elbe 15.0 (2024-07-08)¶

Features¶

A preview of a cylonedx-sbom generator is provided, which generates Software Bill of Materials from ELBE builds.
A log of the initvm installation is kept to help analyzing issues. Shell-control characters are not printed anymore.
A new package elbevalidate is provided to validate the contents of created images. It is used in the testsuite of elbe itself, too.
F2FS can be used.
Implement elbe initvm destroy.
Packages can now be pinned more flexibly. See release-archive, release-component, release-label, release-name, release-origin and release-version in the schema documentation.
The initvm can be created without libvirt, using only QEMU. Use elbe initvm create –qemu.
The initvm can now be built from HTTPS repositories.
The options –nested and –devel are now automatically detected and don’t need to be specified anymore.

(Nearly) all lintian errors about the Debian package have been fixed.
Internally many cleanups have been performed.
Make sure /var/cache/elbe exists for updated.
The existing unittests of ELBE where cleaned up and bit-rot issues are fixes.
The initvm can now also work with the default /home permissions on Debian bookworm.
/etc/resolv.conf from the initvm is not leaked anymore into the image. Finetuning can also modify /etc/resolv.conf properly.

The build of the documentation is simplified greatly. Only Sphinx is necessary now.
The website is now maintained as part of the ELBE source tree and built with Sphinx.