0.3.2

🐧 vuinputd 0.3.2

This release focuses on improved debugging support for actions executed in containers.

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🛠 Debugging Improvements

• Added documentation on how to debug actions triggered by vuinputd in containers.
• Simplified using strace to debug child processes.
• Actions executed in containers (e.g., mknod) are now logged as base64-encoded JSON, making it easier to reproduce and debug in a shell.

0.3.1

🐧 vuinputd 0.3.1

This release focuses on Debian packaging reliability, startup robustness around VT handling, and better documentation for non-graphical environments.

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📦 Debian Packaging & Release

• Added a release pipeline for Debian packages
• Improved Debian build scripts
• Fixed issues in debian/rules

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🖥 VT & Startup Improvements

• Check the status of tty1 during startup
• Added hints regarding vt-guard usage to the systemd service file
• Improved behavior when no graphical input session is active

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📚 Documentation & Usability

• Improved help messages and formatting cleanup
• Documented two approaches to mitigate the VT keyboard handler problem

0.3.0

🚀 vuinputd 0.3.0

This release focuses on container/namespace refactoring, better test coverage, and improved configurability of virtual uinput devices.

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🧩 Container & Namespace Handling

• Refactored execution model from forked lambda calls to JSON-based job re-exec

• Improved namespace switching after exec; added --target-namespace option

• Split inject_in_container into clearer steps:

  • emit_udev_event
  • mknod_device

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🧪 Integration Testing Improvements

• Added integration tests for uinput device creation using bubblewrap
• Introduced event logging in integration tests
• Tests now run a separate vuinputd instance with its own device node

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🛠 Internal Improvements

• Switched to anyhow for more robust error handling
• General refactoring, name cleanup, and code structure improvements

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⚙️ Configuration & Packaging

• Added command-line options to control virtual uinput device properties:

  • devname
  • major
  • minor

• Added udev rules to the Debian package

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🔧 Tooling & Misc

• Updated GitHub Actions dependencies
• Conducted the first microbenchmark
• Minor fixes in examples and formatting cleanup

0.2.0

🚀 vuinputd 0.2.0

Highlights

• Official USB VID/PID assigned: 1209:5020
• Steam & Steam Deck improvements (legacy device support, device reuse, compat-mode fixes)
• Major documentation updates (DESIGN, USAGE, README, tests)

Technical

• Fixed zombie processes and noisy log messages
• More robust uinput handling (only write complete messages)
• Removed hardcoded waits; improved job engine stability
• 32-bit caller detection and first arm64 support

Tooling

• Initial .deb packaging
• GitHub Actions CI added

v 0.1.0 Initial alpha release of vuinputd

Current Status: 🚧 Prototype / Alpha — functional, not yet production-grade.

vuinputd is currently in a functional prototype stage. It reliably demonstrates the core concept — exposing /dev/uinput devices inside containers via CUSE — but several aspects require hardening before production use.