diff --git a/documentation/release-notes-2-7.md b/documentation/release-notes-2-7.md index d83e593..c0e38c2 100644 --- a/documentation/release-notes-2-7.md +++ b/documentation/release-notes-2-7.md @@ -187,7 +187,54 @@ New features, bigger enhancements, and possibly backward incompatible changes: This is currently work in progress for the upcoming ReaR 2.7 release, see https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/2751 - +* Update default.conf : +In default.conf describe that when OUTPUT_URL is set +OUTPUT_OPTIONS does not inherit the BACKUP_OPTIONS value +cf. https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/2753 + +* Include dmsetup and dmeventd as PROGS in conf/GNU/Linux.conf +because older releases of os-prober (1.74 and below) use dmsetup +as a fallback solution for mounting when grub-mount is missing +but without dmsetup and dmeventd also in the recovery system +that would block indefinitely at "Installing GRUB2 boot loader...", +for details see https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/2748 + +* In the function cmdline_add_console in lib/serial-functions.sh +add 'console=tty0' as fallback to cmdline only if no real serial device was found +otherwise on a machine with e.g. ttyS0 and ttyS1 where only ttyS0 is real +only kernel messages (but nothing else) would appear on ttyS0, +see https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/2749 + +* Skip unneeded /usr/lib*/syslog-ng/loggen/ from recovery system: +In conf/GNU/Linux.conf do no longer copy all in /usr/lib*/syslog-ng/* +but only copy .so files in /usr/lib*/syslog-ng/ (same as for rsyslog). +This skips in particular /usr/lib*/syslog-ng/loggen/ +because 'loggen' is not included in the recovery system +('loggen' does not appear in any ReaR code). +See https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/2743 + +* For BACKUP=CDM removed need for the whole /usr/lib64 in the recovery system. +See https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/2747 and the related issues +https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/2266 +https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/2314 +https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/2685 +https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/2700 + +* Update 400_copy_modules.sh : +Do no longer error out if 'cp -a -L' failed to to copy all contents of /lib/modules/... +but only tell the user about the issue so he could inspect his system and decide, +see https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/2739#issuecomment-1014304127 + +* Support for HTTP sources when using PXE: +There is a new config variable PXE_HTTP_URL to specify the HTTP download source for PXE. +If the variable is set the PXE config file will generate an additional 3rd boot option +(besides the unchanged standard options "rear" via TFTP and "local") namely "rear-http" +which includes the HTTP URL information to download the kernel and initrd data. +See https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/2738 + +* Also add ssh-add prog when ssh-agent is added. +Since ssh-agent gets added it makes sense to add ssh-add as well. +See https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/2729 * In layout/prepare/default/420_autoresize_last_partitions.sh automatically resize active last partitions on RAID0 disks,