14 DAY TRIAL // After a long wait, the Calamares 3.1 stable branch of the universal Linux installer received its first point release, an incremental bugfix update that adds various improvements, and fixes some of the latest issues or crashes that have been reported lately by users.
Calamares 3.1.1 is now available for download for OS integrators who want to ship it on their upcoming ISO snapshots for their GNU/Linux distributions, and it looks like it includes salting improvements for user passwords, better support for very small screens with 800x600 resolutions, and adds the Crashreporter debugging facility for the first time in the release tarball.
This point release also implements a new functionality that guesses the system language, keyboard layout and other locale settings based on the language and location chosen by the user during the installation. Additionally, it adds support for using hostnames that contain up to 63 characters, conforming to various LDAP schemas and RFC1123.
Other than that, Calamares 3.1.1 fixes a crash that could occur on startup when no installation-devices were detected. This version now requires KPMcore 3.0.3 or later for compilation. The source tarball is available for download right now from the release announcement page, and it's a recommended update if you're using the Calamares 3.1 universal installer framework on your Linux-based operating system.