Re: GRUB 2.04 release

[Daniel Kiper]

On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 12:12:40PM +0200, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> GRUB maintainers are proud to announce GRUB 2.04 that has been just released.
> You can find list of new features and major fixes since release 2.02 in the
> NEWS file.
>
> We would like to thank all the people who have contributed to the project.
>
> The tarball is available at https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-2.04.tar.xz
> and its signature at https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-2.04.tar.xz.sig
>
> Release is signed with the following fingerprint:
>   BE5C 2320 9ACD DACE B20D  B0A2 8C81 89F1 988C 2166
>
> It's also available as a signed grub-2.04 tag in official git repository.
>
> If you do not have xz support alternatively you may consider file
> https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-2.04.tar.gz and its signature at
> https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-2.04.tar.gz.sig
>
> If you want a binary version for Windows (i386-pc, i386-efi and x86_64-efi
> flavors) it is available under 
> https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-2.04-for-windows.zip
> and its signature at 
> https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-2.04-for-windows.zip.sig

We had to rebuild GRUB for Windows due to bug discovered in i386-pc
targets. The issue manifests more or less in the following way:

  ...
  grub-mkimage: info: reading
  C:\Temp\Download\Generate\grub-2.04-for-windows/i386-pc/lzma_decompress.img.
  grub-mkimage: error: Decompressor is too big.
  ...

New Windows ZIP archive contains a workaround for the bug. Proper fix
will be posted and merged into GRUB upstream code.

I want thank Dave for notifying us about the problem.

Daniel

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