14 DAY TRIAL // The development team behind the Calamares universal installer framework for GNU/Linux distributions announced the second update to the Calamares 2.4 stable series.
Calamares 2.4.2 is now the latest version of the installer, and according to the release notes, it implements support for disabling LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup) related UI (User Interface) elements, adds support for Debian-style /etc/default/keyboard configuration as an option, improves the checking of system requirements configuration, and removes the dependency of chfn in the users module.
"The Calamares team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Calamares 2.4.2, a bug fix release that delivers improvements and fixes for recently discovered issues," reads the announcement. "The partitioning module of Calamares 2.4.2 depends on KPMcore 2.2 or later. Further distribution-specific deployment adjustments may be needed for full LUKS support."
Locale filtering for UTF-8 should now work on Fedora Linux
Among other changes implemented in the Calamares 2.4.2 release, we can mention that locale filtering for UTF-8 should now work correctly on Fedora Linux and other GNU/Linux distributions that are based on it or use the RPM package management system, and the handling of case-insensitive paths when attempting to install VFAT filesystems and the GRUB bootloader was improved.
Last but not least, Calamares 2.4.2 includes a fix for an issue with the summary page that might have caused the target root partition to end up mislabeled in the graphical interface of the installer, as well as an issue that could have made the installation to fail when the resolv.conf file was a broken symlink in the target root file system (rootfs). Calamares 2.4.2 is now available for download and depends on KPMcore 2.2 or later.