Welcome* module has improved usability: a standard icon + alongside the *Language* label, for improved recognition, + and improved language-list display and sorting. #1107 + + +# 3.2.5 (2019-04-15) # + +This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): + - Arnaud Ferraris + - Dan Simmons + - Gabriel Craciunescu + +## Core ## + + * View modules (in C++) can now perform their own requirements-checking + to see if installation makes sense. This expands upon the existing + requirements checks in the welcome module (RAM, disk space, ..). + The checks have been made asynchronous, so that responsiveness during + requirements-checking is improved and the user has better feedback. + * Support for building an AppImage of Calamares has been added to the + `ci/` directory. There are use-cases where a containerized build and + configuration make sense rather than having Calamares installed in the + host system. (Thanks to the AppImage team, Alexis) + * OEM mode (phase-1) now correctly refers to Calamares as a "Setup Program" + rather than an installer. #1100 (Thanks to Arnaud) + +## Modules ## + + * *Bootloader* module: a serious bug introduced in 3.2.4 which prevents + succesful boot after installation on EFI machines, has been repaired. + (Thanks to Gabriel) #1104 + * *Displaymanager* module: it is no longer a fatal error to not have any + display-managers. #1095 + * *Partition* module: it is now possible to build without libparted. Since + KPMCore may not need this library anymore, it is a dependency that will + be dropped as soon as it is feasible. Add this to the CMake flags: + `-DCMAKE_DISABLE_FIND_PACKAGE_LIBPARTED=ON` + * *Partition* module: the location that is selected for the bootloader, + no longer changes when a new partition is created. #1098 + * Python modules: several modules have had translations added. This is + usually only visible when the module runs as part of the *exec* step, + when the module's *pretty name* is displayed. In addition, some error + messages are now translated. + * *UnpackFS* module: improved progress reporting and tests. #565 + + +# 3.2.4 (2019-02-12) # + +This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): + - Alf Gaida + - aliveafter1000 + - Arnaud Ferraris + - Caio Jordão Carvalho + - Collabora LTD + - Gabriel Craciunescu + - Kevin Kofler + - Philip Mueller + - Scott Harvey + +## Core ## + + * The Calamares application now recognizes the `-X` or `--xdg-config` + option, which adds XDG_DATA_DIRS to the places used to find QML + and branding directories, and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS to the places used + to find the global settings and module configurations. This allows + a more fine-grained, and more layered, approach to setting up + Calamares configurations (in particular, distro's can **add** + configuration files and give them priority, instead of **forking** + configuration files). + * The *branding* file now contains settings that control the size + and resize behavior of Calamares. See the branding file for + more documentation. In particular, the setting *windowExpanding* + can be set to *normal*, *fullscreen* or *noexpand*. + * The `settings.conf` file can now configure whether the *Cancel* button + is shown (this isn't a branding thing, because it's quite fundamental + to the workflow of the installer). + +## Modules ## + + * The *partition* module supports RAID devices, but only when Calamares + is compiled with the newest KPMCore release (3.3.0). + * The calculation of required space -- including swap -- has been simplified, + and Calamares no longer reserves 2GiB of space in calculations for internal + use (this means that it no longer mysteriously drops swap when the disk + size is close to the required installation size). + * The name of the type of default filesystem (e.g. ext4 or btrfs) is now handled + case- and localization-insensitively. This means that *btrfs* is now always + an acceptable spelling. + * The currently-selected disk device is remembered between manual partitioning + and the partitioning-overview pages. (Thanks to Arnaud) + * *partition* There is new support for partitioning layout presets. + See `partition.conf` for documentation and details. + * The *keyboard* module now handles the (bogus) Austrian keymap for + the system console properly. (Thanks to Kevin) + * The *preservefiles* module now has a mechanism for setting the permissions + (and ownership) of preserved files. (Thanks to Scott) + * New module *fsresizer* can be used to resize filesystems. It is intended + for use in OEM installs where an image of fixed size is created, + and then sized to the actual SD card the user has used. + * The *mount* module now handles missing *extraMounts* and *extraMountsEfi* + keys gracefully (this is probably a misconfiguration, though, and gives a + warning). + * The *packages* module now supports pre- and post-script options + for all operations, not just during install (keep in mind that + these run as three separate shells, though). + * A new *rawfs* module supports straightforward copying of filesystems from + the installation media to the target stystem. This can be used, for instance, + for block-level-identical installations. + + +# 3.2.3 (2019-01-09) # + +This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): + - aliveafter1000 + +## Core ## + +There are no core changes in this release. + +## Modules ## + + * *partition* Fixed bug where, during detection of existing systems, the + existing system partitions may be mounted and then files deleted. + This is a **limited** version of the patch from aliveafter1000 + that will be in 3.2.4, which tries harder to mount filesystems + read-only and unmodifiable. + * *locale* It was possible to set the installer and system language + (e.g. to German) while the global storage value for *locale* + remained set to English. Then no localization packages are installed + (see feature `${LOCALE}` in `packages.conf`). Reported downstream + in Netrunner. + + +# 3.2.2 (2018-09-04) # + +This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): + - Andrius Štikonas + - artoo@cromnix.org + - Caio Jordão Carvalho + - Harald Sitter + - Philip Müller + - Simon Quigley + - Walter Lapchynski + +## Core ## + + * Example configurations are **no longer installed** by default. + The default setting for *INSTALL_CONFIG* has changed. Distributions + are strongly encouraged to write their own configuration files and + not rely on the example configuration files. Example configurations + may change unpredictably. + * It is now possible to express module dependencies through the + *requiredModules* key in `module.desc`. All of the required modules + for a given module must occur in the sequence **before** the module + requiring them. None of the core modules use this facility. + * The search paths for QML files, branding descriptors and module + descriptors have been revamped and now self-document in the log. + * A new `ci/RELEASE.sh` script has been added to streamline releases; + it is not guaranteed to work anywhere in particular though. + +## Modules ## + + * When multiple modules are mutually exclusive, or don't make sense + to enable concurrectly, a new `USE_<foo>` framework has been added + to CMake to simplify the selection of modules. This is in addition + to the existing `SKIP_MODULES` mechanism. + * Various off-by-one-sector errors in the automatic partitioning + mode have been corrected. In addition, swap space is calculated + a little more conservatively. + * A new module has been added to the core which can configure openrc + services. To make services configuration consistent: + - The *services* module has been **renamed** *services-systemd*, + - The openrc module is named *services-openrc*, + - At CMake time, it is possible to select all of the services modules, + or one specific one, by setting the *USE_services* CMake variable. + By default, all of the modules are built and installed. + * The systemd-services module can now disable targets and mask both + targets and services (which will allow you to break the system with + a bad configuration). The configuration is a little more flexible + because a service (or target) name can be used on its own with + sensible defaults. + * The displaymanager module has been entirely revamped. A long-standing + bug which ignored the settings for default desktop has been fixed + (thanks to Walter Lapchynski). Translations have been added to the + error messages. Each DM now has an implementation class for doing + all the configuration steps it needs. This groups the code needed for + a specific DM (and presumably, per-distro) in one place. + Distro's are **strongly advised** to re-test their DM configuration + and installation with the revamped code. + +# 3.2.1 (2018-06-25) # + +This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): + - Bill Auguer + - Gabriel Craciunescu + - Phil Mueller + - Raul Rodrigo Segura + +## Core ## + + * Qt 5.7 is now the minimum required Qt version. Because KPMCore + (a fairly fundamental dependency) requires Qt 5.7, Calamares + has followed suit. + * New testing application `loadmodule` for loading and running a + single Calamares module. + * New translations Belarussian and Korean. + * Jobs can now be *emergency jobs* which run even after a failure. + * Improved debugging when modules fail to load. + * Bad configuration files will now cause the user-interface of + Calamares to display an error message, rather than silently + ignoring some configuration errors. This will certainly cause + problems for distributions with sloppy configurations. + +## Modules ## + + * New module preservefiles, keeps (log) files around after install; + this duplicates functionality with the unmount module, but unmount + is very late, rather limited, and fragile. + * Interactiveterminal module now disables itself if build requirements + are not met, rather than blocking the build. + * Fixes in the timezone map data make the southern hemisphere more + usable and put Reykjavik in its place. + * The packages module can now update the target system if explicitly + told to do so. + * More paths and executables are configurable in the bootloader module. + * Distributions are advised to review the `users.conf` setup **again**, + as some changes in version 3.2.0 caused regressions downstream. + * Distributions are advised to review their `locale.gen` files + **again**. Previous changes were too restrictive, matching only + the specific format Chakra Linux uses. Calamares now preserves + all the comment-lines in the file and writes enabled locales + at the end, with a descriptive comment. + +# 3.2.0 (2018-05-17) # + +This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): + - Alf Gaida + - AlmAck + - Caio Jordão Carvalho + - Frede H + +## Modules ## + + * UI annoyances in the partitioning module were fixed; the + mount-point selector is now more obvious when no mount-point + has been chosen, and the mount-point and flags are preserved + when (re)editing partitions. + * The handling of `@@ROOT@@` substitution in shellprocesses was + backwards; this has been fixed (the substitution is made when + running in the **host**). + * The user shell is no longer hard-coded to `/bin/bash`, + but follows the default setting for useradd(8), e.g. + those set in `/etc/default/useradd`. |