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2025.12

2025.12
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Features:
	- Add support for XZ compression
	- Support MTD names in copy handler
	- Support "update-type" (application, OS, etc.)
	- Rewriting of Crypto subsystem and support for multiple engines
	- Webserver: update to Mongoose 7.20
	- Support for asymmetric encryption and revocation of devices
	- add dry-run in progress client
	- add socket path option to swupdate-client

	Lua:
	----
	- Linux command line available in Lua

Fixes:
	- fix out of tree build for suricatta
	- BUG fix case comparison in delta update
	- Fixes for Buildroot
	- BUG: fix Flash Handler decrypted-size became mandatory
	- BUG: copyhandler: wrong path passed to chained handler
	- BUG: fix SEGV in copy handler if path is not set
	- BUG: Image IVT with invalid size is accepted
	- BUG: Webserver: Small payload <16kB are not accepted

2025.05

2025.05
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Features:
	- Support (CI) for Github Actions
	- Lua: export if an installation is dry-run
	- Add api key header and api key configuration for delta updates
	- Improved documentation (Lua, etc.)
	- make NAND flashing streamable
	- switch to Zephyr Kconfig Buildsystem
	- Extended wfx suricatta module

Fixes:
	- Fix warnings with newer coimpilers
	- BUG: util: Append missing slash to temporary mount dir
	- BUG: sensitive case in delta handler
	- BUG: suricatta: add missing postupdate call for general server

2024.12.1

Fix missing slash to mount dir
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Due to the BUG, SWUpdate reports SUCCESS even if the raw handler does
not copy the file. Fix already in master.

2024.12

2024.12
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New features:
	- ci: support for Ubuntu noble
	- SSL support for python client
	- btrfs: add support to install snapshots
	- add a generic way to stream an artifact to external command
	- add command top get eMMC boot device
	- support for fslabels in disk handlers
	- maintain UBI IDs on resize
	- Mongoose: updated to 7.14
	- add type safety to parser

Fixes:
	- several cleanups
	- fix out of bounds in multipart parser
	- fix SEGV when eMMC handler is called by Lua
	- fix race condition in async API
	- solve incompatibilities between libconfig and JSON parsers
	- fix segv in Lua getroot when no root is found
	- simplify copyfile() function
	- fix Support for LuaJIT
	- fix Webserver crash with malformed URL
	- fix report to Hawkbit when reboot is disabled
	- documentation: cleanup and improvement
	- Fixes from 2024.05.2

2024.05.2

Fix nasty ubivol bug

2024.05

2024.05
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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

2023.12.1

Contain fix for postinstall()

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

2023.05

2023.05

See git history for a full log.

2022.12

2022.05

2022.05

This release contains mostly fixes. See git history for a
full log.

2021.11

2021.11

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

2021.04
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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

2020.11
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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

2020.04

Prepare 2020.04
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- 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)

2020.04-rc2

Prepare 2020.04-rc2

2020.04-rc1

Prepare 2020.04-rc1

2019.11

Prepare 2019.11
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- 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
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2019.11-rc1

Prepare 2019.11-rc1

2019.04

Prepare 2019.04

New features in this release:

- Improved documentation
- delta updates based on rdiff library
- support for libubootenv
- dry-run option
- CA certificates for signed images
- Fix security leak in parser