The stable util-linux-ng 2.18 release is available at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.18/ Feedback and bug reports, as always, are welcomed. Karel Util-linux-ng 2.18 Release Notes ================================ The util-linux-ng package does not contain rdev(8), ramsize(8), vidmode(8) and rootflags(8) anymore. The fdisk(8) command does not use DOS-compatible mode and cylinders as display units by default. The old deprecated DOS behavior could be enabled by 'c' and 'u' fdisk commands or from command line by '-c=dos -u=cylinders' options. Release highlights ------------------ libmount: - this NEW LIBRARY is designed to be used in low-level utils like mount(8) and /sbin/mount.<type> helpers as well as in some other projects. - the library API is still officially unstable. The library provides fstab, mtab and mountinfo parser, routines for work with parsed data and mount options, mtab locking, etc. The high-level API for mount(2) is planned for the next major release. For more details see: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/3239 - the utils like mount(8) or umount(8) are not linked with the library yet. This change is planned for util-linux-ng-2.19. findmnt(8): - this NEW COMMAND is a command line interface to the libmount library for work with mountinfo, fstab and mtab files fsfreeze(8): - this NEW COMMAND is very simple wrapper around FIFREEZE/FITHAW ioctls swaplabel(8): - this NEW COMMAND allows to change swaparea UUID and label blkid(8): - supports new command line option "-i" to print I/O Limits - supports new command line option "-n" to restrict probing functions to defined list of superblock types (names). - returns details from partition table (type, flags, uuid, ...) chrt(1): - supports new command line option "-R/--reset-on-fork" to enable SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK flag fdisk(8): - supports new command line option "-c" to switch off DOS mode - uses 1MiB offset for the first partition (all these changes are already in the release 2.17.2) hwclock(8): - supports new command line option "--predict" to predict what the RTC will read at time given by the --date option based on the adjtime file. ldattach(8): - supports new command line option "-i/--iflag" to sets the specified bits in the c_iflag word of the serial line. fallocate(1), losetup(8) and mount(8): - the options --offset, --length or --sizelimit support suffixes (MiB, GiB, ...) and hex numbers umount(8): - supports new command line option "--fake" to avoid umount(2) syscall Stable maintenance releases between v2.17 and v2.18 --------------------------------------------------- util-linux-ng 2.17.1 [22-Feb-2010] * ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.17/v2.17.1-ReleaseNotes ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.17/v2.17.1-ChangeLog util-linux-ng 2.17.2 [22-Mar-2010] * ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.17/v2.17.2-ReleaseNotes ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.17/v2.17.2-ChangeLog Changes between v2.17 and v2.18 ------------------------------- For more details see ChangeLog files at: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.18/ addpart: - use atoll() for parsing command line arguments [Thomas Fehr] blkid: - add \n to the "-o udev" output when probe more devices [Karel Zak] - add 'export' output format [Karel Zak] - add -i option to print I/O limits [Karel Zak] - add -n <list> option [Karel Zak] - add newline when only one value is printed [Karel Zak] - cleanup -u <list> parsing [Karel Zak] - cleanup man page [Karel Zak] - encode PART_ENTRY_TYPE [Karel Zak] - export ID_PART_ENTRY_* variables for udev [Karel Zak] - fix #ifdef HAVE_TERMIO[S]_H [Karel Zak] - fix blkid_probe_lookup_value() usage [Karel Zak] - improve RAIDs and tiny devices probing [Karel Zak] - probe for PT, don't probe for FS on small whole-disks [Karel Zak] - remove _ENC from ID_PART_ENTRY_{NAME,TYPE} variables [Karel Zak] - remove duplicate option from man page [Karel Zak] - report open() errors in low-level probing [Karel Zak] - support suffixes for -O <offset> and -S <size> [Karel Zak] - update man page/usage() [Karel Zak] blockdev: - reduce usage text width [Francesco Cosoleto] build-sys: - add missing tests for libuuid and libblkid [Karel Zak] - cleanup lib{mount,blkid} building [Karel Zak] - improved check for fallocate() [Yann Droneaud] - minor changes for GNU/Hurd [Samuel Thibault] - release++ (v2.18-rc1) [Karel Zak] - release++ (v2.18-rc2) [Karel Zak] - remove duplicate #includes [Karel Zak] - replace ../ with $top_srcdir [Karel Zak] - update include/Makefile.am [Karel Zak] - use include/list.h [Karel Zak] cal: - factor out and update multibyte alignment code [Pádraig Brady] - fix first day of the week calculation on BE systems [Karel Zak] - remove unnecessary info from man page [Karel Zak] cfdisk: - fix warning implicit declaration of function ‘wcwidth’ [Karel Zak] - set '[New]' as default item on menu for non allocated space instead of '[Help]'. [Francesco Cosoleto] - set '[Quit]' as default menu item on first run instead of '[Bootable]'. [Francesco Cosoleto] - support non-ascii characters in input [Karel Zak] - use libblkid [Matthias König] chrt: - add --reset-on-fork [Karel Zak] - add --verbose to man page, correct -V for --version, alphabetize [Benno Schulenberg] - add support for SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK [Adrian Knoth] - change two messages into four translatable sentences [Benno Schulenberg] - slice help text into manageable chunks for translators [Benno Schulenberg] docs: - fix umount --fake note in ReleaseNotes [Karel Zak] - update ReleaseNotes [Karel Zak] - update AUTHORS file [Karel Zak] - update TODO [Karel Zak] - update TODO file [Karel Zak] - update tests/README [Karel Zak] - update v2.18 ReleaseNotes [Karel Zak] fallocate: - check for number of arguments [Karel Zak] - support suffixes for --offset and --lenght [Karel Zak] fdisk: - add -c option (switch off DOS mode) [Karel Zak] - cleanup alignment, default to 1MiB offset [Karel Zak] - cleanup help, add -h option [Karel Zak] - cleanup warnings [Karel Zak] - correctly truncate and align translated partition names [Pádraig Brady] - disable DOS mode and cylinders by default [Karel Zak] - don't check alignment_offset against geometry [Karel Zak] - don't include scsi.h [Karel Zak] - don't use 1MiB grain on small devices [Karel Zak] - extend -c and -u options to support old DOS stuff [Karel Zak] - fallback for topology values [Karel Zak] - fix 'p' output for sun label [Karel Zak] - fix -b <sectorsize> [Karel Zak] - fix ALIGN_UP [Karel Zak] - fix check_alignment() [Karel Zak] - fix default first sector [Karel Zak] - improve 'move begin of partition' command [Karel Zak] - improve add partition dialog [Karel Zak] - improve the description of -c and -u options on man page [Benno Schulenberg] - remove erroneous <size> argument from -u option in help text [Benno Schulenberg] - replace bzero with memset [Jon Ringle] - swap VTOC values for warning messages [Karel Zak] - untangle the reporting of deprecated mode and unit [Benno Schulenberg] - use "optimal I/O size" in warnings [Karel Zak] - use 1MiB offset and grain always when possible [Karel Zak] - use more elegant way to count and check alignment [Karel Zak] - use optimal_io_size [Karel Zak] findmnt: - add man page [Karel Zak] - add new command [Karel Zak] - add tree support [Karel Zak] - add {fs,vfs}-options columns [Karel Zak] - don't swap source and target for tags [Karel Zak] - minor coding style fixes [Karel Zak] - move from /sbin to /bin [Karel Zak] - rewrite to use lib/tt.c [Karel Zak] - small change in usage() [Karel Zak] - ungettextize the directions and fix spelling [Benno Schulenberg] fsck: - fix typo in fsck.8 [Francesco Cosoleto] fsck/mkfs/mount: - unify default search paths for helpers [Mike Frysinger] fsfreeze: - new command [Hajime Taira] git: - ignore index files generated by ctags and cscope [Petr Uzel] hwclock: - add --predict for predicting RTC reading at a given time [Timo Juhani Lindfors] include: - add min/max macros [Karel Zak] - move shlibs/.../list.h to the include/ directory [Karel Zak] ionice: - fix typo [Pierre Hauweele] - non-cryptic error message when ionice can't execvp [Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason] ipcrm: - remove redundant message in case of invalid option [Francesco Cosoleto] ipcs: - add missing "PIDs" to related shared memory header text [Francesco Cosoleto] - advise translators a different output format [Francesco Cosoleto] - get rid of colons from header strings for consistency [Francesco Cosoleto] - reorganize help and usage texts [Francesco Cosoleto] ldattach: - add --iflag command line option [Tilman Schmidt] - create a generic functions for name=value tables [Karel Zak] - prints help to stdout [Karel Zak] lib: - add #ifndef around min() max() macros [Karel Zak] - add fallback for libc (uClibc) without CPU_ALLOC [Karel Zak] - add mangle.c for mtab (fstab or swaps) encoding [Karel Zak] - add strtosize() function [Karel Zak] - add tt.c (Tree and Table output) [Karel Zak] - avoid compilation failure on rawhide [Jim Meyering] - fix blkdev_find_size() [Karel Zak] - remove unwanted debug messages [Karel Zak] - tt.c don't print header for empty table [Karel Zak] - tt.c - fix minimal width of column [Karel Zak] - use fstat() as fallback in blkdev_get_size() [Karel Zak] libblkid: - Add initial support for BeFS detection [Jeroen Oortwijn] - Add probing function for BeFS [Jeroen Oortwijn] - add PART_ENTRY_{SCHEME,NUMBER} [Karel Zak] - add blkid_openat(), cleanup blkid_fstatat() [Karel Zak] - add blkid_partition_set_type() [Karel Zak] - add blkid_partlist_get_table() [Karel Zak] - add blkid_probe_all_removable() [Karel Zak] - add blkid_probe_get_{offset,fd} functions [Karel Zak] - add exFAT file system detection support [Andrew Nayenko] - add generic functions for sysfs attributes [Karel Zak] - add microsecond resolution for cache entries [Karel Zak] - add minimal sizes for OCFS and GFS [Karel Zak] - add mnt_iter_get_direction() [Karel Zak] - add partial support for superblock binary API [Karel Zak] - add paths and tags cache [Karel Zak] - add sanity checks for FAT to DOS PT parser [Karel Zak] - add support for PART_ENTRY_* values [Karel Zak] - add support for partition flags/attributes [Karel Zak] - add ultrix PT support [Karel Zak] - avoid probing CDs for RAID [M.S.Colclough] - call read() per FAT root dir entry [Karel Zak] - cleanup fstat() usage [Karel Zak] - cleanup some docs [Karel Zak] - cleanup superblocks_safeprobe() [Karel Zak] - cleanup usage of empty topology values [Karel Zak] - disable read-ahead when probing device files [Linus Torvalds] - don't call read() per FAT dir-entry on large disks [Karel Zak] - don't gather PART_ENTRY_* values for binary interface [Karel Zak] - don't probe for GPT and Unixware PT on floppies [Karel Zak] - don't probe for nested PT on tiny disks (<=1.44MiB) [Karel Zak] - don't return error on empty files [Karel Zak] - don't use fstat() in blkid_get_dev_size() [Karel Zak] - export functions to get whole-disk devno [Karel Zak] - fix 'partno' usage [Karel Zak] - fix LUKS version [Karel Zak] - fix ZSF detection [Andreas Dilger] - fix blkid_partlist_devno_to_partition() for extended partitions [Karel Zak] - fix collision between RAID and PT probing [Karel Zak] - fix display of device size [Karel Zak] - fix infinite loop when probe chain bails out early [Colin Watson] - fix readline usage [Karel Zak] - fix segfault in drdb [Matthias König] - fix some typos [Milan Broz] - improbe DDF detection [Karel Zak] - improve MD 0.90 detection [Karel Zak] - improve MD 0.90.0 detection (use sb->size) [Karel Zak] - improve MD 1.0 detection, add UUID_SUB [Karel Zak] - improve Sun VTOC [Karel Zak] - improve ZFS detection and add LABEL and UUID extraction [Andreas Dilger] - minor fixes in befs.c [Karel Zak] - more robust minix probing [Karel Zak] - optimize UDF label reading [Karel Zak] - prevent overflow in BeFS [Jeroen Oortwijn] - probe for (non-linux) RAIDs on whole devices only [Karel Zak] - read whole SB buffer (69kB) on large disks [Karel Zak] - read() optimization for small devices [Karel Zak] - remove "0x" prefix from DRBD UUID [Karel Zak] - reset BLKID_TINY_DEV flag in blkid_probe_set_device [Pascal Terjan] - reset superblocks result after error [Karel Zak] - restrict RAID/FS proving for small devices (1.4MiB) [Karel Zak] - rewrite blkid_probe_get_buffer() [Karel Zak] - set correct offsets for TuxOnIce signature [Chow Loong Jin] - set minimal size for jfs, reiser, swap and zfs [Karel Zak] - support alignment_offset=-1 [Karel Zak] - tiny change in debug output [Karel Zak] - export magic strings from raids [Karel Zak] - move getsize.c code to lib/ [Karel Zak] libmount: - add #warning libmount API is not stable yet! [Karel Zak] - add basic dirs [Karel Zak] - add basic utils [Karel Zak] - add debug support [Karel Zak] - add docs [Karel Zak] - add fstab/mtab/mountinfo lookup routines [Karel Zak] - add fstab/mtab/mountinfo parsing routines [Karel Zak] - add list routines and generic iterator [Karel Zak] - add mnt_cache_find_tag_value() [Karel Zak] - add mnt_entry [Karel Zak] - add mnt_match_{fstype,options} functions [Karel Zak] - add mnt_optstr_* functions [Karel Zak] - add mtab locking code [Karel Zak] - add new debug messages [Karel Zak] - add optls (options container) [Karel Zak] - add support for userdata and work with VFS tree [Karel Zak] - add test_version [Karel Zak] - add version.c [Karel Zak] - another Makefile.am fix [Karel Zak] - cleanup cache flags and debug messages [Karel Zak] - cleanup docs [Karel Zak] - don't build tests by default [Karel Zak] - export mnt_init_debug() [Karel Zak] - fix Makefile.am [Karel Zak] - fix mnt_fs_match_source() [Karel Zak] - fix name of mnt_fs_get_*_optstr() [Karel Zak] - fix some gtkdoc warnings [Karel Zak] - merge vfs and fs options more carefully [Karel Zak] - proper tests definition in Makefile.am [Karel Zak] - read devno, ID and parent ID from /proc/self/mountinfo [Karel Zak] - remove mnt_open_device() [Karel Zak] - rename mnt_optls_iterate_options() [Karel Zak] - update symbols table [Karel Zak] - use mangle function from lib/ [Karel Zak] logger: - add note about 'kern' to the man page [Karel Zak] login: - check that after tty reopen we still work with a terminal [Karel Zak] - don't link PAMed version with libcrypt [Karel Zak] - use fd instead of pathname for update tty's owner and permissions [Yann Droneaud] losetup: - support suffixes and hex numbers for --offset and --sizelimit [Karel Zak] lscpu: - add CPU_EQUAL_S definition for old/obscure libc [Karel Zak] - cleanup path_scanstr() [Karel Zak] - cleanup used names [Karel Zak] - fix CPU_EQUAL_S macro [Karel Zak] - fix cpuid opcode detection [Henne Vogelsang] - fix typo in lscpu.1 [Francesco Cosoleto] - fix typo, "faild" to "failed" [Benno Schulenberg] - gettextize "CPU(s)" [Francesco Cosoleto] - improve --sysroot code [Karel Zak] - replace LC_MESSAGES with LC_ALL in setlocate() [Francesco Cosoleto] - use cpuset masks, read data for all CPUs [Karel Zak] messages: - gettextize a few skipped or forgotten ones [Benno Schulenberg] mkswap: - add a note that -p is uncecessary [Karel Zak] - don't call blkdev_find_size() [Karel Zak] - don't use too small user-specified page size [Karel Zak] - fixed strtoll() usage [Yann Droneaud] - more robust strtoull() usage [Karel Zak] - move write_all() to include/writeall.h [Karel Zak] - tweak the man page [Benno Schulenberg] - use calloc(), remove obsolete v1 header usage [Karel Zak] - zap bootbits on regular files [Karel Zak] mount: - add notes about -o remount,ro,bind to mount.8 [Karel Zak] - advise users to use "modprobe", not "insmod" [Karel Zak] - automatically detect and loop-mount regular files [Karel Zak] - detect when kernel silently adds MS_RDONLY flag [Petr Uzel] - don't create loopdev for MS_BIND [Karel Zak] - fix coding style [Karel Zak] - fix information about XFS log buffers in mount.8 [Christoph Hellwig] - fix memory leak [Petr Uzel] - fix typo in comment [Petr Uzel] - fix typos in mount.8 [Petr Uzel] - more explicitly explain fstab usage in mount.8 [Karel Zak] - more robust offset= and sizelimit= parsing [Karel Zak] - posix option of vfat is obsolete [Yoshihiro Takahashi] - properly ignore comments in /etc/filesystems [Mike Frysinger] - report ambivalent FS detection, improve brute force detection [Karel Zak] - revert ugly ENOMEDIUM support [Karel Zak] - support suffixes for offset= and sizelimit= [Karel Zak] - update documentation about barrier mount options [Jan Kara] - use %u for uid_t and gid_t [Karel Zak] - use auto-loopdev for all known filesystems [Karel Zak] - use unmangle/mangle() from lib [Karel Zak] - warn users that mtab is read-only [Karel Zak] namei: - fix man page formatting [Vladimir Brednikov] partx: - do not add nonexistent partitions [Phillip Susi] - fix infinite loop [Karel Zak] po: - merge changes [Karel Zak] - update cs.po (from translationproject.org) [Petr Pisar] - update es.po (from translationproject.org) [Santiago Vila Doncel] - update eu.po (from translationproject.org) [Mikel Olasagasti Uranga] - update id.po (from translationproject.org) [Arif E. Nugroho] - update ja.po (from translationproject.org) [Makoto Kato] - update list of files [Karel Zak] - update nl.po (from translationproject.org) [Benno Schulenberg] - update pl.po (from translationproject.org) [Jakub Bogusz] - update vi.po (from translationproject.org) [Clytie Siddall] rdev: - remove this deprecated command [Karel Zak] rtcwake: - add --dry-run option [Karel Zak] - add disable action for rtc alarm [Marek Otahal] - add disable action to rtcwake man page [Marek Otahal] - does miss the "off" option [Karel Zak] script: - optionally compile with libutempter to update utmp [Karel Zak] - preserve child exit status [Karel Zak] sfdisk: - make sure writes make it to disk in write_partitions() [Bryn M. Reeves] swaplabel: - fix typo in man page [Karel Zak] - new command [Jason Borden] swapon: - fix swapsize calculation [Karel Zak] - move DELETED_SUFFIX to include/pathnames.h [Karel Zak] - remove " (deleted)" from filenames from /proc/swaps [Karel Zak] - use unmangle() for filenames from /proc/swaps [Karel Zak] taskset: - add NLS support, use err.h, cleanup [Karel Zak] - move NR_CPUS determination to lib/cpuset.c [Karel Zak] - move bitmap routines to lib/cpuset.c [Karel Zak] - use libc based cpu_set_t [Karel Zak] tests: - add BeFS test image [Karel Zak] - add blkid test for TuxOnIce [Karel Zak] - add blkid tests for RAID1 [Karel Zak] - add cpuset regression test [Karel Zak] - add fdisk alignment tests [Karel Zak] - add lscpu dump from Dell R710, 8-core Nehalem w/HT (RHEL 5.5) [Karel Zak] - added tests against strtosize [Yann Droneaud] - explicitly use --chunk and --metadata in MD test [Karel Zak] - fix RAIDs tests [Karel Zak] - fix and update old fdisk tests [Karel Zak] - fix whitespaces [Karel Zak] - mount cramfs read-only [Karel Zak] - update FS test images [Karel Zak] - update blkid test for raid1 [Karel Zak] - update blkid/md-raid1-* tests [Karel Zak] - update fdisk tests [Karel Zak] - update ipcs/headers test [Francesco Cosoleto] - update lscpu [Karel Zak] - update lscpu test [Karel Zak] - use POSIX locale [Yann Droneaud] textual: - fix typos [Karel Zak] - fix typos, and rephrase some things for clarity [Benno Schulenberg] - slightly improve two README files [Benno Schulenberg] umount: - add --fake option to umount(8) [Miklos Szeredi] - do not sync() as the kernel does it by itself [Petr Uzel] unshare: - drop potential euid privileges before exec [Karel Zak] uuidd: - spell the plural of "UUID" consistently as "UUIDs" [Benno Schulenberg] wipefs: - cleanup usage() and man page [Karel Zak] - fix license (GPL -> GPLv2+) [Karel Zak] - fix mem usage [Karel Zak] - fix memory leaks [Karel Zak] - ignore devices with partition table [Karel Zak] - print warning is PT detected [Karel Zak] - support suffixes for --offset [Karel Zak] -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- 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
