:title: ELBE 14.8 release
:excerpt: bash completion, bookworm compatibility, sha512crypt rounds
:author: Bastian Germann

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ELBE 14.8 (2023-02-27)
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Debian packages for “ELBE 14.8” are available from Linutronix. Add
something like this to your sources.list:

::

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

New Feature
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-  initvmaction: Alternative iso extract implementation

Minor
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-  Replace gnupg dependencies with gpg (less dependencies end up on the
   target)
-  Replace qemu -enable-kvm option (enables running the client on
   bookworm)

Bugfixes
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-  preprocess: Only use 5000 sha512crypt rounds with warning
-  Fix bash completion support
-  initvmaction: Let ‘ensure’ show the control error
-  Update device mapping on losetup
-  dump: only compare /usr-unprefixed file names (fixes report’s package
   list)