14 DAY TRIAL // The Calamares team has recently announced the availability of the first point release to the new stable series of the distribution-independent system installer used in many GNU/Linux distributions, Calamares 2.4.
Calamares 2.4.1 is here as a bug fix release that promises to patch a few of the issues there were discovered or reported by users since Calamares 2.4, among which we can mention enforcement of applying timezone settings set during installation to certain desktop environments, such as KDE Plasma 5, during first boot.
There was another timezone-related issue in Calamares 2.4, which didn't allow the live system to apply the timezone changes set during installation to the live session, so thanks for the new workaround added to the timezone selector behavior, these changes are now applied immediately.
"The Calamares team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Calamares 2.4.1, a bug fix release that solves a few issues that were discovered since the Calamares 2.4 release," reads the announcement. "If you experience an issue with Calamares, please tell us all about it on the Calamares issue tracker."
KPMcore 2.2 or later is now required for building Calamares 2.4.1
Also new in Calamares 2.4.1 are improvements to the partition scanner code, which will now always exclude ISO9660 volumes (optical disc media or USB flash drives) so that they'll no longer be displayed in the devices list. Additionally, the code has been optimized and enhanced to handle the removal of the now-deprecated Q_FOREACH construct component of Qt.
Calamares 2.4.1 ships with an updated partitioning module that now requires you to have the KPMcore 2.2 component installed on your GNU/Linux operating system or a later version of it. Also, please note that, to enable full-disk encryption support through LUKS, you might need to make some distribution-specific adjustments before updating to Calamares 2.4.1, which you can download now from the release notes (link above).