If no encryption has been selected: The stage now takes place after packages validation, so if any validation issues arise or a different setup is desired there will always be alternatives offered.
Change: If a seperate Ext4 /Home partition is set to be re-used, then the 'Manual Mode' will skip the Ext4 partition formatting prompt.
Change: Code cleanup for efficiency (Functions {'revise' 'confirm_status' 'instl'} have been edited)
Remove: Code cleanup for efficiency (Function 'ask_homepart_form' has been removed)
Change: BTRFS > The subvolumes mounting options to be passed in the 'fstab' have been re-defined.
Change: A few prompts have been edited for aesthetic reasons.
If a previously-used unencrypted /Home partition is set to be used, the installer will offer only the 'Manual Partitioning Mode' for the involved drive.
Change: 'Encryption Setup': This stage has been overhauled and greatly simplified from the user's perspective.
The installer automatically detects if a /Home partition should be encrypted or re-used as unencrypted, according to previous user input.
If LUKS encryption has been selected, the installer will always switch to 'Auto Mode' to format & mount partitions, for user convenience.
If no encryption has been selected, the installer will offer both 'Auto Mode' and 'Manual Mode' to format & mount partitions.
Also, the installer no longer asks the user to label the encrypted partitions, as it's done automatically.
Change: A few prompts have been edited for better aesthetics.
Add: If 'Btrfs' is selected, the 'fstab' file will now be automatically edited to reflect the installer's Btrfs Subvolume Mount Options instead of the'genfstab' defaults
Change: Changed versioning
Change: Renamed some here-documents
Add: An 'IO-scheduler' optimization has been added to the 'General Optimizations' set, offered by the installer.
Add: The package 'usb_modeswitch' has been added.
Change: 'Systemd-boot': If 'Secureboot Signing' has been selected: The 'systemd-boot-update' service is re-enabled and 'sbctl' will be set to sign the boot manager directly instead.
Change: Some prompts have been edited for better aesthetics
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