diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3034ef0 --- /dev/null +++ b/CHANGELOG.md @@ -0,0 +1,188 @@ +*Changelog CachyOS 22.05:* + +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. + +The most exciting changes are that we use now for the online install pacstrap which provide then a complete clear installed enviroment and we do support a complete native support for the zfs filesystem + +Since Discord restrict the length of the messages the full announcement can be found here: + +https://forum.cachyos.org/d/34-cachyos-gui-installer-stable-release + +Download can be found here: +https://mirror.cachyos.org/ISO/kde/220522/ +https://sourceforge.net/projects/cachyos-arch/ + +############################################################################################ + +*Changelog CachyOS 22.06:* + +## Following known bugs has been fixed: + +- Install failed when a generic CPU was used +- KDE did automatically mount zfs paritions which resulted that the auto login into the ISO did not worked anymore + +## Improvements: + +- The firewall from the server has been corrected, cloudflare did blocked users as "bots", which resulted then into a error at installing +- Added theming support for Gnome, XFCE, OpenBox +- Updated our wiki + +## CachyOS - Kernel - Manager +Also we are excited to announce our CachyOS-Kernel-Manager. +Their you have the possibility to install the kernel from the repo and also configure with a GUI your own kernel build which makes is very easy to customize it to his own suits. + +Following options you can select for a kernel compile: + +- Scheduler (BMQ, BORE, cacULE, cfs, PDS, TT) +- NUMA disabled or enabled +- KBUILD CFLAGS (-O3 or -O2) +- Set performance governor as default +- Enable BBR2 +- Tickrate (500Hz, 600Hz, 750Hz, 1000Hz) +- tickless (idle, perodic, full) +- disable MQ-Deadline I/O Scheduler +- disable Kyber I/O Scheduler +- Enable or disable MG-LRU +- Enable or disable DAMON +- Enable or disable Speculative page fault +- Enable or disable LRNG (Linux Random Number Generator) +- Apply Kernel automatic Optimization (Does automatically detect your CPU March) +- Apply Kernel Optimization slecting (You will see a list of different CPU-Marches and can select with a number yours) +- Disable debug (it lowers the size of the kernel) +- Enable or disable nf cone +- Enable LTO (Full, Thin, No) + +More about it you can find here: + +https://wiki.cachyos.org/en/home/kernel-manager + +The downloads for the iso are as always here: + +Our mirrors: +https://mirror.cachyos.org/ISO/kde/220603/ +https://mirror.cachyos.org/ISO/gnome/220603 +Sourceforge: +https://sourceforge.net/projects/cachyos-arch/ + +############################################################################################ + +*Changelog CachyOS 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` + +As always the download can be found at our mirrors our sourgeforge. + +https://mirror.cachyos.org/ISO/ +https://sourceforge.net/projects/cachyos-arch/files/ + +############################################################################################ + +*Changelog CachyOS 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` + +As always the download can be found at our mirrors our sourgeforge. + +https://mirror.cachyos.org/ISO/ +https://sourceforge.net/projects/cachyos-arch/files/ + +Regards + +CachyOS - Team + +############################################################################################ + +*Changelog CachyOS 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` + +As always the download can be found at our mirrors our sourgeforge. + +https://mirror.cachyos.org/ISO/ +https://sourceforge.net/projects/cachyos-arch/files/ + +Regards + +CachyOS - Team + +############################################################################################ + +*Changelog CachyOS 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` + +As always the download can be found at our mirrors our sourceforge. + +https://mirror.cachyos.org/ISO/ +https://sourceforge.net/projects/cachyos-arch/files/ + +Regards + +CachyOS - Team