4.9.3

Quickemu 4.9.3 is out! 🚀

• Refactored all web requests/downloads to just use curl ➰
• Fixed handling redirected download URLs 🔄
• Fixed automated Windows downloads 🩹
• Added Windows Server support 🪟
• Added linux_old to the guest OS types for running old Linux distros from 2016 or earlier 🧓
• Added download-only option to quickget 📀
• Added quickget tests to CI to check all downloads ✅
• Added --width and --height options to quickemu to set the VM display resolution 📐
• Added quickreport to help gather useful information for bug reports 🐞
• Improved macOS compatibility 🍏
• Dropped macOS High Sierra; the recovery servers are no longer available 🍎
• Created a Wiki for Quickemu documentation 📚️
• Migrated more Linux distros to dynamic releases, editions and download URLs 💪
• Updated many other Linux distros to current releases 🐧
• Achieved 100% shellcheck compliance 💯
• Various bug fixes and improvements 🔧

What's Changed

• New master merge by @zen0bit in #986
• Initial preparation for 9.4.3 release by @flexiondotorg in #989
• revised health checker by @TuxVinyards in #993
• fix sse41 contradiction and cpuid host warnings by @TuxVinyards in #994
• readd EasyOS by @zen0bit in #990
• add PureOS by @TuxVinyards in #996
• Removed references to macrecovery from Makefile by @chasecovello in #1000
• Add Tuxedo OS by @TuxVinyards in #1002
• Readme and man pages regenerated to reflect updates by @philclifford in #997
• Use only latest blendos release by @lj3954 in #1004
• fix: failing to launch VMs from outside directory by @zen0bit in #1006
• feat: Add os_info function by @zen0bit in #1007
• fix: chimeralinux by @zen0bit in #1019
• fix: PureOS by @zen0bit in #1025
• fix: releases on 1 line by @zen0bit in #1022
• ci: reviewdog by @zen0bit in #1023
• feat: os_basedof function by @zen0bit in #1008
• feat: os_credentials function by @zen0bit in #1009
• feat: os_about function by @zen0bit in #1010
• feat: os_homepage function by @zen0bit in #1011
• feat: pretty_name function by @zen0bit in #1012
• feat: list_supported function by @zen0bit in #1013
• feat: list_isos function by @zen0bit in #1014
• feat: help_message function by @zen0bit in #1016
• feat: fold shown releases and editions by @zen0bit in #1017
• feat: os_path_error function by @zen0bit in #1018
• feat: os_not_supported function by @zen0bit in #1020
• feat: os_error function by @zen0bit in #1021
• feat: handle_missing function by @zen0bit in #1027
• feat: os_supported_lang function by @zen0bit in #1028
• feat: os_error_edition function by @zen0bit in #1029
• feat: os_supported_edition function by @zen0bit in #1030
• feat: os_error_release function by @zen0bit in #1031
• feat: test_isos function by @zen0bit in #1015
• fix: update URLs referencing the project #945 by @flexiondotorg in #1032
• chore: disable reviewdog for PRs by @flexiondotorg in #1033
• FIX: quickget BROKEN!!! help_message function placement by @zen0bit in #1034
• feat: add flake.nix to assist local development by @flexiondotorg in #1035
• Add pureos info (added before that) by @zen0bit in #1036
• Move os_about function where belong by @zen0bit in #1037
• Move os_credentials function where belongs by @zen0bit in #1038
• Add os_homepage function by @zen0bit in #1039
• Improve list_isos function messages shown to user by @zen0bit in #1040
• style: Sort OS releases from newest to oldest by @zen0bit in #1041
• Refactor Windows downloading based on Mido by @flexiondotorg in #1042
• A couple of fixes for quickget by @flexiondotorg in #1045
• feat: add cut_1() by @flexiondotorg in #1046
• Disable HPET based on the QEMU version being used by @flexiondotorg in #1047
• Add compatibility for old Linux operating systems by @flexiondotorg in #1050
• docs: regenerated after merges by @philclifford in #1048
• fix: clean exit returns 0. Fixes #531 by @flexiondotorg in #1052
• Fix regression in the case of a missing release by @lj3954 in #1054
• fix: add nixos unstable. Fixes #732 by @flexiondotorg in #1055
• feat: Add os_supported_release function by @zen0bit in #1059
• fix: recovered macos instructions for TRIM by @philclifford in #1061
• Replace aria2 with curl plus assorted fixes and updates by @flexiondotorg in #1063
• Improve error messages functions by @zen0bit in #1058
• fix: validate_release function by @zen0bit in #1060
• style: fix indentation and slax by @zen0bit in #1064
• style: Sort OS releases alphabeticaly by @zen0bit in #1065
• Fix HoloISO downloads by @lj3954 in #1067
• feat: Use more cut_1 function and tweaked header comment by @zen0bit in #1068
• fix: debian from newest and on one line by @zen0bit in #1070
• chore: Whitespaces removal - no better readibility by @zen0bit in #1066
• style: move primtux info by @zen0bit in #1072
• fix: move cut_1 by @zen0bit in #1079
• fix: big moving of new parts by @zen0bit in #1080
• chore: Incorporate changes from PR 1063 in regenerated docs. by @philclifford in #1083
• Add Windows error message to the download function by @lj3954 in #1074
• fix: correct syntax error when detecting old ubuntu releases by @flexiondotorg in #1085
• fix: small typo in sed call by @philclifford in #1086
• Make curl based web handlers and update all ISO downloaders by @flexiondotorg in #1087
• feat: New UI by @zen0bit in #999
• Reintroduce some recent changes by @flexiondotorg in #1092
• chore: regenerated docs for small change in available OSes by @philclifford in #1091
• Fix windows downloads by @lj3954 in #1102
• Fix error on invalid OS selection by @lj3954 in #1094
• Migrate to web_check() by @flexiondotorg in #1105
• Fix: tweaks for os_info() by @philclifford in #1101
• Update pack 1 by @zen0bit in #1097
• Refactor and updates to get most of the tests working by @flexiondotorg in #1120
• fix: relocatable chunkcheck by @philclifford in #1124
• chore: Regenerate docs after significant merged changes by @philclifford in #1126
• feat: Add nwg-shell by @zen0bit in #1110
• Improve list_csv performance by @lj3954 in #1089
• Catalina Haswell MacOS variant by @TuxVinyards in #1119
• fix for qemu-img error on new installs by @TuxVinyards in #1134
• Update flake.nix to provide a dev shell and a package by @flexiondotorg in #1138
• chore: remove wget by @flexiondotorg in #1139
• docs: update the README to reference the wiki for documentation by @flexiondotorg in #1140
• refactor: replace open_url() with open_homepage() by @flexiondotorg in #1141
• fix: add not_supported_argument() by @flexiondotorg in #1142
• Fix initialization messages printeing on the terminal after quickemu exits by @Jai-JAP in #1135
• Add custom_config() by @flexiondotorg in #1143
• Add tests CI and refactor release workflow by @flexiondotorg in #1155
• fix: daily-live not shown in checks by @zen0bit in #1147
• Sort os_support by @zen0bit in #1149
• Fixes for daily-live URL checks and shellcheck by @flexiondotorg in #1158
• Fix --url exiting with no output when provided release/edition parameters by @lj3954 in #1162
• docs: Consistent description for package.nix by @philclifford in #1161
• docs: Regenerated to adopt changes from PR 1140 and other merges by @philclifford in #1159
• ci: add lint-pr.yml; conventional commits specification checker by @flexiondotorg in #1164
• ci: remove [WIP] opt-in for pull request linting by @flexiondotorg in #1166
• refactor(quickemu): remove requirement for lsb_release. close #1156 by @flexiondotorg in #1165
• docs: correct small typos in README.md by @philclifford in #1167
• docs: update man pages to remove lsb dependency by @philclifford in #1168
• fix: assorted fixes, mostly shellcheck compliance by @flexiondotorg in #1169
• fix: collection of fixes and resolution for shellcheck warnings by @flexiondotorg in #1172
• fix: update cpu characteristics for macOS. close #1114 by @flexiondotorg in #1173
• fix: resolve the remaining shellcheck warnings and clean up by @flexiondotorg in #1174
• feat: add quickreport; gather information for bug reports. close #1163 by @flexiondotorg in #1176

Full Changelog: 4.9.2...4.9.3