feature parity blocking:
- [OEM Mode Installer · Issue #871 · calamares/calamares · GitHub](https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/871)
- [support swapfiles · Issue #1166 · calamares/calamares · GitHub](https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/1166)
- [support hostnamed for hostname setting · Issue #1140 · calamares/calamares · GitHub](https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/1140) Blocking OEM, hacky workaround in oem-config profile.
- [networkmanager setup page · Issue #946 · calamares/calamares · GitHub](https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/946)
Blocking l10n installation and oem setup when no ethernet connection is available. Major blocker due to slimbook and pinebook. OEM aspect worked around by having plasma-nm in the oem-config profile.
- [ability to "preseed" & lock values · Issue #942 · calamares/calamares · GitHub](https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/942) Blocking OEM. Need way to force oem username (and uid; uid hackily forced by oem-prepare profile).
- [dynamic l10n package listing · Issue #924 · calamares/calamares · GitHub](https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/924) Blocking globally. Somewhat reliably solved by standard desktop profile running a shell process to install l10n packages.
- [Proprietary driver installation page and/or tickbox somewhere · Issue #1172 · calamares/calamares · GitHub](https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/1172) Also kind of blocking on account of laptop devices often having need of the proprietary bcmwl driver to be useful. Possibly not quite as blocking as everything else.
- Encryption T11107 which we do not enable for cala right now. Not technically blocking since we didn't actively support it, still a feature regression from a user's POV.
prominent defects:
- ~~[load qtquick slideshow ahead of time (+ possibly send a start signal) · Issue #1152 · calamares/calamares · GitHub](https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/1152)~~
- ~~[crash when killing running threads · Issue #1164 · calamares/calamares · GitHub](https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/1164)~~
- [sfdisk random race condition · Issue #1170 · calamares/calamares · GitHub](https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/1170)
- [call kpmcore's ExternalCommand::stopHelper() · Issue #1167 · calamares/calamares · GitHub](https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/1167)
- [erase disk not offered when a swap is mounted · Issue #1165 · calamares/calamares · GitHub](https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/1165)