Features

• The elbe cyclonedx-sbom subcommand is not considered experimental anymore.
• Many internal cleanups and bugfixes.
• More automated testcases.
• Restored compatibility with Debian bullseye, bullseye package will be provided again.

Bugfixes

• Execute <raw_cmd> without a shell.
• Remove unnecessary dep on python3-parted from python3-elbe-bin.

Deprecations and Removals

• Drop the elbe-common repository.
• The internal command elbe adjustpkgs.
• The internal command elbe buildchroot.
• The internal command elbe buildsdk.
• The internal command elbe buildsysroot.
• The internal command elbe genlicence.
• The internal command elbe hdimg.
• The internal command elbe mkcdrom.
• The internal command elbe toolchainextract.
• The --cpuset argument of elbe pbuilder.
• The elbe init command has been removed.

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.

Bugfixes

• (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.

Improved Documentation

• 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.

Deprecations and Removals

• Drop $ELBE_MIRROR_SED support.
• Drop elbe control shutdown_initvm. Use elbe initvm stop instead.
• Drop install_elbe_version.
• Drop non-functional $ELBE_PBUILDER_JOBS configuration variable.
• Remove cherrypy dependency.