The second util-linux-ng 2.16 release candidate is available at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.16/ Feedback and bug reports, as always, are welcomed. Karel Util-linux-ng 2.16 Release Notes ================================ Release highlights ------------------ libuuid, uuidgen(1) and uuidd(8): - the libuuid library has been moved from e2fsprogs to util-linux-ng switch_root: - this NEW COMMAND allows to switch to another filesystem as the root of the mount tree. mount, umount, fsck: - DOES NOT SUPPORT linking against obsolete libvolume_id (from udev) Stable maintenance releases between v2.15 and v2.16 --------------------------------------------------- util-linux-ng 2.15.1 [10-Jun-2009] * ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.15/v2.15.1-ReleaseNotes ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.15/v2.15.1-ChangeLog ChangeLog between v2.15 and v2.16 --------------------------------- For more details see ChangeLog files at: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.16/ build-sys: - add --disable-libblkid, remove volume_id support [Karel Zak] - add --disable-switch_root [Karel Zak] - add --disable-tls [Karel Zak] - add --disable-uuidd [Karel Zak] - add UTIL_{SET,RESTORE}_FLAGS [Karel Zak] - check for openat() and linux for switch_root [Karel Zak] - cleanup libuuid stuff [Karel Zak] - complete /libs to /shlibs rename [Karel Zak] - enable fsck by default [Karel Zak] - fix "make -C" bug [Karel Zak] - fix --disable-uuidd [Karel Zak] - fix blkid.h include for old e2fsprogs [Karel Zak] - fix headers in mkswap and libblkid [Karel Zak] - fix libuuid Makefile.am [Karel Zak] - release++ (v2.16-rc1) [Karel Zak] - rename /libs to /shlibs [Karel Zak] buildsys: - move $usr{bin,sbin,lib}execdir definition to ./configure [Karel Zak] cal: - Highlight today even when month or year specified [Rajeev V. Pillai] - uClibc has langinfo.h but not _NL_TIME_WEEK_1STDAY. [Tom Prince] chrt: - don't assume SCHED_BATCH and SCHED_IDLE exist [Aurelien Jarno] docs: - add missing commands/projects to AUTHORS file [Karel Zak] - add v2.16 ReleaseNotes [Karel Zak] - refresh TODO list [Karel Zak] - remove example.files/rc[.local] [Karel Zak] - remove obsolete information from fstab example [Karel Zak] - update AUTHORS file [Karel Zak] - update v2.16-ReleaseNotes [Karel Zak] fdisk: - (and cfdisk) fix to be consistent about maximum heads [Chris Webb] - add simple test for doslabel stuff [Zdenek Behan] hwclock: - fix mismatched popen/fclose. [John Keeping] include: - clean up _PATH_DEV_* macros [Karel Zak] - fix _PATH_DEV [Karel Zak] ionice: - Allow setting the none class [Jakob Unterwurzacher] ldattach: - add N_PPS support [Tilman Schmidt] libblkid: - add device-mapper snapshot cow device probe [Milan Broz] - add install-hook for libuuid.[a,so] devel files [Karel Zak] - blkid_do_safeprobe() has to be tolerant to RAIDs [Karel Zak] - cleanup debug messages and return codes in blkid_do_probe() [Karel Zak] - don't require udev symlinks verification for non-root users [Karel Zak] - fix "hangs forever with partition type mdraid" [Karel Zak] - fix #ifdefs readability [Karel Zak] - fix $libdir in blkid.pc [Karel Zak] - fix LVM1 probe [Milan Broz] - fix reiserfs name [Karel Zak] - make libuuid optional [Karel Zak] - move to misc-utils/ directory [Karel Zak] - update man page [Karel Zak] libuuid: - Don't run uuidd if it would fail due to permission problems [Theodore Ts'o] - Make sure fd's 0, 1, and 2 are valid before exec'ing uuidd [Theodore Ts'o] - add --disable-libuuid and LIBUUID_VERSION [Karel Zak] - add .gitignore [Karel Zak] - add info about u-l-ng to man pages [Karel Zak] - add install-hook for libuuid.[a,so] devel files [Karel Zak] - fix $libdir in uuid.pc [Karel Zak] - import UUID library from e2fsprogs [Karel Zak] libuuid, uuidd: - Avoid infinite loop while reading from the socket fd [Theodore Ts'o] losetup: - add --set-capacity [Karel Zak] - fix return codes of functions arounf is_associated() [Karel Zak] - handle symlinks in /dev/loop/ [Mike Frysinger] - suggest to use modprobe rather than insmod in losetup.8 [Karel Zak] lscpu: - fix cpuid code on x86/PIC [Mike Frysinger] mount: - (and fsck) remove libvolume_id support [Karel Zak] - a little clean up info about loopdevs in man page [Karel Zak] - add ext4 to mount.8 [Karel Zak] - add ext4 to the list of filesystems in mount.8 [Karel Zak] - add info about obsolete vfat options to mount.8 [Karel Zak] - allow loop suid umount [Kay Sievers] - cleanup notes about -l option in mount.8 [Karel Zak] - fix undefined reference to `security_get_initial_context' [Karel Zak] - move MS_{PROPAGATION,BIND,MOVE} detection [Karel Zak] - use "none" fstype for MS_PROPAGATION mounts [Karel Zak] - use TAG parsing function from libblkid [Karel Zak] po: - fix typo in French translation [Olivier Blin] - merge changes [Karel Zak] - refresh POTFILES.in [Karel Zak] - update vi.po (from translationproject.org) [Clytie Siddall] raw: - Use the RAW_SETBIND ioctl without stat'ing the raw# file [Jeff Mahoney] - undeprecate raw [Karel Zak] switch_root: - add man page [Karel Zak] - clean up argv[] usage, add -h and -V [Karel Zak] - do recursiveRemove after our root is moved to avoid races. [Peter Jones] - fix coding style [Karel Zak] - fork before cleaning up the filesystem. [Peter Jones] - new command [Karel Zak] - rewrite to use fstatat() and unlinkat() [Karel Zak] - use err.h, clean up return codes [Karel Zak] - use file descriptor instead of path for recursiveRemove() [Peter Jones] - use snprintf() rather tan str{cpy,cat}() [Karel Zak] tests: - add functions for work withdisk images [Karel Zak] - add mdraid libblkid test [Karel Zak] - don't run some mount tests for non-root users [Karel Zak] - fix 'delete extended partition' checksum [Karel Zak] - fix reiserfs test [Karel Zak] - fix script that creates lscpu dumps [Karel Zak] - move lscpu /proc and /sys dumps to tarballs [Karel Zak] - remove broken Xen dumps for lscpu [Karel Zak] umount: - clean up help output [Karel Zak] uuidd: - Avoid closing the server socket when calling create_daemon() [Theodore Ts'o] - fix $PIDFILE in uuidd.rc [Karel Zak] - init /var/run/uuidd, add option for on-demand mode to .rc file [Karel Zak] - move uuidd files from /var/lib/libuuid to /var/run/uuidd [Karel Zak] - move uuidd.rc to misc-utils directory [Karel Zak] - new command (UUID daemon from e2fsprogs) [Karel Zak] uuidgen: - new command (from e2fsprogs) [Karel Zak] -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
