Releases: manjaro/calamares
Calamares 3.2.0
Calamares 3.2.0 is the first release in the new feature-oriented 3.2 series. It features new localization, better logging, better GeoIP, fixes in the partitioning module, and more.
Calamares 3.1.3
The Manjaro team and Calamares team are happy to announce the immediate availability of Calamares 3.1.3, a hotfix to Calamares 3.1.2.
Calamares is a distribution-independent system installer, with an advanced partitioning feature for both manual and automated partitioning operations. Calamares is designed to be customizable by distribution maintainers without need for cumbersome patching, thanks to third party branding and external modules support.
Highlights of this release include:
- Python jobs without a
pretty_name()function -- and that is the majority of them -- could no longer be run. - The installation-is-done notification could hang Calamares when the installation failed.
Calamares requires KPMcore 3.0.3 or later, for various bugfixes and stability improvements in KPMcore.
If you experience an issue with Calamares, please tell us all about it on the Upstream issue tracker and with installation problems with Manjaro Linux on our Manjaro issue tracker.
Calamares 3.1.2
The Manjaro team and Calamares team are happy to announce the immediate availability of Calamares 3.1.2, a bugfix-and-translations release in the 3.1 series.
Calamares is a distribution-independent system installer, with an advanced partitioning feature for both manual and automated partitioning operations. Calamares is designed to be customizable by distribution maintainers without need for cumbersome patching, thanks to third party branding and external modules support.
The big change in v3.1.2 is translations. The .desktop file is now translated, allowing for a better live-desktop experience by showing Calamares and its desktop information in the system’s language.
Highlights of this release include:
- Summary page now shows language and number-formats information.
- The Quit and Done buttons now have a tooltip explaining what they will do.
- At the end of the install process, a notification appears in the system notification area (generally a pop-up in the lower right-hand corner of the screen).
- If installation fails, the system won’t reboot automatically on the last Calamares page.
- Fat32 filesystems are now handled correctly even when misspelled (thanks Kai Hohmen).
- Filesystem sizes are now shown with an MB suffix (thanks Lisa Vitolo).
Calamares requires KPMcore 3.0.3 or later, for various bugfixes and stability improvements in KPMcore.
If you experience an issue with Calamares, please tell us all about it on the Upstream issue tracker and with installation problems with Manjaro Linux on our Manjaro issue tracker.
Calamares 3.1.1.2
The Manjaro team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Calamares 3.1.1.2, a bug fix release hot on the heels of 3.1.1.
Calamares is a distribution-independent system installer, with an advanced partitioning feature for both manual and automated partitioning operations. Calamares is designed to be customizable by distribution maintainers without need for cumbersome patching, thanks to third party branding and external modules support.
Highlights of this release include:
- Optimize Partition Module
Calamares requires KPMcore 3.0.3 or later, for various bugfixes and stability improvements in KPMcore.
If you experience an issue with Calamares, please tell us all about it on the Upstream issue tracker and with installation problems with Manjaro Linux on our Manjaro issue tracker.
Calamares 3.1.1.1
The Manjaro team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Calamares 3.1.1.1, a bug fix release hot on the heels of 3.1.1.
Calamares is a distribution-independent system installer, with an advanced partitioning feature for both manual and automated partitioning operations. Calamares is designed to be customizable by distribution maintainers without need for cumbersome patching, thanks to third party branding and external modules support.
Highlights of this release include:
- Check for installed lightdm greeter and configure accordingly
- Allow poorly formatted SDDM config
- Fix unknown partition-type Fat32 at mount and in fstab
- Optimize Finished Page
- Optimize Python Modules
Calamares requires KPMcore 3.0.3 or later, for various bugfixes and stability improvements in KPMcore.
If you experience an issue with Calamares, please tell us all about it on the Upstream issue tracker and with installation problems with Manjaro Linux on our Manjaro issue tracker.
Calamares 3.1.1
The Manjaro team and Calamares team are happy to announce the immediate availability of Calamares 3.1.1, an incremental bugfix release in the 3.1 series.
Calamares is a distribution-independent system installer, with an advanced partitioning feature for both manual and automated partitioning operations. Calamares is designed to be customizable by distribution maintainers without need for cumbersome patching, thanks to third party branding and external modules support.
Highlights of this release include:
- Crash on startup when no installation-devices are found has been fixed.
- Support for very small screens (800x600) is improved.
- Hostnames may be up to 63 characters in length, conforming to RFC1123 and various LDAP
schemas. - System language, locale settings and keyboard are now guessed based on installer language and location.
Calamares requires KPMcore 3.0.3 or later, for various bugfixes and stability improvements in KPMcore.
If you experience an issue with Calamares, please tell us all about it on the Upstream issue tracker and with installation problems with Manjaro Linux on our Manjaro issue tracker.
Calamares 3.1.0.2
The Manjaro team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Calamares 3.1.0.2, a bug fix release hot on the heels of 3.1.0.
Calamares is a distribution-independent system installer, with an advanced partitioning feature for both manual and automated partitioning operations. It is the first installer with an automated "Replace Partition" option, which makes it easy to reuse a partition over and over for distribution testing. Calamares is designed to be customizable by distribution maintainers without need for cumbersome patching, thanks to third party branding and external modules support.
Highlights of this release include:
- added support for PythonQT v3.2+
- optimized Keyboard module
- optimized Displaymanager module
- simplified Partitionmanager module
- improved User-Password-Generation with stronger Salt-Routine
The Calamares 3 series includes an all new PythonQt-based module interface. The PythonQt interface is optional, and allows module developers to create view modules in Python with Qt.
To build Calamares with PythonQt support, the -DWITH_PYTHONQT=ON parameter must be passed to the cmake call. PythonQt 3.1 or later (built against Qt 5 and Python 3) is required.
This release also comes with a thoroughly documented dummypythonqt module, as an example on how to develop PythonQt Calamares modules.
Calamares drops support for KPMcore 2 starting with version 3.0. KPMcore 3.0.3 or later is required.
If you experience an issue with Calamares, please tell us all about it on the Upstream issue tracker and with installation problems with Manjaro Linux on our Manjaro issue tracker.
Calamares 3.1.0.1
The Manjaro team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Calamares 3.1.0.1, a bug fix release hot on the heels of 3.1.0.
Calamares is a distribution-independent system installer, with an advanced partitioning feature for both manual and automated partitioning operations. It is the first installer with an automated "Replace Partition" option, which makes it easy to reuse a partition over and over for distribution testing. Calamares is designed to be customizable by distribution maintainers without need for cumbersome patching, thanks to third party branding and external modules support.
Highlights of this release include:
- chrootcfg: update module for changed packages
- theme fixes for Maia and Vertex
- fix a segfault crash with partition module
- set locale settings based on selected language
The Calamares 3 series includes an all new PythonQt-based module interface. The PythonQt interface is optional, and allows module developers to create view modules in Python with Qt.
To build Calamares with PythonQt support, the -DWITH_PYTHONQT=ON parameter must be passed to the cmake call. PythonQt 3.1 or later (built against Qt 5 and Python 3) is required.
This release also comes with a thoroughly documented dummypythonqt module, as an example on how to develop PythonQt Calamares modules.
Calamares drops support for KPMcore 2 starting with version 3.0. KPMcore 3.0.3 or later is required.
If you experience an issue with Calamares, please tell us all about it on the Upstream issue tracker and with installation problems with Manjaro Linux on our Manjaro issue tracker.
Calamares 3.1
The Calamares team and Manjaro team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Calamares 3.1, a feature release in the 3 series which incrementally improves upon 3.0.1 with bug fixes and new features.
Calamares is a distribution-independent system installer, with an advanced partitioning feature for both manual and automated partitioning operations. It is the first installer with an automated "Replace Partition" option, which makes it easy to reuse a partition over and over for distribution testing. Calamares is designed to be customizable by distribution maintainers without need for cumbersome patching, thanks to third party branding and external modules support.
Changes since the 3.0 series include:
- improved package selection user interface (by Kyle Robbertze, based on previous work by Lisa Vitolo and Luca Giambonini);
- support for disabling swap partition creation in automated partitioning;
- double-click as a way to edit a partition in the manual partitioning view;
- improved check for internet connection availability;
- improved package manager handling, so a package operation which fails for a single package won't block other packages;
- various minor fixes.
The Calamares 3 series includes an all new PythonQt-based module interface. The PythonQt interface is optional, and allows module developers to create view modules in Python with Qt.
To build Calamares with PythonQt support, the -DWITH_PYTHONQT=ON parameter must be passed to the cmake call. PythonQt 3.1 or later (built against Qt 5 and Python 3) is required.
This release also comes with a thoroughly documented dummypythonqt module, as an example on how to develop PythonQt Calamares modules.
Calamares drops support for KPMcore 2 starting with version 3.0. KPMcore 3.0.2 or later is required.
If you experience an issue with Calamares, please tell us all about it on the Upstream issue tracker and with installation problems with Manjaro Linux on our Manjaro issue tracker.
Calamares 3.0.1
The Calamares team and Manjaro team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Calamares 3.0.1, a bug fix release hot on the heels of 3.0.
Calamares is a distribution-independent system installer, with an advanced partitioning feature for both manual and automated partitioning operations. It is the first installer with an automated "Replace Partition" option, which makes it easy to reuse a partition over and over for distribution testing. Calamares is designed to be customizable by distribution maintainers without need for cumbersome patching, thanks to third party branding and external modules support.
Highlights of this release include:
- fix for an issue in the users module, which could break login if the chosen password had non-Latin1 characters;
- proper exception handling in the networkcfg module;
- improved autologin configuration handling for sddm.
The Calamares 3 series includes an all new PythonQt-based module interface. The PythonQt interface is optional, and allows module developers to create view modules in Python with Qt.
To build Calamares with PythonQt support, the -DWITH_PYTHONQT=ON parameter must be passed to the cmake call. PythonQt 3.1 or later (built against Qt 5 and Python 3) is required.
This release also comes with a thoroughly documented dummypythonqt module, as an example on how to develop PythonQt Calamares modules.
Calamares drops support for KPMcore 2 starting with version 3.0. KPMcore 3.0.2 or later is required.
If you experience an issue with Calamares, please tell us all about it on the Upstream issue tracker and with installation problems with Manjaro Linux on our Manjaro issue tracker.