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docs: update v2.25-ReleaseNotes
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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@@ -108,6 +108,10 @@ agetty:
- support the special terminal on first serial line on a S/390 [Werner Fink]
- update man page [Karel Zak]
- use the "best" interface for \4 and \6 [Karel Zak]
+bash-completion:
+ - update cfdisk [Karel Zak]
+ - update fallocate, fstrim and lsblk [Karel Zak]
+ - update fdisk [Karel Zak]
blkdiscard:
- BLKSSZGET fills in an int, not a uint64 [Theodore Ts'o]
blkid:
@@ -139,6 +143,7 @@ build-sys:
- add UL_DEFAULT_ENABLE() and $ul_default_estate [Karel Zak]
- add UL_EXCLUDE_ARCH() [Karel Zak]
- add disable-all.conf to config-gen [Karel Zak]
+ - add libsmartcols to ko-release-gen script [Karel Zak]
- add missing dependencies to libsmartcols [Karel Zak]
- add non-libsmartcols.conf [Karel Zak]
- add sys-utils/uname26.8 to gitignore [Karel Zak]
@@ -159,16 +164,19 @@ build-sys:
- fix typo, sparc vs spark (62b2c024) [Ruediger Meier]
- fix update-potfiles script [Ruediger Meier]
- fix with_python usage, improve logic [Karel Zak]
+ - fixes for non-Linux systems [Samuel Thibault]
- fstrim depends on libmount [Karel Zak]
- libmount/python/__init__.py is always a dist file [Ruediger Meier]
- move libsmartcols.so to /lib if they exists [Karel Zak]
- ove fdisks to disk-utils [Karel Zak]
+ - release++ (v2.25-rc1) [Karel Zak]
- remove deprecated-mount/ [Karel Zak]
- remove obsolete wholedisk.c [Karel Zak]
- remove unnecessary void casts [Sami Kerola]
- restore make distcheck's configure flags [Ruediger Meier]
- small fixes to libsmartcols [Karel Zak]
- sort gitignore files [Sami Kerola]
+ - support ./configure ADJTIME_PATH= [Karel Zak]
- use automake's PYTHON primary for __init__.py [Ruediger Meier]
- use gettext 0.18.3 if possible [Ruediger Meier]
- fix default estate usage [Karel Zak]
@@ -197,6 +205,7 @@ cal:
- use month contents structure for --year printing [Sami Kerola]
- various tests for week numbers [Tommi Kyntola]
cfdisk:
+ - add --zero command line option [Karel Zak]
- add UI for linfdisk menus, ask for size [Karel Zak]
- add [Sort] operation [Karel Zak]
- add create lebel UI [Karel Zak]
@@ -211,9 +220,11 @@ cfdisk:
- coding style, comments, etc. [Karel Zak]
- consolidate menu descriptions [Karel Zak]
- consolidate menu move code [Karel Zak]
+ - don't offer BSD [Karel Zak]
- fix colors initialization [Karel Zak]
- fix compile-time error fixes #59 [Wolfgang Richter]
- fix compiler warning [-Wsign-compare] [Karel Zak]
+ - fix division by zero [clang-analyze] [Karel Zak]
- fix header [Karel Zak]
- fix slang usage [Karel Zak]
- fix typo (undeclared variable since b1f58330) [Ruediger Meier]
@@ -262,11 +273,15 @@ dmesg:
- support colors customization [Karel Zak]
docs:
- add a new command boilerplate code [Sami Kerola]
+ - add fdisk mac support to TODO file [Karel Zak]
- add lslogins(1) to TODO [Karel Zak]
+ - add note about lsblk [Karel Zak]
- add note about make distcheck [Karel Zak]
- add patching process to howto-contribute.txt [Sami Kerola]
- add pid alis to deprecated.txt [Karel Zak]
+ - add v2.25-ReleaseNotes [Karel Zak]
- fix "behaviour" vs. "behavior" [Karel Zak]
+ - fix minor things in man-page howto [Karel Zak]
- fix two command representations in the man page of more [Benno Schulenberg]
- grammarize the usage howto [Benno Schulenberg]
- make hexdump.1 color specification easier to understand [Sami Kerola]
@@ -287,22 +302,30 @@ fallocate:
- Hide #ifdef tricks to call fallocate in a function [Rodrigo Campos]
- add --verbose, clean up usage() [Karel Zak]
- add FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE support [Lukas Czerner]
+ - clarify usage() [Pádraig Brady]
- code optimalizations [Karel Zak]
+ - fix FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE flag check [Karel Zak]
+ - fix check of number of arguments [Bernhard Voelker]
- fix man page synopsis [Karel Zak]
- fix missing sentinel for is_nul() [Karel Zak]
- improve --dig-holes [Karel Zak]
- introduce an option -c to support COLLAPSE_RANGE [Dongsu Park]
+ - make man page readable for humans [Karel Zak]
- prefer FALLOC_FL_* flags from libc headers [Karel Zak]
+ - use O_CREAT only for the default behavior [Karel Zak]
- use POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED to discard cached data [Karel Zak]
- use SEEK_DATA on already sparse files [Karel Zak]
+ - use err_exclusive_options(), cleanup getopt_long() stuff [Karel Zak]
fdformat:
- Some minor change to the manual [Bjarni Ingi Gislason]
fdisk:
- (gpt) add A,B,R,S expert commands to modify attributes [Karel Zak]
- (gpt) more human readable info about free space [Karel Zak]
- add 'M' to access GPT nested protective/hybrid MBR [Karel Zak]
+ - add long options, cleanup man page and usage() [Karel Zak]
- add note about colors to the man page [Karel Zak]
- don't care about partition type [Karel Zak]
+ - don't use --geom-* prefix for CHS options [Karel Zak]
- fix 'p'rint error on empty PT [Karel Zak]
- fix nasty coding style [Karel Zak]
- fix printf stuff [Karel Zak]
@@ -323,7 +346,11 @@ findmnt:
- add -U to de-deplicate filesystems [Karel Zak]
- cleanup flags [Karel Zak]
- cleanup usage() [Karel Zak]
+ - minimally improve wording of usage text [Benno Schulenberg]
+ - simplify cache_set_targets() [Karel Zak]
+ - slightly improve wording and formatting in man page [Benno Schulenberg]
- use libsmartcols [Ondrej Oprala]
+ - use mnt_cache_set_targets() for non-kernel table [Eric Rannaud]
flock:
- Change the 'exit status' man page section to make more sense [Wieland Hoffmann]
- document exit status of flock in man page [Phillip Susi]
@@ -332,6 +359,7 @@ fsck:
- Some typographical corrections to the manual [Bjarni Ingi Gislason]
- add ext4 to list of filesystems with progress bars in fsck man page [Phillip Susi]
- don't return error if fsck.<type> does not exist [Karel Zak]
+ - uninitialized argument value [clang-analyze] [Karel Zak]
- use private lock file rather than whole-disk directly [Karel Zak]
fsck.cramfs:
- add option --blocksize [Ruediger Meier]
@@ -402,6 +430,7 @@ hwclock:
- fix possible hang and other set_hardware_clock_exact() issues [Chris MacGregor]
- fix typo [Karel Zak]
- internationalizing the message of the used interface [Benno Schulenberg]
+ - sometimes one day lasts 23 hours. [peppe]
include/boottime:
- add a new file [Karel Zak]
include/c:
@@ -495,6 +524,10 @@ lib/fileutils:
- add mkdir_p() from libmount [Karel Zak]
- add stripoff_last_component() from libmount [Karel Zak]
- xalloc stuff in library-like code [Karel Zak]
+lib/ismounted:
+ - more robust buffer usage [clang-analyze] [Karel Zak]
+lib/loopdev.c:
+ - reset errno before strtol() call [Yuriy Nazarov]
lib/mbalign:
- add mbs_safe_width() from tt.c [Karel Zak]
- report also size in bytes [Karel Zak]
@@ -529,6 +562,7 @@ lib/tt:
- add tt_line_get_userdata() [Karel Zak]
- don't hardcode stdout as output [Karel Zak]
- keep track about output order [Karel Zak]
+lib/tt.c:
- Goodbye! [Ondrej Oprala]
libblkid:
- (nilfs2) check also backup superblock [Karel Zak]
@@ -538,11 +572,13 @@ libblkid:
- add extra checks to XFS prober [Karel Zak]
- cleanup internal return codes [Karel Zak]
- convert GPT attributes to host endianess [Karel Zak]
+ - correct the return values in squashfs probe [David Shea]
- detect alone PMBR [Karel Zak]
- detect squashfs 3 vs 4 [Ruediger Meier]
- fix compiler warning [-Wimplicit-function-declaration] [Karel Zak]
- fix memory leak in blkid_parse_tag_string() [Karel Zak]
- fix partitions probing [Karel Zak]
+ - fix probe_ddf() [clang-analyze] [Karel Zak]
- fix return codes from PART_ENTRY_* probing [Karel Zak]
- fix sgi PT parser to report system partitions [Karel Zak]
- fix swap-area version [Karel Zak]
@@ -564,13 +600,16 @@ libfdisk:
- (bsd) remove get_partition_type() [Karel Zak]
- (bsd) use new get_part() API [Karel Zak]
- (dos) be more verbose when change bootable flag [Karel Zak]
+ - (dos) calculation of total size based on CHS in check function [Thorsten Wilmer]
- (dos) consolidate partition end-offset code [Karel Zak]
+ - (dos) count fisrt usable LBA to total number of used sectors [Karel Zak]
- (dos) fix ext_index usage [Karel Zak]
- (dos) fix free part counter [Karel Zak]
- (dos) fix log.partition delete [Karel Zak]
- (dos) improve logical partition reorder command [Karel Zak]
- (dos) make EBR parser more robust [Karel Zak]
- (dos) remove get_partition_type() [Karel Zak]
+ - (dos) use check() for dos-comaptible mode only [Karel Zak]
- (dos) use new list() and get_part() API [Karel Zak]
- (dos) warn on type 0 [Karel Zak]
- (gpt) add /home GUID [Karel Zak]
@@ -618,6 +657,7 @@ libfdisk:
- fix fdisk_context_assign_device() comment [Karel Zak]
- fix freesapce detection for nested partitions [Karel Zak]
- fix logical partition reorder command [Karel Zak]
+ - fix possible memory leak [clang-analyze] [Karel Zak]
- fix printf stuff [Karel Zak]
- follow requested size rather than use all available space [Karel Zak]
- implement generic functions for FDISK_COL_ stuff [Karel Zak]
@@ -641,7 +681,6 @@ libfdisk:
- use new debug functions [Karel Zak]
- use partition template [Karel Zak]
- warn about obsolete signatures on the device [Karel Zak]
- - align free space [Karel Zak]
libmount:
- FS id and parent ID could be zero [Karel Zak]
- accept (deleted) path suffix in mountinfo file [Karel Zak]
@@ -650,6 +689,7 @@ libmount:
- add mnt_tag_is_valid() [Karel Zak]
- add statfs_magic.h [Karel Zak]
- allow to use -s (sloppy) for all external helpers [Karel Zak]
+ - always use mnt_resolve_target() in mnt_fs_match_target() [Karel Zak]
- cgroup magic already defined [Karel Zak]
- cleanup fix_optstr() regards to selinux and smack [Karel Zak]
- define BTRFS_TEST_MAGIC if missing [Bernhard Voelker]
@@ -659,8 +699,12 @@ libmount:
- further debug.h integration [Ondrej Oprala]
- initialize *root to NULL in mnt_table_get_root_fs [Thomas Bächler]
- make the mountinfo parser more robust [Karel Zak]
+ - mnt_resolve_path don't canonicalize fs->target for swap [Eric Rannaud]
+ - mnt_resolve_path use strcmp() only if both are canonical [Eric Rannaud]
+ - mnt_resolve_target tiptoe around active mount points [Eric Rannaud]
- remove smackfs* option when SMACK not enabled [Karel Zak]
- silence some docs warnings [Ondrej Oprala]
+ - special treatment for auto in fstype pattern [Karel Zak]
- update utab after successful extern helper mount [Karel Zak]
- use macros from include/debug.h [Ondrej Oprala]
- use new debug functions [Karel Zak]
@@ -677,6 +721,7 @@ libsmartcols:
- add lines [Karel Zak, Ondrej Oprala]
- add missing COPYING file [Karel Zak]
- add missing copyright notifications [Ondrej Oprala]
+ - add note about deallocations [Karel Zak]
- add reduce term width functionality [Karel Zak]
- add scols_sort_table() [Karel Zak, Shakur Shams Mullick]
- add scols_table_is_empty() [Ondrej Oprala]
@@ -724,6 +769,8 @@ libuuid:
- (uuid_is_null.3) Improve the typesetting of the manual [Bjarni Ingi Gislason]
- (uuid_parse.3) Improve the typesetting of the manual [Bjarni Ingi Gislason]
- (uuid_unparse.3) Improve the typesetting of the manual [Bjarni Ingi Gislason]
+linfdisk:
+ - align free space [Karel Zak]
logger:
- allow user to send structured journald messages [Sami Kerola]
- check numeric priority and facility input values [Sami Kerola]
@@ -799,6 +846,8 @@ lslogins:
- improve nologins and shadow usage [Karel Zak]
- improve pretty output [Karel Zak]
- improve supplementary groups code, add SUPP-GIDS [Karel Zak]
+ - improve the columns information [Benno Schulenberg]
+ - improve wording and formatting of the man page [Benno Schulenberg]
- make it work [Ondrej Oprala]
- mention --time-format in usage [Ondrej Oprala]
- move to login-utils [Ondrej Oprala]
@@ -904,8 +953,10 @@ renice:
runuser:
- fix minor typos in the man page [Ondrej Oprala]
script:
+ - --quiet option is not quiet. [James Hunt]
- Also flush writes to timing file. [Jesper Dahl Nyerup]
- check that stdin is a terminal [Karel Zak]
+ - clean up code to genenrate Star/Done messages [Karel Zak]
- clean up files usage [Karel Zak]
- don't call TIOCGWINSZ in signal handler [Karel Zak]
- don't wait for empty descriptors if child is dead [Karel Zak]
@@ -914,6 +965,7 @@ script:
- fix spurious exit from input read loop on EINTR. [Csaba Kos]
- restore errno in signal handler [Karel Zak]
- script input redirection / eof handling [Karel Zak]
+ - silence the done message on --quiet as well [Andreas Henriksson]
- time from end of read() call partially fixes #58 [Wolfgang Richter]
- use all-io.h to make the code more robust [Karel Zak]
scriptreplay:
@@ -942,7 +994,9 @@ setterm:
- fix 'bright' in usage, remove unnecessary error message [Karel Zak]
- fix -dump man page info [Karel Zak]
- improve error messages [Sami Kerola]
+ - improve formatting and wording of usage text [Benno Schulenberg]
- improve perform_sequence() coding style [Sami Kerola]
+ - improve wording and formatting of the man page [Benno Schulenberg]
- make -msglevel 0 to work as is did earlier [Sami Kerola]
- mark some options to be exclusive with each other [Sami Kerola]
- move show_tabs() and screendump() functions [Sami Kerola]
@@ -973,7 +1027,9 @@ swaplabel:
- Improve the typesetting of the manual [Bjarni Ingi Gislason]
- wrong version number in check [Sami Kerola]
swapon:
+ - align --summary fields [Sami Kerola]
- clean up scols usage [Karel Zak]
+ - mark --sumarry as deprecated [Karel Zak]
- swaps with legacy version label are not supported [Sami Kerola]
- use libsmartcols [Ondrej Oprala]
swapon, swapheader, mkswap:
@@ -1113,6 +1169,7 @@ umount:
- fix typo in usage [Jonathan Liu]
- fix umount by tag for non-roots [Karel Zak]
- more robust success message for --all [Karel Zak]
+ - slightly improve the man page [Benno Schulenberg]
unshare:
- Add possibility to add mapping into root user in user namespace [Lubomir Rintel]
- add + to getopt_long() [Karel Zak]