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docs: update v2.23-ReleaseNotes
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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index 1e41e6c92..1da00070c 100644
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+++ b/Documentation/releases/v2.23-ReleaseNotes
@@ -197,6 +197,9 @@ build-sys:
- don't use libs from pkg-config from libuser [Karel Zak]
- don't use nested BUILD_* [Karel Zak]
- fix --localstatedir heuristics [Karel Zak]
+ - fix UL_REQUIRES_HAVE [Karel Zak]
+ - fix non-linux build [Samuel Thibault]
+ - fix nsenter requirements [Karel Zak]
- fix typo [Karel Zak]
- ignore chkdupexe [Sami Kerola]
- inform gtk-doc about __ul_attribute__ [Karel Zak]
@@ -207,6 +210,7 @@ build-sys:
- make wall optional in bash-completion [Karel Zak]
- move runuser(1) to sbin dir [Karel Zak]
- release++ (v2.23-rc1) [Karel Zak]
+ - release++ (v2.23-rc2) [Karel Zak]
- remove --enable-gtk-doc from make check [Karel Zak]
- remove consoles.h [Karel Zak]
- remove gethostbyname() check [Sami Kerola]
@@ -215,10 +219,12 @@ build-sys:
- simplify usrlib_execdir initialization [Karel Zak]
- support list of variables for UL_REQUIRES_HAVE macro [Karel Zak]
- test for secure_getenv() too. [Cristian Rodríguez]
+ - use 'check' for all utils with dependencies [Karel Zak]
- use AC_COMPILE_IFELSE [Sami Kerola]
- use AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS [Sami Kerola]
- use libcommon.a for lslocks [Karel Zak]
- use pkg-config for selinux [Karel Zak]
+ - use pkg-config results for libuser [Karel Zak]
cal:
- don't mix ncurses output functions and printf() [Karel Zak]
chfn:
@@ -253,17 +259,14 @@ dmesg:
- fix usage() [Karel Zak]
- fix usage() output consistancy [Sami Kerola]
- make usage() translator friendly [Sami Kerola]
+ - minor cleanup of EXCL_xxx_ERR macros [Andrii Bordunov]
- more colors, more fun [Karel Zak]
- parse level when --color is used [Sami Kerola]
- use $PAGER for --human output, add --nopager [Karel Zak]
doc:
- remove incorrect spaces from lscpu synopsis in manpage [Benno Schulenberg]
docs:
- - AUTHORS remove four duplicate entries [Benno Schulenberg]
- - AUTHORS, NEWS UTF-8 fixes. [Ville Skyttä]
- - NEWS add some missing accents, since this is now UTF-8 [Benno Schulenberg]
- add AVAILABILITY section to isosize man page, and tweak wording [Benno Schulenberg]
- - add TB to list of supported suffixes [Karel Zak]
- add fsck.cramfs manual page [Sami Kerola]
- add line breaks to whereis.1 [Sami Kerola]
- add list of expected PAM config files [Karel Zak]
@@ -274,15 +277,19 @@ docs:
- add note about /etc/pam.d/su-l to ReleaseNotes [Karel Zak]
- add note about /var/lib/hwclock to TODO [Karel Zak]
- add su(1) btmp logging [Karel Zak]
+ - add TB to list of supported suffixes [Karel Zak]
- add v2.23-ReleaseNotes [Karel Zak]
- add wipefs feature request to TODO [Karel Zak]
- align blkdiscard.8 with how-to-man-page.txt [Sami Kerola]
- align nsenter.1 man page with howto-man-page.txt [Sami Kerola]
- arch is gone, use delpart as usage() function example [Sami Kerola]
+ - AUTHORS, NEWS UTF-8 fixes. [Ville Skyttä]
+ - AUTHORS remove four duplicate entries [Benno Schulenberg]
- cleanup TODO [Karel Zak]
- col.1 fix manual page name section [checkmans.sh] [Sami Kerola]
- ddate removal [Sami Kerola]
- fix column.1 groff syntax error [Sami Kerola]
+ - fix prlimit typo [Davidlohr Bueso]
- fix typo [Karel Zak]
- generic whereis.1 clean up [Sami Kerola]
- improve grammar and formatting of explanation of "-o +list" [Benno Schulenberg]
@@ -295,21 +302,23 @@ docs:
- mention what Open Group has marked legacy [Sami Kerola]
- mkswap.8 recommend fallocate(1) [Sami Kerola]
- mount.8 make propagation flags adjustable [checkmans.sh] [Sami Kerola]
+ - NEWS add some missing accents, since this is now UTF-8 [Benno Schulenberg]
- normalize formatting of findmnt man page [Benno Schulenberg]
- normalize formatting of lslocks man page [Benno Schulenberg]
- normalize formatting of wipefs man page [Benno Schulenberg]
- remove dead link [Sami Kerola]
- remove hwclock --compare from TODO [Bill Pemberton]
- - remove repeated words [Karel Zak]
- remove repeated words [checkmans.sh] [Sami Kerola]
+ - remove repeated words [Karel Zak]
- sort the options in findmnt man page alphabetically [Benno Schulenberg]
- swapon.8 option name fix [Sami Kerola]
- umount.8 syntax fix. [Ville Skyttä]
- upadte v2.23-ReleaseNotes [Karel Zak]
- update AUTHORS file [Karel Zak]
- - update TODO file [Karel Zak]
- update deprecated file [Karel Zak]
- update deprecated.txt [Karel Zak]
+ - update TODO file [Karel Zak]
+ - update v2.23-ReleaseNotes [Karel Zak]
- update year [Karel Zak]
- usage function and gettext [Sami Kerola]
eject:
@@ -368,6 +377,7 @@ fdisk:
- don't fails silently if EBR is outside of disk [Karel Zak]
- don't offer GPT stuff in BSD menu [Karel Zak]
- fix compiler warning [-Wpointer-arith] and floating point exception [Karel Zak]
+ - fix list types [Karel Zak]
- fix segfault when printing gpt raw data [Davidlohr Bueso]
- fix typo [Karel Zak]
- gpt check header size [Davidlohr Bueso]
@@ -396,6 +406,8 @@ fdisk:
- use fdisk_parttype in add_partition [Karel Zak]
- use libfdisk label->changed [Karel Zak]
- zerosize EBR buffer [Karel Zak]
+fdisks:
+ - fix compiler warning [Karel Zak]
findmnt:
- add FREQ and PASSNO columns [Karel Zak]
- add ID column [Karel Zak]
@@ -453,6 +465,7 @@ include:
- add missing values to sysfs_cxt initializer definition [Sami Kerola]
- add timer.h [Karel Zak]
- cleanup copyright headers [Karel Zak]
+ - fix SYS_{unshare,nsenter} usage [Karel Zak]
include/bitopts:
- Use the operating system byteswapping functions [Karel Zak, Cristian Rodríguez]
include/c:
@@ -600,6 +613,7 @@ libblkid:
- add missing le16_to_cpu to sil raid prober [Karel Zak]
- add missing promise raid metadata locations [Phillip Susi]
- add support for btrfs backup superblock [Goffredo Baroncelli]
+ - arch independent minix detection [Karel Zak]
- check fchmod() return value [coverity scan] [Karel Zak]
- check mkdir(/run/blkid) return code [coverity scan] [Karel Zak]
- check returns [coverity scan] [Karel Zak]
@@ -615,6 +629,7 @@ libblkid:
- fix compiler warning [-Wstrict-aliasing] [Karel Zak]
- fix copyright noticed to be consistent (so all are LGPL) [Karel Zak]
- fix docs comment [Karel Zak]
+ - fix silicon raid checksum code on BE [Karel Zak]
- ignore nested BSD partitions if same like parent [Karel Zak]
- improve DBG() macro [Karel Zak]
- improve Silicon RAID prober [Karel Zak]
@@ -622,25 +637,32 @@ libblkid:
- make backup superblock visible for wipefs(8) only [Karel Zak]
- make blkid_new_probe_from_filename() usable on whole-disk [Karel Zak]
- make btrfs magics more readable [Karel Zak]
+ - make swap detection arch independent [Karel Zak]
- move sun PT definition to include/ [Karel Zak]
- number of functions should not be declared extern [smatch scan] [Sami Kerola]
- re-read PART{UUID,LABEL} for successfully verified cached devices [Karel Zak]
- read whole buffer for iso_volume_descriptor [Karel Zak]
- remove blkid_{strndup,strdup} [Karel Zak]
- remove duplicate includes [Karel Zak]
+ - remove obsolete code [Karel Zak]
- remove obsolete tags from cache [Karel Zak]
- remove optimization from verify( funrtion [Karel Zak]
- rename in sun_disklabel for compatibility with fdisk [Karel Zak]
- return disk ID/UUID by PT binary interface [Karel Zak]
- support LIBBLKID_DEBUG= only [Karel Zak]
+ - ubifs is LE [Karel Zak]
- use O_CLOEXEC [Karel Zak]
- use correct block size for UDF probe [Zachary Catlin]
+ - use more robust code in silicon_raid checksum prober [Karel Zak]
libfdisk:
+ - (gpt) fix EFI UUID usage [Karel Zak]
- (gpt) fix compiler warnings [-Wformat] [Karel Zak]
- (gpt) fix memory leak [coverity scan] [Karel Zak]
+ - (gpt) fix valid_pmbr() [Karel Zak]
- (gpt) introduce driver independent partitions counters [Karel Zak]
- (gpt) move code from fdisk to libfdisk [Karel Zak]
- (gpt) rmeove xalloc calls [Karel Zak]
+ - (gpt) use le64_to_cpu() for alternative LBA checks [Karel Zak]
- add "ask" interface [Karel Zak]
- add FDISK_LABEL_FL_ADDPART_NOPARTNO [Karel Zak]
- add Yes/No to Ask API [Karel Zak]
@@ -670,6 +692,7 @@ libfdisk:
- cleanup the rest of fdisks/utils.c stuff [Karel Zak]
- extend "ask" API, add support for offsets [Karel Zak]
- fix gpt status, don't use xcalloc() in library [Karel Zak]
+ - gpt remove leftover comments [Davidlohr Bueso]
- improve fdisk_ask_partnum() [Karel Zak]
- improve label deinitialization [Karel Zak]
- kill dos_compatible_flag global variable [Karel Zak]
@@ -677,6 +700,7 @@ libfdisk:
- split label and label operations [Karel Zak]
- use O_CLOEXEC [Karel Zak]
libmount:
+ - add debug message to guess FS function [Karel Zak]
- add function attributes to private API [Ondrej Oprala]
- add function attributes to public API [Ondrej Oprala]
- add missing MNT_ERR_AMBIFS [Karel Zak]
@@ -705,6 +729,7 @@ libmount:
- fix __mnt_cache_find_tag_value() [coverity scan] [Karel Zak]
- fix __mnt_optstr_append_option() nonull attribute [coverity scan] [Karel Zak]
- fix a mem leak [Karel Zak]
+ - fix mount.nfs segfault, rely on assert() rather than on nonnull [Karel Zak]
- fix regression test helper [Ondrej Oprala]
- fix support of comma-separated fs types lists [Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy]
- fix typos [Karel Zak]
@@ -792,6 +817,7 @@ lscpu:
- make read_topology() more robust to avoid SIGFPE [Karel Zak]
- remove dead code [coverity scan] [Karel Zak]
- remove unnecessary variable [Karel Zak]
+ - set 32-bit / 64-bit for ppc [Karel Zak]
lslocks:
- add BLOCKER column [Karel Zak]
- detect blocked locks, fix /proc/locks parser [Karel Zak]
@@ -827,7 +853,9 @@ more:
- remove few memory leaks [Sami Kerola]
- remove unnecessary variable [Sami Kerola]
mount:
+ - (deprecated) check loopcxt_ return values [Karel Zak]
- (deprecated) drop --guess-fstype [Karel Zak]
+ - (deprecated) remove duplicate xstrndup() [Karel Zak]
- Fix -t in listing mode when run as non-root [Richard Tollerton]
- add --read-write to man page [Karel Zak]
- add --show-labels to man page [Karel Zak]
@@ -894,7 +922,13 @@ po:
- add hr.po (from translationproject.org) [Tomislav Krznar]
- merge changes [Karel Zak]
- update cs.po (from translationproject.org) [Petr Pisar]
+ - update cs.po (from translationproject.org) [Petr Písař]
+ - update da.po (from translationproject.org) [Joe Hansen]
- update fr.po (from translationproject.org) [David Prévot]
+ - update hr.po (from translationproject.org) [Tomislav Krznar]
+ - update nl.po (from translationproject.org) [Benno Schulenberg]
+ - update pl.po (from translationproject.org) [Jakub Bogusz]
+ - update uk.po (from translationproject.org) [Yuri Chornoivan]
- update vi.po (from translationproject.org) [Trần Ngọc Quân]
prlimit:
- don't care about xasprintf() return code [Karel Zak]
@@ -916,8 +950,10 @@ renice:
rtcwake:
- add --adjfile command line option [Karel Zak]
- add --auto to usage() [Karel Zak]
+ - add support for "freeze" mode [Karel Zak]
- clean up usage [Karel Zak]
- doesn't reset wakealarm [Giacomo]
+ - pass -h to shutdown [Mike Frysinger]
runuser:
- add -u to not execute shell [Karel Zak]
- add note about PAM to man page [Karel Zak]
@@ -970,6 +1006,7 @@ sulogin:
- couple of obvious fixes for non-linux systems [Samuel Thibault]
- don't run if not found passww entry [coverity scan] [Karel Zak]
- don't use {de,con}structor attributes [Karel Zak]
+ - fix compiler warnings [Karel Zak]
- make usleep() workaround work [Werner Fink]
- map NL to CR-NL on output in initial termios settings [Karel Zak]
- minor coding style changes [Karel Zak]
@@ -989,6 +1026,7 @@ switch_root:
- Add a sanity check [Richard Weinberger]
- check open() return value [coverity scan] [Karel Zak]
tests:
+ - add BE minix test [Karel Zak]
- add armv7 lscpu dump [Karel Zak]
- add chfnsh build tests [Karel Zak]
- add dmesg(1) check [Sami Kerola]
@@ -1016,6 +1054,8 @@ tests:
- add utmpdump(1) check [Sami Kerola]
- add whereis(1) check [Sami Kerola]
- add/improve mount shared-subtree tests [Karel Zak]
+ - consolidate scsi_debug usage [Karel Zak]
+ - fix compiler warning [Karel Zak]
- fix ipcs basic limit when bc is not available [Gilles Espinasse]
- fix mount move test to work with shared mount [Milan Broz]
- fix timezone for cramfs [Milan Broz]
@@ -1023,6 +1063,7 @@ tests:
- ignore stderr in fdisk -l [Karel Zak]
- ignore test if kernel doesn't support minix fs [Milan Broz]
- make line(1) optional [Karel Zak]
+ - make mount tests backwardly compatible with deprecated-mount/ [Karel Zak]
- make utmpdump TZ independent [Karel Zak]
- move fallocate test file [Karel Zak]
- move tailf test input [Karel Zak]
@@ -1043,6 +1084,7 @@ tests:
- update libblkid PT tests [Karel Zak]
- update lscpu tests [Karel Zak]
- use checksum to detect rev(1) consistency [Karel Zak]
+ - use udevadm settle rather than sleep [Karel Zak]
textual:
- add missing comma and colon in some help texts [Benno Schulenberg]
- fix a few typos in some of the usage help texts [Benno Schulenberg]
@@ -1083,6 +1125,7 @@ umount:
- improve --recursive docs [Karel Zak]
- make usage() translator friendly [Sami Kerola]
- sanitize paths from non-root users [Karel Zak]
+ - use devno to identify --all-target devices [Karel Zak]
unshare:
- Add support for the pid and user namespaces [Eric W. Biederman]
- make usage() translator friendly [Sami Kerola]