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Util-linux 2.34 Release Notes
=============================

Release highlights
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hardlink -- NEW COMMAND to consolidate duplicate files via hardlinks has been
merged into util-linux. The new command is not enabled by default. The original
author is Jakub Jelinek.

The command lsblk(8) has been rewritten. Now it keeps all hierarchy of the block
devices in memory before it's printed. It allows to modify or reorder the graph.
The new features based on this functionality are:

 * output de-duplication by --dedup, for example 'lsblk --dedup WWN' to
   de-duplicate devices by WWN number (e.g. multi-path devices)

 * merge repeating parts of the tree by --merge, see for example:
   http://karelzak.blogspot.com/2018/11/lsblk-merge.html

The command umount(8) now supports user unmount for FUSE mounts. The requirement
is FUSE specific user_id=<uid> in /proc/self/mountinfo for the filesystem. 

The command mount(8) now allows to use "--all -o remount". In this case all
filters (-t and -O) are applied to the table of already mounted filesystems.

The command su(1) now prefers /etc/default/su over /etc/login.defs and
ENV_SUPATH over ENV_ROOTPATH. The option --pty has been improved and it is not
marked as experimental anymore.

The command unshare(1) now allows set user ID and group ID by new command line
options -S/--setuid and -G/--setgid; and new options -R/--root and -w/--wd
allows to set root and working directory (like nsenter(1)).

The command lscpu(1) now prints 'Frequency boost' and 'Vulnerability' fields.
The caches calculation has been modified to print summary from all system caches
rather than per code numbers.

The command logger(1) merges multiple MESSAGE= lines into one journald message.

The library libblkid now does not depend on libuuid and newly supports DRBD9
detection.

The libsmartcols has been extended to support N:M relationships when print
tree-like output. This new feature is used by new lsblk --merge output.

The systemd services for fstrim and uuidd now contains hardening settings to
improve security and service isolation.

The command fstrim now trims also root filesystem on --fstab and checks for 
read-only filesystems on --all and --fstab. 

The package build-system now accepts --enable-asan to compile commands and
execute regression tests with addresses sanitizer.


Stable maintenance releases between v2.33 and v2.34
---------------------------------------------------

util-linux 2.33.1 [Jan 1 2019]

 * https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.33/v2.33.1-ReleaseNotes
   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.33/v2.33.1-ChangeLog

util-linux 2.33.2 [Apr 4 2019]

 * https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.33/v2.33.2-ReleaseNotes
   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.33/v2.33.2-ChangeLog


Changes between v2.33 and v2.34
-------------------------------

agetty:
   - Fix input of non-ASCII characters in get_logname()  [Stanislav Brabec]
   - Return old behavior with empty logname  [Stanislav Brabec]
   - Switch to 8-bit processing in get_logname() for UTF-8 terminals  [Stanislav Brabec]
   - fix output of escaped characters  [Christian Hesse]
   - fix portability issues  [Samuel Thibault]
bash-completion:
   - umount support relative path and ~ as home shorthands  [Sami Kerola]
blkid:
   - (man) cleanup return code section  [Karel Zak]
   - fix usage()  [Karel Zak]
   - make PART_ENTRY_* tags optional (add --no-part-details)  [Karel Zak]
blockdev:
   - make –-getbsz less confusing for end-users  [Karel Zak]
build-sys:
   - add 'make checklibdoc'  [Karel Zak]
   - add ASAN_LDFLAGS  [Karel Zak]
   - add check-programs make target  [Karel Zak]
   - add devel-non-asan.conf  [Karel Zak]
   - do not require crypt()  [Karel Zak]
   - do not require dirfd()  [Karel Zak]
   - don't use ASAN on XOS  [Karel Zak]
   - enable ASAN on travis-ci  [Karel Zak]
   - fix crypt() detection without -lcrypt  [Johannes Nixdorf]
   - improve error message  [Karel Zak]
   - make fdisk, sfdisk, cfdisk optional (enabled by default)  [Carlos Santos]
   - make sure HAVE_TIMER_CREATE defined  [Karel Zak]
   - use REALTIME_LIBS for hwclock due to monotonic.c  [Karel Zak]
cal:
   - fix Sexit and Senter  [Karel Zak]
   - use standout mode on monochrome terminals  [Karel Zak]
chcpu:
   - fix memory leak  [Karel Zak]
chmem:
   - add initilizer [clang]  [Sami Kerola]
choom:
   - fix negative adjust score usage  [Karel Zak]
col:
   - improve error message, update regression test  [Karel Zak]
   - make flush_line() a little bit robust  [Karel Zak]
column:
   - Address fill-order confusion in documentation  [dana]
dmesg:
   - correct "-n, --console-level level" example in manual page  [Jean-Philippe ROMAIN]
docs:
   - TODO lscpu --list-caches  [Karel Zak]
   - add col(1) to TODO  [Karel Zak]
   - add link to mail list archive  [Sami Kerola]
   - add lsblk --merge to TODO  [Karel Zak]
   - fix typo  [Jakub Wilk]
   - fix typos [codespell]  [Sami Kerola]
   - update AUTHORS file  [Karel Zak]
   - update TODO  [Karel Zak]
fdisk:
   - make partition types uses more robust  [Karel Zak]
   - support CTRL+C on change-partition-type dialog  [Karel Zak]
   - use 2 decimal places for size in disk summary  [Karel Zak]
fsck:
   - (man) labels are available for all filesystems  [Karel Zak]
fsck.cramfs:
   - fix utimes() usage  [Karel Zak]
   - use utimes() instead of utime() that is obsolete  [Sami Kerola]
fstrim:
   - Add Documentation key to fstrim.service  [Andreas Henriksson]
   - Add hardening settings to fstrim.service  [Andreas Henriksson]
   - check for read-only devices on -a/-A  [Karel Zak]
   - document kernel return minlen explicitly  [Wang Shilong]
   - fix usage()  [Karel Zak]
   - get realpath before trim ioctl  [Wang Shilong]
   - trim also root FS on --fstab  [Karel Zak]
   - use long options in systemd service file  [Sami Kerola]
fstrim.c:
   - Remove commnet about vfat not supporting fstrim  [Marcos Paulo de Souza]
hardlink:
   - (man) add AVAILABILITY  [Karel Zak]
   - add first simple tests  [Ruediger Meier]
   - add long options  [Karel Zak]
   - cleanup error messages, use xalloc.h  [Karel Zak]
   - cleanup global variables  [Karel Zak]
   - cleanup verbose and warning messages  [Karel Zak]
   - enable build with and without pcre2  [Ruediger Meier]
   - fix compiler warnings  [Ruediger Meier]
   - make code more readable  [Karel Zak]
   - remove \r from output  [Karel Zak]
   - remove typedefs  [Karel Zak]
   - rename function  [Karel Zak]
   - style indentations and license header  [Ruediger Meier]
   - util-linux usage  [Ruediger Meier]
hardlink, wall:
   - fix variable shadowing  [Sami Kerola]
hexdump:
   - fix potential null pointer dereference warnings  [Sami Kerola]
hwclock:
   - use monotonic time to measure how long setting time takes  [Sami Kerola]
include:
   - add indirect monotonic clock id specifier  [Sami Kerola]
   - add no return function attribute  [Sami Kerola]
include/c:
   - add print_version() macro  [Karel Zak]
   - check returns_nonnull function attribute with __GNUC_PREREQ  [Sami Kerola]
   - re-add type checking in container_of()  [Ruediger Meier]
   - use returns_nonnull function attribute in xalloc.h  [Sami Kerola]
include/closestream:
   - add close_stdout_atexit()  [Karel Zak]
include/list:
   - add list_entry_is_first() and list_count_entries()  [Karel Zak]
include/path.h:
   - remove duplicate header inclusion  [Sami Kerola]
include/strutils:
   - add functions to replace and remove chars from string  [Karel Zak]
last:
   - do not use non-standard __UT_NAMESIZE  [Patrick Steinhardt]
   - fix wtmp user name buffer overflow [asan]  [Sami Kerola]
ldattach:
   - Check for value of _HAVE_STRUCT_TERMIOS_C_ISPEED  [Khem Raj]
lib/canonicalize:
   - do restricted canonicalize in a subprocess  [Rian Hunter, Karel Zak]
   - fix typo  [Karel Zak]
lib/colors:
   - force to "never" mode on non-terminal output  [Karel Zak]
lib/fileutils:
   - add xreaddir()  [Karel Zak]
lib/loopdev:
   - differentiate between setter()s and ioctl calls  [Karel Zak]
   - set blocksize when create a new device  [Karel Zak]
lib/loopdev.c:
   - Inline loopcxt_has_device  [Marcos Paulo de Souza]
lib/path:
   - allow to close dirfd  [Karel Zak]
   - remove extra semi-colons  [Karel Zak]
lib/strutils:
   - support two decimal places in size_to_human_string() output  [Karel Zak]
lib/sysfs:
   - add function to detect partitioned devices  [Karel Zak]
lib/timer:
   - add fallback if timer_create() not available  [Karel Zak]
libblkid:
   - (bluestore) terminate magic strings array  [Karel Zak]
   - (ntfs) fix compiler warning [-Wpedantic]  [Karel Zak]
   - Fix hidding typo  [Andreas Henriksson]
   - add check for DRBD9  [Roland Kammerer]
   - fix detection of dm-integrity superblock  [Milan Broz]
   - improve whole-disk detection when read /proc/partitions  [Karel Zak]
   - remove dependence on libuuid  [Karel Zak]
   - stratis  correct byte order  [Tony Asleson]
   - tiny code simplification  [Karel Zak]
libfdisk:
   - (dos) Use strtoul to parse the label-id  [Juerg Haefliger]
   - (dos) improve first unused sector for logical partitions  [Karel Zak]
   - (dos) rewrite fist/last free sector functions  [Karel Zak]
   - (gpt) add HiFive Unleashed bootloader partition UUIDs  [Icenowy Zheng]
   - add comment to fdisk_set_first_lba()  [Karel Zak]
   - sanity check, to prevent overlapping partitions from being partly reported as free  [Fabian.Kirsch@xxxxxx]
   - use list_add_tail() in more robust way  [Karel Zak]
libmount:
   - (fuse) follow only user_id= on umount  [Karel Zak]
   - (tabdiff) use list_add_tail() in more robust way  [Karel Zak]
   - (umount) make mnt_stat_mountpoin() usable for relative paths  [Karel Zak]
   - Recognize more fuse filesystems as pseudofs and netfs  [Stanislav Brabec]
   - Support unmount FUSE mounts  [Rian Hunter, Karel Zak]
   - add mnt_table_{find,insert,move}_fs()  [Karel Zak, Tim Hildering]
   - add support for MS_REMOUNT on --all  [Karel Zak]
   - check table membership before adding entry  [Tim Hildering]
   - don't use sscanf() for fstab parsing  [Karel Zak]
   - don't use sscanf() for mountinfo parsing  [Karel Zak]
   - don't use sscanf() for swaps parsing  [Karel Zak]
   - export mnt_guess_system_root() by API  [Karel Zak]
   - fix compiler warning [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]  [Karel Zak]
   - fix memleak on parse errors  [Karel Zak]
   - improve fs referencing in tables  [Tim Hildering]
libsmartcols:
   - add another UTF symbols  [Karel Zak]
   - add grouping API docs  [Karel Zak]
   - add grouping samples  [Karel Zak]
   - add is_last_child(), move is_last_column()  [Karel Zak]
   - add lines grouping support  [Karel Zak]
   - fix  variable shadowing  [Sami Kerola]
   - move buffer stuff to buffer.c  [Karel Zak]
   - move width calculation to separate file  [Karel Zak]
   - print tree also for empty cells  [Karel Zak]
   - remove extra ';' outside of a function [-Wextra-semi]  [Sami Kerola]
   - rename table_print.c to print.c  [Karel Zak]
   - split print.c into print.c, put.c and print-api.c  [Karel Zak]
   - use list_add_tail() in more robust way  [Karel Zak]
libuuid:
   - fix man page typos  [Seth Girvan]
logger:
   - (man) add info about rewrite and authors  [Karel Zak]
   - (man) make more obvious that --server/socket is required  [Karel Zak]
   - concatenate multiple lines of MESSAGE into a single field.  [Karel Zak]
login:
   - add support for login.defs(5) LASTLOG_UID_MAX  [Karel Zak]
login-utils/logindefs:
   - clenaup API  [Karel Zak]
losetup:
   - man page has repeating words [make checkmans]  [Karel Zak]
   - properly use --sector-size when create a new device  [Karel Zak]
   - update an error message  [Jeffrey Ferreira]
   - use offset in warn_size() calculation  [Karel Zak]
lsblk:
   - add --dedup <column>  [Karel Zak]
   - add --merge  [Karel Zak]
   - add basic function to build devices tree  [Karel Zak]
   - add comments  [Karel Zak]
   - add devtree_get_device_or_new()  [Karel Zak]
   - add lsblk_device_has_dependence()  [Karel Zak]
   - add process_all_devices_inverse()  [Karel Zak]
   - allow to specify tree column  [Karel Zak]
   - apply --nodeps to partitions too  [Karel Zak]
   - cleanup device reference in the tree  [Karel Zak]
   - don't keep sysfs dirs open  [Karel Zak]
   - fix devtree deallocation  [Karel Zak]
   - fix null pointer dereferences  [Sami Kerola]
   - force tree on --json --tree independently on used columns  [Karel Zak]
   - keep functions names consistent  [Karel Zak]
   - make device_get_data() more generic  [Karel Zak]
   - make devtree dependences more generic  [Karel Zak]
   - make process_partitions() more readable  [Karel Zak]
   - process_one_device() refactoring  [Karel Zak]
   - properly initialize structs  [Karel Zak]
   - read queue/discard_granularity only when necessary  [Karel Zak]
   - remember whole-disk, remove unused struct member  [Karel Zak]
   - remove badly named debug interface name  [Karel Zak]
   - remove unncessary parent pointer  [Karel Zak]
   - remove unused reset_device()  [Karel Zak]
   - rename blkdev_cxt to lsblk_device  [Karel Zak]
   - rename reset_lsblk_device() to reset_device()  [Karel Zak]
   - rename set_device()  [Karel Zak]
   - reorder functions  [Karel Zak]
   - reuse 'removable' flag from parent  [Karel Zak]
   - split sysfs reading and scols table filling  [Karel Zak]
   - use ID_SCSI_SERIAL when available  [Sven Wiltink]
   - use devtree functions  [Karel Zak]
   - use real rather than hardcoded parent  [Karel Zak]
lscpu:
   - (man) make SYNOPSIS compatible with another utils  [Karel Zak]
   - (man) tiny changes  [Karel Zak]
   - Add aarch32 detection on aarch64  [Jeremy Linton]
   - add 'Frequency boost'  [Karel Zak]
   - add --bytes  [Karel Zak]
   - add --caches  [Karel Zak]
   - define libsmartcols flags for -e  [Karel Zak]
   - document --hex output regression (since v2.30)  [Karel Zak]
   - fix --caches order  [Karel Zak]
   - fix and document --output-all  [Karel Zak]
   - fix excl[] array order  [Karel Zak]
   - rename macros and functions  [Karel Zak]
   - report CPU vulnerabilities  [Karel Zak]
   - report more usable cache sizes  [Karel Zak]
   - wrap default output long lines on terminal  [Karel Zak]
lslogins:
   - Fix discrepancies of SYS_UID_MIN  [Stanislav Brabec]
   - make valid_pwd() more robust  [Karel Zak]
   - remove duplicate NULL check  [Sami Kerola]
misc:
   - consolidate version printing and close_stdout()  [Karel Zak]
mkswap:
   - be more explicit about maximal number of pages  [Karel Zak]
   - fix page size warning message  [Noel Cragg]
   - use dd(1) in example rather than fallocate(1)  [Karel Zak]
mount:
   - (man) add note about --all to remount desc  [Karel Zak]
   - Do not call mnt_pretty_path() on net file systems.  [Stanislav Brabec]
   - mount.8 clarify (no)suid behavior on file capabilities  [Peter Wu]
po:
   - merge changes  [Karel Zak]
   - update de.po (from translationproject.org)  [Mario Blättermann]
   - update es.po (from translationproject.org)  [Antonio Ceballos Roa]
   - update fr.po (from translationproject.org)  [Frédéric Marchal]
   - update hr.po (from translationproject.org)  [Božidar Putanec]
   - update sv.po (from translationproject.org)  [Sebastian Rasmussen]
readprofile:
   - check input file is not empty [asan]  [Sami Kerola]
rtcwake:
   - use poweroff if shutdown is not found  [Justin Chen]
setarch:
   - add new e2k subarches  [Andrew Savchenko]
   - don't return address of automatic variable  [Andreas Schwab]
   - fix obscure sparc32bash use-case  [Karel Zak]
setterm:
   - disallow "default" for --ulcolor/--hbcolor  [Jakub Wilk]
   - fix --hbcolor description  [Jakub Wilk]
   - fix bright colors for --ulcolor/--hbcolor  [Jakub Wilk]
   - update comments about -ulcolor/-hbcolor syntax  [Jakub Wilk]
sfdisk:
   - Avoid out of boundary read with readline  [Tobias Stoeckmann]
   - fix logical partition resize when start specified  [Karel Zak]
su:
   - add note about ECHO on --pty  [Karel Zak]
   - be sensitive to another SIGCHLD ssi_codes  [Karel Zak]
   - change error message  [Karel Zak]
   - fix --pty terminal initialization  [Karel Zak]
   - make comment more friedly to 'make checkxalloc'  [Karel Zak]
su-common.c:
   - prefer /etc/default/su over login.defs  [Stanislav Brabec]
   - prefer ENV_SUPATH over ENV_ROOTPATH  [Stanislav Brabec]
su/runuser:
   - don't mark --pty as experimental, add it to runuser.1 too  [Karel Zak]
swapon:
   - (man) cleanup note about holes  [Karel Zak]
   - (man) iomap for swapfile is already supported by kernel  [Karel Zak]
   - be more explicit about BTRFS  [Karel Zak]
   - rewrite section about swapfiles  [Karel Zak]
   - swapon.8 mention btrfs(5)  [Marcos Mello]
taskset:
   - fix cpuset list parser  [Karel Zak]
tastset:
   - (man) add  N stride for CPU lists  [Karel Zak]
test:
   - Adding AMD EPYC 7451 24-Core Processor  [Erwan Velu]
tests:
   - (hardlink) update noregex  [Karel Zak]
   - (hardlink) update summary output  [Karel Zak]
   - (kill) do not use shell build-in  [Karel Zak]
   - add --noskip-commands  [Karel Zak]
   - add --use-system-commands  [Karel Zak]
   - add /mnt/test/foo^Mbar to mountinfo tests  [Karel Zak]
   - add fdisk (dos) first sector dialog test  [Karel Zak]
   - add missing TS_CMD_UMOUNT check  [Karel Zak]
   - add missing ts_check_test_command call  [Karel Zak]
   - add missing ts_check_test_command calls  [Karel Zak]
   - add test images for drbd v08/v09  [Roland Kammerer]
   - auto-enable ASAN option if necessary  [Karel Zak]
   - build-sys update  [Karel Zak]
   - check for tar and {b,g}zip  [Karel Zak]
   - enlarge backing file for fstab-btrfs  [Karel Zak]
   - fix TS_ENABLE_ASAN usage  [Karel Zak]
   - ignore errors with enabled ASAN in python bindings  [Karel Zak]
   - make lsns-netnsid portable  [Karel Zak]
   - make sure TS_HELPER_MBSENCODE compiled  [Karel Zak]
   - run oids test only when uuidgen tool was built  [Thomas Deutschmann]
   - update fdisk outputs  [Karel Zak]
   - update lscpu due to 'Vulnerability' fields  [Karel Zak]
   - update lscpu output  [Karel Zak]
   - use TS_ENABLE_ASAN in tests to detect ASAN  [Karel Zak]
   - use subtests in fdisk/mbr-nondos-mode  [Karel Zak]
timeutils:
   - match today day and this year correctly  [Sami Kerola]
umount:
   - fix --quiet  [Karel Zak]
unshare:
   - allow to set a new root  [Laurent Vivier]
   - allow to set user ID and group ID  [Laurent Vivier]
utmpdump:
   - fix word swapping in manual page  [Carlos Santos]
uuidd:
   - Add Documentation key to uuidd.service  [Andreas Henriksson]
   - Add hardening settings to uuidd.service  [Andreas Henriksson]
various:
   - fix 'uninitialized when used' warnings [clang]  [Sami Kerola]
wall:
   - remove unnecessary warning  [Karel Zak]
whereis:
   - search in /(s)bin before /usr/lib  [Karel Zak]
-- 
 Karel Zak  <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>
 http://karelzak.blogspot.com



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