v1.1.0

Auto-Partitioning

• Fixed some minor bugs and logging issues associated with UEFI systems (however, see "Known Issues" below).

Manual Partitioning

• Fixed a few logical errors and made various cosmetic improvements.
• Improved handling of Btrfs subvolumes.
• Improved handling of input for custom mount points.
• Improved enabling/disabling of swap and added [SWAP] to the mount point menu for more convenient creation of swap partitions.

Software

• Configured GameMode to also enable NVIDIA PRIME render offload for systems with an NVIDIA card plus another GPU.
• Provided option to try again if keyring update fails.
• Streamlined default packages, improved package list management, and added a pre-pacstrap check for anything that should be moved to the AUR list as packages are occasionally removed from official repos.
• Improved process for installation of yay-bin and AUR packages.
• Added radeontop for ATI/AMD systems and improved overall handling of GPU-related packages.
• Ensured thermald is installed and enabled for Intel systems to improve CPU temperature management.
• Ensured tlp is installed and enabled for laptops to improve battery power management.
• Added foliate (and its optional dependency dictd) to default packages as it handles .mobi and other major eBook formats beautifully; also added mlocate, pipes.sh, and cpupower-gui.
• Made noto-fonts optional, added ttf-liberation and ttf-dejavu as default font packages, and ensured noto-fonts-cjk is installed when needed.
• Added bottles as an optional package, adjusted the Wine-related package list, and ensured Wine-related packages are installed, not only if lutris is selected, but also if bottles or playonlinux is selected.
• Replaced sdl with sdl12-compat, libcanberra-pulse with libcanberra, opencl-icd-loader with ocl-icd, qemu with qemu-desktop, and itch with itch-setup-bin.
• Removed xcursor-breeze from package lists for GTK-based DEs and added breeze to default packages as it provides Breeze cursor themes and dark theming for certain KDE apps, such as Kdenlive.
• Ensured python-pip is installed with Kdenlive as it's needed for certain features, such as speech to text.
• Installation of insync now includes a DE-specific supplemental package: insync-dolphin, insync-nautilus, insync-nemo, or insync-thunar.
• Increased default window size of Terminator to 900x600.
• Improved default GRUB appearance for common monitor resolutions.

KDE Plasma

• LightDM is now available as a display manager option in addition to SDDM.
• Fixed keyboard shortcuts for changing window opacity.
• Improved configuration of KWin, Kate, and Dolphin.
• Added UFW rules to open KDE Connect ports.

Xfce

• GNOME services (such as gnome-keyring) now properly launch at login.
• Default keyboard shortcuts for screenshots now automatically save a file, or copy the screenshot to the clipboard if Ctrl is added to the shortcut, instead of opening the xfce4-screenshooter GUI.
• Touchpad (if any) now activates at login if no mouse is detected and deactivates whenever a mouse is connected.
• A toggle-touchpad command is now available and triggers whenever the touchpad toggle key is pressed.
• The "pop art squares" screensaver has been replaced by a slideshow of GDL's default wallpapers.
• Improved configuration of Xfce Panel, Whisker Menu, Default Applications, Power Manager, Galculator, and Thunar.

Misc.

• Resolved a sudoers issue: (ALL) -> (ALL:ALL).
• Fixed a few logical grep issues.
• Improved input handling for hostname, username, and full name.
• Improved language files and the overall flow of messages.
• Improved log file formatting and, at the end of a successful install, disk usage (df -Th) is now appended to the log.
• Improved handling of Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, battery-detection, USB device-detection, gamemode group creation, locale-gen, and GDL version number.
• Improved build.sh, gdl-config-script, .zlogin, and .bashrc files.
• ISO built using: archiso 63-2
• Installer kernel: linux 5.17.7.arch1-1

Known Issues

• In some cases, the "Auto-partition with Encrypted LVM" option may fail completely or may seem to succeed and yet result in a system that doesn't boot properly. This is still being investigated.

v1.0.0

• First official release!
• Built using: archiso 60-1
• Installer kernel: linux 5.15.12.arch1-1
• Project details: README.md