A new release of mkinitcpio has been tagged. The release can be downloaded from GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio/-/releases/v35 Changes since the previous release: New Features: * mkinitcpio now has support for post-generation hooks. These can be used to act on generated initramfs images such as Secure Boot signing. The feature is documented in the mkinitcpio(8) man page. Changes in mkinitcpio: * Improved code quality of scripts with shellcheck. * Replaced hexdump usage with od. * The makefile was taught `coverage` which generates a coverage report of mkinitcpio. * Several improvements on the symlink handling of mkinitcpio. * add_binary was taught to check for script interpreters and warns about missing interpreters. * UKIs are now generated with dynamically allocated section sizes instead of the previous hard coded values. * xz compression is now always executed in "multithreaded mode" through the -T0 switch after the xz utilitiy's recent improvements in reproducibility. * Several fixups to improve consistency for msg/error/warning messages. * Preset scripts are now documented in the mkinitcpio(8) man page. * mkinitcpio will now attempt to more thoroughly clean up its temporary files upon exit. * Modules included in the initramfs now retain their permissions instead of being hard coded to 644. * The kernel-install script will now utilize the staging area as expected by systemd. * The init script now passes file system labels, file system UUIDs, partition labels and partition UUIDs directly to the mount and fsck commands instead of resolving them. Changes in hooks: * install/sd-vconsole is now executed inside a subshell to avoid affecting the global scope. * install/sd-vconsole and install/consolefont now look for zstd compressed fonts. Changes in packaging: * The installed preset now includes commented-out suggestions for UKI and default_options. * libalpm/scripts/mkinitcpio will now also delete UKIs when uninstalling a kernel. Contributions from: Adam Maroti, cedric cvl, ff0x, Florian Eitel, Josephine Pfeiffer, Markus Weippert, Michael Kopp, Morten Linderud, nl6720, rogueai, Sebastian Wiesner, Tobias Powalowski, Yishen Miao – 2023-03-18