0.12

What's Changed

• generator: force load usbhid and hid_sensor_hub by @c3Ls1US in #236
• packaging: arch: Do not report removal errors for nonexistent files by @Zile995 in #239
• init: wait for usbhid drivers for fido2 unlocking by @c3Ls1US in #238
• Documentation, debugging by @emperor06 in #244
• Add debian lib64 path to elfLibDir by @ferrreo in #245
• arch: add script to generate UKIs by @c3Ls1US in #252
• Update documentation on UKIs by @c3Ls1US in #254
• Add regenerate_uki script to Arch packaging by @shvrma in #260
• init: check hidraw descriptor to figure out fido or not by @7Ji in #264
• Add gentoo dist-kernel specific config path by @alexminder in #272

New Contributors

• @c3Ls1US made their first contribution in #236
• @Zile995 made their first contribution in #239
• @emperor06 made their first contribution in #244
• @ferrreo made their first contribution in #245
• @shvrma made their first contribution in #260
• @7Ji made their first contribution in #264
• @alexminder made their first contribution in #272

Full Changelog: 0.11...0.12

0.11

• Handle distributions that do not have /usr/lib directory available (bc988b0)
• booster cat: return an error if the requested file doesn't exist (ab0f6f3)
• generator: Do not rely on user's lookup order for binaries (#213). With this change booster stops using $PATH envvar and instead relies on the predefined list of directories to lookup binaries. It is done for security and reproducibility reasons.
• Add support for *.zstd compressed firmware.
• Detect and handle iso9660 filesystem type #223. Booster can be used for booting from *.iso images now, this gives faster boot and smaller iso images.

0.10

It is a new maintenance release that improves stability, generation, and boot speed. The major bugfixes included in this release are:

• Fixes panic during LUKS volume unseal (#188)
• Brings support for camelia block cipher (#188)
• Adds support for loadable crypto modules (#47 #188)
• Adds support for twofish block cipher
• Fixes TPM device discovery race condition (#116)
• Allows force loading of extra modules via the kernel command-line (#186)
• Ignores /etc/default/zfs file if it does not exist (#181)
• Does not fail if system contains multiple kernel modules with the same name (#192)
• Normalizes kernel module aliase names and makes _ synonym of - character (#185)
• Adds scsi drivers to the list of the default modules (#196)
• Handles root on RAID0 btrfs partitions (#194)
• Handles systemd TPM2 + passphrase (#198)
• Adds 'usbhid' to the list of default modules (#206)
• Adds CentOS package support

0.9

• Load 'efivarfs' before mounting the filesystem (#149)
• generator: add drivers/ata to the list of default modules (#149)
• Recover panic in udev goroutine (#22 #31 #153)
• Always use path/filepath pkg for operating systems paths
• Adding a more advanced parser to allow handling more complex cmdline parameters (#73)
• Add zfs support (#33)
• Print NIC hardware address (#155)
• Replace github.com/s-urbaniak/uevent.go with github.com/pilebones/go-udev/netlink (#155)
• Add support to allow unlocking a luks volume by keyfile (#37)

0.8

• Add booster.log boot parameter that replaces and extends the functionality of booster.debug. ooster.debug is marked as deprecated.
• booster.disable_concurrent_module_loading boot parameter has been removed. This parameter has been used as a safety net if concurrent module loading does not work properly. Concurrent module loading has been thoroughly tested and found no major issues. Drop the unneeded parameter.
• Fix “too many open files” booster generator error (#76)
• Process udev and block scanning concurrently to increase the level of parallelism and reduce boot time.
• Refactor booster CLI. Add booster build, booster ls, booster cat, booster unpack subcommand to build/inspect initramfs images. This functionality is roughly equivalent to lsinitcpio (#11)
• Add sdhci_acpi to the list of modules required for eMMC (#90)
• Handle init= kernel parameter (#115)
• Handle devices with 4K sectors (#119)
• Fix GPU drivers loading (#120)
• Handle FAT16/FAT32 partitions correctly
• Add support for partitions used for hibernation
• Add uas to the list of default modules (#121)
• Handle multiple luks mappings in the kernel command line (#124)
• Handle firmware files compressed with xz (#127)
• Handle non-/usr filesystem hierarchy (such as used by Alpine Linux)
• Add /usr/lib64 to the list of elf directories to handle Fedora Linux (#137)
• Handle HWPATH=xxx device reference in boot parameters (#112)
• Handle WWID=XXX device reference in boot parameters (#111)
• (Experimental) Implement remote unlock functionality using Tang protocol. (#24)
• Unconditionally enable local echo for emergency shell (#144)
• Don't error-out if /etc/locale.conf doesn't exist
• Lookup executable under $PATH

Booster 0.7 release

• Fixed a race condition with mounting RAID5 volumes. (#97)
• Added support for custom encryption blocks. With cryptsetup 2.4.0 LUKS partitions use large encryption blocks of size 4096 bytes.
• Add support of sha512 and blake2b/blake2s hashes to pbkdf2 KDF.
• Add support of FIDO2 and TPM2 tokens enrolled with systemd-cryptenroll. (#96)
• Booster now waits till modules_force_load modules are fully loaded before switching to userspace. (#103)
• Add compatibility support for proprietary drivers. It makes possible to load amdgpu at boot time. (#45 #104)
• nvme and usb could be used as root devices now. (#94 #95)
• HID drivers kernel/drivers/hid are checked by default now. This improves keyboard drivers detection and fixes numerous keyboard issues at the boot time. (#80)
• By default network modules removed from the image if network is disabled in config. This reduces size of the generated image.
• Improves Discoverable Partitions Specification compliance.
  Booster makes sure that only root from active ESP disk is mounted; booster is able to detect LUKS partitions and mount them; booster takes GPT flags into account. (#98)
• It is possible to specify a LUKS partitions as root= directly. In this case the LUKS partition is unlocked and mounted as /dev/mapper/root.

0.6

• Add support for full-disk encryption using Yubikey. See https://github.com/anatol/clevis.go/blob/main/clevis-encrypt-yubikey for clevis plugin.
• Fix poweroff issues with i915 (#86)
• Add support for root partitions stored at MMC devices (#90)
• Add support for runit (#92). Runit is an init used at some ditros (e.g. Void Linux)