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diff --git a/Documentation/releases/v2.32-ReleaseNotes b/Documentation/releases/v2.32-ReleaseNotes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7fb93df --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/releases/v2.32-ReleaseNotes @@ -0,0 +1,492 @@ +Util-linux 2.32 Release Notes +============================= + +Release highlights +------------------ + +The command cal(1) has been improved to provide better control on used calendar +system. Now it is possible to switch between Gregorian and Julian exclusively, +or use the current default (reform in September 1752). The new command line +options --reform and --iso have been added. The command also follows terminal +width to format output. + +The library libblkid has been extended to support LUKS2, Micron mpool, VDO and +Atari partition table. + +The command rfkill(8) has been moved to /usr/sbin to be compatible with the +original rfkill implementation. + +The command dmesg(1) provides better support for multi-line messages and the +new command line option --force-prefix to print facility, level or timestamp +information to each line of a multi-line message + +The command fallocate(1) --dig-holes is faster and more effect now. + +The command fdisk(8) provides access to Protective MBR accessible from main +menu. The Sun label support has been improved. + +The command lscpu(1) provides more details about ARM CPUs now. + +The command lsmem(1) supports memory zone awareness now. + +The command lsns(8) provides netnsid and nsfs columns now. + +The command rtcwake(8) waits stdin to settle down before entering a system +sleep. + +The new command line option --kill-child has been added to unshare(1). + + +Stable maintenance releases between v2.31 and v2.32 +--------------------------------------------------- + +util-linux 2.31.1 [Dec 19 2017] + + * https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.31/v2.31.1-ReleaseNotes + https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.31/v2.31.1-ChangeLog + + +Changes between v2.31 and v2.32 +------------------------------- + +agetty: + - Fix a use of uninitialised memory in an agetty error path. [Steven Smith] + - add support for /etc/issue.d [Karel Zak] + - remove unused flag [Karel Zak] +bash-completion: + - (umount) use findmnt, escape a space in paths [Karel Zak] + - Exclude /dev/fd from fsck find [Kevin Locke] + - update zramctl algorithms list [Sami Kerola] +blkid: + - Add support for LUKS2 and new LABEL attributes. [Milan Broz] +blkzone: + - Fix a typo in blkzone.8 [Masanari Iida] +blockdev: + - be more explicit for BLKSSZ in blockdev.8 [Karel Zak] +build-sys: + - (configure) fix bashisms [Mike Frysinger] + - add --enable-asan and --memcheck-asan for tests [Karel Zak] + - add missing include [Karel Zak] + - automake is able to find headers in builddir ... [Ruediger Meier] + - avoid using prog_DEPENDENCIES [Ruediger Meier] + - disable bz2 tarball and fix some am warnings [Ruediger Meier] + - don't check for swapon() number of arguments [Karel Zak] + - forgot update NEWS for v2.32-rc1 [Karel Zak] + - gtkdoc-fixxref v1.27 requires module option [Karel Zak] + - lsns requires libmount [Karel Zak] + - move rfkill to /usr/sbin [Karel Zak] + - release++ (v2.32-rc2) [Karel Zak] + - remove generated headers from dist tar ball [Ruediger Meier] + - remove redundant EXTRA_DIST files [Ruediger Meier] + - remove unneeded dependencies on bla.h.in [Ruediger Meier] +cal: + - Use ALTMON_* correctly [Rafal Luzynski] + - add ifdef TEST_CAL [Karel Zak] + - add option to set Gregorian reform date [J William Piggott] + - clean up man page synopsis syntax [Karel Zak] + - do not set months_in_row with -3 option [J William Piggott] + - don't use year header for -1, -3 or -n [Karel Zak] + - explain magic values for day of week calculation [Karel Zak] + - fix first week calculation [J William Piggott] + - fix julian calendars for large years [J William Piggott] + - fix multi-byte comment, explain in better way [Karel Zak, J William Piggott] + - fix week calculations for 1752 [J William Piggott] + - follow terminal width [Karel Zak] + - honor num_months when only a year argument [J William Piggott] + - move REFORMATION_YEAR to control struct [J William Piggott] + - remove extra space after year output [Karel Zak] + - update man page [J William Piggott] +chmem: + - cleanup includes [Karel Zak] + - cleanup usage() [Karel Zak] +chrt: + - fix compiler warning [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] [Karel Zak] +column: + - add --table-noheadings [Karel Zak] + - allow to hide unnamed columns [Karel Zak] + - don't ignore space-char separators at begin of the line [Karel Zak] + - fix memory leak [coverity scan] [Karel Zak] + - update column.1 [ahmogit] + - use \x<hex> for invalid multibyte seq. [Karel Zak] +dmesg: + - Add --force-prefix option [Prarit Bhargava] + - add note about -F format to the man page [Karel Zak] + - fix compiler warning [-Wuninitialized] [Karel Zak] + - use xstrdup() in xalloc.h based util [Karel Zak] +docs: + - add ISC licence [Carlos Santos] + - add new idea to TODO list [Karel Zak] + - add note about JSON [Karel Zak] + - add note about NVMe-multipath to TODO [Karel Zak] + - add remount-all idea to TODO [Karel Zak] + - add script(1) events idea to TODO [Karel Zak] + - improve setarch(8) manual page [Sami Kerola] + - update AUTHORS file [Karel Zak] + - update TODO [Karel Zak] + - update TODO file [Karel Zak] + - update v2.32-ReleaseNotes [Karel Zak] +eject: + - remove list_speeds() #ifdef CDROM_SELECT_SPEED protection [Sami Kerola] +fallocate: + - dig holes only in data extents [Karel Zak, Vaclav Dolezal] + - remove typo [Karel Zak] +fdisk: + - (gpt) make PMBR accessible from main menu [Karel Zak] +fincore: + - Handle large files correctly on 32 bit [Tobias Stoeckmann] + - Handle large files on 32 bit without LFS [Tobias Stoeckmann] + - fix a typo in fincore.1 [Masatake YAMATO] +findfs: + - don't include exitcodes.h [Karel Zak] +findmnt: + - findmnt.8 remove spurious spaces before "--tree" and "--verbose" [Jakub Wilk] +fsck: + - cleanup find_fsck() [Karel Zak] + - coding style cleanup [Karel Zak] + - use xasprintf to avoid buffer overruns with an insane fs type [Theodore Ts'o] +fsck.cramfs: + - Fix bus error on broken file system. [Tobias Stoeckmann] + - fix crash when superblock size is too small [Ruediger Meier] + - fix error message [Ruediger Meier] +fstrim: + - don't include exitcodes.h [Karel Zak] + - fix fs.h and mount.h collision [Karel Zak] +hwclock: + - add --ul-debug implementing debug.h [J William Piggott] + - add iso-8601 overflow check [J William Piggott] + - fix debug regression [J William Piggott] + - rename --debug option to --verbose [J William Piggott] + - revert ioctl test [Karel Zak] + - use reentrant time conversion functions [J William Piggott] +include/c: + - add errexec() [Karel Zak] +include/debug: + - don't print pointer address for SUID programs [Karel Zak] + - improve debug message [Karel Zak] + - introduce __UL_INIT_DEBUG_FROM_STRING() [Karel Zak] + - print info when addresses suppressed [Karel Zak] +kill: + - Extract signal names into signames.h/signames.c [Niklas Hambüchen] +lib: + - Add simple crc32c() function [John Groves] +lib/exec_shell: + - (and pager) use errexec() [Karel Zak] + - cleanup function attributes [Karel Zak] +lib/mangle: + - return size of the decoded buffer [Karel Zak] +lib/mbsalign: + - Fix escaping nonprintable multibyte characters [Vaclav Dolezal] + - add mbs_invalid_encode() [Karel Zak] + - encode \x to \xecx [Karel Zak] + - encode backslash to prevent ambiguity [Vaclav Dolezal] + - escape "\x" when HAVE_WIDECHAR not defined [Vaclav Dolezal] +lib/md5: + - use ul_/UL_ prefix [Karel Zak] +lib/path: + - make path_set_prefix() independent on cpu_set_t [Karel Zak] +lib/randutils: + - Do not block on getrandom() [Carlo Caione] + - don't break on EAGAIN, use usleep() [Karel Zak] +lib/sha1: + - fix indention [Karel Zak] + - use proper WORDS_BIGENDIAN macro [Karel Zak] + - use ul_/UL_prefix for symbols [Karel Zak] +lib/signames: + - fix redefinition of 'sys_signame' on OSX [Karel Zak] + - remove signame array from header file [Karel Zak] + - remove unused function [Sami Kerola] +lib/timeutils: + - ISO_8601_BUFSIZ too small [J William Piggott] + - add common ISO timestamp masks [J William Piggott] + - add get_gmtoff() [J William Piggott] +lib/timeutils.c: + - bug fix Segmentation fault [J William Piggott] + - strxxx_iso do not wrap tm_year [J William Piggott] + - strxxx_iso test conversion errors [J William Piggott] + - warn format_iso_time() overflow [J William Piggott] +libblkid: + - (bcache) cleanup magic string definition [Karel Zak] + - (dos) make subtypes probing more robust [Karel Zak] + - (mpool) checksum is LE [Karel Zak] + - (mpool) don't use gtkdocs-like comment block [Karel Zak] + - Add VDO superblock information into blkid [Sweet Tea Dorminy] + - Add support for Micron mpool formatted drives [John Groves] + - Add support for stratis [Tony Asleson] + - Mark char* params to blkid_dev_set_search as const [Andy Grover] + - Support for Atari partitioning scheme [Vaclav Dolezal] + - add debug messages when ignore useless devices [Karel Zak] + - atari - don't add duplicate entries [Vaclav Dolezal] + - atari - fix bad variable name [Vaclav Dolezal] + - atari - reject devices with blocksize != 512 [Vaclav Dolezal] + - atari - test if any partition fits disk size [Vaclav Dolezal] + - ignore private Stratis devices [Tony Asleson] + - improve FreeBSD partitions parsing [Karel Zak] + - make mpool independent on libuuid [Karel Zak] + - udf Fix parsing LVID location [Pali Rohár] + - udf Fix parsing UDF revision [Pali Rohár] + - udf Fix reading Logical Volume Integrity Descriptor Implementation Use (LVIDIU) [Pali Rohár] + - udf Optimize and fix probing when block size > 2048 bytes [Pali Rohár] + - udf Really try to read only first LVID [Pali Rohár] + - udf Stop scanning Volume Descriptors after we found Terminating Descriptor [Pali Rohár] + - udf Update copyright [Pali Rohár] + - udf Use UDF revision field from LVD domain id "*OSTA UDF Compliant" as a fallback value for ID_FS_VERSION when LVIDIU is missing [Pali Rohár] + - vfat Fix reading labels which starts with byte 0x05 [Pali Rohár] +libfdisk: + - (docs) add missing docs blocks [Karel Zak] + - (docs) improve enums documentation [Karel Zak] + - (docs) update year [Karel Zak] + - (dos) fix max heads [Karel Zak] + - (gpt) add VMware specific UUIDs [Karel Zak] + - (gpt) move backup header after device resize [Karel Zak] + - (gpt) use fdisk_warn() for failed name setting [Karel Zak] + - (script) be consistent in code with types [Karel Zak] + - (script) support R (RAID) and V (LVM) shortcuts [Karel Zak] + - (sun) enhance searching of free space [Mikhail Vorobyov] + - (sun) fix creation of whole disk partition [Mikhail Vorobyov] + - (sun) fix n-1 bug and whole-disk [Karel Zak] + - (sun) move aligning of the first sector before availability check [Mikhail Vorobyov] + - Fix uninitialized structure [Roddy Shuler] + - allocate enough bytes for ucs2 to utf8 encoding [Vaclav Dolezal] + - allow to start freespace for zero [Karel Zak] + - extend API to provide label specific geometry ranges [Karel Zak] + - fix docs warnings [Karel Zak] + - gpt properly encode string on rename [Vaclav Dolezal] + - return bytes processed from gpt_entry_set_name(), process rc [Vaclav Dolezal] +libmount: + - (docs) update year [Karel Zak] + - Allow MNT_FORCE and MNT_DETACH at umount [Joshua Watt] + - Use waitpid() when waiting for mount helper child process [Vratislav Podzimek] + - add missing macro to docs [Karel Zak] + - add nsfs between pseudo filesystems [Karel Zak] + - check waitpid() return code [Karel Zak] + - deallocate on /proc/swaps parse error [Karel Zak] + - fix access() utab write test [Karel Zak] + - fix debug message [Karel Zak] + - fix example in docs [Karel Zak] + - fix fs pattern usage in mount --all [Karel Zak] + - fix mnt_table_is_fs_mounted() for rbind [Karel Zak] + - make libmount.h more robust [Karel Zak] + - make sure we deallocate on parse error [Karel Zak] + - minimize utimensat() write test usage [Karel Zak] + - use eacess() rather than open() to check mtab/utab [Karel Zak] +libsmartcols: + - (docs) update year [Karel Zak] + - don't add blank padding after left aligned title [Karel Zak] + - fix docs warnings [Karel Zak] + - fix mem-leaks in samples [Karel Zak] + - fixes issue with 0 width columns [taiyu] + - interpret zero width for pending data as error [Karel Zak] + - set minimal column width to 1 [Karel Zak] +libuuid: + - make "CONFORMING TO" man sections more explicit [Karel Zak] +login: + - add LOGIN_PLAIN_PROMPT to login.defs [Karel Zak] +login-utils: + - use free_getlogindefs_data() [Karel Zak] +lsblk: + - add hint about perms to man page [Karel Zak] + - document LSBLK_DEBUG= [Karel Zak] + - try device/dev to read devno [Karel Zak] +lscpu: + - (arm) cleanup code [Karel Zak] + - Decode ARM CPUs [Riku Voipio] + - Treat read failure on Xen Hypervisor properties as non-fatal [Dirk Mueller] + - move ARM decoding to lscpu-arm.c [Karel Zak] + - move struct lscpu_desc header file [Karel Zak] +lscpu-arm: + - add Faraday And Brahma cores [Riku Voipio] +lslocks: + - add note about OFDLCK [Karel Zak] +lsmem: + - add --split [Karel Zak] + - add hint about block merges to the man page [Karel Zak] + - fix memory leak [coverity scan] [Karel Zak] + - fix total online/offline memory calculation [Gerald Schaefer] + - improve path_read_xxx() usage [Karel Zak] + - make --split optional, follow output by default [Karel Zak] +lsmem/chmem: + - add memory zone awareness [Gerald Schaefer] + - add memory zone awareness to bash-completion [Andre Wild] +lsns: + - (man) write about using multi-line in NSFS cell of lsns [Masatake YAMATO] + - add --nowrap(-W) option [Masatake YAMATO] + - add a case for testing netnsid column [Masatake YAMATO] + - add a case for testing nsfs column [Masatake YAMATO] + - add netnsid column [Masatake YAMATO] + - add nsfs column [Masatake YAMATO] + - disable netnsid column by default [Masatake YAMATO] + - fix clang compiler warning [Ruediger Meier] + - initialize stuff when really necessary [Karel Zak] + - nsfs stuff cleanup [Karel Zak] + - remove if-after-xcalloc [Karel Zak] + - rename notruns to no_trunc [Karel Zak] +man: + - use long options in text and add example to uuidgen [Sami Kerola] +mcookie: + - (man) add note about getrandom() [Karel Zak] + - properly initialize hash [Karel Zak] +md5: + - declare byteReverse as static [Luca Ceresoli] +misc: + - fix printf i386 compiler warnings [Ruediger Meier] + - fix typos [Sami Kerola] + - fix typos using codespell [Ruediger Meier] + - remove %p from debug messages [Karel Zak] +mount: + - (man) be explicit about bind operation [Karel Zak] + - (man) update mount options for UDF [Steve Kenton] + - add hint about -t and root perms to the man page [Karel Zak] + - add more details about UUIDs and LABELs to the man page [Karel Zak] + - add note about "already mounted" behavior [Karel Zak] + - add note about cached kernel table for --all [Karel Zak] + - be more accurate in man page about propagation flags [Karel Zak] +mount(8): + - drop redundant filesystem-specific sections [Mike Frysinger] + - point people to the proc(5) page for mount options [Mike Frysinger] + - umount does not (anymore?) say `none busy' [Alan Jenkins] +newgrp: + - use errexec() [Karel Zak] +nsenter: + - fix compiler warning [-Wuninitialized] [Karel Zak] + - revert changes committed by accident [Karel Zak] +po: + - merge changes [Karel Zak] + - update cs.po (from translationproject.org) [Petr Písař] + - update es.po (from translationproject.org) [Antonio Ceballos Roa] + - update fi.po (from translationproject.org) [Lauri Nurmi] + - update fr.po (from translationproject.org) [Frédéric Marchal] + - update ja.po (from translationproject.org) [Takeshi Hamasaki] + - update pl.po (from translationproject.org) [Jakub Bogusz] + - update pt_BR.po (from translationproject.org) [Rafael Fontenelle] + - update uk.po (from translationproject.org) [Yuri Chornoivan] +rename: + - rename.1 fix typo, where -> were [Kenyon Ralph] + - use access(3) to check if a file exists [Sami Kerola] +rfkill: + - provide RFKILL_TYPE_FM if undefined [Ruediger Meier] +rtcwake: + - add note about HW and sleep to the man page [Karel Zak] + - fix sys vs. rtc time delta usage [Karel Zak] + - wait stdin to settle down before entering a system sleep [Sami Kerola] +sample-scols-title: + - add left title without padding [Karel Zak] +schedutils: + - use errexec() [Karel Zak] +setarch: + - minor code clean up [Sami Kerola] +setpriv: + - add example section [Sam Morris] + - fix manpage typo [Sam Morris] + - improve description in man page [Sam Morris] + - include --init-groups in the list of options that can be specified with --[re]gid [Sam Morris] +setsid: + - new option --fork [Karel Zak] +sfdisk: + - add hint about udev and flock to the man page [Karel Zak] + - allow to disable bootable flag on all partitions [Karel Zak] + - allow to use --activate for PMBR [Karel Zak] + - cleanup shortcuts in man page too [Karel Zak] + - create empty label on 'write' command [Karel Zak] + - wait before re-read [Karel Zak] +signames: + - Make input char buffers const [Niklas Hambüchen] +su: + - build fix for the case where USE_PTY is not defined [Samuel Thibault] + - use errexec() [Karel Zak] +sys-utils: + - use errexec() [Karel Zak] +test: + - Add UDF hdd image with final block size 4096 created by Linux mkudffs 1.3 [Pali Rohár] + - use subtests for jan1753 cal(1) test [Karel Zak] +test_sha1: + - update helper [Karel Zak] +tests: + - Add UDF cd image created by mkudfiso 20100208 [Pali Rohár] + - GPT device resize test [Karel Zak] + - add /proc/swaps libmount parser test [Karel Zak] + - add LUKS test images [Milan Broz] + - add cal(1) --week=40 1752 [Karel Zak] + - add fsck.cramfs bad-header test [Karel Zak] + - add ipcslimits lock [Ruediger Meier] + - add lock on shared resources (e.g. scsi_debug) [Karel Zak] + - add mdadm locks [Karel Zak] + - add mpool blkid test image [Karel Zak] + - add set-x to lsns test [Karel Zak] + - add some more udevadm settle [Ruediger Meier] + - add tests for encode functions from lib/mbsalign.c [Vaclav Dolezal] + - add udevadm settle to sfdisk/resize [Ruediger Meier] + - add wierd sleep for libmount/context [Ruediger Meier] + - added missing expected outputs for partx (atari) [Vaclav Dolezal] + - added test for libblkid atari pt [Vaclav Dolezal] + - adjust for ISO timezone colon use [J William Piggott] + - allow to use memory checks for libsmartcols [Karel Zak] + - better lsns report on fail [Karel Zak] + - check for HAVE_LINUX_NET_NAMESPACE_H [Karel Zak] + - column(1) test for space-char separator [Karel Zak] + - column(1) test non-space separator at begin of line [Karel Zak] + - consolidate ts_device_has UUID or LABEL [Ruediger Meier] + - don't call tests with races in --parallel [Karel Zak] + - don't lock fd 1 (stdout), don't use /proc/$$/fd [Ruediger Meier] + - don't use mount.<type> helpers in mount-by-pattern tests [Karel Zak] + - don't use unlocked resources [Ruediger Meier] + - dont't timeout flock [Ruediger Meier] + - fix fincore/count KNOWN_FAIL [Ruediger Meier] + - fix grep expressions for devices [Ruediger Meier] + - fix losetup race [Ruediger Meier] + - fix lsns perms [Karel Zak] + - handle xargs errors and invalid args [Ruediger Meier] + - make lsns test more robust [Karel Zak] + - mark fincore/count as KNOWN_FAIL [Karel Zak] + - mark mbsencode as KNOWN_FAIL [Vaclav Dolezal] + - mbsencode - removed emoji, added control unicode character [Vaclav Dolezal] + - mbsencode - test for HAVE_WIDECHAR [Vaclav Dolezal] + - merge 1m and 3m cal(1) tests [Karel Zak] + - merge sep1752 cal(1) tests [Karel Zak] + - merge year cal(1) tests [Karel Zak] + - re-introduce bash 3 compatibility (OSX) [Ruediger Meier] + - rename --memcheck to --memcheck-valgrind [Karel Zak] + - rename ts_valgrind to ts_run [Karel Zak] + - rewrite cal(1) bigyear test [Karel Zak] + - rewrite fsck-bad-header [Ruediger Meier] + - simplify cal(1) sep1752w test [Karel Zak] + - support multiple locks [Karel Zak] + - suppress warning for old sync(1) [root] + - unlocks on failed ts_scsi_debug_init [Karel Zak] + - update build-sys tests [Karel Zak] + - update cal(1) tests [Karel Zak] + - update columns test due to dda229c7b2b16a31fae8e99079ab4f4ae5bc8eac [Karel Zak] + - update default lsmem output [Karel Zak] + - update libsmartcols/title [Karel Zak] + - update lsmem [Karel Zak] + - update setarch test [Karel Zak] + - use TS_HELPER_CAL [Karel Zak] + - use flock to modify fstab [Karel Zak] + - use libtool to execute with valgrind [Karel Zak] + - use pgrep instead of ps --ppid ... [Ruediger Meier] + - use subtests for sep1752w test [Karel Zak] + - use subtests for weekarg cal(1) tests [Karel Zak] + - use subtests for weeknum cal(1) tests [Karel Zak] +tests/lsmem: + - update lsmem test with ZONES column [Gerald Schaefer] +text-utils: + - use errexec() [Karel Zak] +tools: + - improve checkmans [Karel Zak] +travis: + - enable osx root checks [Ruediger Meier] + - homebrew/dupes was deprecated [Ruediger Meier] + - use parallel root checks [Ruediger Meier] +unshare: + - Add --kill-child option. [Niklas Hambüchen] + - Allow passing <signame> to --kill-child [Niklas Hambüchen] + - cleanup if-if code [Karel Zak] +uuidd: + - cosmetic coding style change [Karel Zak] + - don't truncate long socket paths [Ruediger Meier] +vipw: + - do not let editor to inherit open file descriptors [Sami Kerola] + - use errexec() [Karel Zak] +whereis: + - fix typo in debug message [Karel Zak] +zramctl: + - use xstrdup() [Karel Zak] |