Grub 2.12 will be released this year to continue to improve boot security

It was held last weekend FOSDEM 2022 At the conference ,Oracle The engineer Daniel Kiper Just GRUB The development of the boot loader is reported annually , It shows the latest achievements of this leading open source boot loader , And introduce this year's plans and tasks achieved . such as GRUB 2.12 It will be released soon , And will continue to work to improve the security of guidance .

In the past year ,GRUB The developer is finished BootHole and BootHole2 Security fix , Formulated the LUKS2 Support 、 For many encrypted disks and others LUKS(2) Change of 、 to update miniLZO Support and various other updates .

GRUB 2.12 Our goal is to release the latest fix by the middle of this year .GRUB The current development work mainly focuses on using Rust Programming languages write new GRUB modular 、 Provide LoongArch Architecture support . as for TrenchBoot, Currently suspended due to ongoing design discussions , Other plans include more work around encrypted disks and confidential Computing .

If you want to know more GRUB Status of the project , see  Daniel Kiper Complete presentation of .