EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.0.13 released and more EasyOS updates

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 20, 2025

• Barry Kauler ☛ EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.0.13 released

  Overlayfs instead of aufs is the default since version 7.0.11; all users of 7.0.11 and 7.0.12 must update to 7.0.13, as there is an important bugfix. Here are the highlights since 7.0.12: [...]

• Barry Kauler ☛ Attempt kernel support wireguard

  Forum member allendiggity reported a problem with wireguard:

  https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=156608#p156608

  OK, I have compiled the 6.12.47 kernel, with the options indicated by "<<<" enabled: [...]

• Barry Kauler ☛ Overlay session save bug

  Not happy that this one got through. Whiteout-files, that are character devices in overlay, weren't getting applied to delete the underlying file at shutdown.

  I posted about the pivot_root method of session save:

  https://bkhome.org/news/202509/save-session-by-pivotroot-for-overlayfs.html

  What I discovered is that the 'cp' utility doesn't copy character devices after the pivot_root. It just silently ignores them, no error messages.