A new release of mkinitcpio has been tagged. The release can be downloaded from GitLab:

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio/-/releases/v33

Changes since the previous release:

Announcements:

* Development has moved to the Arch Linux GitLab instance. The new URL is https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio

Changes in mkinitcpio:

* Introduce DECOMPRESS_MODULES in mkinitcpio.conf. Allows the user to toggle if modules should be recompressed during initramfs creation or not. Defaults to "yes".

* Support UKI generation on AArch64.

* Introduce a new --remove switch which allows mkinitcpio to remove all mkinitcpio generated files. Only works together with the -p/-P switches currently.

* In the initramfs the file /etc/os-release, symlinked to /etc/initrd-release, is now included. systemd enabled initramfs environments might need this file.

* Supports finding kernel version in gzipped non-x86 kernels.

* Try to properly resolve symlinks when adding files into the initramfs.

Changes in hooks:

* install/fsck now includes the e2fsck binary and symlinks fsck.ext* utilities to this binary.

* install/fsck will no longer attempt to include nonexistent fsck helpers.

* install/kms will attempt to include modules that implement the privacy screen feature. Currently the module names are hardcoded.

Changes in packaging:

* mkinitcpio-remove and mkinitcpio-install are now unified into a single script installed to 'libalpm/scripts/mkinitcpio'.

Contributions from: 0x7F, Felix Yan, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera, Morten Linderud, nl6720, rogueai, Simon Brüggen, Tobias Powalowski

– 2022-11-20