0.8 booster release

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• Add booster.log boot parameter that replaces and extends the functionality of booster.debug. ooster.debug is marked as deprecated.
• booster.disable_concurrent_module_loading boot parameter has been removed. This parameter has been used as a safety net if concurrent module loading does not work properly. Concurrent module loading has been thoroughly tested and found no major issues. Drop the unneeded parameter.
• Fix “too many open files” booster generator error (Error "Too many open files" when creating universal image #76)
• Process udev and block scanning concurrently to increase the level of parallelism and reduce boot time.
• Refactor booster CLI. Add booster build, booster ls, booster cat, booster unpack subcommand to build/inspect initramfs images. This functionality is roughly equivalent to lsinitcpio (Add initramfs inspection commands #11)
• Add sdhci_acpi to the list of modules required for eMMC (Booster does not find rd.luks.name when partition on /dev/mmcblk0p2 #90)
• Handle init= kernel parameter (Handling the init parameter #115)
• Handle devices with 4K sectors (Booster does not work with drives formatted with 4K sectors #119)
• Fix GPU drivers loading (Wait for modules loading completion before switching to userspace #120)
• Handle FAT16/FAT32 partitions correctly
• Add support for partitions used for hibernation
• Add uas to the list of default modules (Support USB 3.0 UAS Drives #121)
• Handle multiple luks mappings in the kernel command line (Handle multiple rd.luks.name parameters #124)
• Handle firmware files compressed with xz (module_force_load amdgpu not working with xz files #127)
• Handle non-/usr filesystem hierarchy (such as used by Alpine Linux)
• Add /usr/lib64 to the list of elf directories to handle Fedora Linux (unable to find a config file in /proc #137)
• Handle HWPATH=xxx device reference in boot parameters (Add support for device references by disk path #112)
• Handle WWID=XXX device reference in boot parameters (Add support for WWID device reference #111)
• (Experimental) Implement remote unlock functionality using Tang protocol. (Reverse Tang unlocking #24)
• Unconditionally enable local echo for emergency shell (Local echo disabled when emergency shell is entered after mount timeout during password prompt #144)
• Don't error-out if /etc/locale.conf doesn't exist
• Lookup executable under $PATH

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This discussion was created from the release 0.8.

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@nmeum @travankor the packaging structure changed a little bit. Here is Arch Linux package update for the reference archlinux/svntogit-packages@b0b0bc2