Updating directly to 4.x is too difficult and complex, as mender 4.x is
a complete rewrite in C++, with several new dependencies and changes.
As such, update to the last version that was written in Go, which is
3.5.3. The following changes are necessary:
The artifact_info file is no longer supported. Instead, mender now expects a
bootstrap.mender artifact created by mender-artifact /var/lib/mender.
See the following for more information:
https://northerntech.atlassian.net/browse/MEN-2585https://northerntech.atlassian.net/browse/MEN-2583https://docs.mender.io/release-information/release-notes-changelog/mender-client#mender-3-5-0-1https://github.com/mendersoftware/mender/blob/3.5.3/Documentation/automatic-bootstrap-artifact.md
- Remove all instances of creating or copying an artifact_info file
from board examples and package/mender.
- Add a generate_mender_bootstrap_artifact method to
board/mender/x86_64/post-image-efi.sh which creates a proper
bootstrap.mender file and places it in the data partition.
- Add a post-build.sh script to support/testing/tests/package/test_mender
with the same generate_mender_bootstrap_artifact method with one change:
As the rootfs.ext4 file is not yet created; we omit the optional
--provides "rootfs-image.checksum:${img_checksum}" argument when
generating the bootstrap.mender file.
Mender expects the device_type file to exist in /var/lib/mender/device_type.
This is further supported by the following line in tests/Dockerfile.daemon:
`echo device_type=docker-client > /var/lib/mender/device_type`
Add a migration section in docs/manual/migrating.adoc
Update the package/mender/readme.txt to include a quick mention of the
bootstrap.mender artifact change.
License changes:
New:
vendor/github.com/klauspost/compress/internal/snapref/LICENSE (BSD-3-Clause)
vendor/github.com/klauspost/compress/zstd/internal/xxhash/LICENSE.txt (MIT)
Removed:
vendor/github.com/klauspost/compress/internal/snapref/LICENSE
vendor/github.com/klauspost/compress/zstd/internal/xxhash/LICENSE.txt
Modified:
LICENSE: Update year from 2022 to 2024
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM.sha256: Sum of all Licenses changed
vendor/github.com/mendersoftware/mender-artifact/LICENSE
- Update year from 2022 to 2023
Signed-off-by: Adam Duskett <adam.duskett@amarulasolutions.com>
[Arnout:
- fix LIC_FILES_CHKSUM.sha256 hash
- Better URL for bootstrap artifact doc
- Migrate to 2025.02 instead of 2024.11
- Improve migrating text (editorial changes)
]
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
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