raspberrypi/rpi-imager v2.0.11

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What's changed

• OS Customisation:
  • Add the rpi-preseed first-boot customisation format, and list it as a
    valid init_format in the schema notes.
  • rpi-preseed: always add the account to the 'sudo' group.
  • cloud-init: write sudo: null when the user declines passwordless sudo.
    A singular user: block is merged over the distro default_user, which
    raspberry-pi-os populates with passwordless sudo, so omitting the key
    granted it regardless of the user's choice; null suppresses the rules
    while keeping 'sudo' group membership, so the account is prompted for one.
  • Centralise credential derivation in CustomisationGenerator and hash
    credentials in C++ before persisting them.
  • Verify the device kept the customisation files after writing.
  • UI: keep customisation steps centre-middle; drop the unused ImageOptions
    enum; bind SSH key row data; allow query parameters on custom manifest
    URLs.
• Fastboot (Compute Module):
  • Add an Erase command for 'Format'.
  • Verify device identity before treating a target as a Pi.
  • Align stage() tests and docs with the download verb.
• Write reliability:
  • Support multi-frame .img.zst images (use ZSTD_findDecompressedSize).
  • Linux/Windows: take an exclusive lock on drive open. On Windows, hold
    volume locks rather than deleting drive letters, only remove removable
    mountpoints, retry the exclusive open before falling back to shared, and
    flush the filesystem to media before writing the partition table.
  • macOS: run DiskArbitration on the main run loop with blocking calls, and
    move the nested run loop onto worker threads.
• Embedded (Raspberry Pi network installer):
  • Build a dedicated Qt configured -no-opengl -qpa linuxfb -no-dbus
    -no-feature-icu. The pi-gen-micro netboot image carries no Mesa or X11
    (far too large for a network-loaded image), no session bus, and none of
    the languages that need ICU. The package had drifted onto the desktop Qt
    and so linked libEGL/libGL/libX11 and libQt6DBus -- absent from the image
    -- and could not load on the target.
  • Build the application without QtDBus for embedded; its DBus users (portal
    file dialog, NetworkManager WiFi backend, Pi Connect URI handler) are
    unusable on a busless image and are compiled out via QT_DBUS_LIB guards.
  • Assemble the .deb with debhelper so debian/control is the single source of
    dependencies and metadata and md5sums are generated; trim Depends to the
    minimal host-provided set (no libegl1/libgl1/libx11-6/libsystemd0, which
    apt would otherwise pull -- Mesa and X11 included -- into the image).
  • Bake an $ORIGIN-relative rpath at build time (was a leaked build-host
    path), dereference the bundled fontconfig config, and drop the stale
    vendored ICU handling.
• Build / packaging:
  • Rootless multi-arch (amd64/arm64/armhf) release pipeline: every arch,
    the host included, builds inside its bookworm mmdebstrap chroot; there is
    no host-native build path (a package built against the host's libraries
    is not the package it claims to be).
  • Desktop and CLI AppImages are now self-contained: bundle the transitive
    library closure of the staged AppDir (via readelf, so it also works for
    foreign-architecture AppDirs), which was previously taken from the host
    and left arm64/armhf incompletely bundled. Declare the genuinely
    host-coupled libraries in debian/control.
  • Build Qt with -no-feature-icu across desktop/CLI/embedded; drop the
    JPEG 2000 image plugin; collect the source .buildinfo.
  • liburing: probe for the 64-bit user_data API (added in 2.2) before
    enabling io_uring, so an older build environment falls back to
    synchronous writes instead of failing to link.
  • Vendor curl/libarchive/libusb/nghttp2/xz as git submodules.
  • Reproducibility and hygiene: normalise mtimes; generate version files in
    an explicit build override; prune qmlls and performance profiles from the
    packaged tree; stop deleting the screenshot; ship the fastboot udev rule
    inside the .debs; assorted amd64/arm64 packaging fixes.

PRs

• Backport customization, font logging, and macOS DA fixes from dev/tdewey/2.1 by @tdewey-rpi in #1652
• Add rpi-preseed support by @tdewey-rpi in #1659
• Fix Windows device size truncation and backup boot sector mismatch by @elibosley in #1679
• fix(windows): classify UASP storage as USB by @elibosley in #1682
• perf(extract): coalesce archive blocks into large writes by @elibosley in #1681
• 2.0.11-rc2: Bugfixes by @tdewey-rpi in #1674
• 2.0.11-rc3 fixes by @tdewey-rpi in #1688
• Linux Build docs improvements by @tdewey-rpi in #1691
• Fixup Linux build on newer hosts by @tdewey-rpi in #1692

New Contributors

• @elibosley made their first contribution in #1679

Full Changelog: v2.0.10...v2.0.11