v1.9.0

bootc 1.9.0

New features/improvements

• Update reboot-required file with information about the staged image by @bshephar in #1583
• log to journal if root by @cgwalters in #1589
• Switch to hand-written man pages with auto option sync by @cgwalters in #1587
• system-reinstall-bootc: Handle --help by @cgwalters in #1651

Composefs and image sealing

The big outstanding composefs branch was merged! 🎉 in #1444

However, a lot more work continues!

Other changes

Mostly CI and internal cleanups.

• renovate.json: Remove platform-engineering-org inheritance by @cgwalters in #1591
• fix(deps): update rust crate dialoguer to 0.12.0 by @bootc-bot[bot] in #1594
• [Feature] Add function to write reboot-required by @bshephar in #1592
• Bump composefs-rs by @Johan-Liebert1 in #1598
• kernel_cmdline: Refactor parsing to improve quote and whitespace handling by @jeckersb in #1586
• tests: Verify we emit journal messages by @cgwalters in #1590
• ostree: Set parent of merge commit to base commit if present by @cgwalters in #1600
• kernel_cmdline: Refactor into separate bytes and utf8 modules by @jeckersb in #1603
• test: Add integration test running on github runner by @henrywang in #1496
• kernel_cmdline: Add parameter manipulation methods by @jeckersb in #1608
• store: Move inner merge commit writing to a helper function by @cgwalters in #1602
• integration: Copy distro-sync from main Dockerfile by @cgwalters in #1609
• cmdline tweaks and improvements by @jeckersb in #1611
• docs: Fix links to man pages by @cgwalters in #1619
• Fix man page generation by @cgwalters in #1628
• ci: Drop control/skip-ci by @cgwalters in #1629
• Fixes for rust 1.90 by @jeckersb in #1626
• ci: Unify more of hack/ and tests/ by @cgwalters in #1607
• build-sys: Various cleanups, doc clarification by @cgwalters in #1631
• efivars: Parse efivar as UTF-16 LE bytes by @Johan-Liebert1 in #1633
• Bootc status fix by @Johan-Liebert1 in #1634
• Updates to build sys and CONTRIBUTING.md by @cgwalters in #1638
• specfile: Handle updated macros in c9s rust-toolset by @jeckersb in #1641
• Etc merge fix by @Johan-Liebert1 in #1649
• composefs-backend: Implement bootc usr-overlay by @Johan-Liebert1 in #1643
• spec: Provide ostree-ext on rhel9 by @cgwalters in #1653
• generator: Conditionally enable bootc-status units by @cgwalters in #1610
• ci: Consolidate and cleanup workflows by @cgwalters in #1646
• Move docs workflow into Justfile + container by @cgwalters in #1654
• docs: Adding a private OCI registry section by @GuillaumeASSIER in #1650
• docs: Add a man page for system-reinstall-bootc by @cgwalters in #1652
• labeler: Fix for crate renames by @cgwalters in #1655
• Cleanup systemd UKI support by @Johan-Liebert1 in #1623
• examples: Add bootc UKI & BLS examples by @jeckersb in #1614
• tests: add custom selinux policy test by @jmarrero in #1632
• Update ostree binding to 0.20.5 by @alexlarsson in #1660
• test: Add Packit and gating test by @henrywang in #1642
• test: Fix packit-reboot.yml download URL issue by @henrywang in #1664
• install: Add a tmpfs for /var/lib/containers by @cgwalters in #1666
• Update MAINTAINERS.md by @mohan-shash in #1667
• Expand/consolidate "detecting bootc" by @cgwalters in #1661
• system-reinstall-bootc: Do not warn on unmounted LVM volumes by @jeckersb in #1663
• status: Mention rpm-ostree vs bootc by @cgwalters in #1645
• dockerignore: Workaround for podman bug with secrets + remote by @jeckersb in #1675
• build-sys: Use stream10 by default (+ 2 misc) by @cgwalters in #1665
• test: Use SRPM as test code source to work with gating test by @henrywang in #1670
• Release 1.9.0 by @bootc-bot[bot] in #1671

New Contributors

• @bshephar made their first contribution in #1583
• @GuillaumeASSIER made their first contribution in #1650
• @mohan-shash made their first contribution in #1667

Full Changelog: v1.8.0...v1.9.0

Assets

• bootc-1.9.0-vendor.tar.zstd - Vendored dependencies archive
• bootc-1.9.0.tar.zstd - Source archive