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dracut 037

ANNOUNCE Harald Hoyer 1 participant 1 message Mar 19, 2014

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Here comes a new dracut version. Thanks to all who have contributed to this release.

The tarball can be found here:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/dracut/
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/dracut/

Git:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/boot/dracut/dracut.git
http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/boot/dracut/dracut.git
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/boot/dracut/dracut.git

Git Web:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/dracut/dracut.git

Git Web RSS Feed:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/dracut/dracut.git;a=rss

Project Page:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/dracut/dracut.html

Project Wiki:
http://dracut.wiki.kernel.org

The ChangeLog can be found here:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/dracut/dracut.git;a=blob_plain;f=NEWS

dracut-037
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- dracut: hostonly_cmdline variable and command line switch
Toggle hostonly cmdline storing in the initramfs --hostonly-cmdline:
Store kernel command line arguments needed in the initramfs
--no-hostonly-cmdline:
Do not store kernel command line arguments needed in the initramfs
- dracut: --mount now understands full fstab lines
- dracut now also includes drivers from the /lib/modules/<version>/updates directory
- dracut: only set the owner of files to 0:0, if generated as non-root
- dracut now directly writes to the initramfs file
- dracut: call lz4 with the legacy flag (linux kernel does not support the new format)
- systemd: rootfs-generator generates JobTimeout=0 units for the root device
- systemd: added the systemd-sysctl service
- systemd: add 80-net-setup-link.rules and .link files for persistent interface renaming
- systemd: make dracut-shutdown.service failure non-fatal
- network: various IPv6 fixes
- network: DCHCP for IPv6
- network: understand ip=.....:<dns1>:<dns2>
- network: parse ibft nameserver settings
- shutdown: if kexec fails, just reboot
- lvm: handle one LV at a time with lvchange
- module-setup.sh:
New functions require_binaries() and require_any_binary() to be used in the check() section of module-setup.sh.
- a lot of small bugfixes

Contributions from:
Harald Hoyer
Alexander Tsoy
Till Maas
Amadeusz Żołnowski
Brian C. Lane
Colin Guthrie
Dave Young
WANG Chao
Shawn W Dunn