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Booster - fast and secure initramfs generator

Release 0.10 (2023, Mar 7)

  • 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

Release 0.9 (2022 Aug 24)

  • 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)

Release 0.8 (2022 May 6)

  • Add booster.log boot parameter that replaces and extends the functionality of booster.debug. booster.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

Release 0.7 (2021 Oct 07)

  • 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.

Release 0.6 (2021 Jul 20)