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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:25:40 +0100
From: Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
util-linux-ng@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng v2.17-rc1
The first util-linux-ng 2.17 release candidate is available at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.17/
Feedback and bug reports, as always, are welcomed.
Karel
Util-linux-ng 2.17 Release Notes
================================
Release highlights
------------------
fallocate:
- this NEW COMMAND is a command line interface to fallocate
Linux syscall and allows to preallocate blocks to a file.
unshare
- this NEW COMMAND is a command line interface to unshare Linux syscall
and allows to run program with some namespaces unshared from parent.
wipefs
- this NEW COMMAND is based on libblkid and allows to remove filesystem
or RAID signatures from a device.
libblkid:
- libblkid allows to gather information about block device topology,
currently supported methods are:
* ioctl - supported since kernel 2.6.32
* sysfs - supported since kernel 2.6.31
* fallback for DM, MD, LVM and EVMS on old kernels (base on code
from xfsprogs/libdisk)
The topology support is mostly designed for mkfs programs or partitioning
tools (already used in mkfs.xfs, mkex2fs, libparted and fdisk)
- libblkid supports partition tables parsing (currently supported are
aix, bsd, dos, mac, gpt, minix, sgi, solaris, sun and unixware). This
functionality is designed for mkfs programs, DeviceKits, [k]partx or so.
- libblkid API documentation is available at
http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/libblkid-docs/
blockdev:
- supports all new topology ioctls
fdisk:
- the fdisk command aligns newly created partitions to minimum_io_size
boundary ("minimum_io_size" is physical sector size or stripe chunk
size on RAIDs).
- the fdisk command supports disks with alignment_offset now.
Stable maintenance releases between v2.16 and v2.17
---------------------------------------------------
util-linux-ng 2.16.1 [07-Sep-2009]
* ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.16/v2.16.1-ReleaseNotes
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.16/v2.16.1-ChangeLog
ChangeLog between v2.16 and v2.17
---------------------------------
For more details see ChangeLog files at:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.17/
addpart:
- addpart.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
blkid:
- add ID_FS_AMBIVALENT for udev output [Karel Zak]
- add pretty output, document -L incompatibility with e2fsprogs [Karel Zak]
- allow to use -s <TAG> for low-level probing (-p mode) [Karel Zak]
blockdev:
- add support for uint and ushort ioctls [Karel Zak]
- add topology ioctls support [Karel Zak]
- blockdev.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
- fix topology ioctls [Karel Zak]
- refactoring (better commands definition) [Karel Zak]
- use c.h [Karel Zak]
build-sys:
- add --disable-makeinstall-setuid [Karel Zak]
- add HAVE_LIBBLKID_INTERNAL [Karel Zak]
- check for union semun instead of using _SEM_SEMUN_UNDEFINED [Guillem Jover]
- clean up gtk-doc stuff [Karel Zak]
- clean up gtk-doc usage [Karel Zak]
- cleanup --disable-{fallocate,pivot_root,unshare} [Karel Zak]
- cleanup AM_CFLAGS usage [Karel Zak]
- cleanup static building [Karel Zak]
- detect if const is available [Guillem Jover]
- detect if volatile is available [Guillem Jover]
- don't distribute generated *.pc files [Karel Zak]
- don't distribute generated blkid.h [Karel Zak]
- enable silent rules if automake >= 1.11 [Guillem Jover]
- fix (official) gtk-doc.make [Karel Zak]
- fix BUILD_PIVOT_ROOT condition [Karel Zak]
- fix blkid CFLAGS in fdisk/Makefile.am [Karel Zak]
- fix out-of-source build [Karel Zak]
- remove LT_STATIC_LDFLAGS [Karel Zak]
- remove gtkdocize from autogen.sh [Karel Zak]
- remove obsolete --with-fsprobe from distcheck flags [Karel Zak]
cal:
- cal.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
- fix (harmless) typo [Peter Breitenlohner]
- fix broken computation for Sep 1752 [Peter Breitenlohner]
- remove obsolete <localeinfo.h> include [Guillem Jover]
- use c.h [Karel Zak]
cfdisk:
- cfdisk.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
- more key alternatives [Jan Sarenik]
chfn:
- chfn.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
chrt:
- use c.h [Karel Zak]
chsh:
- chsh.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
ctrlaltdel:
- ctrlaltdel.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
cytune:
- cytune.8 missing description of `-S', formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
ddate:
- ddate.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
delpart:
- delpart.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
dmesg:
- add -r to help output [Karel Zak]
- dmesg.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
- fix typo in man page [Ken Kopin]
docs:
- README width and language correction [Jan Sarenik]
- add 'unshare' and 'wipefs' to AUTHORS [Karel Zak]
- update "The Perfect Patch" URL [Karel Zak]
- update AUTHORS file [Karel Zak]
- update TODO [Karel Zak]
elvtune:
- elvtune.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
fallocate:
- check for ERANGE errors [Karel Zak]
- new command [Karel Zak, Eric Sandeen]
fdformat:
- fdformat.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
- fix memory leak in verify_disk() [Cristian Rodríguez]
fdisk:
- add basic routines for LBA alignment [Karel Zak]
- add regression test listing empty/nonsense images [Zdenek Behan]
- align end of partition when defined by +size{K,M,G} [Karel Zak]
- check for partition boundary [Karel Zak]
- fdisk.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
- fix strict-aliasing bugs [Karel Zak]
- offer aligned first sector [Karel Zak]
- print info and recommendations about alignment [Karel Zak]
- read topology info from libblkid [Karel Zak]
- sgi label - remove duplicate swab16swab[16,32]() definitions [Karel Zak]
- use c.h [Karel Zak]
- use minimal_io_size for the first partition [Karel Zak]
findfs:
- fix typo in findfs.8 [Karel Zak]
fsck:
- fsck.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
fsck.minix:
- fix broken zone checking [Karel Zak]
- fix strict-aliasing bugs [Karel Zak]
- fsck.minix.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
fstab:
- fstab.5 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
getopt:
- getopt.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
hexdump:
- hexdump.1 erroneous .Nm "" [Peter Breitenlohner]
hwclock:
- do not access hardware clock when using --systz [Scott James Remnant]
- hwclock.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
- set kernel timezone with --systz --utc [Scott James Remnant]
- use c.h [Karel Zak]
- use time limit for KDGHWCLK busy wait [Karel Zak]
include:
- add c.h with fundamental C definitions [Karel Zak]
- use c.h in canonicalize.h [Karel Zak]
initctl:
- fix strict-aliasing bugs [Karel Zak]
- initctl.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
ionice:
- add a note about none class and CFQ [Karel Zak]
- ionice.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
ipcmk:
- ipcmk.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
ipcrm:
- ipcrm.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
ipcs:
- ipcs.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
- use __GLIBC__ instead of obsolete __GNU_LIBRARY__ [Guillem Jover]
isosize:
- isosize.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
kill:
- kill.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
- use c.h [Karel Zak]
last:
- fix utmp.ut_time usage [Karel Zak]
- last.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
ldattach:
- ldattach.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
- use c.h [Karel Zak]
lib:
- add a generic crc32() [Karel Zak]
- fix file descriptor leak in is_mounted() [Theodore Ts'o]
- fix lib/Makefile.am (remove pttype.c) [Karel Zak]
- import whole ismounted.c code from e2fsprogs [Karel Zak]
- remove pttype.c [Karel Zak]
libblkid:
- add *.ko.gz support to modules.dep parser [Karel Zak]
- add AIX partitions support [Karel Zak]
- add BLKID_SUBLKS_* flags [Karel Zak]
- add BLKID_{VERSION,DATE} to blkid.h [Karel Zak]
- add BSD partitions support [Karel Zak]
- add DM topology support (for old kernels) [Karel Zak]
- add EFI GPT partitions support [Karel Zak]
- add EVMS topology support (for old kernels) [Karel Zak]
- add LVM topology support (for old kernels) [Karel Zak]
- add MAC partitions support [Karel Zak]
- add MD topology support (for old kernels) [Karel Zak]
- add MINIX partitions support [Karel Zak]
- add MS-DOS partitions support [Karel Zak]
- add SGI partitions support [Karel Zak]
- add SOLARIS-X86 partitions support [Karel Zak]
- add SUN partitions support [Karel Zak]
- add UBI volume support [Corentin Chary]
- add UBIFS support [Corentin Chary]
- add UNIXWARE partitions support [Karel Zak]
- add a probe for bfs [Christoph Hellwig]
- add blkid_devno_to_wholedisk() [Karel Zak]
- add blkid_driver_has_major() [Karel Zak]
- add blkid_new_probe_from_filename() [Karel Zak]
- add blkid_partition_get_type_string() [Karel Zak]
- add blkid_probe_get_{size,sectorsize,devno} [Karel Zak]
- add blkit_[un]ref() to TODO [Karel Zak]
- add chain structs [Karel Zak]
- add functions for chain tags [Karel Zak]
- add generic filter functions [Karel Zak]
- add generic function for binary data [Karel Zak]
- add missing comments [Karel Zak]
- add missing comments to probe.c [Karel Zak]
- add missing packed attributes [Karel Zak]
- add mkfs sample [Karel Zak]
- add note about UUID_SUB, increment number of superblock values [Karel Zak]
- add partitions filter routines [Karel Zak]
- add partitions parsing support [Karel Zak]
- add partitions sample [Karel Zak]
- add private blkid_topology_set_*() functions [Karel Zak]
- add samples/topology.c [Karel Zak]
- add sector size funcs to blkid.h.in [Karel Zak]
- add superblocks chain [Karel Zak]
- add superblocks filter functions [Karel Zak]
- add superblocks.c sample [Karel Zak]
- add support for SBMAGIC and SBMAGIC_OFFSET [Karel Zak]
- add support for VMFS (VMware File System) [Mike Hommey]
- add support for topology ioctls [Karel Zak]
- add test cases for VMFS [Mike Hommey]
- add topology support [Karel Zak]
- allow linking with uClibc [Daniel Mierswa]
- allow to change dimension of probing area [Karel Zak]
- allow to read in sectors [Karel Zak]
- allows more probing methods for topology chain [Karel Zak]
- announce Joliet extension [Maxim Levitsky]
- cleanup blkid_probe_set_device() [Karel Zak]
- cleanup topology fallback [Karel Zak]
- convert GPT partition LBA to 512-byte sectors [Karel Zak]
- cosmetic change in topology sample [Karel Zak]
- create a generic blkid_encode_to_utf8() [Karel Zak]
- create a generic blkid_unparse_uuid() [Karel Zak]
- does not return useless binary data [Karel Zak]
- don't return empty LABELs [Karel Zak]
- don't scan private /dev/.udev directory [Karel Zak]
- fix FALSE definition [Karel Zak]
- fix FAT super block definition [Lawrence Rust]
- fix NTFS non-ASCII labels [Karel Zak]
- fix blkid_devno_to_wholedisk() [Karel Zak]
- fix blkid_do_probe() to work properly with chains [Karel Zak]
- fix blkid_probe_set_utf8label() call for Joliet [Karel Zak]
- fix buffer overflow in blkid_encode_string() [Florian Zumbiehl]
- fix cache->probe memory leak [Karel Zak]
- fix ext2 detection on systems with ext4 only [Karel Zak]
- fix gcc warning (warn_unused_result) [Karel Zak]
- fix non-magic FAT detection [Karel Zak]
- fix probing for binary interface [Karel Zak]
- fix segfault in blkid_do_probe() [Karel Zak]
- fix the default cache file path [Karel Zak]
- fix topology information values [Eric Sandeen]
- fix typo (swsupend -> swsuspend) [Karel Zak]
- fix typo s/Hihg/High/ [Jim Meyering]
- fix warning message in mkfs sample [Karel Zak]
- gtkdocize (API docs generated by gtk-docs) [Karel Zak]
- minor changes to dm topology code [Karel Zak]
- minor changes to samples [Karel Zak]
- minor fix in topology sample [Karel Zak]
- move FS/raid stuff to superblocks directory [Karel Zak]
- move blkid_known_fstype() to superblocks.c [Karel Zak]
- move filter macros to header file [Karel Zak]
- prefer ISO9660 PVD Label to Joliet Label [Karel Zak]
- properly reset position in probing chains [Karel Zak]
- refresh blkid.{h,sym} [Karel Zak]
- remove duplicate debug message [Karel Zak]
- remove superblock functions from probe.c [Karel Zak]
- return first detected crypto device [Scott James Remnant]
- topology - add logical and physical sector size [Karel Zak]
- topology - ignore non-blockdevs [Karel Zak]
- trim tailing whitespace from unicode LABELs [Karel Zak]
- update docs/.gitignore [Karel Zak]
- use BLKSSZGET for GPT sectors [Karel Zak]
- use blkid_new_probe_from_filename() in docs [Karel Zak]
- use c.h [Karel Zak]
- use c.h in samples [Karel Zak]
- use chains in blkid_do_{safe,full,}_probe() [Karel Zak]
- use chains in prober (de)initialization [Karel Zak]
- use fstatat(), improve readdir() usage [Karel Zak]
- use private {lookup,get}_value functions [Karel Zak]
- use superblock filter functions [Karel Zak]
- use superblocks.h [Karel Zak]
- use the new API in whole u-l-ng [Karel Zak]
libuuid:
- remove .UE macro from libuuid man pages. [Milan Broz]
line:
- remove deprecated #ident directive [Karel Zak]
losetup:
- losetup.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
- remove unused macro [Karel Zak]
lscpu:
- lscpu.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
mcookie:
- mcookie.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
mesg:
- mesg.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
mkfs:
- mkfs.8 incomplete sentence and formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
mkfs.bfs:
- mkfs.bfs.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
mkfs.cramfs:
- fix gcc warning (incompatible pointer type) [Karel Zak]
mkfs.minix:
- fix strict-aliasing bugs [Karel Zak]
- mkfs.minix.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
mkswap:
- fix memory leaks, cleanup check_blocks() [Karel Zak]
- mkswap.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
- restore device argument in mkswap.8 synopsis [Peter Breitenlohner]
- unbreak -c ("check") option. [Peter De Wachter]
- use libblkid to detect PT [Karel Zak]
more:
- limited line buffer length results in corrupted UTF-8 text [Karel Zak]
- more.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
mount:
- add a note about bind-dir remounts [Karel Zak]
- add info about ext{3,4} barriers to mount.8 [Karel Zak]
- add long options to mount.8 [Karel Zak]
- and libblkid covert /dev/dm-N to /dev/mapper/<name> [Karel Zak]
- check for unsuccessful read-only bind mounts [Karel Zak]
- document changed semantics of tmpfs size option in mount.8 [kevin.granade@...il.com]
- fix mount.8, xfs attr2 is enabled by default [Karel Zak]
- fix reference to samba-client in mount.8 [Karel Zak]
- mention mtab for single mount point mount in mount.8 [Peter Volkov]
- more explicitly explain 'strictatime' in mount.8 [Karel Zak]
- more verbose "mount only root can do that" message [Karel Zak]
- mount.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
- update list of pseudo filesystems [Karel Zak]
namei:
- better mount points detection [Karel Zak]
- fix alone symlink evaluation [Karel Zak]
- gater information about / (root) [Karel Zak]
- namei.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
- use c.h [Karel Zak]
newgrp:
- newgrp.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
- use c.h, remove tailing whitespace [Karel Zak]
partx:
- partx.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
- use c.h [Karel Zak]
- work properly with 512 sectors (dos PT) [Karel Zak]
pg:
- compiler warning with NLS disabled [Peter Breitenlohner]
- pg.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
pivot_root:
- pivot_root.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
po:
- fix grammar glitch in german translation [Hendrik Lönngren]
- merge changes [Karel Zak]
- update POTFILES.in [Karel Zak]
- update cs.po (from translationproject.org) [Petr Pisar]
- update fi.po (from translationproject.org) [Lauri Nurmi]
- update fr.po (from translationproject.org) [Nicolas Provost]
- update id.po (from translationproject.org) [Arif E. Nugroho]
- update ja.po (from translationproject.org) [Makoto Kato]
- update pl.po (from translationproject.org) [Jakub Bogusz]
- update po/POTFILES.in [Karel Zak]
- update vi.po (from translationproject.org) [Clytie Siddall]
rdev:
- rdev.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
readprofile:
- readprofile.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
rename:
- rename.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
renice:
- renice.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
reset:
- reset.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
rtcwake:
- add S5 support [Karel Zak]
- ignore the tm_isdst field returned from the RTC [Paul Fox]
- rtcwake.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
scriptreplay:
- fix typo in error message [Karel Zak]
- scriptreplay.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
setarch:
- setarch.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
setsid:
- setsid.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
setterm:
- setterm.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
- use c.h, remove tailing whitespace [Karel Zak]
sfdisk:
- dump has to be $LANG insensitive [Karel Zak]
- sfdisk.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
- use c.h, remove obsolete #ifdefs [Karel Zak]
shutdown:
- shutdown.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
simpleinit:
- simpleinit.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
swapon:
- fix typo on swapon.8 manpage [Florentin Duneau]
- handle <=linux-2.6.19 bug in /proc/swaps [Mike Frysinger]
- more robust progname probing [Karel Zak]
- swapon.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
switch_root:
- add note about subroots to switch_root.8 [Karel Zak]
- remove TIOCSCTTY and setsid() [Karel Zak]
- switch_root.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
tailf:
- report inotify_add_watch() problems [Karel Zak]
tests:
- add BFS libblkid regression test [Karel Zak]
- add NTFS blkid test [Karel Zak]
- add UBIFS test image to blkid test suite [Corentin Chary]
- add blkid regression tests for ISO9660 [Karel Zak]
- add partitions probing test [Karel Zak]
- fdisk doslabel test also checks changing partition type [Zdenek Behan]
- fdisk doslabel test also checks setting partition active [Zdenek Behan]
- refresh GPT regression test [Karel Zak]
- rename blkid/images to blkid/images-fs [Karel Zak]
- swapon workaround for libtool wrapper [Karel Zak]
- test for basic functionality of sun labels [Zdenek Behan]
- update fsck.ismounted test [Karel Zak]
tunelp:
- tunelp.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
ul:
- ul.1 erroneous .SH instead of .Sh [Peter Breitenlohner]
umount:
- umount.8 command line for umount helpers, formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
unshare:
- new command [Mikhail Gusarov]
uuidd:
- uuidd.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
uuidgen:
- uuidgen.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
vipw:
- vipw.8 remove erroneous empty line, formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
whereis:
- whereis.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
wipefs:
- fix coding style [Karel Zak]
- new command [Karel Zak]
- remove obsolete comment [Karel Zak]
write:
- write.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner]
--
Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>
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