v1.8.0

• New features

  • Added --shutdown-report <path>. Whenever the Erlang VM exits, if a path
    has been specified, erlinit will write a short report that may be useful
    in debugging whatever caused the exit. In Nerves:

    config :nerves,
      erlinit: [shutdown_report: "/data/shutdown.txt"]

v1.7.1

• Bug fixes
  • $HOME is now set based on /etc/passwd rather than hardcoded to /root.
    This fixes an inconsistency in how erlinit worked and pretty much every
    Linux distribution. If the lookup fails, erlinit defaults to /root.
    Nerves creates a /etc/passwd that already has root's home directory set to
    /root, so most users won't notice a change.

v1.7.0

• New features

  • Added --tty-options parameter for initializing UARTs.
    E.g., --tty-options 115200n8 or in Nerves, use:

    config :nerves,
      erlinit: [ctty: "ttyS0", tty_options: "115200n8", alternate_exec: "/usr/bin/nbtty"]

    Only common baud rates and 8-bit/no parity are supported.

v1.6.1

• Bug fixes
  • Fix rootdisk symlink determination. Erlinit has been responsible for
    creating /dev/rootdisk* symlinks so that applications can generically
    figure out which block device is the boot disk. This is used for firmware
    updates, mounting other filesystems, etc. Previously a heuristic was used
    that worked a good amount of time. It broke or created extraneous symlinks
    on some systems. The new mechanism queries Linux directly and does a better
    job.

v1.6.0

• New features
  • Added the --release-include-erts option so that erlinit can use the ERTS
    provided by embedded release. Thanks to João Henrique Ferreira de Freitas
    for this feature.

v1.5.3

• Bug fixes
  • Change PROGNAME setting to erlexec so that OTP's
    slave works. slave had been
    calling erl which would try to figure out the ROOTDIR again. erlinit
    already sets ROOTDIR properly, so this isn't necessary and erl would also
    get it wrong.

v1.5.2

• Bug fixes
  • Due to an embedded timestamp for checking the system clock, erlinit was not
    reproducible. This adds support for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH. See
    https://reproducible-builds.org/ for motivation and more details.
  • Fix graceful shutdown time calculation bug. The seconds part of the
    calculation was correct, but the nanoseconds part was not. Since the default
    timeout was an even number of seconds, it's likely that this fix is doesn't
    affect many users.

v1.5.1

• Bug fixes
  • Fixed an issue with reaping zombie processes if too many died at once. If
    this happened and you ran ps, you'd start seeing processes in the Z
    state piling up over time.

v1.5.0

• New features
  • Support Elixir 1.9+ releases by setting the -boot_var RELEASE_LIB.

v1.4.9

• Bug fixes
  • Work around kernel message rate limiter. This makes it possible to see >10
    messages when verbose is enabled.
  • Support merging commandline arguments together so that it's possible to
    launch erlang via run_erl. This is required since run_erl runs
    sh -c to start Erlang up and that requires all arguments to be passed
    as a long string. Example: -s "/usr/bin/run_erl /tmp/ /tmp exec"