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+Cryptsetup 1.6.7 Release Notes
+==============================
+
+Changes since version 1.6.6
+
+* Cryptsetup git and wiki are now hosted on GitLab.
+ https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup
+
+ Repository of stable releases remains on kernel.org site
+ https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/cryptsetup/
+
+ For more info please see README file.
+
+* Cryptsetup TCRYPT mode now supports VeraCrypt devices (TrueCrypt extension).
+
+ The VeraCrypt extension only increases iteration count for the key
+ derivation function (on-disk format is the same as TrueCrypt format).
+
+ Note that unlocking of a VeraCrypt device can take very long time if used
+ on slow machines.
+
+ To use this extension, add --veracrypt option, for example
+ cryptsetup open --type tcrypt --veracrypt <container> <name>
+
+ For use through libcryptsetup, just add CRYPT_TCRYPT_VERA_MODES flag.
+
+* Support keyfile-offset and keyfile-size options even for plain volumes.
+
+* Support keyfile option for luksAddKey if the master key is specified.
+
+* For historic reasons, hashing in the plain mode is not used
+ if keyfile is specified (with exception of --key-file=-).
+ Print a warning if these parameters are ignored.
+
+* Support permanent device decryption for cryptsetup-reencrypt.
+ To remove LUKS encryption from a device, you can now use --decrypt option.
+
+* Allow one to use --header option in all LUKS commands.
+ The --header always takes precedence over positional device argument.
+
+* Allow luksSuspend without need to specify a detached header.
+
+* Detect if O_DIRECT is usable on a device allocation.
+ There are some strange storage stack configurations which wrongly allows
+ one to open devices with direct-io but fails on all IO operations later.
+
+ Cryptsetup now tries to read the device first sector to ensure it can use
+ direct-io.
+
+* Add low-level performance options tuning for dmcrypt (for Linux 4.0 and later).
+
+ Linux kernel 4.0 contains rewritten dmcrypt code which tries to better utilize
+ encryption on parallel CPU cores.
+
+ While tests show that this change increases performance on most configurations,
+ dmcrypt now provides some switches to change its new behavior.
+
+ You can use them (per-device) with these cryptsetup switches:
+ --perf-same_cpu_crypt
+ --perf-submit_from_crypt_cpus
+
+ Please use these only in the case of serious performance problems.
+ Refer to the cryptsetup man page and dm-crypt documentation
+ (for same_cpu_crypt and submit_from_crypt_cpus options).
+ https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/wikis/DMCrypt
+
+* Get rid of libfipscheck library.
+ (Note that this option was used only for Red Hat and derived distributions.)
+ With recent FIPS changes we do not need to link to this FIPS monster anymore.
+ Also drop some no longer needed FIPS mode checks.
+
+* Many fixes and clarifications to man pages.
+
+* Prevent compiler to optimize-out zeroing of buffers for on-stack variables.
+
+* Fix a crash if non-GNU strerror_r is used.
+
+Cryptsetup API NOTE:
+The direct terminal handling for passphrase entry will be removed from
+libcryptsetup in next major version (application should handle it itself).
+
+It means that you have to always either provide password in buffer or set
+your own password callback function through crypt_set_password_callback().
+See API documentation (or libcryptsetup.h) for more info.