[make-initrd] Release make-initrd 2.23.0
Alexey Gladkov
gladkov.alexey at gmail.com
Sat Sep 11 02:31:06 MSK 2021
New release 2.23.0 is available.
Important changes
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- Runtime:
+ Add fstab dependency to udev service.
+ Add the ability to find out with what features the image was built.
- New feature:
+ Add bootloader feature. The feature adds the ability to create an image that
can act as a bootloader.
+ Add debug-tools feature. The feature adds a debug tools (gdb, strace) to
initrd image.
- Feature smart-card:
+ Add udev rules to setup enviroment for fido devices.
+ Fix typos and move guessing GUESS_NET_IFACE to net module.
+ Fix number of retries in the initramfs service.
- Feature ucode:
+ The absence of the firmware file is not an error.
+ Set mtime of files and directories to 01-01-1970.
- Guess subsystem:
+ root: Replace MOUNTPOINTS to GUESS_MOUNTPOINTS inside guess module. The
MOUNTPOINTS variable continues to work for backward compatibility.
- Utilities:
+ initrd-put: Do not run chmod for symlinks.
- Misc:
+ Add new tool to sort services and switch from sort-lsb to sort-services.
+ Add PUT_FEATURE_OPTIONAL_LIBS to pack optional libraries.
+ Detect terminfo in more portable way.
+ Set mtime of all initramfs files and directories to 01-01-1970. The reproducibility
of the build image has appeared.
+ Add unit tests for some utilities.
Git repository
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https://github.com/osboot/make-initrd.git
Feedback and bug reports, as always, are welcomed.
Changelog
=========
This time the changelog is big enough to fit here. You can see the complete
log in git or by the link:
https://github.com/osboot/make-initrd/compare/2.22.0...2.23.0
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