+kmod 33
+=======
+
+- Improvements
+
+ - Allow to handle compressed modules even without decompression
+ libraries linked in. Previously we would detect if the kernel
+ supported the decompression algorithm and pass the module directly
+ through finit_module(). However it wouldn't consider the file if
+ the respective decompression library was compiled out. Now it's
+ possible to completely disable all libraries and still have module
+ load working with libkmod.
+
+ Tools that inspect module content themselves like modinfo and depmod
+ won't work if the decompression library is not enabled.
+
+ - Add weak dependencies - these are similar to pre softdep, but they
+ don't cause the dependency to be loaded by libkmod: when a module has
+ a weak dependency, it is expected that module may or may not be used,
+ with decision happening in runtime by the kernel. It's purpose is to
+ be informational for other tools like ones used to create initramfs,
+ so the module is made available before switch_root(), but doesn't
+ imply it to be loaded when not needed.
+
+ - Improve compatibility with non-gnu libc like musl and uClibc. Now it's
+ possible to build and use libkmod and tools without any additional compat
+ patches.
+
+ - Move manpages from xsltproc to scdoc, which is now needed during build.
+
+ - Improve documentation in manpages, fixing typos, rewording sentences,
+ detailing how configuration files are handled with precedence order
+ and making all the manpages more consistent on how to reference options,
+ environment variables, configuration, authors, etc.
+
+ - Speed up zstd decompression, particularly when not using glibc.
+
+ - Stop parsing .alias files from modprobe.d directories. Configuration files
+ were always documented as needing the .conf extension. For compatibility
+ reason with module-init-tools, kmod also parsed .alias files. However that
+ was also done in module-init-tools for compatibility reasons and not
+ documented anywhere. From inspection on what distros are using, none use
+ .alias files in practice, so stop parsing those files and follow what's
+ documented.
+
+ - Adopt SPDX for license and cleanup comments on individual files.
+
+ - Since kmod 29 there's a github mirror for the repository. Now it's
+ also used for issues and improvement tracking. With that, the old
+ TODO file has been removed and distros/users are encouraged to file
+ issues in github.
+
+- Bug fixes
+
+ - Move kmod.pc to the right dir, ${datadir}/pkgconfig, as it's related
+ to kmod, not libkmod.
+
+ - Fix error handling while loading a file and mmap fails.
+
+ - Fix error handling while handling errors from the decompression
+ libraries.
+
+ - Add missing documentation for KMOD_INDEX_MODULES_BUILTIN that was
+ added in v27 breaking the ABI. A wide search has found one external
+ tool using it, which hasn't been updated in the past 12 years. It
+ was deemed safe to simply update the documentation to include the
+ missing enum.
+
+ - Move kmod_module_new_from_name_lookup() to the correct symbol
+ version. It was added by mistake to @LIBKMOD_5 when v30 got released.
+ No external user of this API was found, so it was considered safe
+ to just move it.
+
+- Others
+
+ - Overwrite symlinks when installing tools.
+
+ - General cleanup of how (de)compression libraries are integrated.
+
+ - Add CI infrastructure to automatically test in several distros
+ before applying commit series. Currently the latest versions of
+ Alpine, Archlinux, Fedora and Ubuntu are covered. More distros are
+ easy to add as they are all containerized.
+
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