v2.53.0

Changes

• Build System:

  • Add the ability to compile and work with musl system library.
  • Add gentoo to the list of supported distributions.
  • Enable Large-file support (LFS).
  • Disable some busybox features when compiling with musl.
  • Move runtime to features. From a packaging standpoint, the initrd
    core files are no different from the data in the features.

• Guess:

  • Add the ability to add optional modules.

• Guess loaded-modules:

  • Add more directories with kernel modules.
  • Consider modules as optional. Modules that feature adds may not be
    present in the new kernel.

• Feature modules-sbc:

  • Add clk, power/supply directories. Some single-board PCs use modules
    from these directories.

Full Changelog: 2.52.0...2.53.0

v2.52.0

Changes

• Feature add-udev-rules:

  • Handle special case of module loading from udev rules.
  • Handle the situation of calling insmod from the rules.

• Guess touchscreen:

  • Fix the interpretation of the value in properties.

• Guess loaded-modules:

  • This feature tries to take into account loaded modules for some
    architectures (arm*, riscv*, aarch64).

• Misc:

  • Generate ld.so.conf config for initrd.
  • Changes related to preparation for porting to musl.
  • Workaround for findmnt from util-linux 2.41.

New Contributors

• @gabifalk made their first contribution in #43

Full Changelog: 2.51.0...2.52.0

v2.51.0

Changes

• Feature kickstart:
  • Allow to disable kickstart from cmdline.
  • Fix specifying label for f2fs.
  • Add mkfs for f2fs filesystem if needed.
  • Add crc32-generic for f2fs.
  • Add more nls modules for vfat kernel module.
• Feature pipeline:
  • Add ability to check gpg signatures for mounted files in pipeline.
• Feature ucode:
  • Fix the dependency on compress.
• Feature compress:
  • Attempt to detect and use the number of physical CPU cores.
• Misc:
  • Update libshell to v0.4.13 .
  • Update busybox to 1.37.0 .

Full Changelog: 2.50.0...2.51.0

v2.50.0

Changes

• New features:

  • New feature to add block device modules.
  • New feature to add MD modules.
  • New UKI feature to create a Unified Kernel Image which can be booted
    directly from UEFI firmware.

• Feature kickstart:

  • Add alias /dev/root. This will allow to create images with a file
    system with an arbitrary uuid without running make-initrd.
  • Add increasing filesystems (ext4, xfs, f2fs) along with the
    partition change.
  • Rewrite block devices detection.
  • Fix work with busybox (use wrapper readlink-e).

• Feature add-modules:

  • Add workaround to add crc32 for f2fs.

• Feature fsck:

  • Add workaround for altlinux where fsck has non upstream compatible
    options.

• Misc:

  • make-initrd: Reorder arguments and make variables in the command line.
  • initrd-put: Extend the mechanism for ignoring elf_dlopen dependencies.
  • initrd-put: Ignore "archive" feature in libsystemd-shared.so by default.
  • Search kernel System.map in the /lib/modules/.
  • Search kernel config in the /lib/modules/.

Full Changelog: 2.49.0...2.50.0

v2.49.0

Changes

• Feature luks-unl0kr:
  • Feature adds the ability to use unl0kr. unl0kr is framebuffer-based
    disk unlocker for the initramfs based on LVGL.
• Feature luks:
  • Move the password request functionality to a separate feature
    (dialog). This allows to hide implementation details and simplify
    the code.
• Feature network:
  • Add support of infiniband network mac addresses.
  • Add tests for cmdline parser.
• Guess subsystem:
  • Add guessing touchscreen modules.
  • Fix a false positive guess in the luks, lvm, multipath features.
• Utilities:
  • depinfo: Add support of weak dependencies. A new dependency type has
    been added since kernel v6.11-rc3.
• Misc:
  • bug-report: Choose better compression method.

New Contributors

• @Vedingrot made their first contribution in #38
• @legionus made their first contribution in #40

Full Changelog: 2.48.1...2.49.0

v2.48.1

Changes

• Utilities:
  • initrd-put: Fix hang if soname is not found.

Full Changelog: 2.48.0...2.48.1

v2.48.0

Changes

• Utilities:
  • initrd-put: Add support of elf dlopen metadata. The systemd-256 has
    switched to dynamic use of dependencies.

Full Changelog: 2.47.0...2.48.0

v2.47.0

Changes

The release introduces changes to the directories to create unit tests for the guess mechanism.

Full Changelog: 2.46.0...2.47.0

v2.46.0

Changes

• Runtime:
  • Fix output in quiet=1 mode.
  • Fix output in rdlog=console mode.
  • Do not show the error that it is impossible to set the log level.
  • Allow setting specific array elements in cmdline if the option
    assumes an array.
• Feature plymouth:
  • Fix plymouth showing when drm is not ready yet.
• Feature pipeline:
  • mountfs: Add an optional parameter mountfs-opts= to specify mount
    options.

Full Changelog: 2.45.0...2.46.0

v2.45.0

Changes

• Runtime:
  • Rewrite ueventd-mounts.
  • Remove initlog utility.
• Feature bcache:
  • New feature allows boot from bcache block device.
• Feature network:
  • Read also siaddr and wins DHCP-options.

Full Changelog: 2.44.0...2.45.0