After more than a year, a new major FAI release is ready to download.

Following new features are included:

• add support for release specification in package_config via release=<name>
• the partitioning tool now supports partition labels with GPT
• support partition labels and partition uuids in fstab
• support for Alpine Linux and Arch Linux package managers in install_packages
• Ubuntu 22.04 and Rocky Linux 9 support added
• add support for NVme devices in fai-kvm
• add ssh key for root remote access using classes

We have included a lot of bug fixes for free of course.

Even if FAI 6.0 will only be included into Debian bookworm, you can install it on a bullseye FAI server and create a nfsroot using bookworm without any problems. The combination of a bullseye FAI server with FAI 6.0 and a bullseye nfsroot should also work.

New ISO images are available at https://fai-project.org/fai-cd/

The FAI.me build service is not yet using FAI 6.0, but support will be added in the future.