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| author | Benno Schulenberg | 2016-03-14 10:10:13 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2016-03-14 16:11:07 +0100 |
| commit | 295a7aa32394eb1870b81087f2815206f538f7ec (patch) | |
| tree | 550fef96afc8392367cac8abd6345c3e08ce3bcb /Documentation/releases | |
| parent | unshare: replace a special character in the man page with a space (diff) | |
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docs: improve grammar and wording in the 2.28 release notes
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/releases/v2.28-ReleaseNotes | 36 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/releases/v2.28-ReleaseNotes b/Documentation/releases/v2.28-ReleaseNotes index 789b1305e..9518ae937 100644 --- a/Documentation/releases/v2.28-ReleaseNotes +++ b/Documentation/releases/v2.28-ReleaseNotes @@ -1,35 +1,35 @@ Util-linux 2.28 Release Notes ============================= -Now cfdisk, sfdisk and fdisk wipe all filesystems and RAID signatures when -create a new disk label in interactive mode. It's possible to control this -feature by --wipe=<auto,never,always>. The feature is disabled by default for -not-terminals. +Now cfdisk, sfdisk and fdisk wipe all filesystem and RAID signatures when +creating a new disk label in interactive mode. It's possible to control this +feature with --wipe[=auto|never|always]. For non-terminals the feature is +disabled by default. -lsns -- this NEW COMMAND lists information about all the currently accessible -namespaces or about the given namespace. +lsns -- this NEW COMMAND lists information about all currently accessible +namespaces or about the given namespace. The command sfdisk supports new operations --delete, --move-data and --reorder. The command blkdiscard supports a new option --zeroout to zero-fill rather than -discard specified area. +discard a specified area. The command cal supports a new option --span to span the date when displaying multiple months (e.g. "cal --span --months 5" to display two months before and two months after the current month). -The command chrt supports DEADLINE scheduling class and new options +The command chrt supports the DEADLINE scheduling class and the new options --sched-runtime --sched-period and --sched-deadline. -The command logger supports RFC 5424 structured data by new options --sd-id and ---sd-param. +The command logger supports RFC 5424 structured data through the new options +--sd-id and --sd-param. The command losetup supports a new option --direct-io[=on|off]. -The command lsblk allows to sort output by non-printed columns (e.g. lsblk +The command lsblk allows to sort output by unprinted columns (e.g. lsblk --output NAME --sort SIZE). -The command mount applies nofail mount option to ENOMEDIUM errors. +The command mount applies the nofail mount option to ENOMEDIUM errors. The library libmount has been improved to properly detect already mounted btrfs subvolumes. @@ -47,13 +47,13 @@ anymore. Security issues --------------- -CVE-2016-2779 +CVE-2016-2779 -This security issue is NOT FIXED yet. The ioctl TIOCSTI is possible to disable -by setsid() only. Unfortunately, setsid() has well define use-cases in su(1) -and runuser(1) and possible changes will introduce regressions. It seems we -need a better way -- ideally another ioctl (or whatever supported by kernel) to -disable TIOCSTI without setsid(). +This security issue is NOT FIXED yet. It is possible to disable the ioctl +TIOCSTI by setsid() only. Unfortunately, setsid() has well-defined use cases +in su(1) and runuser(1) and any changes would introduce regressions. It seems +we need a better way -- ideally another ioctl (or whatever is supported by the +kernel) to disable TIOCSTI without setsid(). Stable maintenance releases between v2.27 and v2.28 |