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The new stable release version 2009.10 was just released: grml, grml64, grml-medium, grml64-medium, grml-small and grml64-small.

If you're interested in the main changes between rc1 of 2009.10 and the final stable release:

Changes in all flavours:

• updated grml2hd: bugfixes (adjust grub handling to support grub2, fix handling of custom bootoptions in bootloaders, fix grub support in non-interactive mode), added support for ext4 and some further minor updates/bugfixes
• updated grml2usb: integration of grml2usb-compat, updates for new features in grml-live, updated grml2iso (copy additional files to ISO, better support for grml2usb), support removal of bootoptions, use dynamic check for addons as current grml-small includes addons, support running on a generated grml2usb iso/directory
• updated grml-autoconfig: bugfixes (font-handling in non-framebuffer mode, handling of grml.sh)
• updated grml-debootstrap: added support for and use support grub2 by default, dropped $GROOT and modified usage of $GRUB, replaced vol_id command with blkid, use cdn.debian.net as default mirror
• updated grml-docs: update files for release
• updated grml-etc: bugfixes (eject handling)
• updated grml-tips: added further tips, updated existing ones
• updated grub-pc + grub-common (stable release)
• kernel 2.6.31-grml[64]: update to new version based on stable release 2.6.31.5

Changes in flavour grml/grml64:

• added ewf-tools, fio + guymager
• updated grml-live: direct integration of grub1, update and direct integration of grub2, gPXE, update of ldbsd.com
• updated firmware-iwlwifi, firmware-qlogic + firmware-ralink (feature update)
• updated grml-terminalserver: drop support for grub.img (fails to build with recent toolchains, use gPXE/etherboot instead), integrated grml2usb for generating pxeconfig
• dropped deprecated grml-terminalserver-data + ash packages

Changes in flavour grml-medium/grml64-medium:

• updated firmware-iwlwifi + firmware-ralink (feature update)
• updated grml-live: direct integration of grub1, update and direct integration of grub2, gPXE, update of ldbsd.com
• updated grml-terminalserver: drop support for grub.img (fails to build with recent toolchains, use gPXE/etherboot instead), integrated grml2usb for generating pxeconfig
• dropped deprecated grml-terminalserver-data + ash packages

Changes in flavour grml-small/grml64-small:

• added parted

We have new release candidates: the first release candidate of version 2009.10 codename "Hello-Wien" is available. Take a look at the release announcement for details about all the cool new features. As usual we have different flavours available: the 32bit versions grml, grml-medium and grml-small as well as the 64bit versions grml64, grml64-medium and grml64-small.

Please test the ISOs and all the stuff you usually need so we can provide rocking stable releases soon. The stable release is scheduled for 31st of october. Download the ISOs from the 'devel' directory of the mirrors listed at grml.org/download.

The famous german c't magazine just released c't extra 03/2009 Netzwerke, a special edition focusing on network stuff. There's an article about network diagnosis using Grml (pages 132-133) and Grml is part of the included the DVD as well. Make sure you grab your own copy!