swupdate

• Fix release (UBI swap regression bug)

New features:
- Support auto generation of sw-versions
- Runtime installable Handlers (handler as part of SWU)
- Introduce global Lua State per update
- Support for postfailure scripts
- Updated Webapp
- eMMC switch boot handler
- docker: support for volumes / network

Fixes:
- remove 16KB limitation when SWU is stored
- Fix small licensing issues
- Enforce check during parsing
- Fix last chunk in delta handler
- SEGV in swuforwarder handler
- Fix IVT regression
- Fix GPG support

Fix postupdate regression issue. This is just a bug fix for postupdate command not working in 2023.12

2023.12

New features:

• handlers: docker support for loading images and create
  containers
• add nodejs binding
• bootloader : support NVIDIA cboot
• IPC : download URL can be transferred via IPC
• Support new libubootenv version
• Support per application vars and not just bootloader's
• Support SSL for delta updates
• Support newer libgpiod

Fixes:

• please read git history for the complete list

• New features:

  • support btrfs in the partitioner
  • suricatta / backend: allow runtime selection
  • Mongoose : updated to 7.9
  • Support dynamic loading and static linking of bootloader libraries
  • Add PKCS#7 verification for wolfSSL
  • Python package swupdateclient

• Fixes:

  • improve documentation
  • fix SEGV in mbedtls
  • fix memory usage in delta handler
  • fix number of steps in progress
  • deadlock if progress client are blocked
  • fix decrypt for zchunk header
  • fix grubenv with new grub version

New features:
Lua:
- Expose bootloader interface to Lua
- Filesystem functions
Bootloader:
- Dynamic loading of bootloader library
Webserver:
- Mongoose updated to 7.8
Progress:
- fix steps when scripts are used
Handler:
- generic copy handler in chain
- gtp_partition handler
Suricatta:
- Lua implementation
- Generic Server example code
Fixes:
- fix steps when scripts are used
- Fix Coverity Issues
- wrong erase blocks in flash handlers

Features:

• security:

  • Add optional CMS single signer verification

• general:
  - BUG: buffer overflow with semantic version > 50
  - Functions to detect automatically rootfs

• License:
  - Completed REUSE compliant

• handlers:
  - diskpart : fixes, hybrid partitions, device lock force mode, partuuid support
  - Delta Update
  - Fix rawcopy as script handler
  - MTD: erase sectors instead of whole device

• Lua :
  - Fix, support for Luajit recovered.
  - New function (version and getroot)

• Webserver:
  - fix progress bar in browser

• doc:
  - Improved documentation for building with Yocto
  - Best practise
  - Fixes

• ipc:
  - add status streaming support

• fixes :
  - fix defects reported by coverity

• ci:
  - switch from Travis to gitlab

Just run git log -M 2021.04..2021.11 for full Changelog

2021.04

Features:

• security:

  • first block decryption with pkcs11

• general:

  • merge install from file with OTA install
  • extend -o option
    • create directory if not present
  • selections via configuration file
  • optimize reuse of configuration file
  • fix postinstall in case of downloader
  • add thread synchronization at startup

• License:

  • prepare to be REUSE compatible (WIP)

• handlers:

  • diskpart : extend to initialize a filesystem
    • support for VFAT
    • support for ext2 / ext3 /ext4

• Lua :

  • detect root device and export to Lua

• Webserver:

  • Update to Mongoose 6.18

• doc:

  • rewrote some parts not very clear

• ipc:

  • extend IPC with new option
  • -o can be set via IPC
  • dry-run can be set via IPC
  • version checking via IPC
  • increase robustness

• parser:

  • full support of links
  • extend hook to partitions

• bootloader:

  • fix grub interface

• build:

  • do not rebuild if nothing changed

• fixes :

  • fix defects reported by coverity

2020.11

Features:

• security:

  • encryption of sw-description (aes-cbc-256)
  • fix IVT size for encryption (IPC)
  • support WolfSSL and PKCS#11
  • fix encryption of single block
  • mbedTLS : support RSA PSS

• general:

  • rework dry-run mode (scripts were executed)
  • semantic version to compare versions
  • resume after a power-cut
  • library becomes shared

• handlers:

  • diskpart: new table available after setting
    to be able to install SW
  • diskpart : write table only in case of changes
  • new: UUID checker. It checks that a filesystem with
    same UUID does not exist.

• Lua :

  • add interface to get which selection is chosen
  • LuaJIT (5.1) compatibility

• progress interface:

  • add non blocking mode
  • send total number of bytes to be downloaded, too.

• doc:

  • maintain links to previous release on Website

• ipc:

  • allow to set selection for each install request
  • new interface, API will be more stable
  • commands to enable / disable suricatta daemon

• others:

  • drop CRC check (useful for not patched cpio,
    that means with Debian and files > 2GB)
  • support cpio newc format
  • state save also outside suricatta

• build:

  • out of tree build fixed

• tools:

  • swupdate-progress in quiet mode

• fixes :

  • check in git history for full changelog

Prepare 2020.04

• Lua: expose more functions
• Webserver :
  • Updated to mongoose 6.16
• New handlers:
  • readback handler
  • disk partitioning handler
  • provide full log for shell scripts
• Handlers:
  • added "create-destination" to archive handler
• Security:
  • Add an IPC to set AES key for decryption
  • IVT for each artifact
  • Added RSAPSS in case of mbedTLD
• suricatta:
  • IPC to enable / disable daemon
  • send full log to Hawkbit Server
  • added configuration if token must be used
    to download artifacts (fix compatibility with AWS)
  • added "-f" to bind the interface to the channel
• configuration:
  • default configuration file searched if none is passed
• tools:
  • a script can be called after update
• parser:
  • Hooks available for bootloader variables, too
  • Version of firmware sent to progress interface
• general:
  • preupdate command
  • fix multilib support in OE
  • add support for coverity and fix of most defects found
  • fixes and clean up (list in git history)

• Improved support for libubootenv
• rework swuforwarder, fix corruption
• support system update
• drop legacy webserver
• support more as one instance of SWUpdate on the same target
• improve support for Debian
• Parser:
  • regexp for hardware compatibility check
  • new attribute: install-if-higher
  • hook support for bootloader section
  • new attribute: output to save SWU
  • bootloader_marker ("recovery_status") deactivable
• Handlers:
  • ubiswap: atomic switch of UBI volumes
  • SSBL : switch between sw set with own structure
  • introduce handler without data
  • ubivol: auto-resize of volumes
  • fix rdiff handler
  • archive: set locale
• Security:
  • support for rsa-pss
  • support for MBEDTLS
• Lua:
  • export swupdate_progress_update
• Compression:
  • added support for zstd
• Documentation:
  • general improvements and fixes
  • links to newer talks about SWUpdate
• Webserver:
  • fix hang if connection is broken

• New Website
• Support compression of encrypted images
• Lua improvements
• support local store of streams
• Fix some issues in bootloader interface
• Improve documentation and fixes

A short list of new features:

- progress interface as general way to signalize the update
  status outside of the process.

- support encrypted artifacts (encryption via simmetric keys)

- host verification for swu images (-c option)

- configuration file to configure the update process

- HAwkbit backend: API extended, support for configData messages

- Hawkbit backend: supports SSL certificates

- remote handler : general interface to connect external
  installers.