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authorKarel Zak2016-11-08 11:34:10 +0100
committerKarel Zak2016-11-08 11:34:10 +0100
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docs: update v2.29-ReleaseNotes
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ 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 to disable TIOCSTI without
setsid() or in userspace implemented pty container (planned as experimental
-feature).
+su(1) feature for v2.30).
Stable maintenance releases between v2.28 and v2.29
@@ -51,14 +51,20 @@ build-sys:
- clean up relation between ncurses[w] and wide-char support [Karel Zak]
- cleanup --with-ncurses [Karel Zak]
- fix comments in ul.m4 [Karel Zak]
+ - fix drone.io builds [Karel Zak]
+ - fix missing ncursesw message [Ruediger Meier]
+ - fix typo on ncurses-config command line [Karel Zak]
- fix uClibc-ng scanf check [Waldemar Brodkorb]
+ - improve libncursesw5 install for travis [Karel Zak]
- release++ (v2.29-rc1) [Karel Zak]
+ - release++ (v2.29-rc2) [Karel Zak]
- remove dead libsmartcols sample [Karel Zak]
- remove global dependence between widechar and ncursesw [Karel Zak]
- remove obsolete [cs]fdisk LDADDs [Karel Zak]
- remove obsolete comment [Karel Zak]
- test functions does not return void [Sami Kerola]
- use UL_DEFAULT_ENABLE() only for programs [Karel Zak]
+ - use ncurses-config rather than pkg-config [Karel Zak]
- workaround for autoconf "present but cannot be compiled" [Karel Zak]
cal:
- allow to specify month by name [Karel Zak]
@@ -78,6 +84,7 @@ chfn:
- chsh use selinux_check_passwd_access() [Karel Zak]
chrt:
- add fallback to be usable on kernels without sched_{get,set}attr [Karel Zak]
+ - fix HAVE_SCHED_SETATTR fallback case [Ruediger Meier]
- follow nice setting, prefer sched_setscheduler() [Karel Zak]
- validate priority before trying to use it [Sami Kerola]
colcrt:
@@ -97,15 +104,19 @@ dmesg:
docs:
- Fix various typos [Sebastian Rasmussen]
- add file format note to utmpdump manual page [Sami Kerola]
+ - add sfdisk scripts quotes issue to TODO file [Karel Zak]
- optinal option arguments should be long-only [Sami Kerola]
- some random fixes [Karel Zak]
- update AUTHORS file [Karel Zak]
+ - update TODO file [Karel Zak]
- update infor about TIOCSTI [Karel Zak]
- update v2.29-ReleaseNotes [Karel Zak]
fdisk:
- Add support for altering GPT size [Sassan Panahinejad]
- Fix typo RequiredPartiton -> RequiredPartition [Sebastian Rasmussen]
- add --wipe-partitions=auto|never|default [Karel Zak]
+ - fix compiler warning [Karel Zak]
+ - fix memleak in list_disk_geometry() [Ruediger Meier]
- make -l <dev ...> behaves like fdisk -l [Thierry Vignaud]
- use PAGER for 'l' command. [Karel Zak]
findmnt:
@@ -120,6 +131,8 @@ findmnt:
- remove duplicate include [Karel Zak]
flock:
- Introduce no-fork option. [Terry Burton]
+ - fix no-flock patch [Karel Zak]
+ - keep run_program() simple [Karel Zak]
fsck:
- fix racing between unlock/unlink and open [Yuriy M. Kaminskiy]
- remove fs-specific options from man page [Karel Zak]
@@ -133,6 +146,7 @@ fstrim:
getops:
- improve getopt-parse.bash example [Sami Kerola]
getopt:
+ - be sure that options array is terminated [Karel Zak]
- fix memory leaks and integer overflows [ASAN & valgrind] [Sami Kerola]
- keep pointer to 'name' in control struct [Karel Zak]
hwclock:
@@ -209,14 +223,22 @@ libcommon:
libfdisk:
- (docs) add missing version notes [Karel Zak]
- (gpt) be more careful with 64bit constants [Karel Zak]
+ - (gpt) make attributes parser more robust [Karel Zak]
+ - (script) make bootable flag parsing more robust [Karel Zak]
- Add support for altering GPT size [Sassan Panahinejad]
- Distinguish between first LBA sector and partition [Tobias Stoeckmann]
- Fix assert error in free space handling [Tobias Stoeckmann]
- add API for work with labelitems [Karel Zak]
- add fdisk_wipe_partition() [Karel Zak]
+ - add trivial script test [Karel Zak]
- cleanup fdisk_gpt_set_npartitions() [Karel Zak]
+ - cleanup labelitem initialization [Karel Zak]
- don't offer zero length freespace [Karel Zak]
- fix range checking for fdisk_set_last_lba [Sassan Panahinejad]
+ - fix script Type= and Id= parsing [Karel Zak]
+ - fix typo [Karel Zak]
+ - fix uninitialized fdisk_labelitem [Ruediger Meier]
+ - make script token parser more robust [Karel Zak]
- make table-length usage more robust [Karel Zak]
- move fdisk_field_...() functions to field.c [Karel Zak]
- use fdisk_add_partition() for unused partno [Karel Zak]
@@ -286,6 +308,7 @@ libsmartcols:
- improve JSON [Karel Zak]
- keep scols_table_get_termwidth() read-only [Karel Zak]
- make get_line/column_separator() return const [Igor Gnatenko]
+ - make scols_sort_table() usable for trees [Karel Zak]
- remove debuging code from sample [Karel Zak]
- support LIBSMARTCOLS_DEBUG_PADDING=on [Karel Zak]
- support custom wrap and remove SCOLS_FL_WRAPNL [Karel Zak]
@@ -308,13 +331,16 @@ losetup:
losetup --nooverlap:
- fix typo [Stanislav Brabec]
lsblk:
+ - add note about --sort and --list relation [Karel Zak]
- improve support for nvme [Karel Zak]
+ - sort by MAJ MIN by default [Karel Zak]
- use ID_WWN_WITH_EXTENSION is possible [Karel Zak]
lscpu:
- add --physical option [Heiko Carstens]
- add drawer support [Heiko Carstens]
- add parsable testcase with the --physical option [Heiko Carstens]
- add s390 drawer testcase [Heiko Carstens]
+ - disable is_vmware_platform() for non-root users [Karel Zak]
- fix MMHZ column entry within man page [Heiko Carstens]
- fix typo in summary output [Heiko Carstens]
- make lookup_cache() more robust [Karel Zak]
@@ -347,6 +373,9 @@ misc:
- always check setenv(3) return value [Sami Kerola]
- cleanup non-widechar compilation [Karel Zak]
- fix declarations shadowing variables in the global scope [oclint] [Sami Kerola]
+ - fix some compiler warnings [Ruediger Meier]
+ - fix unsigned int usage for ctype.h functions [Karel Zak]
+ - once again some printf format strings [Ruediger Meier]
- simplify if clauses [oclint] [Sami Kerola]
mkswap:
- tolerate ENOTSUP when failing to relabel [Lubomir Rintel]
@@ -358,6 +387,7 @@ mount:
- add note about another flags for "remount,bind" [Karel Zak]
- add note about loopdev reuse to mount.8 [Karel Zak]
- add note about paths verification to mount.8 [Karel Zak]
+ - append inverting options for mount.<type> on "users" [Karel Zak]
- mount.8 Update loop device documentation [Stanislav Brabec]
- small change to mount.8 loopdev section [Karel Zak]
- try to tell what mount was doing when it failed [Sami Kerola]
@@ -376,6 +406,8 @@ po:
- update nl.po (from translationproject.org) [Benno Schulenberg]
- update pl.po (from translationproject.org) [Jakub Bogusz]
- update sv.po (from translationproject.org) [Sebastian Rasmussen]
+ - update uk.po (from translationproject.org) [Yuri Chornoivan]
+ - update zh_CN.po (from translationproject.org) [Wylmer Wang]
pylibmount:
- include c.h [Karel Zak]
ramctl:
@@ -384,6 +416,7 @@ rev:
- Avoid calling free in a signal handler [Tobias Stoeckmann]
- Avoid out of boundary read [Tobias Stoeckmann]
rtcwake:
+ - add note about RTC limits [Karel Zak]
- make sure buffer is zero terminated [coverity scan] [Karel Zak]
script:
- avoid trying fclose(NULL) [Sami Kerola]
@@ -435,6 +468,7 @@ tailf:
taskset:
- clarify that masks are always hex in man page [Chris Metcalf]
tests:
+ - fix raid1 minimum I/O size [Ruediger Meier]
- (cramfs) check for test_sysinfo [Karel Zak]
- Add helper for TIOCSTI exploit [Stanislav Brabec]
- Add loop-overlay test [Stanislav Brabec]
@@ -442,18 +476,28 @@ tests:
- Allow running a single test case from tests/run.sh [Filipe Brandenburger]
- Fix fdisk/id and fdisk/mbr-nondos-mode on Sparc [James Clarke]
- Use proper word splitting when executing tests [Filipe Brandenburger]
+ - add GPT attributes parser tests [Karel Zak]
- add another libsmartcols tests [Karel Zak]
+ - add another sfdisk script tests [Karel Zak]
- add chrt test [Karel Zak]
- add chrt vs. nice test [Karel Zak]
- add columns separator to libsmartcols test [Karel Zak]
- add export and raw to libsmartcols test [Karel Zak]
+ - add flock tests [Karel Zak]
- add libsmartcols JSON test [Karel Zak]
- add libsmartcols title test [Karel Zak]
- add libsmartcols wrap and wrapnl tree tests [Karel Zak]
- add missing expected/ dir stuff [Karel Zak]
+ - add sfdisk Type= and Id= test [Karel Zak]
+ - add sfdisk script case-insensitive test [Karel Zak]
- add tree libsmartcols test files [Karel Zak]
+ - always quote $LODEV [Ruediger Meier]
+ - avoid &>> for bash compatibility [Ruediger Meier]
+ - call umount --fake for tmpfs tests [Karel Zak]
- challenge utmpdump localization go-around [Sami Kerola]
- check for mount(8) in minix test [Karel Zak]
+ - check for timeout prog [Karel Zak]
+ - consolidate rmmod scsi_debug [Ruediger Meier]
- don't depend on GNU md5sum [Ruediger Meier]
- fix for non-ncurses version [Karel Zak]
- fix libmount loop-overlay test [Karel Zak]
@@ -464,6 +508,8 @@ tests:
- implement ts_skip_subtest [Karel Zak]
- improve libsmartcols test [Karel Zak]
- keep 'hppa' in fdisk/bsd test too [Karel Zak]
+ - let lsmod fail silently [Ruediger Meier]
+ - let's follow ts_scsi_debug_rmmod [Karel Zak]
- make chrt test more debug-able [Karel Zak]
- make tests more portable due to mtab [Karel Zak]
- mark build-in paths test as optional [Karel Zak]
@@ -474,11 +520,14 @@ tests:
- refresh cal(1) test [Karel Zak]
- remove USE_LIBMOUNT_FORCE_MOUNTINFO [Karel Zak]
- remove unnecessary file [Sami Kerola]
+ - replace sleep by udevadm [Ruediger Meier]
- test_md5 prints md5sum only [Ruediger Meier]
+ - udevadm settle before losetup -d [Ruediger Meier]
- update build-sys expected output [Karel Zak]
- update build-sys tests [Karel Zak]
- update sfdisk output strings [Karel Zak]
- utmpdump add subsecond accuracy test [Sami Kerola]
+ - wait for flock background process [Ruediger Meier]
tools:
- add script to load .po from translationproject.org [Karel Zak]
- make ko-release-gen usable with gpg2 [Karel Zak]