Summary

I have just released genkernel 3.4.11 to the testing tree. From a high level point of view this release brings:

• Slightly faster startup
• Updated versions of busybox, LVM, e2fsprogs/blkid
• A few new features, e.g. GnuPG support
• A bunch of bug fixes (see below)

Below you can find details on the changes since 3.4.10.908. Besides the people contributing bug reports special thanks go to:

• Amadeusz Zolnowski (LVM update)
• Christian Giessner (UUID crypt_root)
• dacook (GnuPG 1.x support)
• Denis Kaganovich (Busybox patch porting)
• devsk (Multi-device patch)
• Fabio Erculiani (Slowusb fixes)
• Kai Dietrich (Symlink analysis)
• Kolbjorn Barmen (Arithmetic fix)

Please open bugs for any issues you run into.

New features

• 217959 Add GnuPG 1.x support
• 315467 Add support for UUID to crypt_root
• 303529 Add minimal btrfs support
• 267383 Add virtio support by updating LVM
• 244651 Run make firmware_install if CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL != y

Component updates

• 291822 Update e2fsprogs/blkid to 1.41.14
• 331971 Update busybox to 1.18.1
• 255196 Update LVM to 2.02.74

Bug fixes

• 351047 Do not sleep after vgscan
• 271528 Handle missing kernel .config better
• 323317 Improve slowusb handling
• 246370 Check return codes of cpio
• 307855 Create /bin/vg* symlinks when called as /linuxrc, too
• 303531 Pick first device when several devices are matching real_root
• 347213 Fix warning "cannot remove `/var/cache/genkernel/src'"
• 326593 Allow configuring the list of busybox applets
• 339789 Fix arithmetic bug in defaults/initrd.scripts

Thanks for your interest.