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[ANNOUNCEMENT] dracut-005

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by Harald Hoyer last modified Mar 19, 2010 18:59

dracut version 005 was released today.

Available in Fedora 13, rawhide and as a tarball on the sourceforge project page.

From the NEWS file:

dracut-005
==========
- add dcb support to dracut's FCoE support
- add readonly overlay support for dmsquash
- add keyboard kernel modules
- dracut.conf: added add_dracutmodules
- add /etc/dracut.conf.d
- add preliminary IPv6 support
- bugfixes

dracut-004
==========
- dracut-lib: read multiple lines from $init/etc/cmdline
- lsinitrd and mkinitrd
- dmsquash: add support for loopmounted *.iso files
- lvm: add rd_LVM_LV and "--poll n"
- user suspend support
- add additional drivers in host-only mode, too
- improved emergency shell
- support for compressed kernel modules
- support for loading Xen modules
- rdloaddriver kernel command line parameter
- man pages for dracut-catimages and dracut-gencmdline
- bugfixes

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