Signed-off-by: J William Piggott <elseifthen@xxxxxxx> --- Karel, are you interested in these types of grammar/spelling/whitespace fixes for releasenotes? If not, I won't spend time on them. Note: I only had time to review and update the 'highlights' section. Documentation/releases/v2.31-ReleaseNotes | 58 +++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/releases/v2.31-ReleaseNotes b/Documentation/releases/v2.31-ReleaseNotes index 4671838b1..bc0c6f4ea 100644 --- a/Documentation/releases/v2.31-ReleaseNotes +++ b/Documentation/releases/v2.31-ReleaseNotes @@ -3,69 +3,69 @@ Util-linux 2.31 Release Notes The package build-system follows GNU Coding Standards and uses --runstatedir instead of --localstatedir. The default is /run. Please, review your distribution -build scripts (spec files etc.) to be sure that this change does not introduce -any regression to your distribution. +build scripts (spec files etc.) to be sure that this change does not introduce +any regression to your distribution. Release highlights ------------------ rfkill -- NEW COMMAND for enabling and disabling wireless devices. This new -implementation is based and backwardly compatible to the original rfkill from -Johannes Berg and Marcel Holtmann. +implementation is based upon, and backward compatible with, the original rfkill +from Johannes Berg and Marcel Holtmann. The command su has been refactored and extended to create pseudo terminal for the session (new option --pty). This new EXPERIMENTAL feature provides better -isolation between root's terminal and unprivileged su session. +isolation between root's terminal and an unprivileged su session. -uuidparse -- NEW COMMAND to provide details about types, variants and time -hashed to the UUID. +uuidparse -- NEW COMMAND to provide variant and type details for input UUIDs. The library libuuid and command uuidgen support hash-based UUIDs v3 (md5) and v5 (sha1) as specified by RFC-4122. The library also provides UUID templates for dns, url, oid, or x500. The library libblkid has been extended to support DM-integrity, HPE (aka -extended-XFS) and UBI superblock. The library also provides new API to hide -already detected signatures. This allows to gather all possible magic strings -permutation for the device, and for example command wipefs prints complete list -of all magic strings now. +extended-XFS) and UBI superblock. The library also provides a new API to hide +already detected signatures. This allows the gathering of all possible magic +string permutations for a device. For example, the command wipefs will now print +the complete list of all magic strings. The library libfdisk provides a new API to modify grain (a size used for -partitioning calculation) and it is also possible to completely disable dialog +partition calculations) and it is also possible to completely disable dialog driven partitioning. The library libsmartcols provides a new API to move columns. This new -functionality is avaialable by "column --table-order" on command line. +functionality is available by "column --table-order" on the command line. -The command "column --table-header-repeat" allows to repeat table header +The command "column --table-header-repeat" allows repetition of table headers according to terminal size. -The libfdisk has been extended to use BLKPG ioctls to inform kernel about -changes. It means that cfdisk and fdisk do not force kernel to reread all -partition table, but untouched partition may remain mounted and used by system. -Tne typical use-case is resize last partition on system disk. +The libfdisk has been extended to use BLKPG ioctls to inform the kernel about +changes. This means that cfdisk and fdisk will not force the kernel to reread +all of the partition table, but untouched partitions may remain mounted and used +by the system. The typical use-case is resizing the last partition on the system +disk. The command cfdisk provides a new dialog to resize a partition. The fdisk menu behavior on ^C and ^D has been improved to stop the current -operation and return to main menu rather than immediately terminate all fdisk +operation and return to main menu rather than immediately terminating the fdisk program. -The command look follows WORDLIST environment variable (if specified) to -find word list. +The 'look' command now follows the WORDLIST environment variable (if specified) +to find the word list. -The almost all --help and --version outputs have been improved (thanks to +Almost all of the --help and --version outputs have been improved (thanks to Ruediger Meier and others). -The command script has been improved to follow usual semantic for stop/continue -signals. It's possible to move all session to the background and later back to -the foreground (e.g. shell command "fg", etc.). +The 'script' command has been improved to follow the usual semantics for +stop/continue signals. It's possible to move a session to the background and +later back to the foreground (e.g. shell command "fg", etc.). -The command setpriv supports ambient capabilities with new command line option ---ambient-caps (thanks Patrick Steinhardt) and the new command line option ---init-groups allows to initialize supplementary groups (thanks to Sebastian -Schrader). +The setpriv command now supports ambient capabilities with the new command line +option --ambient-caps (thanks Patrick Steinhardt) and the new command line +option --init-groups allows initialization of supplementary groups (thanks to +Sebastian Schrader). Security issues -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
