Calamares 2.4.2.1
The Calamares team and Manjaro team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Calamares 2.4.2.1, a minor fix release that delivers improvements and fixes for recently discovered issues.
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:
- [initramfscfg] New module: pre-configuration for update-initramfs
- [grubcfg] Fix mismatched quoting and escaping
- [dracutlukscfg] New module: pre-configuration for dracut+LUKS
- [grubcfg] Add rd.luks.uuid to GRUB_CMDLINE (fixes unbootable system with dracut)
- [grubcfg] Only write rd.luks.uuid if dracut is present and leave other initramfs generators clean
- [grubcfg] Unlock encrypted swap if exists for dracut
- [grubcfg] Compare integers to integers, not strings
- [branding] bump to 16.10
The partitioning module of Calamares 2.4.2.1 depends on KPMcore 2.2 or later. Further distribution-specific deployment adjustments may be needed for full LUKS support, for more details see the Calamares wiki.
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.