diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md index 9d1f52c..e599d10 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG.md +++ b/CHANGELOG.md @@ -1,19 +1,196 @@ -# 22.05 +# 23.04 -CachyOS was founded a year ago. After almost one year of development, we are really proud to announce our first Stable Release of GUI Installer. -We spent a lot of time investigating repo management, kernel development, infrastructure, theming, ... and finally put them all into the CachyOS GUI Installer. -All the features we worked on and implemented into the Installer are just trying to offer users a completely customizable experience. +**Features:** -The most exciting changes are that we use now for the online install pacstrap which provide then a complete clear installed environment and we do support a complete native support for the zfs filesystem +- Introduce the Qtile desktop enviroment +- Reworked mhwd: Rust rewrite; Simplified profiles for GPUs and network cards; Removed bunch of ancient code +- Package updates: linux-cachyos 6.2.12, cachy-browser 112.0.1, mesa 23.0.3, zfs-utils 2.1.11 -Since Discord restrict the length of the messages the full announcement can be found here: +**Bug-fixes:** -https://forum.cachyos.org/d/34-cachyos-gui-installer-stable-release +- f2fs: Remove "atgc" mount options since it has issues with systemd -Download can be found here: -https://mirror.cachyos.org/ISO/kde/220522/ -https://sourceforge.net/projects/cachyos-arch/ +# 23.03.1 +**Features:** + +- Package updates: linux-cachyos 6.2.7, cachy-browser 111.0 + +**Bug-fixes:** + +- Calamares got fixed with the lightdm displaymanager due faulty calamares upstream commits +- Offline installation keyring issue got fixed +- Refind: Use linux-cachyos-lts as defaullt. Current 6.2 seems not to work well together with refind + + +# 23.03 + +**New Features:** + +- Added the refind bootloader +- Automatic Nvidia driver installation using MHWD +- Encryption support for ZFS installation +- Added Hyprland to netinstallation +- CachyOS-KDE-Settings now uses the KDE default theme, but the CachyOS Themes are still preinstalled and available for use +- Package updates: linux-cachyos 6.2.2, mesa 23.0.0, cachy-browser 110.0.1, plasma 5.27.2 +- Fully reworked and improved the bootloader calamares module +- The ISO gets now signed with a GPG key +- MHWD got improved and updated +- Synced Calamares with upstream + +**Bug-fixes:** + +- The "replace partition" option now offers a filesystem selection +- Fixed a typo in slide 3 +- nouveau got fixed and does now proper load the module +- MHWD: Use modesetting for INTEL/ATI and Nouveau +- Removed the zfs hook from mkinitcpio on the live iso, which caused issues when booting +- You can download the update from our mirrors on SourceForge. + +# 23.02 +**New Features:** + +- The cachyos-community-v3 repo has been added +- Budgie, Mate, and LXDE desktop environments have been added to the Netinstallation +- Bluetooth.service is now enabled by default +- F2FS and grub are enabled and working again +- Package Updates: linux-cachyos 6.1.10, mesa 22.3.4, zfs-utils 2.1.9, glibc 2.37, cachy-browser 109.0.1 + +**Bug-fixes:** + +- Rate-mirrors now fall back to unranked mirrors if it fails to rate them +- cachyos-rate-mirrors has a longer fetch-mirrors-timeout +- Github has been added to the hosts to avoid mirrorlist issues +- Boot entries for BIOS have been updated in syslinux + + +# 23.01 + +**Features:** + +- Calamares Slides got reworked and updated +- UKUI Desktop Enviroment got added to the Netinstallation +- Cinnamon Desktop Enviroment got added to the Netinstallation +- Cmdline: zswap is now disabled as default because CachyOS provides zram as default +- Calamares updated to the latest commit +- LLVM 15 is now shipped as default +- Package Updates: linux-cachyos 6.1.7, mesa 22.3.3, Plasma 5.26.5, llvm 15.0.7, gcc 12.1.1, binutils 2.40, zfs-utils 2.1.8, nvidia 525.85.05 +- CLI Installer got updated + +**Bug-fixes:** + +- remove-ucode shellprocess does also run now at the offline installation +- pamac got removed from the netinstall +- The ranked cachyos mirrors gets now correctly copied to the install target +- power-profile-daemon don't gets enabled anymore as default + + +# 22.12 + +**Features:** + +- New GRUB background at the ISO bootloader +- memtest is now included for UEFI Systems +- CachyOS-sddm-theme got added to the KDE Installation +- Automatic version script added when creating the ISO +- Calamares updated to the latest commit +- The mirrors are now ranked with "cachyos-rate-mirros", which ranks our mirrors and the arch ones +- Packages Update: 6.1.1 Kernel, mesa 22.3.1, plasma 5.26.4,... +- The Kofuku Desktop Enviroment got removed +- extra ISO with llvm 15 included to provide support for newer AMD Cards + + +**Bug-fixes:** + +- Calamares got fixed when using GNOME as ISO +- zfshostid does now work proper for the offline and online installation +- Add "kms" hook to the initcpiocfg module to follow archlinux defaults +- And more ISO fixes + + +# 22.11 + +**Features:** + +- Calamares and its config are shipped in one package +- Complete Cleanup of the packages in the netinstall +- Add a module which automatically removes the not needed ucode +- required RAM decreased to 2.5GB +- Packages which are required for btrfs, are now only installed for btrfs +- Calamares updated to the latest commit +- The ISO Bootloader has now a background +- Common package upgrades (mesa, kernel, ...) +- Replace systemd-network with networkmanager + + +**Bug-fixes:** + +- qemu-quest-agent.service got removed from the ISO +- copytoram got completly disabled, it breaks the offline installation +- mkinitcpio.conf got updated +- And more ISO fixes + + +# 22.10 + +**Features:** + +- Pacman uses now Architecture=auto for x86-64-v3 installation, since we added a patch that pacman does autodetect x86-64-v3 +- Pacman does show now, from which repo a package was installed +- Bootloader selection auto detect if EFI is present, if not it will default to grub +- Swap choice has been disabled now as default, since zram gets automatically dynamically generated +- Calamares updated to the latest commit +- Minimum RAM requirement has been set to 4GB +- cachyos-grub-theme got removed + +**Bug-fixes:** + +- SSD and hdd fstab detection has been disabled until there is a upstream fix +- double BTRFS subvolume has been fixed +- Added missing microcode to the ISO grub bootloader +- Added a fallback bootmode, which does not set any modeset (nomodeset) +- And more ISO fixes + + +# 22.09 + +**Features:** + +- Calamares is now on the latest 3.3 branch. Its brings bugfixes and new features to calamares +- TUI-Installer is now included in the GUI ISO, you can use it with "cachyos-installer" +- Calamares does now auto detect, if the target filesystem is a ssd or hdd and adjust to it the fstab options +- Nvidia for latest gpu's (starting at 9xx) has now a own boot entry, to avoid issues with nouveau +- fstab and zfs mount options got updated +- FireFox won't be installed as default anymore since cachy-browser is installed as default + +**Bug-fixes:** + +- cachyos-gaming-meta has been removed from the netinstall module to avoid issues at the installation process +- netinstall packages has been updated and got some fixes +- OpenBox installation has been fixed +- usual translation fixes + + +# 22.07 + +**Features:** + +- Boot-loader selection: User can now choose on the online installation between grub and systemd-boot +- At online installation will now always the newest calamares installed, which helps to do bug fixes on the "air" +- Calamares has now a mhwd module which automatically installs the needed drivers (free drivers) +- Calamares has new picture slides at the installation +- fstab and zfs mount options got updated +- HiDPI support + +**Bug-fixes:** + +- The locales bug in calamares got fixed +- F2FS has been removed for the grub boot loader since it is currently not working (calamares issue), it can be still with systemd-boot used +- Calamares shows now the correct default filesystem +- Gnome ISO got fixed +- Missing packages at the live ISO has been added for the offline installation +- btrfs swap luksencryption got fixed +- usual translation fixes # 22.06 @@ -53,178 +230,23 @@ Following options you can select for a kernel compile: - Enable or disable nf cone - Enable LTO (Full, Thin, No) -# 22.07 -**Features:** +# 22.05 -- Boot-loader selection: User can now choose on the online installation between grub and systemd-boot -- At online installation will now always the newest calamares installed, which helps to do bug fixes on the "air" -- Calamares has now a mhwd module which automatically installs the needed drivers (free drivers) -- Calamares has new picture slides at the installation -- fstab and zfs mount options got updated -- HiDPI support +CachyOS was founded a year ago. After almost one year of development, we are really proud to announce our first Stable Release of GUI Installer. +We spent a lot of time investigating repo management, kernel development, infrastructure, theming, ... and finally put them all into the CachyOS GUI Installer. +All the features we worked on and implemented into the Installer are just trying to offer users a completely customizable experience. -**Bug-fixes:** +The most exciting changes are that we use now for the online install pacstrap which provide then a complete clear installed environment and we do support a complete native support for the zfs filesystem -- The locales bug in calamares got fixed -- F2FS has been removed for the grub boot loader since it is currently not working (calamares issue), it can be still with systemd-boot used -- Calamares shows now the correct default filesystem -- Gnome ISO got fixed -- Missing packages at the live ISO has been added for the offline installation -- btrfs swap luksencryption got fixed -- usual translation fixes +Since Discord restrict the length of the messages the full announcement can be found here: -# 22.09 +https://forum.cachyos.org/d/34-cachyos-gui-installer-stable-release -**Features:** - -- Calamares is now on the latest 3.3 branch. Its brings bugfixes and new features to calamares -- TUI-Installer is now included in the GUI ISO, you can use it with "cachyos-installer" -- Calamares does now auto detect, if the target filesystem is a ssd or hdd and adjust to it the fstab options -- Nvidia for latest gpu's (starting at 9xx) has now a own boot entry, to avoid issues with nouveau -- fstab and zfs mount options got updated -- FireFox won't be installed as default anymore since cachy-browser is installed as default - -**Bug-fixes:** - -- cachyos-gaming-meta has been removed from the netinstall module to avoid issues at the installation process -- netinstall packages has been updated and got some fixes -- OpenBox installation has been fixed -- usual translation fixes - -# 22.10 - -**Features:** - -- Pacman uses now Architecture=auto for x86-64-v3 installation, since we added a patch that pacman does autodetect x86-64-v3 -- Pacman does show now, from which repo a package was installed -- Bootloader selection auto detect if EFI is present, if not it will default to grub -- Swap choice has been disabled now as default, since zram gets automatically dynamically generated -- Calamares updated to the latest commit -- Minimum RAM requirement has been set to 4GB -- cachyos-grub-theme got removed - -**Bug-fixes:** - -- SSD and hdd fstab detection has been disabled until there is a upstream fix -- double BTRFS subvolume has been fixed -- Added missing microcode to the ISO grub bootloader -- Added a fallback bootmode, which does not set any modeset (nomodeset) -- And more ISO fixes +Download can be found here: +https://mirror.cachyos.org/ISO/kde/220522/ +https://sourceforge.net/projects/cachyos-arch/ -# 22.11 - -**Features:** - -- Calamares and its config are shipped in one package -- Complete Cleanup of the packages in the netinstall -- Add a module which automatically removes the not needed ucode -- required RAM decreased to 2.5GB -- Packages which are required for btrfs, are now only installed for btrfs -- Calamares updated to the latest commit -- The ISO Bootloader has now a background -- Common package upgrades (mesa, kernel, ...) -- Replace systemd-network with networkmanager -**Bug-fixes:** - -- qemu-quest-agent.service got removed from the ISO -- copytoram got completly disabled, it breaks the offline installation -- mkinitcpio.conf got updated -- And more ISO fixes - -# 22.12 - -**Features:** - -- New GRUB background at the ISO bootloader -- memtest is now included for UEFI Systems -- CachyOS-sddm-theme got added to the KDE Installation -- Automatic version script added when creating the ISO -- Calamares updated to the latest commit -- The mirrors are now ranked with "cachyos-rate-mirros", which ranks our mirrors and the arch ones -- Packages Update: 6.1.1 Kernel, mesa 22.3.1, plasma 5.26.4,... -- The Kofuku Desktop Enviroment got removed -- extra ISO with llvm 15 included to provide support for newer AMD Cards - - -**Bug-fixes:** - -- Calamares got fixed when using GNOME as ISO -- zfshostid does now work proper for the offline and online installation -- Add "kms" hook to the initcpiocfg module to follow archlinux defaults -- And more ISO fixes - -# 23.01 - -**Features:** - -- Calamares Slides got reworked and updated -- UKUI Desktop Enviroment got added to the Netinstallation -- Cinnamon Desktop Enviroment got added to the Netinstallation -- Cmdline: zswap is now disabled as default because CachyOS provides zram as default -- Calamares updated to the latest commit -- LLVM 15 is now shipped as default -- Package Updates: linux-cachyos 6.1.7, mesa 22.3.3, Plasma 5.26.5, llvm 15.0.7, gcc 12.1.1, binutils 2.40, zfs-utils 2.1.8, nvidia 525.85.05 -- CLI Installer got updated - -**Bug-fixes:** - -- remove-ucode shellprocess does also run now at the offline installation -- pamac got removed from the netinstall -- The ranked cachyos mirrors gets now correctly copied to the install target -- power-profile-daemon don't gets enabled anymore as default - -# 23.02 -**New Features:** - -- The cachyos-community-v3 repo has been added -- Budgie, Mate, and LXDE desktop environments have been added to the Netinstallation -- Bluetooth.service is now enabled by default -- F2FS and grub are enabled and working again -- Package Updates: linux-cachyos 6.1.10, mesa 22.3.4, zfs-utils 2.1.9, glibc 2.37, cachy-browser 109.0.1 - -**Bug-fixes:** - -- Rate-mirrors now fall back to unranked mirrors if it fails to rate them -- cachyos-rate-mirrors has a longer fetch-mirrors-timeout -- Github has been added to the hosts to avoid mirrorlist issues -- Boot entries for BIOS have been updated in syslinux - -# 23.03 - -**New Features:** - -- Added the refind bootloader -- Automatic Nvidia driver installation using MHWD -- Encryption support for ZFS installation -- Added Hyprland to netinstallation -- CachyOS-KDE-Settings now uses the KDE default theme, but the CachyOS Themes are still preinstalled and available for use -- Package updates: linux-cachyos 6.2.2, mesa 23.0.0, cachy-browser 110.0.1, plasma 5.27.2 -- Fully reworked and improved the bootloader calamares module -- The ISO gets now signed with a GPG key -- MHWD got improved and updated -- Synced Calamares with upstream - -**Bug-fixes:** - -- The "replace partition" option now offers a filesystem selection -- Fixed a typo in slide 3 -- nouveau got fixed and does now proper load the module -- MHWD: Use modesetting for INTEL/ATI and Nouveau -- Removed the zfs hook from mkinitcpio on the live iso, which caused issues when booting -- You can download the update from our mirrors on SourceForge. - -# 23.03.1 - -**Features:** - -- Package updates: linux-cachyos 6.2.7, cachy-browser 111.0 - -**Bug-fixes:** - -- Calamares got fixed with the lightdm displaymanager due faulty calamares upstream commits -- Offline installation keyring issue got fixed -- Refind: Use linux-cachyos-lts as defaullt. Current 6.2 seems not to work well together with refind