liken 2026.07.14-001

Catalog it

Add this entry to your cluster's spec.releases.catalog, then set spec.version to the same version. The digest is the sha256 of the release document's exact bytes, and the document gives the digest of every artifact below.

  - version: 2026.07.14-001
    digest: sha256:52fe29230c5adcf09d72d38faf7d4e0ffc4edec4d8ef028954b60b8cc4644fba

The upgrade guide gives the rest of the steps. See release 2026.07.14-001 on GitHub.

What changed

Changes since v2026.07.13-003:

- liken.sh sheds its hand-planted GRUB: milestone 30
- Two fixes the milestone-30 drills shook loose
- The GRUB dialect of the boot actuator
- An actuator seam between the proving lifecycle and the firmware
- A BIOS smoke drill in CI, and a FIRMWARE knob for the lab
- The installer learns to lay GRUB down
- The boot-sector patcher: grub-bios-setup, by hand
- init learns GRUB's environment block and its config
- Releases carry GRUB, and the grub pin steps back to 2.12
- A grub domain: the bootloader liken ships for BIOS machines
- Two storage roles for machines that boot through GRUB
- FAT32 learns the spec's small-volume cluster sizes
- GPT rewrites carry the boot code through

Artifacts

release.yaml is the document that lists them. LICENSES.md carries the third-party notices, and the source mirror serves the corresponding source for the components that require it.

What is inside