elbe 15.8.3 (2026-02-20)

Features

• Make the root password optional. If not set, an invalid password is used.
• Reword some of the documentation for more clarity.
• Stop copying /var/cache/elbe/preseed.txt into the root filesystem.

Bugfixes

• Ignore read-only mount option during image creation.

v15.8.1

elbe 15.8.1 (2026-01-16)

Bugfixes

• Correctly handle binary data in command output.
• Rerelease to fix brownbag v15.8 release.

v15.8

elbe 15.8 (2026-01-13)

Features

• Allow <archive> and <archivedir> in pbuilder source specification.
• Install more cmake and pkgconfig configuration files to the SDK.
• Record source package information in source.xml.

Bugfixes

• Add all files from -dev packages to the SDK.
• Always use custom mount options when mounting. These might be necessary for compression for example.
• Be compatible with lxml >= 6.0.
• Fix --help of subcommands.
• Fix builds with custom .orig.tar.gz.
• Fix custom mkfs options for ubifs.
• Forward SSH port for QEMU initvm.

Deprecations and Removals

• Drop support for obsolete 'linaro' architectures.
• Drop support for obsolete 'virtio' architectures.
• Drop support for the obsolete ppcspe architecture.

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.