Open Beta v8.18 | Please help testing and hardening our upcoming release

[MichaIng]

RC version	v8.18.2
v8.18.0 PR	#6395
v8.18.1 PR	#6397
v8.18.2 PR	#6411
Raw changelog	https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/blob/beta/CHANGELOG.txt
Code changes	master...beta
Release date	2023-06-03

How to apply: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/blob/master/BRANCH_SYSTEM.md

Related/solved issues: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues?q=is%3Aissue+milestone%3Av8.18

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Beta v8.18.1

(2023-06-02)

Enhancements

• Quartz64 | Enabled (software) RAID and LVM support. Many thanks to @dano6 for implementing this: Quartz64 | Enable RAID modules #6370
• DietPi-Software | youtube-dl: Since the development of the original youtube-dl project stalled for some years, we migrated to the well known actively developed fork "yt-dlp": https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp. If you installed youtube-dl before, you can migrate via reinstall: dietpi-software reinstall 195. For backwards compatibility, the youtube-dl command will stay valid as a symlink to yt-dlp, but there are some differences you should be aware about when doing the migration on your system: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#differences-in-default-behavior. Many thanks to @rgabbo for suggestion and @pulpe for implementing this change: DietPi-Software | yt-dlp #5670, DietPi-Software | Replace youtube-dl with yt-dlp #6380
• DietPi-Software | Pi-hole: With recent release, Pi-hole supporst RISC-V and has been hence enabled for this architecture as well in DietPi. Many thanks to the Pi-hole team for making this possible to quickly!

Bug fixes

• DietPi-DDNS | Resolved an issue where the IP sync failed because the API URL changed recently. Many thanks to @ma651851384 for implementing the update: DietPi-DDNS | Update FreeDNS API URL #6375
• DietPi-Software | Restic: Resolved an issue where Restic was installed without executable flag. Many thanks to @lima1 for reporting this issue: DietPi-Software | Restic: is a fast and secure backup program #6350 (comment)
• DietPi-Software | Domoticz: Resolved an issue where the installation failed when trying to unpack the tarball. Many thanks to @mcnahum for reporting this issue: Domoticz issue to start and bug report for re-install #6369
• DietPi-Software | Domoticz: Resolved an issue where the service start failed because the new version of Domoticz depends on the GnuTLS variant of libcurl instead of the OpenSSL one. Many thanks to @IgrekLg for reporting this issue: DietPi domoticz[4816]: /opt/domoticz/domoticz: error while loading shared libraries: │ libcurl-gnutls.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory  #6404
• DietPi-Software | motionEye: Resolved an issue where the installation failed on ARMv6, ARMv7 and RISC-V Bookworm systems due to missing build dependencies. Many thanks to @magicfoxt-magicfox for reporting this issue: Motioneye install timeout error #6333
• DietPi-Software | LXQt: Resolved an issue on Bookworm systems where the install failed since configs were missing.
• DietPi-Software | TigerVNC: Resolved an issue on Bookworm systems where the VNC password was not set as expected since the tigervncpasswd command became a dedicated DEB package tigervnc-tools.
• DietPi-Software | Deluge: Resolved an issue on Bookworm systems where the install failed when trying to alter the service user.
• DietPi-Software | Mosquitto: Resolved an issue on Bookworm systems where the install failed. The official APT repository does not provide a Bookworm suite yet, and the Bullseye packages have Bullseye-only dependencies. On Bookworm the Debian repo packages will be installed instead now.

[MichaIng]

Beta v8.18.1 has been merged with enhanced automated software install tests, especially used for systematic Debian Bookworm testing and related fixes: #6397

[MichaIng]

Beta v8.18.2 has been merged: #6411

[MichaIng]

DietPi v8.18 has been released: #6406

Many thanks to all testers ❤️ !