0.6.3

What's Changed

• Fix stopping of dhcpcd service. (#107) by @smoser in #108
• Fix "none" datasource to create output directory. by @smoser in #109
• [dhcpcd] Drop fallback to ipv4ll and increase wait time to 180s by @karelyatin in #116
• Update kernel version by @osfrickler in #117
• Add virtiofs module by @uggla in #115
• Fix handling of /etc/dropbear by @osfrickler in #119
• GA: update actions to newer versions by @hrw in #120
• Add igb and igbvf network driver modules by @osfrickler in #122

New Contributors

• @karelyatin made their first contribution in #116
• @uggla made their first contribution in #115

Full Changelog: 0.6.2...0.6.3

0.6.2

What's Changed

• Feature: add the 'none' datasource and document kernel command line. by @smoser in #101
• Update kernel version. by @smoser in #104

Full Changelog: 0.6.1...0.6.2

0.5.3

What's Changed

• Some updates handy in 0.5.x too by @hrw in #80
• Drop Travis CI and replace with GitHub Actions by @NucciTheBoss in #78
• CI related improvements by @hrw in #81
• Bump 0.5.x kernel to 5.4.0-148.165~18.04.1 by @smoser in #103
• Add builds of tags for 0.5.x by @smoser in #105

Full Changelog: 0.5.2...0.5.3

0.6.1

What's Changed

• Set filecap for traceroute by @osfrickler in #99

Full Changelog: 0.6.0...0.6.1

0.6.0

0.6.0

• move to buildroot 2022.02.5
• use Ubuntu 22.04 (5.15) kernels for aarch64, arm, ppc64le, x86_64
• grub 2.06-2ubuntu7 for same archs as above
• dropped support for i386, powerpc, ppc64 architectures as they are not
  supported by Ubuntu 22.04 so we do not have kernel
• arm image is ARMv7 now to follow armhf distributions
• CirrOS instance memory requirements:
  • 128MB
    • arm (virt with direct kernel boot)
    • x86_64 (bios boot)
  • 192MB
    • aarch64 (virt with direct kernel boot)
  • 256MB
    • ppc64le
    • x86_64 (uefi)
  • 272MB
    • aarch64 (virt with uefi)
• updated SSL certificates
• switched to dhcpcd for network setup
  • setup all available interfaces automatically
  • handle IPv6 variants properly (SLAAC vs DHCPv6)
• added e1000e module for PCI Express based Intel network cards

0.5.2

Release 0.5.2

0.5.1

Release 0.5.1

0.5.0

Version updates

• BuildRoot 2019.02.1
• Linux kernel 5.3.0-26.28~18.04.1 for aarch64, arm, i386, ppc64le, x86_64 (Ubuntu 18.04 HWE)
• grub 2.02-2ubuntu8.14 for same archs as above
• powerpc and ppc64 targets uses older kernel/grub as they are not supported by Ubuntu 18.04
• updated SSL certificates

Requirements changes

• VM instances running CirrOS should have at least 128 MB of memory to be usable

VirtIO changes

• VirtIO GPU support to have graphical console support on wider selection of architectures
• VirtIO RNG support to have more entropy
• VirtIO input, 9pnet support

Kernel modules

• no more 'no kernel module found' messages
• printing list of loaded modules
• handle USB input devices - required for AArch64 architecture

Dropbear changes:

• dropped generation of DSS keys - dropbear does not support them
• show ECDSA ssh key right after RSA one
• create directory for ssh keys so it is possible to remotely login into an instance

Project changes

• migrated from Launchpad to GitHub
• enabled Travis CI for pull requests and releases
  • added IRC notifications to Travis CI
  • CI test run ends after all start scripts
• image downloads from download.cirros-cloud.net are now redirected to content on github.com to take advantage of its CDN. This will prevent slow downloads or timeouts that occurred at times (#12).
  Please continue to use https://download.cirros-cloud.net/ as the canonical source for cirros images.

0.5.0_pre4: Merge pull request #45 from tinez/dropbear-init-fix

Changes since 0.5.0-pre3:

• handle USB input devices - required for AArch64 architecture
• updated SSL certificates
• Dropbear changes:
  • dropped generation of DSS keys - dropbear does not support them
  • show ECDSA ssh key right after RSA one
  • create directory for ssh keys so it is possible to remotely login into an instance
• build related changes:
  • added IRC notifications to Travis CI
  • CI test run ends after all start scripts

0.5.0_pre3: Merge pull request #38 from smoser/fix/load-modules-fix

Changes since 0.5.0-pre2:

• Linux kernel 5.3.0-26.28~18.04.1 for aarch64, arm, i386, ppc64le, x86_64
• grub 2.02-2ubuntu8.14 for same archs as above
• powerpc and ppc64 targets uses older kernel/grub as they are not supported by Ubuntu 18.04
• VirtIO RNG support got added to images and test script
• some changes to module loading
  • no more 'no kernel module found' messages
  • printing list of loaded modules
• documentation got improved a bit