The Calamares project is still in-the-process-of migrating to Codeberg.org. Today, the website on Codeberg has been updated with new information and documentation for the new home. The existing site at calamares.io has been updated to refer people to the new home, pending DNS updates that will complete the migration.
What is Calamares
Calamares is an installer framework. By design it is very customizable, in order to satisfy a wide variety of needs and use cases. Calamares aims to be easy, usable & beautiful while remaining independent of any particular Linux distribution.
Knowledge Base
The Guide linked above has documentation for end-users, the Docs is mostly for distro developers. The developer’s guide contains information on building Calamares, on its design, and localization.
Calamares look
Since Calamares is designed to be customized, themed and branded by individual distributions, it can look very different when used by specific distributions. Examples of branding are included in the Calamares repository.
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Calamares 3.4.0 released
A test release of Calamares, built from the Codeberg repository, was released today. It marks the beginning of the 3.4 series, which does not have a real “minor-worthy” change. Much like the start of the 3.3 series, it will take a while for any API changes to arrive and then settle down.
However, this release does mark the full change-over of releases from GitHub to Codeberg. There are no special release notes for 3.4.0, as a 3.4.1 will follow shortly with fixes for the release-process.
Calamares 3.3.14 released
First of 2025, with a bunch of internal improvements in the Python bindings, an undo-hook for pages (which rolls back changes that the keyboard and timezone pages may have made to the system) and improvements to the partition module.