mender-artifact

Release information Release notes & changelog mender-artifact

mender-artifact 3.11.2

Released 02.12.2024

Statistics

Developers with the most changesets
Sebastian Opsahl	1 (100.0%)

Developers with the most changed lines
Sebastian Opsahl	87 (100.0%)

Top changeset contributors by employer
Northern.tech	1 (100.0%)

Top lines changed by employer
Northern.tech	87 (100.0%)

Employers with the most hackers (total 1)
Northern.tech	1 (100.0%)

Changelogs

mender-artifact (3.11.2)

New changes in mender-artifact since 3.11.1:

Bug Fixes

Unify meta-data element support in mender-artifact and C++ parser, and relax to accept all valid JSON (MEN-6199)

mender-artifact 3.11.1

Released 01.15.2024

Statistics

A total of 82 lines added, 32 removed (delta 50)

Developers with the most changesets
Daniel Skinstad Drabitzius	2 (66.7%)
Lluis Campos	1 (33.3%)

Developers with the most changed lines
Daniel Skinstad Drabitzius	80 (97.6%)
Lluis Campos	2 (2.4%)

Top changeset contributors by employer
Northern.tech	3 (100.0%)

Top lines changed by employer
Northern.tech	82 (100.0%)

Employers with the most hackers (total 2)
Northern.tech	2 (100.0%)

Changelogs

mender-artifact (3.11.1)

New changes in mender-artifact since 3.11.0:

Bug Fixes

signing an existing artifact now preserves file permissions and owner/group (MEN-3409)

mender-artifact 3.11.0

Released 12.28.2023

Statistics

Developers with the most changesets
Lluis Campos	8 (57.1%)
Roberto Giovanardi	3 (21.4%)
Niv Keidan	1 (7.1%)
Craig Comstock	1 (7.1%)
Peter Grzybowski	1 (7.1%)

Developers with the most changed lines
Lluis Campos	72 (40.0%)
Roberto Giovanardi	70 (38.9%)
Niv Keidan	24 (13.3%)
Peter Grzybowski	13 (7.2%)
Craig Comstock	1 (0.6%)

Developers with the most lines removed
Lluis Campos	20 (18.0%)

Top changeset contributors by employer
Northern.tech	13 (92.9%)
nivkeidan@gmail.com	1 (7.1%)

Top lines changed by employer
Northern.tech	156 (86.7%)
nivkeidan@gmail.com	24 (13.3%)

Employers with the most hackers (total 5)
Northern.tech	4 (80.0%)
nivkeidan@gmail.com	1 (20.0%)

Changelogs

mender-artifact (3.11.0)

New changes in mender-artifact since 3.10.2:

Bug Fixes

mender-artifact now detects if the device has an standalone mender-snapshot. From Mender client 4.0 onwards, the mender binary won't implement snapshot command.

Features

For "cp" command, use source file name if destination file name is not supplied (MEN-5463)

mender-artifact 3.10.2

Released 10.18.2023

Changelogs

mender-artifact (3.10.2)

New changes in mender-artifact since 3.10.1:

Other

Rebuild, no changes.

mender-artifact 3.10.1

Released 07.28.2023

Statistics

A total of 426 lines added, 608 removed (delta -182)

Developers with the most changesets
Fabio Tranchitella	22 (43.1%)
Lluis Campos	9 (17.6%)
Krzysztof Jaskiewicz	6 (11.8%)
Peter Grzybowski	4 (7.8%)
Ole Petter Orhagen	4 (7.8%)
Josef Holzmayr	2 (3.9%)
Manuel Zedel	2 (3.9%)
Kristian Amlie	2 (3.9%)

Developers with the most changed lines
Fabio Tranchitella	536 (60.6%)
Lluis Campos	136 (15.4%)
Peter Grzybowski	93 (10.5%)
Josef Holzmayr	80 (9.0%)
Krzysztof Jaskiewicz	31 (3.5%)
Ole Petter Orhagen	6 (0.7%)
Kristian Amlie	3 (0.3%)

Developers with the most lines removed
Fabio Tranchitella	445 (73.2%)

Developers with the most report credits (total 2)
Johannes Hund	2 (100.0%)

Developers who gave the most report credits (total 2)
Kristian Amlie	2 (100.0%)

Top changeset contributors by employer
Northern.tech	51 (100.0%)

Top lines changed by employer
Northern.tech	885 (100.0%)

Employers with the most hackers (total 8)
Northern.tech	8 (100.0%)

Changelogs

mender-artifact (3.10.1)

New changes in mender-artifact since 3.10.0:

Bug Fixes

Fix path seperator to "/". Restores functionality for windows.
load keys with ParsePKCS8PrivateKey.
add compilation instructions to README
fix zstd compression support (MEN-6617)

mender-artifact 3.10.0

Released 02.20.2023

Statistics

A total of 287 lines added, 107 removed (delta 180)

Developers with the most changesets
Alex Miliukov	6 (31.6%)
Lluis Campos	5 (26.3%)
Fabio Tranchitella	5 (26.3%)
Peter Grzybowski	1 (5.3%)
Michael Ho	1 (5.3%)
Ole Petter Orhagen	1 (5.3%)

Developers with the most changed lines
Michael Ho	99 (34.0%)
Alex Miliukov	80 (27.5%)
Lluis Campos	41 (14.1%)
Ole Petter Orhagen	35 (12.0%)
Fabio Tranchitella	34 (11.7%)
Peter Grzybowski	2 (0.7%)

Top changeset contributors by employer
Northern.tech	18 (94.7%)
callmemikeh@gmail.com	1 (5.3%)

Top lines changed by employer
Northern.tech	192 (66.0%)
callmemikeh@gmail.com	99 (34.0%)

Employers with the most hackers (total 6)
Northern.tech	5 (83.3%)
callmemikeh@gmail.com	1 (16.7%)

Changelogs

mender-artifact (3.10.0)

New changes in mender-artifact since 3.9.0:

Features

support zstd compression

This adds 4 new --compression options for mender-artifact: zstd, zstd_fastest_compression, zstd_better_compression, zstd_best_compression. The corresponding compression levels are subject to change based on the version of klauspost/compress: pkg.go.dev/github.com/klauspost/compress/zstd#EncoderLevel

I opted for these semantic zstd level names instead of exposing the numeric levels because 1) it provides some guidance to normal users of mender-artifact. 2) There isn't a way to currently pass parameters to compressors, and I wanted this change to be pretty minimal.

zstd provides higher compression than gzip, at faster compression and decompression rates.

engineering.fb.com/2016/08/31/core-data/smaller-and-faster-data-compression-with-zstandard

In general, zstd outperforms gzip with speed and compression ratio. It doesn't get as good compression compared to lzma, however zstd has different compression levels that can get it close to lzma, at pretty reasonable speeds.

Other

Use best gzip compression by default. (MEN-6249)

mender-artifact 3.9.0

Released 09.25.2022

Statistics

A total of 1702 lines added, 381 removed (delta 1321)

Developers with the most changesets
Maciej Tomczuk	8 (40.0%)
Fabio Tranchitella	4 (20.0%)
Manuel Zedel	3 (15.0%)
Lluis Campos	2 (10.0%)
Ole Petter Orhagen	2 (10.0%)
Peter Grzybowski	1 (5.0%)

Developers with the most changed lines
Maciej Tomczuk	1490 (87.3%)
Peter Grzybowski	164 (9.6%)
Fabio Tranchitella	27 (1.6%)
Ole Petter Orhagen	15 (0.9%)
Manuel Zedel	6 (0.4%)
Lluis Campos	5 (0.3%)

Top changeset contributors by employer
Northern.tech	20 (100.0%)

Top lines changed by employer
Northern.tech	1707 (100.0%)

Employers with the most hackers (total 6)
Northern.tech	6 (100.0%)

Changelogs

mender-artifact (3.9.0)

New changes in mender-artifact since 3.8.0:

Features

Implement write for empty payload artifacts (MEN-2586)
Add possibility to read bootstrap artifacts (MEN-2586)
Add support for provides and depends flags in write and read (MEN-2586)
Add PKCS#11 standard support for artifacts signing (MEN-5759)

Dependency updates

Aggregated Dependabot Changelogs:

Bumps github.com/stretchr/testify from 1.7.0 to 1.7.1.

updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: github.com/stretchr/testify
dependency-type: direct:production
update-type: version-update:semver-patch

mender-artifact 3.8.1

Released 10.19.2022

Statistics

A total of 21 lines added, 9 removed (delta 12)

Developers with the most changesets
Manuel Zedel	3 (60.0%)
Ole Petter Orhagen	2 (40.0%)

Developers with the most changed lines
Ole Petter Orhagen	15 (71.4%)
Manuel Zedel	6 (28.6%)

Developers with the most signoffs (total 1)
Fabio Tranchitella	1 (100.0%)

Top changeset contributors by employer
Northern.tech	5 (100.0%)

Top lines changed by employer
Northern.tech	21 (100.0%)

Employers with the most signoffs (total 1)
Northern.tech	1 (100.0%)

Employers with the most hackers (total 2)
Northern.tech	2 (100.0%)

Changelogs

mender-artifact (3.8.1)

New changes in mender-artifact since 3.8.0:

Bug Fixes

fixed an issue that prevented the makefile from working with newer docker versions
fixed an issue that prevented running mender-artifact in a container

mender-artifact 3.8.0

Released 06.14.2022

Statistics

A total of 1326 lines added, 66 removed (delta 1260)

Developers with the most changesets
Ole Petter Orhagen	2 (33.3%)
Mikael Torp-Holte	1 (16.7%)
Kristian Amlie	1 (16.7%)
Lluis Campos	1 (16.7%)
Tobias Zimmerer	1 (16.7%)

Developers with the most changed lines
Tobias Zimmerer	1165 (87.9%)
Ole Petter Orhagen	83 (6.3%)
Kristian Amlie	73 (5.5%)
Lluis Campos	3 (0.2%)
Mikael Torp-Holte	2 (0.2%)

Top changeset contributors by employer
Northern.tech	5 (83.3%)
ZF	1 (16.7%)

Top lines changed by employer
ZF	1165 (87.9%)
Northern.tech	161 (12.1%)

Employers with the most hackers (total 5)
Northern.tech	4 (80.0%)
ZF	1 (20.0%)

Changelogs

mender-artifact (3.8.0)

New changes in mender-artifact since 3.7.1:

Bug Fixes

signing not working together with module-image.

This affects all update module generators.
The mender-artifact modification commands (modify, cp, cat, rm) now handles sparse partitions in the SD-images it modifies. (MEN-5462)

Other

Add signer using Hashicorp Vault's Transit Engine

This signer signs and verifies data using Hashicorp Vault's Transit Engine. The implementation is based on the GCP KMS signer. A new vault-transit-key flag was added to specify the key name in Vault. Additionally, the mount path of the used Transit Engine within Vault needs to be specified via VAULT_MOUNT_PATH environment variable. If key rotation in Vault is used, the key version can be specified with VAULT_KEY_VERSION environment variable.

Dependabot bumps

Aggregated Dependabot Changelogs:

Bumps cloud.google.com/go/kms from 1.1.0 to 1.3.0.

updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: cloud.google.com/go/kms
dependency-type: direct:production
update-type: version-update:semver-minor

mender-artifact 3.7.1

Released 04.21.2022

Statistics

A total of 76 lines added, 4 removed (delta 72)

Developers with the most changesets
Kristian Amlie	1 (50.0%)
Lluis Campos	1 (50.0%)

Developers with the most changed lines
Kristian Amlie	74 (97.4%)
Lluis Campos	2 (2.6%)

Top changeset contributors by employer
Northern.tech	2 (100.0%)

Top lines changed by employer
Northern.tech	76 (100.0%)

Employers with the most hackers (total 2)
Northern.tech	2 (100.0%)

Changelogs

mender-artifact (3.7.1)

New changes in mender-artifact since 3.7.0:

Fix: signing not working together with module-image.

This affects all update module generators.

mender-artifact 3.7.0

Released 01.24.2022

Statistics

A total of 2094 lines added, 588 removed (delta 1506)

Developers with the most changesets
Ole Petter Orhagen	6 (33.3%)
Lluis Campos	5 (27.8%)
Kristian Amlie	3 (16.7%)
Alan Alberghini	3 (16.7%)
Michael Ho	1 (5.6%)

Developers with the most changed lines
Michael Ho	1374 (63.5%)
Lluis Campos	699 (32.3%)
Ole Petter Orhagen	64 (3.0%)
Alan Alberghini	14 (0.6%)
Kristian Amlie	12 (0.6%)

Top changeset contributors by employer
Northern.tech	14 (77.8%)
Tiscali S.p.a.	3 (16.7%)
callmemikeh@gmail.com	1 (5.6%)

Top lines changed by employer
callmemikeh@gmail.com	1374 (63.5%)
Northern.tech	775 (35.8%)
Tiscali S.p.a.	14 (0.6%)

Employers with the most hackers (total 5)
Northern.tech	3 (60.0%)
callmemikeh@gmail.com	1 (20.0%)
Tiscali S.p.a.	1 (20.0%)

Changelogs

mender-artifact (3.7.0)

New changes in mender-artifact since 3.6.1:

Add missing error description when artifact header can't be written.
Makefile: enhance autocomplete scripts install
cli: Fix parsing of filenames containing ".mender" (MEN-5076)
Fix the checksum errors encountered in rare cases where the entire byte stream is not consumed during verification, and thus giving wrong checksum errors. (MEN-5094)
Restore SSH snapshot feature on Mac OS (MEN-4362, MEN-5082)
Create a new signer using GCP's KMS

This signs and verifies data using GCP's Key Management Service. This allows developers to use mender-artifact without ever accessing the private signing key.

We add a new gcp-kms-key flag that lets users pass in the KMS key's resource ID.

Aggregated Dependabot Changelogs:

Bumps alpine from 3.14.0 to 3.14.1.

updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: alpine
dependency-type: direct:production
update-type: version-update:semver-patch

Bumps alpine from 3.14.1 to 3.14.2.

updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: alpine
dependency-type: direct:production
update-type: version-update:semver-patch

Bumps alpine from 3.14.2 to 3.14.3.

updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: alpine
dependency-type: direct:production
update-type: version-update:semver-patch

Bumps alpine from 3.14.3 to 3.15.0.

updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: alpine
dependency-type: direct:production
update-type: version-update:semver-minor

mender-artifact 3.6.1

Released 09.28.2021

Statistics

A total of 38 lines added, 7 removed (delta 31)

Developers with the most changesets
Lluis Campos	3 (60.0%)
Ole Petter Orhagen	1 (20.0%)
Kristian Amlie	1 (20.0%)

Developers with the most changed lines
Lluis Campos	28 (73.7%)
Ole Petter Orhagen	8 (21.1%)
Kristian Amlie	2 (5.3%)

Top changeset contributors by employer
Northern.tech	5 (100.0%)

Top lines changed by employer
Northern.tech	38 (100.0%)

Employers with the most hackers (total 3)
Northern.tech	3 (100.0%)

Changelogs

mender-artifact (3.6.1)

New changes in mender-artifact since 3.6.0:

Add missing error description when artifact header can't be written.
cli: Fix parsing of filenames containing ".mender" (MEN-5076)
Fix the checksum errors encountered in rare cases where the entire byte stream is not consumed during verification, and thus giving wrong checksum errors. (MEN-5094)
Restore SSH snapshot feature on Mac OS (MEN-4362, MEN-5082)

mender-artifact 3.6.0

Released 07.14.2021

Statistics

A total of 482 lines added, 451 removed (delta 31)

Developers with the most changesets
Ole Petter Orhagen	7 (58.3%)
Lluis Campos	3 (25.0%)
Alf-Rune Siqveland	1 (8.3%)
Kristian Amlie	1 (8.3%)

Developers with the most changed lines
Ole Petter Orhagen	462 (86.7%)
Alf-Rune Siqveland	43 (8.1%)
Lluis Campos	27 (5.1%)
Kristian Amlie	1 (0.2%)

Top changeset contributors by employer
Northern.tech	12 (100.0%)

Top lines changed by employer
Northern.tech	533 (100.0%)

Employers with the most hackers (total 4)
Northern.tech	4 (100.0%)

Changelogs

mender-artifact (3.6.0)

New changes in mender-artifact since 3.5.1:

Do not change the underlying Artifact unnecessarily Previously the commands modifying an Artifact would always repack an Artifact, no matter whether or not that modifications had actually been made to the Artifact. As an example of this, if you had a signed Artifact compressed with lzma, running mender-artifact cat <artifact>:/<path-to-file> would then cat the file, and repack the Artifact with the standard compression, which is gzip. Along the way the signature would also be lost. This fix adds the following changes to the tooling:
- Modified images are no longer repacked, unless the command run has changed the underlying image. This means that cat and copying out of an image will keep your image intact. While copying into, installing, and removing files from the image will repack the image.
- If an image is modified, and needs to be repacked, the existing compression will be respected when repacking. The only exception is the --compression flag for mender-artifact modify which can override the existing compression when repacking.
- mender-artifact {cat,install,cp,rm} do not respect the --compression flag, but rather prints a warning, that the flag is ignored. If you want to change the compression of your Artifact, run mender-artifact modify <Artifact> --compression <type> (MEN-4502)
Add a note about the proper usage of the 'compression' flag in the global help text.
In case of a user trying to add a script with an invalid name, the error message now says just so: Invalid script name, instead of simply: Invalid script.
Remove the 'scripter' prefix in the error messages when adding a State Script to an Artifact.
[] Fix sending on closed signal channel (MEN-4832)
Aggregated Dependabot Changelogs:
- Bumps github.com/stretchr/testify from 1.6.1 to 1.7.0.
- Release notes
- Commits
- Bumps alpine from 3.12.3 to 3.13.1.
- Bumps alpine from 3.13.1 to 3.13.2.
- Bumps alpine from 3.13.2 to 3.13.3.
- Bumps alpine from 3.13.3 to 3.13.4.
- Bumps alpine from 3.13.4 to 3.13.5.
- Bumps alpine from 3.13.5 to 3.14.0.
  
  updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: alpine dependency-type: direct:production update-type: version-update:semver-minor ...

mender-artifact 3.5.3

Release date 09.29.2021

Statistics

A total of 38 lines added, 7 removed (delta 31)

Developers with the most changesets
Lluis Campos	3 (60.0%)
Ole Petter Orhagen	1 (20.0%)
Kristian Amlie	1 (20.0%)

Developers with the most changed lines
Lluis Campos	28 (73.7%)
Ole Petter Orhagen	8 (21.1%)
Kristian Amlie	2 (5.3%)

Top changeset contributors by employer
Northern.tech	5 (100.0%)

Top lines changed by employer
Northern.tech	38 (100.0%)

Employers with the most hackers (total 3)
Northern.tech	3 (100.0%)

Changelogs

mender-artifact (3.5.3)

New changes in mender-artifact since 3.5.2:

Add missing error description when artifact header can't be written.
cli: Fix parsing of filenames containing ".mender" (MEN-5076)
Fix the checksum errors encountered in rare cases where the entire byte stream is not consumed during verification, and thus giving wrong checksum errors. (MEN-5094)
Restore SSH snapshot feature on Mac OS (MEN-4362, MEN-5082)

mender-artifact 3.5.2

Released 07.14.2021

Statistics

A total of 45 lines added, 40 removed (delta 5)

Developers with the most changesets
Alf-Rune Siqveland	1 (100.0%)

Developers with the most changed lines
Alf-Rune Siqveland	45 (100.0%)

Top changeset contributors by employer
Northern.tech	1 (100.0%)

Top lines changed by employer
Northern.tech	45 (100.0%)

Employers with the most hackers (total 1)
Northern.tech	1 (100.0%)

Changelogs

mender-artifact (3.5.2)

New changes in mender-artifact since 3.5.1:

[] Fix sending on closed signal channel (MEN-4832)

mender-artifact 3.5.1

Released 04.16.2021

Changelogs

mender-artifact (3.5.1)

New changes in mender-artifact since 3.5.0:

Do not change the underlying Artifact unnecessarily Previously the commands modifying an Artifact would always repack an Artifact, no matter whether or not that modifications had actually been made to the Artifact. As an example of this, if you had a signed Artifact compressed with lzma, running mender-artifact cat <artifact>:/<path-to-file> would then cat the file, and repack the Artifact with the standard compression, which is gzip. Along the way the signature would also be lost. This fix adds the following changes to the tooling:
Modified images are no longer repacked, unless the command run has changed the underlying image. This means that cat and copying out of an image will keep your image intact. While copying into, installing, and removing files from the image will repack the image.
If an image is modified, and needs to be repacked, the existing compression will be respected when repacking. The only exception is the --compression flag for mender-artifact modify which can override the existing compression when repacking.
mender-artifact {cat,install,cp,rm} do not respect the --compression flag, but rather prints a warning, that the flag is ignored. If you want to change the compression of your Artifact, run mender-artifact modify <Artifact> --compression <type> (MEN-4502)
Add a note about the proper usage of the 'compression' flag in the global help text.

mender-artifact 3.5.1

Released 16.04.2021

Changelogs

mender-artifact (3.5.1)

New changes in mender-artifact since 3.5.0:

Do not change the underlying Artifact unnecessarily Previously the commands modifying an Artifact would always repack an Artifact, no matter whether or not that modifications had actually been made to the Artifact. As an example of this, if you had a signed Artifact compressed with lzma, running mender-artifact cat <artifact>:/<path-to-file> would then cat the file, and repack the Artifact with the standard compression, which is gzip. Along the way the signature would also be lost. This fix adds the following changes to the tooling:
Modified images are no longer repacked, unless the command run has changed the underlying image. This means that cat and copying out of an image will keep your image intact. While copying into, installing, and removing files from the image will repack the image.
If an image is modified, and needs to be repacked, the existing compression will be respected when repacking. The only exception is the --compression flag for mender-artifact modify which can override the existing compression when repacking.
mender-artifact {cat,install,cp,rm} do not respect the --compression flag, but rather prints a warning, that the flag is ignored. If you want to change the compression of your Artifact, run mender-artifact modify <Artifact> --compression <type> (MEN-4502)
Add a note about the proper usage of the 'compression' flag in the global help text.

mender-artifact 3.5.0

Released 01.20.2021

Changelogs

mender-artifact (3.5.0)

New changes in mender-artifact since 3.4.0:

Fix segfault on mender-artifact dump for v2 Artifacts (MEN-3967)
Change rootfs_image_checksum over to use namespaced provides (MEN-3482)
Implement clears_artifact_provides field in Artifact format. This field can be used to control how Artifacts modify the record of existing software on the device. For example, a rootfs-image update can erase the record of other software on the device, whereas a single-file update can preserve the records. See the Mender documentation for more information on how to use this, or refer to Documentation/artifact-format-v3.md in the mender-artifact repository for the reference. (MEN-3479)
Add --print0-cmdline argument to dump command. Works exactly like --print-cmdline but prints null bytes between arguments instead of spaces. This mirrors the -print0 argument of find and complements the -0 argument of xargs. (MEN-3483)
use sudo for snapshots if required. (MEN-3987)
Add progress indication to the mender-artifact read and write commands. So now progress is reported on the terminal TTY when reading and writing Artifacts.
run fsck on fs image created via SSH snapshot (MEN-4362)
Aggregated Dependabot Changelogs:
Bumps github.com/pkg/errors from 0.8.1 to 0.9.1.
Release notes
Commits
Bumps alpine from 3.9 to 3.12.0.
Bump alpine from 3.9 to 3.12.0
Bump github.com/pkg/errors from 0.8.1 to 0.9.1
Bumps github.com/klauspost/pgzip from 1.2.3 to 1.2.4.
Release notes
Commits
Bump github.com/klauspost/pgzip from 1.2.3 to 1.2.4
Bumps github.com/klauspost/pgzip from 1.2.4 to 1.2.5.
Release notes
Commits
Bump github.com/klauspost/pgzip from 1.2.4 to 1.2.5
Bumps alpine from 3.12.0 to 3.12.1.
Bump alpine from 3.12.0 to 3.12.1
Bumps alpine from 3.12.1 to 3.12.2.
Bump alpine from 3.12.1 to 3.12.2
Bumps alpine from 3.12.2 to 3.12.3.
Bump alpine from 3.12.2 to 3.12.3
Bumps github.com/urfave/cli from 1.22.4 to 1.22.5.
Release notes
Changelog
Commits

mender-artifact 3.4.1

Released 01.21.2021

Changelogs

mender-artifact (3.4.1)

New changes in mender-artifact since 3.4.0:

Fix segfault on mender-artifact dump for v2 Artifacts (MEN-3967)
use sudo for snapshots if required. (MEN-3987)

mender-artifact 3.4.2

Released 16.04.2021

Changelogs

mender-artifact (3.4.2)

New changes in mender-artifact since 3.4.1:

run fsck on fs image created via SSH snapshot (MEN-4362)

mender-artifact 3.4.1

Released 01.21.2021

Changelogs

mender-artifact (3.4.1)

New changes in mender-artifact since 3.4.0:

Fix segfault on mender-artifact dump for v2 Artifacts (MEN-3967)
use sudo for snapshots if required. (MEN-3987)

mender-artifact 3.4.0

Released 07.15.2020

Changelogs

mender-artifact (3.4.0)

New changes in mender-artifact since 3.3.0:

Accept suffix '.img' for mender-artifact modifiable images
Fix: Update rootfs_image_checksum provide when repacking Artifact.
Improved error message when an update-module is missing (MEN-3007)
Bugfix: ignored signals no longer cause a signal-loop (MEN-3276)
Add ability for artifact install to create directories

Enabled autocompletion of mender-artifact sub-commands in bash & zsh Now, following the instructions in the Readme file, auto-completion of mender-artifact commands can be enabled by the user, such that writing: mender-artifact results in:

➜ mender-artifact git:(bashexpansion) ✗ mender-artifact
cat          -- cat [artifact|sdimg|uefiimg]:<filepath>
cp           -- cp <src> <dst>
dump         -- Dump contents from Artifacts
help      h  -- Shows a list of commands or help for one command
install      -- install -m <permissions> <hostfile> [artifact|sdimg|uefiimg]
modify       -- Modifies image or artifact file.
read         -- Reads artifact file.
rm           -- rm [artifact|sdimg|uefiimg]:<filepath>
sign         -- Signs existing artifact file.
validate     -- Validates artifact file.
write        -- Writes artifact file.

and

➜ mender-artifact git:(bashexpansion) ✗ mender-artifact write
help          h  -- Shows a list of commands or help for one command
module-image     -- Writes Mender artifact for an update module
rootfs-image     -- Writes Mender artifact containing rootfs image

for sub-commands.

The Artifact parser now fails when no 'device-type' is found in a payload.
Disallow writes of UpdateModule Artifacts with no 'device-type' flag
Return an error code if CLI read fails
Disallow parsing ArtifactV2 with empty device type field
Display all CLI commands and flags sorted alplhabetically
Missing a required CLI flag will now return an error
Indexed the CLI commands by category This should make it easier to distinguish the large number of CLI commands depending on their intended usage. The two categories added are:
Artifact creation and validation
Artifact modification And should help to roughly set the commands apart depending on if they are intended to work with a standard Artifact, either creating it or validating it. The second category is intended for modification of already existing artifacts, such as adding or removing files, signing or modifying the Artifact name.
Add(cli): Print the urfave/cli error on error

mender-artifact 3.3.1

Released 07.15.2020

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mender-artifact (3.3.1)

New changes in mender-artifact since 3.3.0:

Bugfix: ignored signals no longer cause a signal-loop (MEN-3276)

mender-artifact 3.3.0

Released 03.05.2020

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mender-artifact (3.3.0)

New changes in mender-artifact since 3.2.1:

Adds API for returning all Artifact provides and depends (MEN-2549)
Enables Artifact Provides and Depends for write rootfs-img Previously, the write rootfs-image command did not have the ability to set Provides and Depends in the artifact. This was only enabled for the write module-image command. Now the rootfs-image update can also set Provides and Depends. However, please note that meta-data and augmented Provides and Depends still are unsupported. (MEN-2812)
Fix bug that destroys Artifact if any copy/modify command is used on a non-rootfs-image Artifact. (MEN-2592)
The modify subcommand has gained the -k/--key argument to automatically sign the Artifact after modification. (MEN-2592)
Remove superfluous "Files" header from read output.
Fix incorrect help string for signed artifacts. If no key was provided, it said that the signature verification failed, but it should instruct the user to provide a key.
Fix state scripts being lost when modifying artifact.
One can now use mender-artifact modify to change artifact Depends, Provides and Meta-data attributes. See the help screen for more information. (MEN-1669)
mender-artifact modify --name argument renamed to --artifact-name to match the rest of the tool's flags. The old flag is still kept for compatibility. (MEN-1669)
Make artifact install respect the given file permissions (MEN-2880)
Added the writing of the rootfs_image_checksum provide parameter as a default to rootfs-image Artifacts. This means that now, the rootfs_image_checksum will be written as a provide parameter to the Mender client's database upon an update with the given Artifact. Please note that for older clients (i.e. <= 2.1.x) this will not work, and the functionality should be disabled by the user through the --no-checksum-provide flag when writing a rootfs-image Artifact. (MEN-2956)
Create artifact from device snapshot

mender-artifact 3.2.1

Released 12.05.2019

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mender-artifact (3.2.1)

New changes in mender-artifact since 3.2.0:

Make artifact install respect the given file permissions (MEN-2880)

mender-artifact 3.2.0

Released 10.23.2019

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mender-artifact (3.2.0)

New changes in mender-artifact since 3.1.0:

'mender-artifact cp' now requires '-' in order to read stdin (MEN-2745)
Fix error where files larger than the buffer used by io.Copy() was not buffered when mender-artifact cp read from stdin. This means that now, mender-artfact cp - mender.artifact:/in/img/path will successfully copy larger files.
fix erroneously report of "-dirty" in the version string. (MEN-2800)
Fix build-contained Makefile: image was missing make install
Update the type-info documentation in the version 3 artifact format This commit updates the description of the values allowed in the type-info headers in the version 3 of the artifact format. Formerly only the key rootfs-image-checksum was allowed, while now, any key is allowed, with the only allowed value types being string, or array of strings.
Allow --compression to be specified after command. This allows it to be appended to the command, which makes it usable with -- style arguments to Update Module Artifact generators.
Enable typeinfo artifact-depends/provides string and []string values Previously the artifact-depends key in the type-info header was restricted to contain a single key rootfs-image-checksum. This restriction has now been lifted, and the key can now contain arbitrary string, and []string values.
Fix: mender-artifact modify did not clean up the temp-files created (MEN-2758)
Mender-Artifact format version 1 is hereby no longer supported, and neither reading or writing the version 1 of the format is no longer supported. Please move to using a newer version. (MEN-2156)
mender-artifact will now fail to validate a signed Artifact if no validation key is specified. No behaviour change for unsigned Artifacts. (MEN-2802)

mender-artifact 3.1.1

Released 12.05.2019

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mender-artifact (3.1.1)

New changes in mender-artifact since 3.1.0:

fix erroneously report of "-dirty" in the version string. (MEN-2800)
Fix: mender-artifact modify did not clean up the temp-files created (MEN-2758)
Fix build-contained Makefile: image was missing make install
Make artifact install respect the given file permissions (MEN-2880)

mender-artifact 3.1.0

Released 09.16.2019

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mender-artifact (3.1.0)

New changes in mender-artifact since 3.0.1:

Fix non-rootfs Artifacts being destroyed when signing them. (MEN-2573)
The mender-artifact tool now checks whether the required external binaries can be found on the system, and if not, returns an appropriate error message. (MEN-2180)
Fix name modify command for rootfs-image Artifacts (MEN-2488)
Remove documentation for artifact format v1, which is now unsupported.
mender-convert modify for Update Module Artifacts will only work for options that change the headers or meta-data of the Artifact; curently only the Artifact name. (MEN-2487)
Enable signing of artifacts larger than 1MiB (MEN-2631)
Fix "unexpected EOF" errors when the source of the artifact is a slow network stream.
Fix spurious upload errors due to wrong EOF handling.
checking if fsck is on path and returing error if not.
Add dump command to mender-artifact. It takes an artifact as input, some optional dumping directories, and writes the various raw files from the artifact into those directories. The parameter --print-cmdline can be used to generate a command line which can be used to recreate the same artifact from the dumped files. (MEN-2580)
Added a build step for macOS to the Travis build.
mender-artifact modify does not support anymore signing the Artifact after the modification. Use mender-convert sign after the modification to sign the Artifact. (MEN-2486)

mender-artifact 3.0.1

Released 06.24.2019

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mender-artifact (3.0.1)

New changes in mender-artifact since 3.0.0:

Fix non-rootfs Artifacts being destroyed when signing them. (MEN-2573)

mender-artifact 3.0.0

Released 05.07.2019

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mender-artifact (3.0.0)

New changes in mender-artifact since 3.0.0b1:

checking if fsck is on path and returing error if not.
Fix name modify command for rootfs-image Artifacts (MEN-2488)
mender-convert modify for Update Module Artifacts will only work for options that change the headers or meta-data of the Artifact; curently only the Artifact name. (MEN-2487)
mender-artifact modify does not support anymore signing the Artifact after the modification. Use mender-convert sign after the modification to sign the Artifact. (MEN-2486)

New changes in mender-artifact since 2.4.0:

add support for uncompressed updates (MEN-2224)
mender-artifact tool now supports removing a file in either an sdimg, or in a Mender Artifact, with the rm command. (MEN-2331)
FIX: mender-artifact cat now cleans up resources on write-errors.
Implement reading and writing support for update modules. (MEN-2004)
Change rootfs-image -u argument to -f. Similarly, change --update to --file. (MEN-2286)
Due to some faulty logic in modify.go:modifyArtifact, the sdimg's provided were modified, but not repacked. This fix updates the logic, and added a test specifically for sdimg, as they we're non-existent. (MEN-2294)
fixes issue when binary dependencies are not in PATH (MEN-2180)
Validate the data update files names in payload filename (MEN-2319)
Mender-artifactV3: Bump the artifact-version protocol to version 3.
Report a human readable error in case the artifact payload is not ext4.
Add support for compressing artifacts using LZMA.

mender-artifact 2.4.1

Released 05.07.2019

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mender-artifact (2.4.1)

New changes in mender-artifact since 2.4.0:

Report a human readable error in case the artifact payload is not ext4.

mender-artifact 2.4.0

Released 12.13.2018

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mender-artifact (2.4.0)

New changes in mender-artifact since 2.3.0:

FIX: mender-artifact cp no longer renames the artifact.
FIX: remove leftover tmp files from mender-artifact cp.
FIX: mender-artifact no longer changes the names of the updates in an artifact
Updated the JSON format of header-info version 3.
A command of the form "mender-artifact validate unsigned.mender -k public.key" was incorrectly succeeding for an unsigned artifact when a public key was supplied. Supplying a public key indicates that the caller requires the artifact to contain a signature that matches that key. Now this command fails (exits with a nonzero value) as expected. (MEN-2155)
FIX: Renaming a file across devices now works. (MEN-2166)
FIX: mender-artifact cat,cp,modify etc no longer removes the update. Previously an update present in a directory, with the same name as the update present in an update would be removed as a result of what the functions thought was tmp-files. (MEN-2171)
Fixed a bug that caused a command like "mender-artifact cat signed.mender:/etc/mender/artifact_info" to fail with the error: "failed to open the partition reader: err: error validating signature" There was a similar problem with the "cp" command, and also the "modify" command when no "-k" was present to replace the existing signature.

mender-artifact 2.3.1

Released 12.13.2018

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mender-artifact (2.3.1)

New changes in mender-artifact since 2.3.0:

FIX: Renaming a file across devices now works. (MEN-2166)
FIX: mender-artifact cat,cp,modify etc no longer removes the update. Previously an update present in a directory, with the same name as the update present in an update would be removed as a result of what the functions thought was tmp-files. (MEN-2171)

mender-artifact 2.3.0

Released 09.18.2018

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mender-artifact (2.3.0)

New changes in mender-artifact since 2.3.0b1:

FIX: mender-artifact cp no longer renames the artifact.
FIX: remove leftover tmp files from mender-artifact cp.
FIX: mender-artifact no longer changes the names of the updates in an artifact

New changes in mender-artifact since 2.2.0:

Add boot partition as a modify candidate for artifact cp
Add mtools as a dependency before installing from source, and in travis
Testify/require files added to the vendor directory
Small cleanup of license text. No legal difference, just makes it easier for the tooling.
Install function added
Added uefiimg as an option to the cp and cat commands
modify any file using the mender-artifact tool (MEN-1741)
add testify/require to vendor
modify any file using the mender-artifact tool (MEN-1741)
Mender-artifact can now copy to and read from the data partition (MEN-1953)
run fsck before modifying image. (MEN-1798)

mender-artifact 2.2.0b1

Released 02.09.2018

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mender-artifact (2.2.0b1)

Fix ECDSA failures while signing and verifying artifact. (MEN-1470)
Fix broken header checksum verification. (MEN-1412)
Add modify existing images and artifacts functionality. (MEN-1213)
Artifact version 3 format documentation (MEN-1667)
Mender-Artifact now returns an error code to the os on cli errors (MEN-1328)
mender-artifact now fails with whitespace in the artifact-name (MEN-1355)

mender-artifact 2.1.2

Released 02.09.2018

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mender-artifact (2.1.2)

Fix ECDSA failures while signing and verifying artifact. (MEN-1470)

mender-artifact 2.1.1

Released 10.02.2017

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mender-artifact (2.1.1)

Fix broken header checksum verification. (MEN-1412)

mender-artifact 2.1.0

Released 09.05.2017

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mender-artifact (2.1.0)

Sign existing artifacts using mender-artifact CLI (MEN-1220)
Improve error message when private signing key can't be loaded.
Fix misleading version being displayed for non-tagged builds. (MEN-1178)
Mender-Artifact now returns an error code to the os on cli errors (MEN-1328)
mender-artifact now fails with whitespace in the artifact-name (MEN-1355)

mender-artifact 2.0.2

(Never released publicly)

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mender-artifact (2.0.2)

Fix broken header checksum verification. (MEN-1412)

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