General

• The code was completely rewritten.
• Calling cl-console from the French locale fixed.
• Process breaks fixed.
• Partial Ukrainian localization
• Json format supported in templates.
• Templates now handling binary files as they should.
• Templates execution fixed for VFAT filesystem.
• Option choice is now correct.
• Variables were added for types of the running system.
• New locales added.
• Files in the /etc/env.d directory are edited correctly by templates (env-update being launched automatically).
• Locale switch fixed on the LiveCD.

Installation

• The cl-install-flash command was added for an even simpler USB Flash installation.
• The "--type" option is no more available in cl-install.
• You can install CL on your USB drive without previously formatting the media.
• If the USB drive is already mounted, direct installation is possible.
• If booting from a Live USB image, the USB volume will be mounted with write privileges.
• Auto-partition parameters were modified. The available options now are: "swap" - create a swap partition (default), "update" - create a partition for update from the ISO image (default), "calculate" - create a mount point in /var/calculate, containing user directories and configuration (default), "uefi" - use the UEFI bootloader (turned on if needed), "lvm" - use LVM.

Desktop

• SDDM (Simple Desktop Display Manager) support added.
• KDE5 avatars now supported.

GUI manager

• Can be launched in a KDE5 environment.
• Miscellaneous graphics fixes.

Build your own system

• Flash multiboot images were moved from /iso to /linux.
• Multiple fixes of problems with system image preparing, restore, update and packing.
• New update modalities for the Flash menu, using the cl-update-boot-live command.
• Configuration now possible for HDD Live.
• ISO creation fixed for boot-up USB drive.
• New layout of available images for Flash and HDD Live.

General

• You do not have to boot into Builder mode to build a LiveCD CL system.
• Multiboot Flash drives are supported.
• gfxboot support added.
• A new format was added for profile inheritance.
• Dutch language is now supported.
• The wallpaper size determined correctly for your screen resolution.

Installation

• Proprietary drivers install faster, as all dependencies are now fetched from binaries.

Update

• Tags will be used from now on for repo synchronization.
• Automatic detection added for the update server.
• cl-update running correctly in tmux.

GUI manager

• The no-certificate problem fixed for application launching.
• Action icons fixed.
• Tables output fixed.

Build your own system

• We provide support for:
  • data preparation for building from Calculate ISO images;
  • switching between build profiles;
  • package update within builds;
  • packing to ISO images;
  • basic build data rescue after reboot.
• Builder mode is not and will not be used.
• You need to compile your kernel with overlayfs support if you want to build
  in layers.

• 'Dconf' support was added.
• We optimized the /etc/init.d/calculate script.
• Auto-partition settings were modified.
• Calling the home directory as '~' is now possible within the 'grep()' function.
• If the package list contains blocked packages, cl-update will not use cache.
• Fastlogin was fixed for the LiveCD.
• Server connection issues fixed for cl-console-gui.

• Layman 2.3 supported.
• A script tool was added for faster calculation of variables contained in /usr/libexec/calculate/cl-variable.
• Local login optimization.
• Optimized package configuration at compilation time.
• Optimized handling of calculate.env and ini.env files.
• 'emerge --info' output optimized.
• Fetching binaries detection fixed for cl-update.
• Kernel update fixed, as part of system update.
• The EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS problem fixed.
• Support added for \xAA symbols within the grep function.
• Short autopartitioning options added for cl-install.
• VMWare and Virtio detection added.
• Domain logout bug fixed.
• Files in the CONFIG_PROTECT directory now handled correctly.

cl-kernel

• Bulgarian localization added.
• The user is notified that kernel modules need to be rebuilt.
• Initramfs is packed with gzip because of problems with lz4.

cl-kernel

• A new option, "--noclean", was introduced to skip 'make clean' before kernel compilation.
• A new option, "--skip-config", was added to skip kernel customization.
• localversion support added.

• The architecture can be specified when configuring a package and applying patches.
• The 'kernel' template was improved.
• Configuration can be skipped for specific packages provided by overlays, via new variables we added: cl_setup_skip_merge, cl_setup_skip_patch, cl_setup_skip_profile.
• Two new functions were added: grep() and kernel().
• Rsync 3.1.0 supported.
• Video card detection bug fixed.
• Patches that contain new files only are now applied correctly in "diff" templates.
• Inside the pkg() function, USE flags are now processed with no errors on the system to be installed.
• On newly installed systems, the kernel configuration should be retrieved with no problems.
• The template bug fixed for domain hosts.

• Network interfaces are now named correctly with eudev.
• The 'discard' option was added for xfs, jfs and fat filesystems.
• 'noop' is used as the default I/O scheduler for VirtualBox volumes.
• TuxOnIce support detection added for the kernel.
• The -R (--skip-revdep-rebuild) option was added to skip revdep-rebuild at update time.
• cl-update will not build in parallel mode (forced behaviour).

• A new time-optimized template format, "kernel", was added for kernel configuration.
• Fetching of the list of available IO schedulers (--scheduler list) fixed: those provided by the kernel are now taken into account.
• Autoselection added for the IO scheduler.
• The "discard" option was implemented for mounting ext4 partitions on SSD drives.
• The output of the ~/.calculate/ini.env update will be hidden.

• All Calculate Utilities blended in one package, sys-apps/calculate-utils.
• File removal with template headed as "append=remove" fixed.
• Special characters support added for the replace() function in templates.
• Device detection fixed for partitioning.
• Installation on kvm virtio drives fixed.
• CD drive detection fixed.
• Grub 2.02 support added.
• Btrfs mounting options added for SSD.
• X autologin fixed.
• Naming of network interfaces fixed.
• Data display prior to Flash install fixed.
• Process status detection fixed for cl-core.
• Creation of symbolic links for cl-core commands fixed.
• Moved from SSLv3 to TLSv1_2.
• Comma separators fixed for options.
• CIFS drives of domain users mounting correctly now.
• Condition of the ac_client_undomain event fixed.
• Autologin from a LiveCD fixed for domain clients.
• USE flags support added for the pkg() function.
• Old kernel removal fixed.
• Detection of binaries at update time fixed.