v1.14.2

• New features

  • Support setting the core file pattern early in the boot process to enabling
    capturing core files from beam.smp startup. See --core-pattern.

• Bug fixes

  • Fix parse issue when looking for file systems to unmount. Previously if file
    system options for longer than 127 characters, there'd be a harmless parse
    error. It was harmless since it just resulted in an ignored error and
    everything that was supposed to be unmounted was. It was just distracting to
    see in the logs.

v1.14.1

• Bug fixes
  • Fix several issues found with clang's -fsanitize feature. Thanks to @jbnoblot for reporting them. See #114 for details.

v1.14.0

• New features

  • Support passing arguments to reboot via the /run/reboot-param file. This
    is required to support the Raspberry Pi's tryboot feature to implement A/B
    partition failback. See the README.md for info.
  • In the hostname pattern, support a special printf format specifier for
    trimming the left side of the serial number string. %-0.4s lets you use
    the 4 rightmost characters of the serial number in the hostname.

• Bug fixes

  • Disable core dumps before killing programs on shutdowns and reboots. This
    saves I/O operations that might impact the saving of important data.
  • Sync before killing programs on shutdowns and reboots to reduce the amount
    of I/O needed during the graceful part of the shutdown.

v1.13.0

• New features
  • Save and restore random number seeds with SeedRNG.
    This saves seeds to /root/seedrng since that's a persisted, writable
    location on Nerves. If not using Nerves, this location can be changed at
    compile-time using LOCALSTATEDIR.

v1.12.3

• Bug fixes
  • Switch default TERM setting from vt100 to xterm-256color. VT100
    emulation was causing $<50> output delay sequences to be inserted and
    these aren't necessary. xterm-256color was determined to be a safe default
    for the majority of console users.

v1.12.2

• Bug fixes
  • Extend max config file line from 127 characters to 255 to allow for longer
    environment settings. You can also specify -env on multiple lines. Thanks
    to @pojiro for raising this issue.

v1.12.1

• Bug fixes
  • Remove absolute path requirement on --alternate-exec for binaries in the
    Erlang runtime. This makes it much less brittle to use since the ERTS
    directory has a version number in it that may change on every Erlang
    update. If you're using --alternate-exec to run run_erl, remove the
    absolute path to it. erlinit will run the one associated with the OTP
    release.

v1.12.0

• Changes

  • Check OTP release for ERTS before checking the system. The previous behavior
    was to only check one or the other based on whether --release-include-erts
    was specified.

• Bug fixes

  • Fixed missing handling of EINTR when running the program to get the device's
    ID. The handling has been missing since it was added and is not known to
    have caused issues. However, it could cause the device's ID to not be set.

v1.11.0

• New features
  • Export RELEASE_SYS_CONFIG, RELEASE_ROOT, and RELEASE_TMP to support
    Elixir mix releases that contain a runtime.exs. Support for runtime.exs
    is currently experimental.

v1.10.0

• New features

  • Added --limit option to enable core dumps, increase the number of
    processes, file descriptors and other settings that the ulimit command
    is normally used for.

    Use it like this:

    --limit core:456:unlimited
    

    The format is resource:soft_limit:hard_limit. The resources should be
    specified as lower case and can be found on the setrlimit(2) man page.
    The soft_limit and hard_limit can be either numbers or the word
    infinity.