:title: ELBE 14.2 release
:excerpt: bugfixes and archiver improvements
:author: Bastian Germann

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ELBE 14.2 (2022-03-14)
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Debian packages for “ELBE 14.2” are available from Linutronix. Add
something like this to your sources.list:

::

   deb http://debian.linutronix.de/elbe buster main

Minor Improvements
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These are the improvements to existing features:

-  Add zstd in-place packer and tar archiver
-  Use tar GNU-style options and auto compression mode
-  Add possibility to define squashfs package options
-  hdimg: Add support for partition names in GPT partitions
-  tests: Bump test xmls to bullseye
-  tests: Add 1 bookworm test xml

Minor Bugfixes
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This release features some bugfixes:

-  Remove testdeb.sh
-  dbsfed.xsd: Add Debian bookworm release name
-  Update Debian codenames
-  Support sha256 sums in validation