• The behavior of the --with-bdeps option was replaced by the identical emerge option
• The --with-bdeps option was added for cl-builder-update
• No more excessive accuracy for size calculation in auto-partitioning mode
• The minimum size for the BiosBoot partition was changed
• Fixed disk partitioning for sizes not multiple of 4MiB
• Fixed auto-partitioning for disks with logical sectors other than 512
• Fixed user profile configuration for fastlogin
• Added creation of the index-user file when creating a container
• Fixed IP address definition on bridge
• Added the Norwegian (nb_NO) locale
• Added diff detection for plymouth themes
• Enabled to specify 'original' as a resolution for backgrounds
• Fixed the output of the list of packages to be updated (Bug #1113)

• Added support for custom files for keywords, use, sets, and mask, to be copied at installation time
• The packages used only during the build process will not be removed by cl-update
• Possible to install the system and update it at the first boot
• A x86_64 system cannot be install on an i686 anymore
• Added a kernel compatibility check for new installations
• Better setup of nvidia-drivers at boot time
• Fixed network configuration for duplicate routes
• Fixed bootloader update on the current system
• Added initramfs support for early-microcode
• Fixed notebook model detection for Calculate Utilities
• Fixed domain resource detection for smbclient>=4.7.0
• Fixed support for port indication for the Git repository
• Fixed running cl-install in chroot
• Fixed excessive activity of ac_update_sync templates
• The system does not freeze any longer due to file processing, when running templates from /var/calculate/remote (cifs)
• Possible to install Calculate Linux on a compressed btrfs partition (btrfs-comp)
• The system now installs correctly on a xfs partition
• No more formatter checkup if the system is being installed without formatting
• Possible to choose a filesystem for root and data partitions in the auto-partitioning mode
• Fixed timezone adjustment when booting from an ISO
• Added support for UTC system time on virtualbox
• Added hardware clock selection (local time or UTC)
• Possible to remove a package from all world slots
• Fixed using the world format
• zstd and lz4 support added for cl-builder-image
• Sound card configuration by device ID instead of serial number
• ALSA used by default, instead of PulseAudio
• Fixed removal of obsolete packages when calling the cl-update and cl-builder-update tools
• 1024x768 driver created as the fallback one (if you are a nvidia-drivers user, the EFI driver may not work with the 1920x1080 resolution, so that 1024x768 be run instead)
• Added DPI support for cl-console-gui
• Fixed display of the progress bar in cl-console-gui
• Fixed the behavior of cl-console-gui in the KDE system tray
• Fixed launch of cl-update-checker

• Aupartitioning detection added in cl-install, depending on the specified command line options
• The network configuration procedure was modified:
  • Current network configuration can be copied to the new system at installation time, including the bridge settings, the bond settings, etc.
  • Network configuration is only modifed if booting from a LiveCD or running cl-setup-network
• Network configuration now runs correctly at the first system start (no NetworkManager running instead of OpenRC)
• Update index problem fixed for build-up time
• The USE flag for mergepkg functions now handled correctly
• uvesafb replaced with vesafb and the EFI framebuffer
• GUI client Qt5-powered now
• The modified package detection problem at recompilation time was fixed
• No more error when copying user accounts to the newly installed system
• Notebook detection fixed
• Keyboard switch added
• Videocard configuration at the first start fixed
• Possibility to allocate whole disk space to the root partition when autopartitioning

Calculate Utilities

• File attributes handled correctly by templates
• grub.d privileges will not be reset arbitrarily
• File capabilities for LXC containers can be saved and restored
• Network interfaces can be again renamed and saved correctly
• Password configuration fixed for Grub
• IO Scheduler option removed
• Network configuration inside containers fixed
• /var/db/pkg checked for integrity in building distributions
• USE flag checkup added for the 'merge()' function
• Updates will stay current for 10 days
• Cl-core can now start via DBus
• Access problem fixed, when using third-party repos

Templates/System

• Kernel start fixed (all warnings and errors are handled OK)
• Swap mount fixed
• lxc-desktop and host-desktop support some configuration now

• SoftRAID volumes can be used for autopartitioning now
• Encrypted profiles supported (git+ssh://)
• To allow to build binaries with different USE flags more efficiently and with less time spent on calculation of dependencies, binaries are supported now on build-aimed Calculate flavours
• Packages with a modified BUILDTIME value can be rebuilt with the new '--rebuilt-binaries' option
• A new 'world' format, as well as a new 'world()' function were added for generation of the world file, containing the installed packages
• QEMU volumes detected
• Updates prompted at shorter intervals to optimize the GUI Calculate Console system load
• "%" and "@" symbols admitted inside template functions
• Variable values can be set and reset correctly with Calculate Utilities
• System installation with no user created fixed
• Detection of repos with hyphens fixed (to install no-name packages)
• Emerge launch fixed for Calculate Utilities
• Domain volumes detection fixed (cifs with vers=1.0)

• The Laptop path exception was added for server synchronization.
• A new variable, cl_sync_moved_set was added for setting off the domain user files transfer into Home/Moved.
• Remote access to a domain user account is well protected by a password.
• Domain mounting points restored correctly after leaving system suspend.
• Network latency increased for adding domain sources.
• Domain settings applied correctly when adding user paths.

• User setup as run at installation time was fixed.
• The Grub password can be modified.
• You can edit local certificates.
• You must redefine the guest password when installing Calculate.
• Cl-password can be run without admin privileges.

• User directories creation fixed for installation time.
• Xautologin script fixed.
• Domain user session login fixed.
• Profile user encryption fixed.
• User profile configuration fixed for LiveCD sessions.

• NVMe drives are now detected correctly.
• You can install Calculate on a Btrfs-formatted DOS partition.
• The UEFI boot record will not be rewritten if no parameters were changed.
• User group selection at installation time was fixed.
• Calculate can be once again installed from a LiveCD on a USB Flash drive volume.
• When installing Calculate, the ini.env file will be called for correctly from the system profile.

• Clt templates settings are modified via cl-update without any problem.
• Conditionals handled as they should be.
• The wallpaper function now runs correctly when used in chroot environment.
• The splashutils and grub packages optimized for configuration after theme setup.

• The ‘backgrounds’ format was fixed and optimized.
• We also fixed the ‘mirror’ option for format=backgrounds.
• The ‘bind’ format is handled correctly now as well.

• Building LXC containers is supported now.

• PXE installation fixed.
• Wrong ini.env format fixed.
• Update checkup fixed.
• No more loading problems for Packages on source-built systems.
• System profile switching fixed.
• Repo synchronization via layman-2.4 fixed.
• @preserved-rebuild now runs correctly.
• cl-update --sync-only is called correctly now (after a Perl update).
• The 'profile' function was added to identify the user profile status.
• wallpaper() function reworked.
• The 'backgrounds' format was added for creating wallpaper images.
• /etc/skel files moved to the user profile during configuration.
• layman cache now updated at cl-builder-update runtime.
• Autopartition, the default for LiveCD installations.
• No bios_boot partition created when autopartitioning with UEFI.
• System proxy disabled when fetching binhost files.

• Cl-builder-update can check for automatic dependencies to be installed; see the new '--check-autodep' option.
• The binary Packages index will be fetched while synchronizing the repositories.
• When running cl-update, system settings are only modified if a repo was updated. If you do not like this default option, add '--force-fix' to force the modification.
• The package manager is called only once by cl-update to calculate dependencies and install packages.
• Cl-update does not cache calculated dependencies anymore.
• The '--clean-bdeps' option was enabled for cl-builder-update, so that to remove packages that are only necessary for system building.
• Emerge --with-bdeps=y disabled for cl-update.
• Whether you install from an USB Flash drive or a Live DVD, autopartition is now the default option.
• We restored the cl-passwd tool for user password change in LDAP.

Main

• Tools were added for configuration of LDAP and Unix accounts to be stored in LDAP
• cl-backup and cl-backup-restore utilities added
• Users can access console functions directly, by running cl-console. Note that most Calculate utilities are now stored in /usr/bin instead of /usr/sbin
• One session for cl-console and cl-console-gui
• Current configuration files previously stored in /etc/calculate were moved to /var/lib/calculate. /etc/calculate is now used for migration at installation time

Server tools

• LDAP configuration
  • possibility to change the BaseDN
  • service password regeneration
  • remove a service and reconfigure the system
  • configs integrated with templates 3.5
• Accounts server configuration
  • current system setup for authentication via LDAP server
  • service password regeneration
  • remove a service and reconfigure the system
  • add or remove a user account
  • add or remove a group
  • reconfigure users and groups
  • multiple group and user modifications available: add, remove, replace the list
  • rename a group
  • user or group info displayed
  • flexible group and user filtration scheme
  • field selection for group and user viewing
  • group and user management fully supported via a GUI interface as well as from the command line

• cl-backup
  • backup of configuration files created by Calculate templates
  • custom configuration backup
  • LDAP server backup
• cl-backup-restore
  • restore only files containing differences
  • diffs in comments to restored files headers
  • restore configurations of out-of-box packages
  • restore configuration checksums
  • restore permissions to restored files
  • restore network configuration
  • restore autorun services
  • restore user accounts
  • restart services whenever server parameters have been restored

Templates

• Main changes
  • Multiple ini.env files can be processed
  • Template variables, functions, and conditions were optimized
    • Faster processing due to variable substitution at conditions and values calculation time
    • Variables can be used, that get a space as a template option value (such as in chown=#-ur_login-#:#-ur_group-#)
    • module() added to check for the module (the CU version will be returned if the module is included, or else nothing)
    • Indefinite variables can be used in the non-executable part of a conditional block (problem fixed)
  • "OR" processed in conditional blocks (#!keyword#)
  • Better audio configuration (both your sound card and your hardware can be setup)
  • ldif format supported

• Functions
  • ls() added to list the files from a directory
  • mergepkg() added, that combines both merge() and pkg() functionality
  • exists() remplaced "1", to return the filetype character code
  • UUID generation with rnd() modified
  • Values returned by wallpaper() were modified
  • cut() added to return a line fragment
  • Localization problem fixed when calling print(), warning() and error() functions

• Conditions
  • In condition blocks, it is possible to check if the version number belongs to the interval (x<=y,z)
  • Embedded conditions supported

• Options
  • link=<path> added, to copy directories with templates
  • restart=<service>, start=<service>, stop=<service> added for templates, to start or stop services
  • "protected" works OK with "mirror" now
  • Template processing with "append=after" fixed

• Miscellaneous
  • ._cfg configuration files now update correctly with the "--force" option
  • More efficient checkup for checksum CONTENTS files
  • Command-line table indentation fixed
  • Short options will be processes differently. "-soff" will not be interpreted sponaneously as "-s -o -f -f"
  • Update availability is provided for by /var/lib/calculate/calculate-update/updates.available
  • The cl_pass_file variable now stores the template name
  • A new variable was added, to store the current kernel version
  • cl-passwd removed

Graphics

• Better support of the system color scheme
• Updated appearances, including new own icons
• Some modifications for the update icon sitting in system tray

Main Changes

• Croatian localization added.
• Fixed Live USB videocard setup.
• If applicable, setup problems with the encrypted home directory were solved.

Installation

• Proprietary video driver fixed at bootup time.
• Fixed user configuration at installation time.
• First boot setup now runs correctly.
• AMDGPU support added.

Update

• Faster access to the overlays.
• A new algorithm for mirror selection.
• Optimized mirror selection.
• The repo history can now be cleared at any time.
• The testing branch was made available.
• Search on the update server is now logged.
• The update server URL is shown.
• Unpacking and fetching issue solved.
• The Portage repo was renamed to Gentoo and chosed

Build Features

• The installation script is prepared correctly for the proprietary drivers
• DIGESTS files will not be created.