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