The util-linux release v2.34-rc1 is available at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.34/ Feedback and bug reports, as always, are welcomed. Karel On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 12:31:31PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote: > > Util-linux 2.34 Release Notes > ============================= > > Release highlights > ------------------ > > 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 -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com
