Release Notes

August 2022 (version 8.8)

Overview

The August 27th, 2022 release of DietPi v8.8 comes with a Dietpi-Imager feature extension and a couple of minor bug fixes.

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Improvements

• DietPi-Imager It is now possible to skip the 7z archive creation but have the raw image file created only. Many thanks to @DrCWO for requesting this feature: MichaIng/DietPi#5687
• DietPi-Imager It is now possible to shrink the originating image’s/drive’s filesystems and partitions only, instead of creating a new image file from it by passing/exporting the variable SHRINK_ONLY=1.
• DietPi-Imager The dietpi-fs_partition_resize.service is now enabled automatically on the source image/drive before it is shrunk. This way it is assured that the shrunk original system as well as the newly created image will have their root partition and filesystem expanded automatically on next boot. Many thanks to @DrCWO for suggesting this enhancement: MichaIng/DietPi#5672

Bug Fixes

• DietPi-Installer The common Debian images on Linode VPS (cloud computing server) can now be converted into DietPi. This was previously failing since these images intentionally do not contain a partition table, so that GRUB cannot be flashed. Many thanks to @mews-se for reporting this issue: MichaIng/DietPi#5691
• DietPi-Software | vaultwarden Resolved an issue where the installation failed on Buster systems. Many thanks to @anubis-genix for reporting this issue: MichaIng/DietPi#5681
• DietPi-Software | vaultwarden Resolved an issue where reinstalls onto existing pre-v1.25 vaultwarden installs lead to missing remote web vault access. Many thanks to @jetspeed for reporting this issue: https://dietpi.com/forum/t/vaultwarden-update-command-fail-then-vaultwarden-not-start-even-after-reboot/13350/68

As always, many smaller code performance and stability improvements, visual and spelling fixes have been done, too much to list all of them here. Check out all code changes of this release on GitHub: MichaIng/DietPi!5715