NEWS

   1 dracut-015
   2 ==========
   3 - hostonly mode automatically adds command line options for root and /usr
   4 - --add-fstab --mount parameters
   5 - ssh-client module
   6 - --ctty option: add job control
   7 - cleanup /run/initramfs
   8 - convertfs module
   9 - /sbin/ifup can be called directly
  10 - support kernel modules compressed with xz
  11 - s390 iscsi modules added
  12 - terminfo module
  13 - lsinitrd can handle concatened images
  14 - lsinitrd can sort by size
  15
  16 dracut-014
  17 ==========
  18 - new dracut arguments:
  19   --lvmconf
  20   --nolvmconf
  21   --fscks [LIST]
  22   --nofscks
  23 - new .conf options:
  24   install_items
  25   fscks
  26   nofscks
  27 - new kernel options:
  28   rd.md.ddf
  29   rd.md.waitclean
  30   plymouth.enable
  31 - dracut move from /sbin to /usr/bin
  32 - dracut modules dir moved from /usr/share/dracut to /usr/lib/dracut
  33 - profiling with "dracut --profile"
  34 - new TEST-16-DMSQUASH, test for Fedora LiveCDs
  35 - speedup of initramfs creation
  36 - ask_for_password fallback to CLI
  37 - mdraid completely switched to incremental assembly
  38 - no more cdrom polling
  39 - "switch_root" breakpoint is now very late
  40 - /dev/live is gone
  41 - /dev/root is gone
  42 - fs-lib dracut module for fscks added
  43 - xen dracut module removed
  44 - usb mass storage kernel drivers now included
  45 - usrmount dracut module added:
  46   mount /usr if found in /sysroot/etc/fstab
  47 - only include fsck helper needed for hostonly
  48 - fcoe: support for bnx2fc
  49 - support iSCSI drivers: qla4xxx, cxgb3i, cxgb4i, bnx2i, be2iscsi
  50 - fips-aesni dracut module added
  51 - add install_items to dracut.conf
  52     install_items+=" <file>[ <file> ...] "
  53 - speedup internal testsuite
  54 - internal testsuite: store temporary data in a temporary dir
  55
  56 dracut-013
  57 ==========
  58 - speedup of initramfs creation
  59 - fixed inst_dir for symbolic links
  60 - add unix kernel module
  61
  62 dracut-012
  63 ==========
  64 - better fsck handling
  65 - fixed wait condition for LVM volumes
  66 - fix for hardlinks (welcome Debian! :-)
  67 - shutdown bugfixes
  68 - automatic busybox symlink creation
  69 - try to mount /usr, if init points to a path in /usr
  70 - btrfs with multiple devices
  71 - "--force-add" option for dracut, to force-add dracut modules,
  72   without hostonly checks
  73 - lsinitrd also display the initramfs size in human readable form
  74 - livenet module, to mount live-isos over http
  75 - masterkey,ecryptfs,integrity security modules
  76 - initqueue/timeout queue e.g. for starting degraded raids
  77 - "make rpm" creates an rpm with an increasing release number from any
  78   git checkout
  79 - support lvm mirrors
  80 - start degraded lvm mirrors after a timeout
  81 - start degraded md raids after a timeout
  82 - getarg() now returns wildcards without file matching to the current fs
  83 - lots of bugfixes
  84
  85 dracut-011
  86 ==========
  87 - use udev-168 features for shutting down udev
  88 - introduce "--prefix" to put all initramfs files in e.g "/run/initramfs"
  89 - new shutdown script (called by systemd >= 030) to disassemble the root device
  90 - lots of bugfixes
  91 - new module for gpg-encrypted keys - 91crypt-gpg
  92
  93 dracut-010
  94 ==========
  95 - lots of bugfixes
  96 - plymouth: use /run/plymouth/pid instead of /run/initramfs/plymouth
  97 - add "/lib/firmware/updates" to default firmware path
  98
  99 dracut-009
 100 ==========
 101 - dracut generator
 102   - dracut-logger
 103   - xz compression
 104   - better argument handling
 105
 106 - initramfs
 107   - hooks moved to /lib/dracut/hooks in initramfs
 108   - rd.driver.{blacklist|pre|post} accept comma separated driver list
 109   - iSCSI: iSCSI Boot Firmware Table (iBFT) support
 110   - support for /run
 111   - live image: support for generic rootfs.img (instead of ext3fs.img)
 112   - caps module
 113   - FCoE: EDD support
 114
 115 dracut-008
 116 ==========
 117 - removed --ignore-kernel-modules option (no longer necessary)
 118 - renamed kernel command line arguments to follow the rd. naming scheme
 119 - merged check, install, installkernel to module-setup.sh
 120 - support for bzip2 and xz compressed initramfs images.
 121 - source code beautification
 122 - lots of documentation
 123 - lsinitrd: "catinitrd" functionality
 124 - dracut: --list-modules
 125 - lvm: support for dynamic LVM SNAPSHOT root volume
 126 - 95fstab-sys: mount all /etc/fstab.sys volumes before switch_root
 127 - 96insmodpost dracut module
 128 - rd.shell=1 per default
 129 - rootfs-block:mount-root.sh add fsck
 130 - busybox shell replacements module
 131 - honor old "real_init="
 132 - 97biosdevname dracut module
 133
 134 dracut-007
 135 ==========
 136 - module i18n is no longer fedora/red hat specific (Amadeusz Żołnowski)
 137 - distribution specific conf file
 138 - bootchartd support
 139 - debug module now has fsck
 140 - use "hardlink", if available, to save some space
 141 - /etc/dracut.conf can be overwritten by settings in /etc/dracut.conf.d/*.conf
 142 - gentoo splash module
 143 - --ignore-kernel-modules option
 144 - crypto keys on external devices support
 145 - bugfixes
 146
 147 dracut-006
 148 ==========
 149 - fixed mdraid with IMSM
 150 - fixed dracut manpages
 151 - dmraid parse different error messages
 152 - add cdrom polling mechanism for slow cdroms
 153 - add module btrfs
 154 - add btrfsctl scan for btrfs multi-devices (raid)
 155 - teach dmsquash live-root to use rootflags
 156 - trigger udev with action=add
 157 - fixed add_drivers handling
 158 - add sr_mod
 159 - use pigz instead of gzip, if available
 160 - boot from LVM mirrors and snapshots
 161 - iscsi: add support for multiple netroot=iscsi:
 162 - Support old version of module-init-tools
 163 - got rid of rdnetdebug
 164 - fixed "ip=auto6"
 165 - dracut.conf: use "+=" as default for config variables
 166 - bugfixes
 167
 168 dracut-005
 169 ==========
 170 - dcb support to dracut's FCoE support
 171 - add readonly overlay support for dmsquash
 172 - add keyboard kernel modules
 173 - dracut.conf: added add_dracutmodules
 174 - add /etc/dracut.conf.d
 175 - add preliminary IPv6 support
 176 - bugfixes
 177
 178 dracut-004
 179 ==========
 180 - dracut-lib: read multiple lines from $init/etc/cmdline
 181 - lsinitrd and mkinitrd
 182 - dmsquash: add support for loopmounted *.iso files
 183 - lvm: add rd_LVM_LV and "--poll n"
 184 - user suspend support
 185 - add additional drivers in host-only mode, too
 186 - improved emergency shell
 187 - support for compressed kernel modules
 188 - support for loading Xen modules
 189 - rdloaddriver kernel command line parameter
 190 - man pages for dracut-catimages and dracut-gencmdline
 191 - bugfixes
 192
 193 dracut-003
 194 ==========
 195 - add debian package modules
 196 - add dracut.conf manpage
 197 - add module 90multipath
 198 - add module 01fips
 199 - crypt: ignore devices in /etc/crypttab (root is not in there)
 200   unless rd_NO_CRYPTTAB is specified
 201 - kernel-modules: add scsi_dh scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_emc
 202 - add multinic support
 203 - add s390 zfcp support
 204 - add s390 dasd support
 205 - add s390 network support
 206 - fixed dracut-gencmdline for root=UUID or LABEL
 207 - do not destroy assembled raid arrays if mdadm.conf present
 208 - mount /dev/shm
 209 - let udevd not resolve group and user names
 210 - moved network from udev to initqueue
 211 - improved debug output: specifying "rdinitdebug" now logs
 212   to dmesg, console and /init.log
 213 - strip kernel modules which have no x bit set
 214 - redirect stdin, stdout, stderr all RW to /dev/console
 215   so the user can use "less" to view /init.log and dmesg
 216 - add new device mapper udev rules and dmeventd
 217 - fixed dracut-gencmdline for root=UUID or LABEL
 218 - do not destroy assembled raid arrays if mdadm.conf present
 219 - mount /dev/shm
 220 - let udevd not resolve group and user names
 221 - preserve timestamps of tools on initramfs generation
 222 - generate symlinks for binaries correctly
 223 - moved network from udev to initqueue
 224 - mount nfs3 with nfsvers=3 option and retry with nfsvers=2
 225 - fixed nbd initqueue-finished
 226 - improved debug output: specifying "rdinitdebug" now logs
 227   to dmesg, console and /init.log
 228 - strip kernel modules which have no x bit set
 229 - redirect stdin, stdout, stderr all RW to /dev/console
 230   so the user can use "less" to view /init.log and dmesg
 231 - make install of new dm/lvm udev rules optionally
 232 - add new device mapper udev rules and dmeventd
 233 - Fix LiveCD boot regression
 234 - bail out if selinux policy could not be loaded and
 235   selinux=0 not specified on kernel command line
 236 - do not cleanup dmraids
 237 - copy over lvm.conf
 238
 239 dracut-002
 240 ==========
 241 - add ifname= argument for persistent netdev names
 242 - new /initqueue-finished to check if the main loop can be left
 243 - copy mdadm.conf if --mdadmconf set or mdadmconf in dracut.conf
 244 - plymouth: use plymouth-populate-initrd
 245 - add add_drivers for dracut and dracut.conf
 246 - add modprobe scsi_wait_scan to be sure everything was scanned
 247 - fix for several problems with md raid containers
 248 - fix for selinux policy loading
 249 - fix for mdraid for IMSM
 250 - fix for bug, which prevents installing 61-persistent-storage.rules (bug #520109)
 251 - fix for missing grep for md
 252
 253 dracut-001
 254 ==========
 255 - better --hostonly checks
 256 - better lvm/mdraid/dmraid handling
 257 - fcoe booting support
 258     Supported cmdline formats:
 259     fcoe=<networkdevice>:<dcb|nodcb>
 260     fcoe=<macaddress>:<dcb|nodcb>
 261
 262     Note currently only nodcb is supported, the dcb option is reserved for
 263     future use.
 264
 265     Note letters in the macaddress must be lowercase!
 266
 267     Examples:
 268     fcoe=eth0:nodcb
 269     fcoe=4A:3F:4C:04:F8:D7:nodcb
 270
 271 - Syslog support for dracut
 272     This module provides syslog functionality in the initrd.
 273     This is especially interesting when complex configuration being
 274     used to provide access to the device the rootfs resides on.
 275
 276
 277 dracut-0.9
 278 ==========
 279 - let plymouth attach to the terminal (nice text output now)
 280 - new kernel command line parameter "rdinfo" show dracut output, even when
 281   "quiet" is specified
 282 - rd_LUKS_UUID is now handled correctly
 283 - dracut-gencmdline: rd_LUKS_UUID and rd_MD_UUID is now correctly generated
 284 - now generates initrd-generic with around 15MB
 285 - smaller bugfixes
 286
 287 dracut-0.8
 288 ==========
 289 - iSCSI with username and password
 290 - support for live images (dmsquashed live images)
 291 - iscsi_firmware fixes
 292 - smaller images
 293 - bugfixes
 294
 295 dracut-0.7
 296 ==========
 297 - dracut:     strip binaries in initramfs
 298
 299            --strip
 300                   strip binaries in the initramfs (default)
 301
 302            --nostrip
 303                   do not strip binaries in the initramfs
 304 - dracut-catimages
 305
 306     Usage: ./dracut-catimages [OPTION]... <initramfs> <base image>
 307     [<image>...]
 308     Creates initial ramdisk image by concatenating several images from the
 309     command
 310     line and /boot/dracut/
 311
 312       -f, --force           Overwrite existing initramfs file.
 313       -i, --imagedir        Directory with additional images to add
 314                             (default: /boot/dracut/)
 315       -o, --overlaydir      Overlay directory, which contains files that
 316                             will be used to create an additional image
 317       --nooverlay           Do not use the overlay directory
 318       --noimagedir          Do not use the additional image directory
 319       -h, --help            This message
 320       --debug               Output debug information of the build process
 321       -v, --verbose         Verbose output during the build process
 322
 323 - s390 dasd support
 324
 325 dracut-0.6
 326 ==========
 327 - dracut: add --kernel-only and --no-kernel arguments
 328
 329            --kernel-only
 330                   only install kernel drivers and firmware files
 331
 332            --no-kernel
 333                   do not install kernel drivers and firmware files
 334
 335     All kernel module related install commands moved from "install"
 336     to "installkernel".
 337
 338     For "--kernel-only" all installkernel scripts of the specified
 339     modules are used, regardless of any checks, so that all modules
 340     which might be needed by any dracut generic image are in.
 341
 342     The basic idea is to create two images. One image with the kernel
 343     modules and one without. So if the kernel changes, you only have
 344     to replace one image.
 345
 346     Grub and the kernel can handle multiple images, so grub entry can
 347     look like this:
 348
 349     title Fedora (2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586)
 350             root (hd0,0)
 351             kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586 ro rhgb quiet
 352             initrd /initrd-20090722.img /initrd-kernel-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586.img /initrd-config.img
 353
 354     initrd-20090722.img
 355       the image provided by the initrd rpm
 356       one old backup version is kept like with the kernel
 357
 358     initrd-kernel-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586.img
 359       the image provided by the kernel rpm
 360
 361     initrd-config.img
 362       optional image with local configuration files
 363
 364 - dracut: add --kmoddir directory, where to look for kernel modules
 365
 366            -k, --kmoddir [DIR]
 367                   specify the directory, where to look for kernel modules
 368
 369
 370
 371 dracut-0.5
 372 ==========
 373 - more generic (all plymouth modules, all keyboards, all console fonts)
 374 - more kernel command line parameters (see also man dracut(8))
 375 - a helper tool, which generates the kernel command line (dracut-gencmdline)
 376 - bridged network boot
 377 - a lot of new command line parameter
 378
 379 dracut-0.4
 380 ==========
 381 - bugfixes
 382 - firmware loading support
 383 - new internal queue (initqueue)
 384     initqueue now loops until /dev/root exists or root is mounted
 385
 386     init now has the following points to inject scripts:
 387
 388     /cmdline/*.sh
 389        scripts for command line parsing
 390
 391     /pre-udev/*.sh
 392        scripts to run before udev is started
 393
 394     /pre-trigger/*.sh
 395        scripts to run before the main udev trigger is pulled
 396
 397     /initqueue/*.sh
 398        runs in parallel to the udev trigger
 399        Udev events can add scripts here with /sbin/initqueue.
 400        If /sbin/initqueue is called with the "--onetime" option, the script
 401        will be removed after it was run.
 402        If /initqueue/work is created and udev >= 143 then this loop can
 403        process the jobs in parallel to the udevtrigger.
 404        If the udev queue is empty and no root device is found or no root
 405        filesystem was mounted, the user will be dropped to a shell after
 406        a timeout.
 407        Scripts can remove themselves from the initqueue by "rm $job".
 408
 409     /pre-mount/*.sh
 410        scripts to run before the root filesystem is mounted
 411        NFS is an exception, because it has no device node to be created
 412        and mounts in the udev events
 413
 414     /mount/*.sh
 415        scripts to mount the root filesystem
 416        NFS is an exception, because it has no device node to be created
 417        and mounts in the udev events
 418        If the udev queue is empty and no root device is found or no root
 419        filesystem was mounted, the user will be dropped to a shell after
 420        a timeout.
 421
 422     /pre-pivot/*.sh
 423        scripts to run before the real init is executed and the initramfs
 424        disappears
 425        All processes started before should be killed here.
 426
 427     The behaviour of the dmraid module demonstrates how to use the new
 428     mechanism. If it detects a device which is part of a raidmember from a
 429     udev rule, it installs a job to scan for dmraid devices, if the udev
 430     queue is empty. After a scan, it removes itsself from the queue.
 431
 432
 433
 434 dracut-0.3
 435 ==========
 436
 437 - first public version
 438