Software GearLock - Custom Recovery Replacement for Android-x86 7.1.15

Feature

• build-system: Ability to autogen Changelog in my own way (Tired of all the funny tools out there)
• Implement showing last error code in bash prompt
• change Thomas Edition quote with Nikola Tesla one in gearinit
• improve bashrc and implement extended bash history logging

Bugfix

• Unexpected big font being applied in main.src/1 after a job
• gdk: Resolve wrong variable names
• gxpm: Unexpected exit due to a missing variable
• version: Testing a version change on auto-versioning.
• build-system: Exclude merge commits in makeme auto-versioning
• build-system: Exclude last CI commit
• build-system: Makeme semver error
• do not export BASH_HISTORY vars to avoid conflict with other shells on invocation in bashrc
• version: update version code
• wrong supercharge applet path in gearinit
• use of wrong HOME variabe in bash.bashrc
• update PATH in GearLock core according to recent changes
• add missing newline at the end in core/gst.src/10

Refactoring

• build-system: Improve gen.conventionalChangelog()
• build-system: Increase patchLevel version bump limit
• build-system: Improve patch.aosp_root() function in makeme
• build-system: Improve shebang fixing in makeme
• build-system: Set max patch level to 20 in makeme
• no more useless use of CAT in gearinit
• no longer mask stderr&stdout in fixfs

Chore

• Add new scope in code-workplace
• build-system: Implement auto versioning
• Fix core-workspace folder wildcard matching

Ci

• Use semantic-pull-request in encforce_cc.yml
• Enforce CC specifications for commits on PRs
• Add workflow badge in README.md

I'm really proud to announce that this release is based on the open-sourced code, this was really a thing ...
So, here we go ...

ChangeLog (Not precise I guess)

1. feat: GearLock is now completely opensource, yay!
2. feat: GearLock, each and every one of its applets and modules are 3x faster than before because of its open-nature!
3. feat: auto-googlePlayServices-updater disabler function in "game/system tweaks."
4. feat: new magisk-installer with rusty-magisk integration in "extra misc.".
5. perf: improve interface themes.
6. feat: new overlay() feature in gearboot (Undocumented , will do it soon since its cool)
7. feat: dual REBOOT_REQ modes (for example: now you can specify if you wanna skip REBOOT_REQ in recovery mode)
8. fix: return from load_dri() when AUTO_LOAD=old is passed for gearinit.
9. fix: android_runtime hooking of gearboot from gearinit for android-11.
10. fix: only allow FS restoration in recovery-mode for additional safety.
11. feat: add bashbox source.
12. feat: implement support for fixing both .img and extFS at the same time on fixfs.
13. fix: issues with terminal-emulator UI for android-11 on ui-core.
14. perf: improvements in recovery mode.
15. fix: add android-11 PATH extras in gearinit.rc
16. fix: make geco to be self-executable.
17. refactor: improve gstatus.
18. refactor: improve fixfs.
19. refactor: re-arrange menu in gearlock-app.
20. feat: have $GHOME/.local/bin in PATH.
21. fix: change back TERM type to LINUX to overcome some issues.
22. refactor: changes in ghome file hierarchy creation.
23. pref: rewrite in gearlock ui core functions.
24. pref: rewrite gearlock core in relatively better syntax.
25. refactor: improve write_gblog() function in gearboot.
26. perf: optimize volatile mountpoint access checking.
27. perf: improve gearlock-cli gearlock-post.
28. fix: improve CPU_ARCH and HOST_ARCH detection.
29. fix: empty NTFS partition mounted (@Night )
30. perf: improvements in GDK.
31. fix: don't skip updating gearlock-app & FX when gearlock installer is used outside of android-ENV.
32. perf: improve gearlock-installer.
33. feat: use vendorsetup only for adding Gearlock to AOSP build (@Electrikjesus )

Did you know ?
You can now build GearLock yourself and get its new features even before the public releases

AXIM0S/gearlock

Custom Recovery Replacement for Android-x86. Contribute to AXIM0S/gearlock development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Yes you heard that right, I had this planned a long time before and now finally it's time!
Now you can help make it even better

AXIM0S/gearlock

Custom Recovery Replacement for Android-x86. Contribute to AXIM0S/gearlock development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

A new version based on the opensourced code will be released soon, or you can also build it yourself before I do.

ChangeLog

• Bugfix in OhMyRam. (Thanks to @TripleK2004 for helping in debugging)
• Now gearlock-cli supports passing command line arguments to target program.
• Improvements in gsudo, now it won't mix up complex arguments.
• Now installiso accepts external input.
• Fix some missing symlinks caused in last update.

As usual you should be able to receive OTA update of 7.0 directly from GearLock.
I don't hope to work on another update any sooner, not at least on this year anymore.
Please just be a bugless update this time

ChangeLog

• New feature: Install or Update Operating-System from ISO {Extra misc}. ( #feature-request by @Electrikjesus )
• New feature: Oh My Ram - Use RAM as /data for faster r/w speeds {Game / Sys Tweaks}. ( #feature-request by @TripleK2004 )
• Fix false-positive of SuperCharge needed message in gearlock-Ui. (Reported by @Electrikjesus and others)
• More bugfix in native gxpm kernel and mesa scripts.
• Bugfix in magisk-installer, now there shouldn't be any issues on fetching latest release as of now.
• Rearrange and properly categorize some menu elements.
• Improvements in MetroUi theme regarding file-selection and other window sizes for some certain things.