The Calamares team is proud to announce the immediate availability of Calamares 2.0, a major release that brings countless new features and improvements over the 1.1 series. Calamares is a distribution-independent system installer. After almost five months of intense development since the last maintenance release, Calamares 2.0 is a user ready product.
Highlights of this release include:
- thoroughly rewritten partitioning feature, now based on KPMcore (the same library used by KDE Partition Manager);
- overhauled modules system, allowing for much more flexibility in configuring and arranging views and jobs;
- support for post-install mode, which turns Calamares into a first run configuration tool;
- improvements in many modules, including locale, bootloader and displaymanager.
Get it from our release announcement or find it soon as the system installer in one of our downstreams.
does it finally support f2fs-filesystem? i’m really waiting for this. on Manjaro there is calamares and thus as installer and only thus can handle it wich makes it impossible to use calamares at all 🙁
otherwise great work! i love the idea of calamares and it makes things easier for distros 🙂
Thanks!
For 2.0 I had to prioritize, and the partitioning refactor took a lot of effort. So unfortunately no F2FS support yet, but it’s on our to-do list for the next release: https://calamares.io/bugs/browse/CAL-357
It needs to be added to KPMcore and then Calamares.
Update: F2FS support by Andrius Stikonas has been merged into KPMcore master, and is on track to be released soon.
Hello!
Congratulations with 2.0.
I am a little bit newbie with Calamares, so my question may be silly.
After creating a testing ISO with Calamares 2.0, I cannot find an option to switch from non-latin layout to latin for user/password options.
Have I missed something or it is in “TODO” list?
Not sure I understand. You would like to use a non-latin layout as the system layout and a latin one for the username and password?
Yes, for example, when I choose cyrillic keyboard layout, I cannot switch back to latin one for user/password options. May be I have missed it? Usually shortcuts like “Alt+Shift” or buttons are used for it in installers.