Dear subscribers,

we plan to give a lightning talk about recent changes in ISAR at the "Linux Community Event" conference (Siemens internal).
The talk should give an overview about major changes and features, added to ISAR since the last year.

Below you will find a list of topics we plan to present.
Are there any further topics which we should cover?

- distro support
  - added debian bullseye
  - added ubuntu (focal)
- target support
  - added sample RISC-V target
- image formats
  - added OVA (VMWare) image type
  - added CPIO image type (initramfs like filesystem)
  - generate OCI (container) filesystem
- Performance optimizations
  - SState
  - CCache (Upcoming)

Minor changes:
- Install prebuild DPKD packages from third party sources
- Support for apt sources in "Absolute Component Format"
- Package building
  - DEBIAN_BUILD_DEPENDS as BB parameter
  - DEBIAN_CONFLICTS as BB parameter
- git as default patchtool
- Warn if FS has Y2038 issue
- Changes to ISAR_RELEASE_CMD (upcoming)

Best regards,
Felix