Releases · mendersoftware/mender-convert

5.1.0 - 2025-12-01

Bug fixes

MENDER_DATA_PART_GROWFS=n does not prevent mender-convert from increasing partition size
(MEN-8916) (dc09d32) by @michalkopczan

Prevent mender-convert from increasing partition size when MENDER_DATA_PART_GROWFS is set
to 'n' in additional/custom configuration file provided by --config argument.
Set device type to raspberrypi5_64
(daf2715) by @danielskinstad

Changed the device type in raspberrypi5_64_config to
raspberrypi5_64 to align it with other configs and tests.

Features

Select uboot binary with boot delay disabled for rpi5
(MEN-8901) (53f77ab) by @danielskinstad

Added an override in raspberrypi5_64_config to use a U-Boot binary with
boot delay set to -2. This is a workaround for an issue where RPi5 with U-Boot
is stuck waiting for uart. By setting boot delay to -2, it will autoboot with
no delay and not check for abort.
Update pre-built U-Boot image to Debian Trixie
(MEN-8946) (275ad3b) by @danielskinstad

Updated the pre-converted images for RPi4 and RPi5 from Debian Bookworm
to Debian Trixie.
Create symlink from /var/lib/mender-orchestrator to /data/mender-orchestrator
(MEN-9003) (4c5f367) by @michalkopczan

Build

Remove raspberrypi3 jobs
(MEN-8947) (264a51e) by @danielskinstad

We've added support for building and testing RPi5, so we should remove
RPi3 support as we're now going to build onboarding images for RPi4 and RPi5.

Bug fixes

Do not use world-writable permissions for mender-convert image.
(6a74029)

The image is only used in the build itself, so it's unlikely to be a
security issue. It does not affect output images.
Fix writing MSDOS partition UUIDs
(MEN-7937) (af0a17d) by @jo-lund

rev works on unicode strings and is therefore not safe to use to swap bytes.
Preserve extended attribute with rsync
(b9988ee) by @timbz
Update grub-mender-grubenv version
(ME-458) (10817e5) by @lluiscampos
Expand the data partition into the empty space on boot
(MEN-8191) (d04876a) by @jo-lund

When MENDER_DATA_PART_GROWFS is "y" (which is default), x-systemd.growfs
will be set for the data partition in /etc/fstab. This option is understood
by systemd and will grow the file system to occupy the full block device.
However, the partition itself will not necessarily be expanded. For
Raspberry Pi a systemd script could be used that would run "parted"
to expand the partition. This is now done for all systems.
Systemd_common_config: add --fix option to parted call
(ef68160) by @chlongv

In case when the GPT header does not include the full disk size (can
happen to generate smaller images), parted is going to fail because of
an exception.

Add the --fix option to fix those exceptions and allow parted to resize
the data partition.

Documentation

Update example commands in README
(f81ba6b) by @lluiscampos

Follow-up from 495c5e6
Update command to decompress the image
(49f5654) by @lluiscampos
Rewrite comment for MENDER_CLIENT_VERSION
(0486ffb) by @lluiscampos

To clarify what auto will do in the context of the recently released
Mender Client 5.0.
Update run-tests readme
(d4a676d) by @danielskinstad
Extend UEFI NVRAM guide for future Ubuntu 24.04 upgrade
(6b787b6) by @lluiscampos

Features

(uefi) Implement support for RPi4 cmdline.txt boot file.
(MEN-5826) (59816ee)

This is required to run the "firstboot" Raspberry Pi setup
correctly. It also makes sure that custom boot options in that file
are actually respected.
Add a platform_pre_modify hook.
(9b4cae4)

This runs before modifications, but after the image has been mounted,
so that it's ready to receive modifications.
Introduce basic support for booting Raspberry Pi 4 using UEFI.
(MEN-5826) (e5fba41)

With this we can boot Raspberry Pi 4 using UEFI, but it provides no
integration beyond the mere boot itself, which works, but presents
some problems. These will be fixed in upcoming commits.
Upgrade Raspberry Pi 3 pre-built image to Debian 12 64bits
(MEN-7759) (c4b47f3) by @lluiscampos

This commit restores the Raspberry Pi 3 pre-built image build and
publish, but modifying it from being based in the 32bits one to the 64
bits one.
Create sparse images
(c90d8df) by @ygerlach

Instead of allocating the whole image on the disk, only allocate the parts that actually contain data. This reduces the required disk space to store or create images.
This feature is disabled by default and can be enabled with the MENDER_SPARSE_IMAGE configuration flag.
Warn for signs of external mender installation
(b4eab2a) by @TheMeaningfulEngineer
Update GRUB to version 2.12
(4f180a2) by @lluiscampos

Following the update from grub-mender-grubenv repository from January
2025:
- mendersoftware/grub-mender-grubenv#39
Use the device-components repository
(150095d) by @danielskinstad
Use apt install some-package to install Mender packages
(MEN-8476) (44920dc) by @vpodzime
- BREAKING: apt is now used to install Mender packages from
  the repositories instead of dpkg installing individual packages
Instead of custom magic downloading and installing individual
packages from the repos, apt package manager is now used to do
its job, including dependency resolution and installation, and
signature+checksum verification, among other things.

Security

Bump tests/mender-image-tests from 698cb01 to 5405aa3
(88d0240) by @dependabot[bot]

Bumps tests/mender-image-tests from 698cb01 to 5405aa3.
- Commits
updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: tests/mender-image-tests
  dependency-type: direct:production
  ...
Bump pytest in /tests in the python-test-dependencies group
(afff8f2) by @dependabot[bot]

Bumps the python-test-dependencies group in /tests with 1 update: pytest.

Updates pytest from 8.3.3 to 8.3.4
updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: pytest
  dependency-type: direct:production
  update-type: version-update:semver-patch
  dependency-group: python-test-dependencies
  ...
Bump jinja2 from 3.1.4 to 3.1.5 in /tests
(b2e6c67) by @dependabot[bot]

Bumps jinja2 from 3.1.4 to 3.1.5.
updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: jinja2
  dependency-type: indirect
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Bump tests/mender-image-tests from 5405aa3 to 074bb74
(c8c7eb9) by @dependabot[bot]

Bumps tests/mender-image-tests from 5405aa3 to 074bb74.
- Commits
updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: tests/mender-image-tests
  dependency-type: direct:production
  ...
Bump filelock in /tests in the python-test-dependencies group
(b051bd7) by @dependabot[bot]

Bumps the python-test-dependencies group in /tests with 1 update: filelock.

Updates filelock from 3.16.1 to 3.17.0
updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: filelock
  dependency-type: direct:production
  update-type: version-update:semver-minor
  dependency-group: python-test-dependencies
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Bump jsdom from 25.0.1 t...