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diff --git a/Documentation/releases/v2.24-ReleaseNotes b/Documentation/releases/v2.24-ReleaseNotes index ca5b7bc85..4a0c81b2e 100644 --- a/Documentation/releases/v2.24-ReleaseNotes +++ b/Documentation/releases/v2.24-ReleaseNotes @@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ Util-linux 2.24 Release Notes ============================= +This is the last release where the old non-libmount mount(8) implementation +is supported and maintained. + Release highlights ------------------ @@ -87,7 +90,6 @@ Changes between v2.23 and v2.24 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.24/ agetty: - - unrecognized option '--loginpause'" [kernc] - -L accepts optional argument [Karel Zak] - add \S to output /etc/os-release data [Karel Zak] - add baud rates available from glibc that are not already supported [James Buren] @@ -101,9 +103,12 @@ agetty: - only use EXTA/EXTB macros if B19200/B38400 macros are not present [James Buren] - update man page and usage() [Karel Zak] - use O_NONBLOCK only for serial lines with CLOCAL [Karel Zak] + - use standard angular brackets in usage message [Benno Schulenberg] + - unrecognized option '--loginpause'" [kernc] bash-completion: - add mount and umount [Sami Kerola] - fix typos in mkfs.bfs logic [Mike Frysinger] + - use '\n' as IFS when ask for filenames [Karel Zak] blkdiscard: - use fstat() rather than stat() [coverity scan] [Karel Zak] blkid: @@ -111,7 +116,12 @@ blkid: - fix typo in ID_FS_AMBIVALEN= [Karel Zak] blkid, hwclock, ldattach: - use program_invocation_short_name [Sami Kerola] +blockdev: + - add note about --setbsz usability [Karel Zak] build-sys: + - Check for type sighandler_t and use if present [Michael Forney] + - Fix check for __GNU_LIBRARY__ [Michael Forney] + - Use _POSIX_VERSION to determine support for %m [Michael Forney] - add *vim and clang_complete to gitignore [Karel Zak] - add --disable-setterm [Karel Zak] - add CFLAGS and LDFLAGS for daemons and shared libs [Karel Zak] @@ -132,12 +142,15 @@ build-sys: - prefer AS_CASE rather than shell 'case' [Sami Kerola] - prefer AS_IF rather than shell 'if' [Sami Kerola] - pylibmount will not work when python3 is present [Sami Kerola] + - release++ (v2.24-rc1) [Karel Zak] - remove deprecated elvtune command [Karel Zak] - remove unnecessary environment variable [Sami Kerola] + - simplify python detection [Sami Kerola] - support --with-python[={2,3}] [Karel Zak] - use -Wno-clobbered for some BSD crap [Karel Zak] - use backticks rather than $() for commands in configure [Sami Kerola] - use m4 quoting consistently [Sami Kerola] + - use tinfo *or* ncurses for more(1), ul(1) and setterm(1) [Karel Zak] cal: - add --color to usage() [Sami Kerola] - clean up use of constants [Sami Kerola] @@ -145,8 +158,10 @@ cal: - de-duplicate julian specific functions [Sami Kerola] - fix -y output for UTF8 [Karel Zak] - fix few type mismatches [Sami Kerola] + - fix gettext warning [Karel Zak] - fix preprocessor directive indendation [Sami Kerola] - improve coding style [Karel Zak] + - improve the help text and man page [Pádraig Brady] - mark all functions static [Sami Kerola] - remove arbitrary limit of maxium year being 9999 [Sami Kerola] - remove unnecessary initializations [Sami Kerola] @@ -169,6 +184,8 @@ chfn: column: - dereference of null pointer [clang-analyzer] [Sami Kerola] - use variable lenght printf field width to wprint blanks [Sami Kerola] +cytune: + - fix glush typo in cytune [Rafael Ferreira] dmesg: - add --time-format option [Sami Kerola] - add iso-8601 time format [Sami Kerola] @@ -182,6 +199,7 @@ dmesg: - regroup time related options close to each other [Sami Kerola] - support --color[={auto,always,never}] [Karel Zak] docs: + - fix grammar of referring phrase, and indicate location better [Benno Schulenberg] - add --present to last(1) manual page [Sami Kerola] - add --since and time option formats to last(1) manual [Sami Kerola] - add --time-format option and ISO-8601 format to manual [Sami Kerola] @@ -198,12 +216,16 @@ docs: - fix wording and formatting of man page for dmesg [Benno Schulenberg] - improve formatting and wording of man pages for fdisk and cfdisk [Benno Schulenberg] - improve grammar and consistency of comments in login.c [Benno Schulenberg] + - improve grammar and wording of the release-schedule text [Benno Schulenberg] - make description of --activate clearer on man page of sfdisk [Benno Schulenberg] - normalize the formatting of man pages for nsenter and unshare [Benno Schulenberg] - note ddate removal [Mike Frysinger] - slightly correct the man page of column [Benno Schulenberg] + - tweak the grammar of an agetty man-page fragment [Benno Schulenberg] - update AUTHORS file [Karel Zak] + - update TODO [Karel Zak] - update TODO [Sami Kerola] + - update v2.24-ReleaseNotes [Karel Zak] eject: - Check host_status and driver_status when using SG_IO. [Karel Zak] - assigned value is never read [clang-analyzer] [Sami Kerola] @@ -288,6 +310,7 @@ fdisk: - (sun) use tt.c to list disk label [Karel Zak] - -l refactoring [Karel Zak] - add -L to colorize output [Karel Zak] + - add -t <type> to enable only specified type [Karel Zak] - add GPT specific callback to menu [Karel Zak] - add asktype "string" and support UUID partition change [Karel Zak] - add bsd, dos and sgi menus [Karel Zak] @@ -313,6 +336,7 @@ fdisk: - don't use ptes[] in generic code [Karel Zak] - fix 'r' in BSD menu [Karel Zak] - fix -l [Karel Zak] + - fix possible memleak [coverity scan] [Karel Zak] - improve info output [Karel Zak] - improve menus to make it more usable for BSD label [Karel Zak] - main() refactoring [Karel Zak] @@ -348,11 +372,13 @@ fdisk: - use remove read_int() usage from fdisk.c [Karel Zak] - use xalloc stuff [Karel Zak] findmnt: + - always allocate memory for cell value [Dave Reisner] - avoid unused parameter warning [Karel Zak] - make udev usage more robust [Karel Zak] - test for fstype/options/maj min before source and target [Karel Zak] - use TT_FL_FREEDATA for tt table [Karel Zak] fsck: + - don't print warning if there is no /etc/fstab at all [Karel Zak] - use libmount fs reference counter [Karel Zak] fsck.cramfs: - check writing to a file descriptor was successful [Sami Kerola] @@ -364,10 +390,13 @@ hexdump: - add long options to the command [Sami Kerola] - remove unnecessary global variables [Sami Kerola] - revert global exitval variable change [Sami Kerola] +hexsyntax: + - in help text, wrap argument of option -e in angular brackets [Benno Schulenberg] hwclock: - remove references to adjtimex from man page [Karel Zak] - use warn() to print cmos errors [Karel Zak] include: + - Add missing includes [Michael Forney] - add close_fd() for noticing write errors before close() [Sami Kerola] - carefulput print determined char when unprintable char is found [Sami Kerola] include/pt-mbr: @@ -385,6 +414,7 @@ last: - add long options, improve usage() [Karel Zak] - allow --file to be defined multiple times [Sami Kerola] - check expected numeric user input is number [Sami Kerola] + - check fstat() return [coverity scan] [Karel Zak] - clean up the begin of the file [Karel Zak] - coding style clean up [Karel Zak] - consolidate btmp/wtmp file paths [Karel Zak] @@ -461,20 +491,26 @@ libblkid: - split blkid_parttable_set_id() [Karel Zak] - support pseudo PARTUUID= for MBR [Karel Zak] - update docs [Karel Zak] + - use proper type in xfs log checker [coverity scan] [Karel Zak] - use separate function to verify checksums [Karel Zak] libfdisk: - (bds) cleanup includes [Karel Zak] + - (dos) correct the grammar of the disk-identifier prompt [Benno Schulenberg] - (dos) cosmetic changes [Karel Zak] + - (dos) improve the grammar of an error message [Benno Schulenberg] - (gpt) cleanup structs members names [Karel Zak] + - (gpt) fix warning [Karel Zak] - (gpt) more robust PMBR partition size check [Karel Zak] - (gpt) print UUID and NAME in expert mode only [Karel Zak] - (gpt) support for disklabel dump [Karel Zak] + - (gpt) use consistent final period in status messages [Benno Schulenberg] - (gpt) use generic 'created partition' message [Karel Zak] - (gpt) use lib/tt.c to list partitions [Karel Zak] - (sgi) add driver [Karel Zak] - (sun) make it more obvious why the first sector moved [Karel Zak] - (sun) move driver from fdisk to library [Karel Zak] - (sun) remove duplicate code [Karel Zak] + - add API to disable specified label [Karel Zak] - add FDISK_DEBUG_FRONTEND [Karel Zak] - add FDISK_LABEL_FL_REQUIRE_GEOMETRY [Karel Zak] - add asktype "string" and support UUID partition change [Karel Zak] @@ -491,6 +527,7 @@ libfdisk: - allow to address partition by chars [Karel Zak] - clean up sun geometry stuff [Karel Zak] - cleanup SGI functions names [Karel Zak] + - cleanup warning messages [Karel Zak] - copy ask callback from parental context [Karel Zak] - do not use va_list in the Ask API [Karel Zak] - don't re-allocate range string in Ask API [Karel Zak] @@ -503,24 +540,36 @@ libfdisk: - gpt loosen check fot pmbr size in lba [Davidlohr Bueso] - improve fdisk_save_user_geometry() [Karel Zak] - improve nested context initialization [Karel Zak] + - improve spelling of two comments [Benno Schulenberg] - make default geom usage more robust [Karel Zak] - make it possible to reset device properties [Karel Zak] - make the library usable with tests [Karel Zak] + - mark label modified for PMBR mismatch [Karel Zak] - move mbr code to the library [Karel Zak] - move sync() and reread PT code from fdisk to libfdisk [Karel Zak] - provide more details about GPT [Karel Zak] - remove "gpt support is new" warning [Karel Zak] - remove unnecessary code from test_fdisk_ask [Karel Zak] - support GPT partition name (label) change [Karel Zak] + - treat size mismatch as a warning, not an error [Karel Zak] - update test_ranges() code [Karel Zak] - use context geometry in SGI and SUN [Karel Zak] - use fdisk_colon() and fdisk_sinfo() [Karel Zak] - use fdisk_warnx() in fdisk_ask_partnum() [Karel Zak] +libfdisk/gpt: + - partly pluralize one message [Benno Schulenberg] +libfdisk/sgi: + - properly pluralize three messages [Benno Schulenberg] + - tweak and harmonize some comments [Benno Schulenberg] + - tweak and harmonize some message strings [Benno Schulenberg] libmount: + - (docs) make it obvious how we call mount.<type> helpers [Karel Zak] - (test) check writing to a file was successful [Sami Kerola] + - Fix typo in comment [Namhyung Kim] - Free splitted optstr's when error occurred [Namhyung Kim] - Get rid of an unnecessary check [Namhyung Kim] - Remove stale comment on mnt_context_mount() [Namhyung Kim] + - Save errno if mkostemp() failed [Namhyung Kim] - Set each optstr's to NULL if failed [Namhyung Kim] - add a generic append_string() function [Karel Zak] - add function for context userdata [Karel Zak] @@ -544,10 +593,13 @@ libmount: - compose mount.<type> helpers paths more carefully [Karel Zak] - don't ignore root fs on umount -a [Karel Zak] - fix memory leak [clang-analyzer] [Karel Zak] + - fix mnt_context_is_child() comment [Karel Zak] - fix typos [Ondrej Oprala] - free username after check [Dave Reisner] - make mnt_fs_{ap,pre}pend_options() more robust [Karel Zak] + - make mnt_table_replace_file() more robust [coverity scan] [Karel Zak] - more robust options string parsing [Karel Zak] + - remove dead code [coverity scan] [Karel Zak] - small cleanup in umount code [Karel Zak] - update docs [Karel Zak] - use MS_SILENT for /{proc,etc}/filesystems [Karel Zak] @@ -561,6 +613,8 @@ login: - use TCSANOW to remove HUPCL [Karel Zak] losetup: - add --raw and --noheadings [Karel Zak] + - cut the remaining little block of help text into slices too [Benno Schulenberg] + - don't require 512-byte aligned offsets [Karel Zak] - fix loop device name usage [Karel Zak] - make -j <path> more robust [Karel Zak] - set errno for misaligned offsets [Karel Zak] @@ -575,13 +629,18 @@ lsblk: lscpu: - add max MHz value to make cpu governor effects more visible [Sami Kerola] - add virtualization types [Karel Zak] + - check strchr() result [coverity scan] [Karel Zak] + - cleanup DMI code [coverity scan] [Karel Zak] - detect more hypervisor vendors [Ondrej Oprala] + - don't pass null pointer to string functions [coverity scan] [Karel Zak] - fix memory leak [clang-analyzer] [Sami Kerola] - fix shadow declaration [smatch scan] [Sami Kerola] - report cpu min mhz [Davidlohr Bueso] - use TT_FL_FREEDATA for tt table [Karel Zak] lslocks: - use TT_FL_FREEDATA for tt table [Karel Zak] +mcookie: + - pluralize two messages [Benno Schulenberg] mesg: - sync usage() with howto-usage-function.txt [Sami Kerola] misc: @@ -596,6 +655,7 @@ mkfs.cramfs: - use standard error message [Karel Zak] mkfs.minix: - check writing to a file descriptor was successful [Sami Kerola] + - properly pluralize four messages [Benno Schulenberg] mkswap: - add note about swap header limit to the man page [Karel Zak] - unify write check to a file descriptor [Sami Kerola] @@ -612,10 +672,14 @@ mount: - fix mistaken word and some grammar in man page of mount [Benno Schulenberg] - fix repeating words in the man page [Karel Zak] - update xfs docs [Karel Zak] +nologin: + - add new command [Karel Zak] nsenter: - Allow selecting the uid and gid to be used in the entered userns [Richard Weinberger] partx: - check writing to a file descriptor was successful [Sami Kerola] + - correct three messages [Benno Schulenberg] + - pluralize one message [Benno Schulenberg] - use TT_FL_FREEDATA for tt table [Karel Zak] pg: - check writing to a file was successful [Sami Kerola] @@ -640,6 +704,7 @@ po: - update ja.po (from translationproject.org) [Takeshi Hamasaki] - update nl.po (from translationproject.org) [Benno Schulenberg] - update pl.po (from translationproject.org) [Jakub Bogusz] + - update pt_BR.po (from translationproject.org) [Rafael Ferreira] - update pt_BR.po (from translationproject.org) [Rodrigo Stulzer Lopes] - update ru.po (from translationproject.org) [Pavel Maryanov] - update sl.po (from translationproject.org) [Simon Mihevc] @@ -658,6 +723,7 @@ pylibmount: - add debug messages [Karel Zak] - add regression tests [Ondrej Oprala] - basic code [Ondrej Oprala] + - check for mnt_fs_get_tag() return value [coverity scan] [Karel Zak] - cleanup *_HELP strings formatting [Karel Zak] - cleanup cxt usage [Karel Zak] - cleanup object names [Karel Zak] @@ -667,6 +733,7 @@ pylibmount: - coding style changes, don't touch Context() status [Karel Zak] - fs.c - cleanup, remove libmount private stuff [Karel Zak] - improve helps strings formatting [Karel Zak] + - make tab parsers more robust [coverity scan] [Karel Zak] - remove Context_get_table() [Karel Zak] - remove bindsrc from fs API [Karel Zak] - remove unnecessary code [Karel Zak] @@ -697,6 +764,8 @@ setpriv: setsid: - add an option to wait child return value [Daniel Kahn Gillmor] - exit when control terminal cannot be set [Sami Kerola] +setterm: + - fix term.h/ncurses.h include ordering [Mike Frysinger] sfdisk: - assigned value is never read [clang-analyzer] [Sami Kerola] - check writing to a file descriptor was successful [Sami Kerola] @@ -712,10 +781,13 @@ sfdisk: - use program_invocation_short_name to determine program name [Sami Kerola] su: - consistent angular brackets and lowercase in help text of 'su' [Benno Schulenberg] + - fix caught_signal logic and initialize oldact [coverity scan] [Karel Zak] - fix exit status if terminated by signal [Ondrej Oprala] - fix lastlog and btmp logging [Karel Zak] - ignore --preserve-environment, it's mutually exclusive to --login [Karel Zak] - suppress PAM info messages for -c or non-login sessions [Karel Zak] +su-common: + - pluralize one message [Benno Schulenberg] sulogin: - clean up error messages [Karel Zak] - fix compiler warning [Karel Zak] @@ -752,16 +824,26 @@ tests: - update lscpu tests [Karel Zak] - update odd output fdisk test [Karel Zak] - update sun label test [Karel Zak] + - use 'btrfs' rather than 'btrfsctl' [Karel Zak] - use stable MBR ID [Karel Zak] textual: + - change spelling of "disk label" to the more abundant "disklabel" [Benno Schulenberg] + - end both the singular and the plural message with a period [Benno Schulenberg] + - fix misspelled words in -rc1 [Karel Zak] - fix several typos and angular brackets in messages [Benno Schulenberg] - fix typo in error message and uniformize their use of period [Benno Schulenberg] - fixing typos in a warning and an error message [Benno Schulenberg] - harmonize some loop-device error messages [Benno Schulenberg] - improve clarity of some error messages [Benno Schulenberg] + - make two messages somewhat easier to understand [Benno Schulenberg] + - properly use uppercase in certain abbreviations [Benno Schulenberg] + - standardize some "cannot read" and "seek failed" error messages [Benno Schulenberg] - standardize synopsis for login, and improve an error message [Benno Schulenberg] - standardize the spelling of "superuser" [Benno Schulenberg] + - tag a translator comment and put it in proper place [Benno Schulenberg] - tiny alphabetical and grammatical tweak [Benno Schulenberg] + - use consistent wording and punctuation in fdisk stuff [Benno Schulenberg] + - use the standard angular brackets for non-literal arguments [Benno Schulenberg] tools: - generate autotools files if missing [Sami Kerola] ul: @@ -777,9 +859,12 @@ utmpdump: - add option to write to a file [Sami Kerola] - assigned values are never read [clang-analyzer] [Sami Kerola] - make IPv6 addresses work [Sami Kerola] + - make analyzers happy [Karel Zak] uuidd: - add missing initializer [clang-analyzer] [Karel Zak] - clean up error messages [Karel Zak] +various: + - fix mixing declarations and code compiler warnings [smatch] [Sami Kerola] wall: - allow to specify <message> on command line [Karel Zak] - check writing to a file descriptor was successful [Sami Kerola] @@ -789,11 +874,14 @@ wall: - sync usage() with howto-usage-function.txt [Sami Kerola] wdctl: - check writing to a file descriptor was successful [Sami Kerola] + - gettextize and pluralize one forgotten message [Benno Schulenberg] + - pluralize one thrice-repeated message [Benno Schulenberg] - use TT_FL_FREEDATA for tt table [Karel Zak] wipefs: - Also wipe superblocks with bad checksums [Gabriel de Perthuis] - add --backup [Ondrej Oprala] - clean up code [Karel Zak] + - pluralize one message [Benno Schulenberg] write: - change determination can user write to a terminal [Sami Kerola] |