A new release of mkinitcpio has been tagged. The release can be downloaded from GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio/-/releases/v34 Changes since the previous release: Announcement of future breaking changes: * Preset variables *_efi_image are deprecated in favor of *_uki and option --uefi is deprecated in favor with --uki. The old variables and options still work, but emit a deprecation warning. Changes in mkinitcpio: * Preserve relativity of symbolic links that reside in the same directory as their targets. * Fix symbolic link creation and create target files with correct permissions. * Document add_udev_rule that has been available since v31. * Instead of using stat to get the file permissions and install to copy it, use cp unless custom permissions are specified. This improves overall speed of file additions. * Existing test suite is migrated to bats (Bash Automated Testing System) and more tests are now available. * Ensure /proc/cmdline is read as text and make sure to append a newline and NUL to the .cmdline embedded in unified kernel images. This works around an issue where /proc/cmdline contains garbage. * The kernel-install plugin now supports generating unified kernel images. * Warn if the interpreter (from the shebang) is missing when adding "binaries" that are actually scripts. Changes in hooks: * hooks/shutdown once again works when /run/initramfs/ already exists in the initramfs. * install/autodetect looks up modules in the target kernel version instead of the currently running one. * install/consolefont, install/keymap and install/sd-vconsole now declare vconsole.conf supported variables as local to prevent conflicts with misconstructed hooks may set these variables globally. * install/memdisk uses the add_udev_rule function available since v31. Contributions from: Adam Maroti, Christian Hesse, Geert Hendrickx, Hector Martin, Morten Linderud, Tcc, Tobias Powalowski, nl6720, rogueai – 2022-12-07