zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu v2.1.0

ZFSBootMenu v2.1.0

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Deprecated features

• syslinux support as a core part of generate-zbm will be removed in the next release. contrib/syslinux-update.sh should be used to create syslinux.cfg moving forward. Refer to the script for usage documentation.
• Awareness of platform endianness when writing /etc/hostid was rendered moot when support for skim was removed because fzf is only supported on little-endian systems. All hostid writes assume little-endian byte order by default.

New features

• The command line option zbm.prefer has been extended with a !! marker to import exactly one pool when multiple are available on a system. Refer to zfsbootmenu.7 for more details.
• Users of the binary releases are now able to use their own custom hooks with the new zbm.hookroot command line option. Using this, a partition and directory specification can be provided which allows for additional scripts to be loaded at runtime. Refer to zfsbootmenu.7 for more details.
• contrib/remote-ssh-build.sh has been provided by a new contributor. This script helps ease the creation of a custom EFI file with an embedded SSH server and keys.
• A global application header has been added to highlight the pages that are available and the currently selected page.
• Unless explicitly configured, generate-zbm will now default to dracut but fall back to mkinitcpio when it cannot find dracut in the path.
• The build container ghcr.io/zbm-dev/zbm-builder has been substantially improved, making it easier to manage custom images built in a controlled, compatible environment using podman or docker.

Fixes

• On some systems, Dracut was incorrectly using dash where bash should be used. Forbidding the inclusion of dash with Dracut resolves this issue.
• The drm Dracut module has been blacklisted. ZFSBootMenu should never attempt to load firmware for video cards.
• When using ZFSBootMenu to pin a kernel, ensure that an anchor is attached to the end of the pin. This resolves incorrect matches on systems that have unversioned kernels.
• To avoid a potential conflict between ZFS pool names and files/directories created by ZFSBootMenu, all detected boot environment mountpoints have been moved to a dedicated environments/ sub-directory.

Significant commits in this release

• 8e6ca4a - set_default_kernel: properly clear default when no kernel is specified (Andrew J. Hesford)
• 0b40f44 - interface: enable left/right arrow key navigation (Zach Dykstra)
• 235eb17 - Stop installing zpool.cache (Andrew J. Hesford)
• 5427883 - Improve containerized builds (Andrew J. Hesford)
• c023517 - Automatically select initramfs generator when not forced (Andrew J. Hesford)
• 6223804 - Update artifact uploader to latest version (Zach Dykstra)
• 00ef434 - Add/use border label feature flag (Zach Dykstra)
• 562b14a - Fix booting test VMs on some hardware (Zach Dykstra)
• 8d3bbff - Fix kernel selection after introducing $BASE/environments (Alexander Lobakin)
• b743893 - contrib/README.md: document contrib scripts (Andrew J. Hesford)
• a3f15ed - generate-zbm: deprecate syslinux support (Andrew J. Hesford)
• 9f85003 - Include the OpenSSH client in recovery images (Zach Dykstra)
• 91900d3 - Explicitly require bash, blacklist dash (Andrew J. Hesford)
• 3399f4b - Move dataset mountpoint to $BASE/environments/ (Zach Dykstra)
• 7eb7780 - Allow imports of hooks from external sources at runtime (Andrew J. Hesford)
• 57b46a2 - Extend capabilities of zbm.prefer (Zach Dykstra)
• af1c74b - Remove diff from early days of playing around (Zach Dykstra)
• 3da5547 - Center key bind text on horizontal layout fzf screens (Zach Dykstra)
• df8ab05 - Support busybox as /bin/sh in chroot (Zach Dykstra)
• 2fa207e - fix: ensure $uefi_stub is defined before checking if it is a file (Zach Dykstra)
• 906ce3b - Add anchor to end of string when pinning a kernel (Zach Dykstra)
• 9c91afa - Make default efi path distro agnostic (gardar)
• 333b6d8 - Wrapper Build Script for ZBM with SSH access (Gerhard Roethlin)
• 05dbf11 - Show /etc/zbm-commit-hash in zreport (Zach Dykstra)
• d4b35a0 - zbm-build.sh: don't upgrade packages when installing custom software (Andrew J. Hesford)
• 10e3624 - Exploit common configurations for recovery/release images (Andrew J. Hesford)
• 1be8ed0 - Drop drm module from standard dracut config (Andrew J. Hesford)
• 9b57d8a - testing: move Ubuntu to 22.04 LTS, make column available to Debian/Ubuntu (Andrew J. Hesford)
• f2d3336 - Add a contrib script to snapshot the BE prior to boot (Zach Dykstra)