v15.7

elbe 15.7 (2025-08-28)

Features

• Add elbe initvm ssh to open a SSH connection to the initvm.
• Add the elbe control status subcommand to get information about the ELBE daemon and initvm.
• Introduce elbe control del_all_projects to delete all projects at once.

Bugfixes

• Correctly detect version.is_devel if installed in user directory.
• Don't create the initvm with a SPICE channel.
• Fix building of Debian trixie images.
• Fix error in finetuning when building initvm.
• Print better errors if the initvm libvirt domain is missing.

v15.6

elbe 15.6 (2025-03-31)

Features

• Multiple GitHub Actions have been added to improve the contributor experience.

Bugfixes

• Fix binary to source package correlation. This fixes missing packages from the SDKs.
• Fix synchronization between losetup and udev (2nd try).

Deprecations and Removals

• The authentication of the SOAP interface has been removed.

v15.5

elbe 15.5 (2025-02-19)

Features

• Install ubuntu-keyring into initvm for creation of Ubuntu images.

Bugfixes

• Avoid races between losetup and udev.
• Fix elbe.service in Debian package.

v15.4

elbe 15.4 (2025-02-07)

Features

• Add support for mmdebstrap instead of debootstrap.
  Add <type>mmdebstrap</type> to the <debootstrap> element.
• Build artifacts are compressed with xz instead of gzip by default.
  To switch back, explicitly use the finetuning <set_packer packer="targz">...</set_packer>.

Bugfixes

• Fix tarxz and tarzstd packers.
• Fix finetuning <file encoding="base64">.
• Handle repositories without component subdirectory in cyclonedx-sbom.
• Preserve trailing whitespace in finetuning <file encoding="plain">.

v15.3

Features

• Add support for Android sparse images.
  Example:

<project-finetuning>
        <set_packer packer="android-sparse">sda.img</set_packer>
</project-finetuning>

• The key for the primary mirror can be specified with primary_key and host_key.

Bugfixes

• Remove /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d which is used at build time from final image.
• Various bugfixes for UBI volume creation.

v15.2

elbe 15.2 (2024-11-27)

Features

• Extend mergepaths list to allow multiple hostsdk-pkg-list and url-list elements.
• Improve file download speed through usage of urllib.
• Ship static libraries as part of SDK.

Bugfixes

• Resolve corresponding source package names for exclude source CD.
• Restore compatibility for Debian bullseye initvms.

v15.1

Features

• The elbe cyclonedx-sbom subcommand is not considered experimental anymore.
• Many internal cleanups and bugfixes.
• More automated testcases.
• Restored compatibility with Debian bullseye, bullseye package will be provided again.

Bugfixes

• Execute <raw_cmd> without a shell.
• Remove unnecessary dep on python3-parted from python3-elbe-bin.

Deprecations and Removals

• Drop the elbe-common repository.
• The internal command elbe adjustpkgs.
• The internal command elbe buildchroot.
• The internal command elbe buildsdk.
• The internal command elbe buildsysroot.
• The internal command elbe genlicence.
• The internal command elbe hdimg.
• The internal command elbe mkcdrom.
• The internal command elbe toolchainextract.
• The --cpuset argument of elbe pbuilder.
• The elbe init command has been removed.

v15.0

Features

• A preview of a cylonedx-sbom generator is provided, which generates
  Software Bill of Materials from ELBE builds.
• A log of the initvm installation is kept to help analyzing issues.
  Shell-control characters are not printed anymore.
• A new package elbevalidate is provided to validate the contents of created images.
  It is used in the testsuite of elbe itself, too.
• F2FS can be used.
• Implement elbe initvm destroy.
• Packages can now be pinned more flexibly.
  See release-archive, release-component, release-label, release-name,
  release-origin and release-version in the schema documentation.
• The initvm can be created without libvirt, using only QEMU. Use elbe initvm create --qemu.
• The initvm can now be built from HTTPS repositories.
• The options --nested and --devel are now automatically detected and don't need to be specified anymore.

Bugfixes

• (Nearly) all lintian errors about the Debian package have been fixed.
• Internally many cleanups have been performed.
• Make sure /var/cache/elbe exists for updated.
• The existing unittests of ELBE where cleaned up and bit-rot issues are fixes.
• The initvm can now also work with the default /home permissions on Debian bookworm.
• /etc/resolv.conf from the initvm is not leaked anymore into the image.
  Finetuning can also modify /etc/resolv.conf properly.

Improved Documentation

• The build of the documentation is simplified greatly.
  Only Sphinx is necessary now.
• The website is now maintained as part of the ELBE source tree and built with Sphinx.

Deprecations and Removals

• Drop $ELBE_MIRROR_SED support.
• Drop elbe control shutdown_initvm. Use elbe initvm stop instead.
• Drop install_elbe_version.
• Drop non-functional $ELBE_PBUILDER_JOBS configuration variable.
• Remove cherrypy dependency.