Watercraft 0.1.0 (Ketch)

released on GitHub as of 2026-09-11

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ATTENTION: version 0.1.0 has been officially superseded by 0.1.1 due build-time sudo rules persisting onto the installed system

If you left the default name and your account is named liveuser will have passwordless root which is not secure for an actual installation.

The builder account persisting is also insecure as it does not have a secure password.

If you are on 0.1.0 follow this mitigation:

# 0.1.0 left two sudo rules for the Live Install account 'liveuser' and builder account 'boatswain'
# If you built from scratch you have to change boatswain to your build account name
# this script grep matches the files by content and then removes them from sudoers.d
sudo grep -lE '^(boatswain|liveuser)[[:space:]]' /etc/sudoers.d/* | xargs -r sudo rm
sudo visudo -c

  • This is the first official release, there is plenty more planned for the future.

  • Watercraft is built to meet the needs of modern development and entertainment systems on Linux.

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