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authorKarel Zak2015-02-19 13:10:10 +0100
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docs: update v2.26-ReleaseNotes
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/releases/v2.26-ReleaseNotes b/Documentation/releases/v2.26-ReleaseNotes
index 61e098203..51a7959e5 100644
--- a/Documentation/releases/v2.26-ReleaseNotes
+++ b/Documentation/releases/v2.26-ReleaseNotes
@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@ build-sys:
- old glibc requires -lrt clock_gettime() [Karel Zak]
- properly check for -lrt [Karel Zak]
- release++ (v2.26-rc1) [Karel Zak]
+ - release++ (v2.26-rc2) [Karel Zak]
- remove swap-common.h from sys-utils/Makemodule.am [Sami Kerola]
- support nsenter.static [Karel Zak]
- use -lutil for BSD only [Karel Zak]
@@ -166,20 +167,24 @@ build-sys:
cal:
- `color` option documentation should match actual behaviour [Eugene Yunak]
- fix signed integer overflow [AddressSanitizer] [Sami Kerola]
+ - use int64_t instead of long [Ruediger Meier]
cfdisk:
- actually translate the table headers and the bottom line [Benno Schulenberg]
- add libfdisk independent debug stuff [Karel Zak]
- add support for sfdisk scripts [Karel Zak]
+ - also recognize a lowercase 'l' for loading a script file [Benno Schulenberg]
- cleanup menuitem draw functions [Karel Zak]
- default to Quit menu item [Karel Zak]
- detect too small partition sizes [Karel Zak]
- disable some KEY_* in ui_get_wqstring() [Karel Zak]
+ - do not startle the user with a false message when --zero is used [Benno Schulenberg]
- don't mess up the help screen by printing the PO file header [Benno Schulenberg]
- don't modify ncurses LINES and COLS [Karel Zak]
- fix mem leak and main_menu_action() logic [coverity scan] [Karel Zak]
- fix typo in the previous commit [Karel Zak]
- force main menu to default to Quit/New menu items [Karel Zak]
- improve Dump dialog [Karel Zak]
+ - improve create-label UI [Karel Zak]
- improve menu clean function [Karel Zak]
- improve ui_get_size() warnings [Karel Zak]
- improve wording and consistency of the size warnings [Benno Schulenberg]
@@ -229,6 +234,7 @@ dmesg:
docs:
- Spelling fixes [Ville Skyttä]
- add TODO entry for libblkid [Karel Zak]
+ - add cfdisk auto-sort to TODO file [Karel Zak]
- add howto-pull-request.txt [Sami Kerola]
- add info about *_DEBUG= to man pages [Karel Zak]
- add logger protocol notes to manual page [Sami Kerola]
@@ -248,7 +254,9 @@ docs:
- fix some wording, grammar and formatting in man page of swapon [Benno Schulenberg]
- fix the grammar and formatting in the man page of sfdisk [Benno Schulenberg]
- fix the grammar of the recent comment about comments [Benno Schulenberg]
+ - fix the link to the rc1 changelog [Benno Schulenberg]
- fix two "maybe be" duplications in program comments [Benno Schulenberg]
+ - fix two paths of the v2.20-ReleaseNotes [Benno Schulenberg]
- fix two spellings in man page of logger [Benno Schulenberg]
- fix typos [Karel Zak]
- fix-up man-pages flaged by checkmans.sh [J William Piggott]
@@ -257,6 +265,7 @@ docs:
- improve some wordings on the man page of wipefs [Benno Schulenberg]
- improve the description of --size in the man page of zramctl [Benno Schulenberg]
- improve the formatting of the chfn and chsh man pages [Benno Schulenberg]
+ - improve the grammar of the "see the changelog" phrase [Benno Schulenberg]
- improve the sorting of the options in the man page of getopt [Benno Schulenberg]
- improve the wording and formatting of the zramctl man page [Benno Schulenberg]
- make logger.1 facilities and levels easier to read [Sami Kerola]
@@ -272,7 +281,9 @@ docs:
- restore minus symbols in long opts [J William Piggott]
- restore the alternative form of setarch in its man page [Benno Schulenberg]
- restore the mention of uhelper= and helper= in man page of umount [Benno Schulenberg]
+ - retrofit the dates on some old release announcements [Benno Schulenberg]
- small improvements to howto-contribute.txt [Sami Kerola]
+ - sort the options in the man page of sfdisk alphabetically [Benno Schulenberg]
- sort the options in the man pages of hwclock and uuidd [Benno Schulenberg]
- spelling, wording, and grammar fixes in the man page of whereis [Benno Schulenberg]
- sync the docstring of addpart, delpart and resizepart to the man page [Benno Schulenberg]
@@ -316,12 +327,15 @@ fdisk:
- use libfdisk public API only [Karel Zak]
findmnt:
- document --uniq option in man page [Bernhard Voelker]
+ - don't parse mountinfo twice [Karel Zak]
- fix mem leaks [coverity scan] [Karel Zak]
flock:
- add error message to translations [Sami Kerola]
- zero timeout is valid [Karel Zak]
fsck:
- deallocate when no cache [coverity scan] [Karel Zak]
+ - fix compiler warning [-Wlogical-not-parentheses] [Karel Zak]
+ - use monotonic time to fsck run time measurement [Sami Kerola]
fsck.minix:
- fix segmentation fault [Sami Kerola]
fstrim:
@@ -347,8 +361,10 @@ hexdump:
hwclock:
- Add --update-drift option [J William Piggott]
- Add --update-drift option MAN [J William Piggott]
+ - Add ntptime reference to man-page [J William Piggott]
- Incorrect UTC defaults [JWP]
- Reduce drift factor update period [J William Piggott]
+ - add checking kernel vars to man-page [J William Piggott]
- add notes about default behavior changes [Karel Zak]
- adjust wording of v2.26 notes [J William Piggott]
- check for permissions before use clock interface [Karel Zak]
@@ -360,9 +376,11 @@ hwclock:
- hctosys drift compensation II [J William Piggott]
- hctosys drift compensation II COMMENTS [J William Piggott]
- hctosys drift compensation II MAN [J William Piggott]
+ - improve man-page language [J William Piggott]
- improve wording and formatting of man page [Benno Schulenberg]
- man page 'Since v2.26' notes [JWP]
- man regression [JWP]
+ - man-page errata [J William Piggott]
- persistent_clock_is_local [J William Piggott]
- persistent_clock_is_local MAN [J William Piggott]
- remove automatic ISA fallback [J William Piggott]
@@ -371,6 +389,8 @@ hwclock:
- update man-page for directisa change [J William Piggott]
- use fabs() instead abs() when argument is double [Sami Kerola]
- use pluralized translations. [Lauri Nurmi]
+ibfdisk:
+ - (gpt) allow to maximize partition [Karel Zak]
include:
- fix compiler warnings [Sami Kerola]
- simplify fputc_careful() in carefulputc.h [Sami Kerola]
@@ -447,6 +467,7 @@ libblkid:
- fix potential bufer overflows [Sebastian Krahmer]
- improve MBR vs. FAT + boot sector detection [Karel Zak]
- move string trim function to strutils.h [Karel Zak]
+ - set SBMAGIC for nilfs2 [Karel Zak]
- superblocks Add function blkid_probe_set_utf8_id_label for setting utf8 id label [Pali Rohár]
- udf Fix reading LABEL, add support for UUID and other udf identifiers [Pali Rohár]
- zeroize errno on blkid_probe_get_buffer() success [Karel Zak]
@@ -472,7 +493,6 @@ libfdisk:
- (dos) use script label-id [Karel Zak]
- (dos) write new empty label too [Karel Zak]
- (gpt) add Microsoft Storage Spaces GUID [Sergei Antonov]
- - (gpt) allow to maximize partition [Karel Zak]
- (gpt) allow to specify attr bit by API [Karel Zak]
- (gpt) allow to specify uuid and name when create new partition [Karel Zak]
- (gpt) check return from GUID parser [coverity scan] [Karel Zak]
@@ -506,6 +526,7 @@ libfdisk:
- add fdisk_copy_parttype() [Karel Zak]
- add fdisk_label_get_field_by_name() and const for labels [Karel Zak]
- add fdisk_partition_is_bootable() [Karel Zak]
+ - add fdisk_partition_is_wholedisk() [Karel Zak]
- add fdisk_set_partition() [Karel Zak]
- add functions to apply partitiong scripts [Karel Zak]
- add functions to play nasty games with first/last LBA [Karel Zak]
@@ -513,6 +534,7 @@ libfdisk:
- add more comments [Karel Zak]
- add ref.counting to ask API [Karel Zak]
- add reference to context to dump [Karel Zak]
+ - add some docs [Karel Zak]
- add support for sfdisk-like script format [Karel Zak]
- add version.c [Karel Zak]
- allow to specify partition size by explicit number of sectors [Karel Zak]
@@ -541,8 +563,10 @@ libfdisk:
- fix add_logical() assert [Karel Zak]
- fix bug in cmp_numbers() and partitions sorting [Karel Zak]
- fix cfdisk freespace analyze [Karel Zak]
+ - fix compiler warning [Karel Zak]
- fix fdisk_delete_all_partitions() [Karel Zak]
- fix fdisk_get_optimal_iosize() and update tests [Karel Zak]
+ - fix fdisk_partition_get_parent() docs [Karel Zak]
- fix get_partition_unused_primary() [Boris Egorov]
- fix issues with very small partitions [Karel Zak]
- fix partition names on GNU Hurd. [Gabriele Giacone]
@@ -558,7 +582,9 @@ libfdisk:
- fix typo [Karel Zak]
- follow explicitly specified partition size [Karel Zak]
- grain is in bytes, fix previous patches [Karel Zak]
+ - ignore whole-disk partition when check order [Karel Zak]
- improve debug messages [Karel Zak]
+ - make code more readable [Karel Zak]
- make fdisk_partition_to_string() more robust [coverity scan] [Karel Zak]
- make it possible to get fields for all labes [Karel Zak]
- make it possible to use zero for size and start [Karel Zak]
@@ -590,6 +616,8 @@ libmount:
- (monitor) cleanup wait/verify stuff [Karel Zak]
- (monitor) make mnt_monitor_next_changed() usable for epoll version too [Karel Zak]
- (monitor) use inotify for utab lock file [Karel Zak]
+ - MNT_OMODE_FORCE usage [Fridolin Pokorny]
+ - add --enable-libmount-force-mountinfo [Karel Zak]
- add new libmnt_monitor API [Karel Zak]
- add options map to docs [Karel Zak]
- add private mnt_context_get_mtab_for_target() [Karel Zak]
@@ -609,11 +637,14 @@ libmount:
- hide details about failed search in fstab/mtab [Karel Zak]
- improve kernel command line parsing [Mike Frysinger]
- improve mnt_reset_fs() [Karel Zak]
+ - improve remount logic [Karel Zak]
- make public top-level monitor FD only [Karel Zak]
- monitor unref function refactoring [Karel Zak]
- only include context on linux [Andreas Henriksson]
- only invoke loopcxt on linux [Andreas Henriksson]
- provide version as int for better compiletime test [Søren Holm]
+ - read utab always when read mtab from /proc [Karel Zak]
+ - remove assert(arg) from public functions [Karel Zak]
- reuse allocated fs in parser [Karel Zak]
- revert "read mtab on remount" idea [Karel Zak]
- split monitor initialization [Karel Zak]
@@ -625,6 +656,7 @@ libsmartcols:
- clean up debug, add help debug mask [Karel Zak]
- cleanup gtk-docs warnings [Karel Zak]
- fix docs namespace [Karel Zak]
+ - remove assert(arg) from public functions [Karel Zak]
- remove unnecessary check [coverity scan] [Karel Zak]
- use ASCII art for trees rather than padding [Karel Zak]
libuuid:
@@ -637,6 +669,7 @@ linfdisk:
linmount:
- (monitor) refresh docs, headers and symbols table [Karel Zak]
logger:
+ - add --socket-errors compatibility option [Sami Kerola]
- add function pointer to choose how logging is done [Sami Kerola]
- add hostname to rfc3164 message [Sami Kerola]
- add process --id=parent optional argument [Sami Kerola]
@@ -680,9 +713,14 @@ lsblk:
- fix compiler warning [Sami Kerola]
- implement SOMEOK (=64) return code [Karel Zak]
lscpu:
+ - add s-Par support [Benjamin Romer]
- blacklist vmware_bdoor() AddressSanitizer check [Sami Kerola]
- clean up vmware inline asm [Mike Frysinger]
+ - cleanup ppc virtualization detection [Karel Zak]
+ - detect also QEMU emulation on ppc [Karel Zak]
+ - fix compiler error [-Werror=format-security] [Karel Zak]
- fix cppcheck warnings [Boris Egorov]
+ - fix typos in ppc code [Karel Zak]
- theoretical buffer overflow [Tobias Stoeckmann]
lslocks:
- fix type warning [Sami Kerola]
@@ -775,6 +813,7 @@ rename:
- allow renaming in subdirectories [Sami Kerola]
- continue despite something failed [Sami Kerola]
- use function pointer to select file or symlink operation [Sami Kerola]
+ - use strrchr() instead of rindex() [Sami Kerola]
- use usage and version print out macros [Sami Kerola]
renice:
- avoid having same lines of code twice [Sami Kerola]
@@ -784,11 +823,15 @@ renice:
- reorder usage() option descriptions [Sami Kerola]
script:
- may be hangs [Andreas Henriksson]
+ - no logging for non-interactive shells [Stanislav Brabec]
+ - script.1 Improve documentation of non-interactive behavior [Stanislav Brabec]
setarch:
- cleanup options usage [Karel Zak]
- differentiate between "unrecognized" and "cannot set" [Benno Schulenberg]
- fix --list [Karel Zak]
+ - fix typo (missing braces) for ppcle [Ruediger Meier]
- make the usage synopsis comprehensible for translators [Benno Schulenberg]
+ - print error when command runs without arguments [Sami Kerola]
- reindent code [Sami Kerola]
- use personality() system call when it is available [Sami Kerola]
setterm:
@@ -832,6 +875,7 @@ sfdisk:
- implement command_fdisk() [Karel Zak]
- improve UI [Karel Zak]
- in the usage text show -v for --version instead of -V [Benno Schulenberg]
+ - include rpmatch.h [Sami Kerola]
- leave on error [Karel Zak]
- make dump format usable on stdin [Karel Zak]
- more update to the man page [Karel Zak]
@@ -849,6 +893,8 @@ su:
- print proper core dump message when killed [pcpa]
sulogin:
- make sure that fallback FD is valid [coverity scan] [Karel Zak]
+sulogin, hwclock:
+ - use xusleep() instead of usleep() [Sami Kerola]
swaplabel:
- move swapon-common to include directory [Sami Kerola]
swapoff:
@@ -903,10 +949,12 @@ tests:
- fix rename subdir check that was failing in travis [Sami Kerola]
- fix swaplabel test for 9a83b03c [Ruediger Meier]
- fix the ipcs test for shmall being too big to show [Karel Zak]
+ - improve some wordings of the output [Benno Schulenberg]
- kill output message change [Sami Kerola]
- make ipcs limit calculations work when numbers are large [Sami Kerola]
- mark python libmount tests known to fail with AddressSanitizer [Sami Kerola]
- python tests should not remove user's LD_LIBRARY_PATH [Ruediger Meier]
+ - scsi_debug workaround [Karel Zak]
- simplify and update swaplabel test [Karel Zak]
- skip kill -SEGV test when running AddressSanitizer [Sami Kerola]
- test cazy sizes for sfdisk [Karel Zak]
@@ -941,6 +989,7 @@ textual:
- remove some inconsistent periods from error messages [Benno Schulenberg]
- share crypt() error message in sulogin and newgrp [Sami Kerola]
- slice up the usage text of swapon for ease of translation [Benno Schulenberg]
+ - sort the options in the usage text of sfdisk alphabetically [Benno Schulenberg]
- there may be no space between option and optional =arg [Benno Schulenberg]
- use a somewhat clearer and more standard failure message [Benno Schulenberg]
- use angular brackets around each individual argument [Benno Schulenberg]