v0.1.51

CHANGELOG

Calamares Configuration v0.1.51

For Users

• Add Gnome's renamed local searching tool (from tracker3-miners to localsearch).
• Removed manaplus as it is no longer in the Arch repos.
• Rename paru-bin to paru.
• Add betterbird
• Reorganize LibreOffice and add German translations.

For Developers

Calamares Configuration v0.1.48

For Users

• Removed knotes and mp3splt-gtk as they are no longer in the Arch repos.

For Developers

Calamares Configuration v0.1.47

For Users

• Update mkinitcpio.conf.

For Developers

Calamares Configuration v0.1.45

For Users

• Switch to lightdm for LXQt installations.

For Developers

Calamares Configuration v0.1.43

For Users

• Add bootloader choice screen and support for systemd-boot, and refind.
  • Fix refind not recognizing other kernels on Arch
• Do not install os-prober if grub is not selected.
• Move fstab generation to later during the installation process to prevent issues with encrypted volumes.

For Developers

• Set up launching the debug window by clicking on the RebornOS logo.
• Update initcpiocfg.conf in response to schema change.

Calamares Configuration v0.1.39

For Users

• Remove exfat-utils
• Remove pyside2, pyside2-tools, libcroco, and dbus-python.

For Developers

Calamares Configuration v0.1.38

For Users

• Move to Qt6 with fixes for text color, window size, and UI configuration.
• Remove liri-text and liri-terminal as they are no longer in official Arch Linux repositories.
• Restore discover in KDE Plasma until a replacement is configured.
• Remove midori from the package list because it is no longer in the repositories.
• Add back essential KDE applications to the curated KDE Plasma package list.

For Developers

Calamares Configuration v0.1.34

For Users

• Include plasma5-integration for better Qt5 theme support
• Update KDE packages in light of Arch Linux changes due to Plasma 6 release

For Developers

Calamares Configuration v0.1.31

For Users

• Drop UKUI - bugs in the window manager, and upstream has not been updated in years.
• Add x-resize for Qemu VM window scaling.
• Add mate-menu to the MATE desktop.
• Add deepin-session-shell and deepin-session-ui to Deepin Desktop package list.
• Remove the below packages since they are no longer present in the Arch Linux repositories:
  • opera
  • deepin-wallpapers-plasma
  • deepin-launcher (replaced with deepin-launchpad)
• Comprehensive curated non-AUR gaming package list consisting of hand-picked packages for Wine, Vulkan, and game stores.
• Add spice-vdagent and xf86-video-qxl for use as virtualization guest.
• Add sof-firmware for audio on newer computers.
• Fix the aspect ratio of the installer slides.

For Developers

• Improve .gitignore

Calamares Configuration v0.1.27

For Users

• Replace gnome-terminal with mate-terminal for Cinnamon.
• Include and enable touchegg on Cinnamon for touchscreen support.

For Developers

Calamares Configuration v0.1.25

For Users

• Offer optional Containerization category with Docker, Podman, and Distrobox
• Offer optional Nix package manager under Frontend System > Alternative App Stores
• Start docker.socket instead of docker.service
• Include appimagelauncher by default
• Add the NetworkManager plugin for openconnect by default so that VPNs are accessible from the tray
• Enable printing support by default
• Replace kgamma5 with kgamma
• Replace deepin-reader with okular

For Developers

• Do not remove pacman sync databases during install

Calamares Configuration v0.1.23

For Users

• Close to 40 packages modified (added, renamed or changed in accordance with changes in Arch Linux packages).
• Do not install cuda, opencl-nvidia, rocm-hip-sdk or rocm-opencl-sdk by default

For Developers

• CONTRIBUTING.md contains a release checklist.
• README.md contains useful links to package lists.
• Add mkinitcpio-openswap as a dependency.

Calamares Configuration v0.1.19

For Users

• Add google-chrome as an option.
• Add gst-plugin-pipewire.
• Make parent desktop environment groups non-checkable on the Advanced page (netinstall page).

For Developers

Calamares Configuration v0.1.17

For Users

• Replace kalendar with merkuro since the former package no longer exists.

For Developers

Calamares Configuration v0.1.16

For Users

• DNS Caching for better internet experience, using systemd-resolved.
• The support/information buttons on the first installer screen now function correctly. After enabling process execution from QML, only one instance of the browser tab with one URL used to open, but now multiple clicks open multiple web-pages (thanks @SoulHarsh007).
• Budgie is set to use gnome-terminal (instead of gnome-console) which better suits the Budgie themes.
• The installer theme is set to dark mode.
• The installer sidebar is moved to the bottom, in a horizontal layout.
• Installer slide background colours, installer text colors, and installer image colors all modified to suit the dark mode.
• Installer slides remade to fit the new aspect ratio.
• Better audio support with a more inclusive set of audio packages added around pipewire.
• Performance fix for Budgie by using xdg-desktop-portal-gtk instead of xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.
• Budgie isntallation is fixed by removing mutter43 from the Budgie package list.
• The Grub theme is updated (thanks @SoulHarsh007).
• The installer screenshot resolution is fixed for the Trinity desktop (thanks @SoulHarsh007).
• Installations with swap and encryption fixed by adding mkinitcpio-openswap.
• Cutefish is removed since it is no longer in development.

For Developers

• The number of installation retries is reduced to two (from five earlier).
• Removed or replaced partial upgrades.
• Renamed the RebornOS GitHub organization from RebornOS-Developers to RebornOS-Team.
• Updated .gitignore to ignore Visual Studio Code files.
• Removed self conflicts in the PKGBUILDs.
• The README.md documentation is updated.

Calamares Configuration v0.1.10 to v0.1.14 ChangeLog

For Users

• Fix encrypted installation with swap by adding the mkinitcpio-openswap package which supplies the openswap mkinitcpio hook.
• Fix Budgie installation by replacing xdg-desktop-portal-gnome with xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.
• Remove the Cutefish desktop environment.
• Replace ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-2048-em with ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols for the Sway Window Manager (thanks @CookieSource).
• Replace obkey with lxhotkey-gtk3 for the Openbox Window Manager (thanks @CookieSource).
• Rename Budgie's mutter to mutter43 (thanks @CookieSource).
• Rename deepin-wayland to deepin-wayland-protocols (thanks @CookieSource).
• Remove nvidia-340xx-dkms, fdisk, exfat-utils, reiserfsprogs, and reiser4progs (thanks @SoulHarsh007).
• Replace xfce4-screenshooter with gnome-screenshot on the Cinnamon desktop environment (thanks @CookieSource).
• Fix system user accounts being displayed at Trinity login screen (thanks @Rippanda12).
• Add the Sway Window Manager.
• Add pavucontrol to Xfce (thanks @CookieSource).
• Add nano and micro under Console packages (thanks @cake03).

Calamares Configuration v0.1.1 to v0.1.10 ChangeLog

For Users

• ntfs-3g removed from packages installed by default

• Package descriptions updated in the Advanced (netinstall module) page

• electron 12-15 removed and electron 17-20 are available

• Budgie theming fixed based on suggestions from Budgie devs (thanks finnsster for the communication)

• Openbox theming fixed

• Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) installation fixed by using TDE's official repos and using a new custom module - pre_install (thanks Panda)

• LXDE now uses leafpad instead of geany

• Openbox now uses geany instead of mousepad

• gnome-todo is replaced by endeavour

• vino is replaced by gnome-remote-desktop

• The exhaustive Gnome group is now marked as non-critical. Renamed or missing packages here will not fail the installation.

• gvfs and related backends installed in the default minimal base so that file managers can see all USB devices and remote devices.

• Bluetooth set up by default in the default minimal base.

• A firewall (gufw) is set up by default in the default minimal base.

• nvidia-utils added among options for Nvidia GPU drivers

• KDE Plasma installation now includes plasma-wayland-session

• Xfce includes engrampa for archive management

• MATE includes mate-hud for quick navigation

• Fonts included by default to avoid missing characters

• Cinnamon includes mintlocale and cinnamon-translations for localization

• flatseal added for permission management under the Flatpak category

• appimagelauncher added under the Appimages category to simplify handling of appimages

• LTE Kernel support for offline installations too

• Discord added as an option in the advanced page

• Cinnamon will use gnome-terminal instead of mate-terminal

• electron18 removed

• i3-gaps replaced by i3-wm

• python-dbus replaced by dbus-python

For Developers

• GitHub CI for stable releases complete with GitHub-built Arch Linux packages, ChangeLog fetched from CHANGELOG.md, and MD5 CheckSums

• GitHub CI for unstable pre-releases complete with GitHub-built Arch Linux packages, ChangeLog fetched from commit history, and MD5 CheckSums

• Reorganization and renaming of project directories and updated PKGBUILDs to incorporate those changes in packaging

• Revamped and updated documentation

• Revamped and simplified build scripts for three packaging modes - local, git, and stable

• Updated PKGBUILDs to prevent the annoying replacement offers for the installer packages during system updates.

• Xfce configuration for offline installations through pre-install file copies and shellprocess commands