[make-initrd] Release make-initrd 2.58.0
Alexey Gladkov
legion at kernel.org
Mon Apr 27 13:38:23 MSK 2026
New release 2.58.0 is available.
# Important changes
- Feature btrfs:
+ Added multi-device Btrfs boot support, including RAID setups.
+ Added delayed member discovery and degraded mount handling when some
devices are missing.
- Feature clevis:
+ Added a new feature for TPM2-backed LUKS unlock.
+ Added auto-detection for clevis-bound LUKS devices.
+ Integrated clevis unlock with the LUKS feature before falling back to
passphrase prompts.
- Feature nvmf:
+ Added initial NVMe over Fabrics root support.
+ Added support for NVMe/TCP discovery and connection from the kernel
command line.
+ Added support for NBFT, static nvme-cli configuration, Fibre Channel
autodiscovery, RDMA, FC, and VLAN-related boot setups.
+ Moved NVMe fabrics guessing into the NVMf feature so fabrics roots
enable the runtime feature automatically.
+ Added common NVMe/FC HBA drivers and event handling for FC discovery.
- Feature runtime:
+ Added delayed uevent queue events.
+ Added queue timer helper APIs for retry and timeout handling.
+ Switched Btrfs and mdraid member discovery delays to the common queue
timeout API.
+ Added ueventctl for inspecting and controlling uevent queue state.
- Documentation:
+ Added missing feature documentation.
+ Added uevent queue design rules.
- Tools:
+ Unified fake command overrides for guess scripts and replay fixtures.
# Git repository
https://github.com/osboot/make-initrd.git
Feedback and bug reports are, as always, welcome.
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