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@ahesford ahesford released this 19 Aug 19:56
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v1.4
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ZFSBootMenu 1.4 includes significant internal changes and some user-visible functional changes in the generate-zbm script.

Fixes

  • Correct an issue that required two attempts to set default boot environments.
  • Internal improvements to generate-zbm to improve consistency and facilitate future development.
  • Management of versioned image retention should now be more consistent with expectation. Versioned ZBM images now increment a revision number when existing images with the same version already exist, and the retention policy preserves a configurable number of revisions for the current version alongside the latest revision of each of the same number of prior versions.
  • Improved error handling should make failures in generate-zbm easier to understand.

New features

  • Provide man pages (generate-zbm.5, generate-zbm.8 and zfsbootmenu.7) to document the creation and use of ZFSBootMenu images.
  • Move from an INI configuration format to YAML, which should provide more flexibility for future enhancements.
  • Provide a --migrate command-line option to convert existing INI configurations to the new format.
  • Add configuration options to change default behavior for --kernel, --kver and --prefix to make generate-zbm easier to incorporate on non-Void systems.
  • Add a configuration option to change the default behavior for --version to allow customized output versioning of images.
  • Support string interpolation of %current or %{current} tags in --kver and --version values.
  • Add a --cmdline command-line option to override the configured CommandLine value without editing the configuration file.

Significant commits in this release

0979051 - Add documentation for generate-zbm, its config and initramfs options (Zach Dykstra, et al.)
ee1d9d8 - Unmask import_args in functions calling import_pool (Zach Dykstra)
3b2b2f0 - Add explicit --migrate option to generate-zbm (Andrew J. Hesford)
3cd3a8e - Improve error handling and automatic config conversion (Andrew J. Hesford)
80e0c30 - Switch syslinux entry to heredoc, fix syslinux.cfg file copy (Zach Dykstra)
6351226 - Move to YAML configuration, improve version handling (Andrew J. Hesford, Zach Dykstra)
5fdb872 - Add configuration options for kernel, version and prefix (Andrew J. Hesford)
79295ec - Add an optional parameter to safeCopy: (Zach Dykstra)
8aa133f - Clean up control flow in generate-zbm (Andrew J. Hesford)

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