Below is a list of post-release service announcements.
📌 PSA 12/11/24
PSA: Today, we’ve updated the Nitrux Update Tool System to version 2.1.9. To do so, run the following command.
sudo nuts self-update
Here’s a list of changes:
- Improve status messages for better readability.
- Add a new check to verify the connection to raw.githubusercontent.com in the overlay and the chroot.
- Quit the update process if the root partition filesystem is not XFS.
- Quit the rescue process if the root partition filesystem is not XFS.
- Fix error handling and improve some functions.
- Quit the update, restore, and self-update processes if not using OverlayFS.
📌 PSA 04/11/24
PSA: Today, we’ve released the OTA update archive for Nitrux 3.7.0→3.7.1. To update the distribution, run the following command.
sudo nuts update
Additionally, we’ve updated the Nitrux Update Tool System to version 2.1.8 with the following changes.
- Ensure DKMS builds xone for the newer kernel.
- Ensure new kernel parameters are added to the GRUB menu.
- Ensure the newest kernel is used for the default boot entry.
- Mount /var/lib in chroot for update-grub to work correctly.
- Fix a problem when using restore due to nuts checking for a non-existent file.
Since these changes don’t affect the main component, the main component will download these updates during runtime.