Lorax is a tool for creating the anaconda install images.
It also includes livemedia-creator which is used to create bootable livemedia,
including live isos and disk images. It can use libvirtd for the install, or
Anaconda's image install feature.
* Wed Apr 09 2025 Arkady L. Shane <tigro@msvsphere-os.ru> - 40.5.11-1.inferit
- Backport dracut chroot umount fix
- Fix replace command utf8 handling
- Add iconv template command
- Set latarcyrheb-sun16 as default font instead of eurlatgr
* Mon Jan 20 2025 Brian C. Lane <bcl@redhat.com> 40.5.11-1
- erofs: Make smaller lzma erofs images by default (bcl)
Related: RHEL-48606
- Revert "erofs: Change the erofs compression default to zstd" (bcl)
Related: RHEL-48606
* Tue Nov 26 2024 MSVSphere Packaging Team <packager@msvsphere-os.ru> - 40.5.10-1
- Rebuilt for MSVSphere 10
* Fri Nov 22 2024 Brian C. Lane <bcl@redhat.com> 40.5.10-1
- erofs: Change the erofs compression default to zstd (bcl)
Related: RHEL-48606
- Revert "tests: Swap nomodeset for inst.text in mkksiso test data" (bcl)
Related: RHEL-66603
- Revert "templates: Change nomodeset / basic graphics to use inst.text" (bcl)
Related: RHEL-66603
- Revert "templates: Drop nomodeset / basic graphics menu from live configs" (bcl)
Related: RHEL-66603
* Mon Nov 11 2024 Brian C. Lane <bcl@redhat.com> 40.5.9-1
- tests: Swap nomodeset for inst.text in mkksiso test data (bcl)
Related: RHEL-66603
- templates: Change nomodeset / basic graphics to use inst.text (bcl)
Resolves: RHEL-66603
- templates: Drop nomodeset / basic graphics menu from live configs (bcl)
Related: RHEL-66603
* Tue Oct 08 2024 Brian C. Lane <bcl@redhat.com> 40.5.8-1
- tests: Fix mkksiso unit test (bcl)
Related: RHEL-61778
- pylint: Print astroid version (bcl)
Related: RHEL-61778
- Extend help for --updates and --ks parameters (jkonecny)
Related: RHEL-61778
- Fix --updates the updates image wasn't loaded (jkonecny)
Resolves: RHEL-61778
- Implement --replace also for S390 (sebastian.stark)
Related: RHEL-61778
- mkksiso: option --replace to replace arbitrary text in boot config. (sebastian.stark)
Related: RHEL-61778
- livemedia: Add isomd5sum (bcl)
Resolves: RHEL-58896
* Tue Sep 10 2024 Brian C. Lane <bcl@redhat.com> 40.5.7-1
- templates: Sync template changes from lorax-templates-rhel (bcl)
Resolves: RHEL-54713
- tests: Add a test to make sure redhat-release-eula isn't included (bcl)
Related: RHEL-54381
* Mon Aug 12 2024 Brian C. Lane <bcl@redhat.com> 40.5.6-1
- New lorax documentation - 40.5.6 (bcl)
Related: RHEL-48606
- ltmpl: Remove * from docstring (bcl)
Related: RHEL-48606
- docs: Update intersphinx and add _static dir (bcl)
Related: RHEL-48606
- docs: Document --rootfs-type options (bcl)
Related: RHEL-48606
- erofs: Use dedupe and all-fragments options (bcl)
Related: RHEL-48606
- imgutils: mkfs.erofs options should come first (bcl)
Related: RHEL-48606
- Accept but ignore the old --squashfs-only argument (awilliam)
Related: RHEL-48606
- Add compression.erofs section to lorax.conf (bcl)
Resolves: RHEL-48606
- Add erofs and erofs-ext4 support to --rootfs-type (bcl)
Related: RHEL-48606
- Replace squashfs_only with rootfs_type (bcl)
Related: RHEL-48606
- imgutils: Add mkerofs function and test (bcl)
Related: RHEL-48606
- runtime-postinstall: Make sure blacklist_exceptions has been removed (jstodola)
Resolves: RHEL-53721
* Fri Jul 19 2024 Brian C. Lane <bcl@redhat.com> 40.5.5-1
- templates: Synchronize generic templates with lorax-templates-rhel (bcl)
Related: RHEL-35396
- docs: Update livemedia-creator documentation for RHEL 10 (bcl)
Related: RHEL-31853
- livemedia-creator: The --make-tar option requires tar (bcl)
Related: RHEL-31853
- docs: Update example kickstarts for RHEL/CentOS (bcl)
Resolves: RHEL-31853
- lorax: Change default rootfs size to 3GiB (bcl)
Resolves: RHEL-32504
* Wed Jun 12 2024 Brian C. Lane <bcl@redhat.com> 40.5.4-1
- tito: Add tito to container's test-packages (bcl)
Related: RHEL-31830
- creator: Fix pylint error in run_creator (bcl)
Related: RHEL-31830
- livemedia-creator: Check for BIOS vs. UEFI qemu support (bcl)
Related: RHEL-31830
- livemedia-creator: Enable s390x virt support (bcl)
Related: RHEL-31830
- livemedia-creator: Make use of virtio devices more generic (bcl)
Related: RHEL-31830
- Set requirement on lorax-templates-rhel for prefixdevname change (bcl)
Related: RHEL-30010
