GRUB 2.06 is out - what next?

GRUB 2.06 is out - what next?

[Daniel Kiper]

Hi all,

As you may saw the GRUB 2.06 is out! This means, among others, code
unfreeze... :-) I am going to start reviewing all the patches which are
lingering in my mailbox since 2020 in July (yeah, this year if somebody
wants to ask ;-) ). I will be going backwards. So, I will be looking at
the latest patches first. If you think some patches are more important
than others please reply to this email. I will try to take your voice
into account. I hope I will be able to clear whole backlog by the end of
this year. Of course your help is appreciated. Especially if you feel
you are able to review a given set of patches. This should offload me
a bit. In parallel I will be looking at the new patches which will be
posted on the grub-devel. This way we should avoid new backlog in the
future...

Additionally, I will be working on improving the GRUB governance,
testing, etc. This, of course, requires a lot of help from you too. So,
expect I will be approaching you directly in the following months and
asking for help in this and that...

Last but not least, you may expect next release in first half of 2022.

Stay tuned...

Daniel

Re: GRUB 2.06 is out - what next?

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Tue, 2021-06-08 at 19:58 +0200, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> As you may saw the GRUB 2.06 is out! This means, among others, code
> unfreeze... :-) I am going to start reviewing all the patches which are
> lingering in my mailbox since 2020 in July (yeah, this year if somebody
> wants to ask ;-) ). I will be going backwards. So, I will be looking at
> the latest patches first. If you think some patches are more important
> than others please reply to this email. I will try to take your voice
> into account. I hope I will be able to clear whole backlog by the end of
> this year. Of course your help is appreciated. Especially if you feel
> you are able to review a given set of patches. This should offload me
> a bit. In parallel I will be looking at the new patches which will be
> posted on the grub-devel. This way we should avoid new backlog in the
> future...

Hi Daniel, thanks for all this !

I'll be rebasing, testing and re-sending the MMIO serial patches, but
feel free to review the existing lot as i don't expect to change them
fundamentally other than minor rebase related glitches.

Cheers,
Ben.

Re: GRUB 2.06 is out - what next?

[Patrick Steinhardt]

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Hi,

On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 07:58:18PM +0200, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> As you may saw the GRUB 2.06 is out! This means, among others, code
> unfreeze... :-) I am going to start reviewing all the patches which are
> lingering in my mailbox since 2020 in July (yeah, this year if somebody
> wants to ask ;-) ). I will be going backwards. So, I will be looking at
> the latest patches first. If you think some patches are more important
> than others please reply to this email. I will try to take your voice
> into account. I hope I will be able to clear whole backlog by the end of
> this year. Of course your help is appreciated. Especially if you feel
> you are able to review a given set of patches. This should offload me
> a bit. In parallel I will be looking at the new patches which will be
> posted on the grub-devel. This way we should avoid new backlog in the
> future...
> 
> Additionally, I will be working on improving the GRUB governance,
> testing, etc. This, of course, requires a lot of help from you too. So,
> expect I will be approaching you directly in the following months and
> asking for help in this and that...
> 
> Last but not least, you may expect next release in first half of 2022.
> 
> Stay tuned...

Good news! I'll be rerolling my three patch series in the following days
then which implement:

    - Argon2 support for LUKS2.

    - An extension of the EFI memory allocator to request additional
      areas on demand. This is mainly required for Argon2 support given
      that it requires huge chunks of memory.

    - osprober support for LUKS2.

Thanks a lot for your efforts.

Patrick

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