linux-kernel - [ANNOUNCE] util-linux stable v2.31.1

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Date:   Tue, 19 Dec 2017 16:25:11 +0100
From:   Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        util-linux@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux stable v2.31.1


The util-linux release v2.31.1 is available at

  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.31/

Feedback and bug reports, as always, are welcomed.

    Karel


util-linux 2.31.1 Release Notes
===============================

bash-completion:
   - Exclude /dev/fd from fsck find  [Kevin Locke]
blkid:
   - Add support for LUKS2 and new LABEL attributes.  [Milan Broz]
blockdev:
   - be more explicit for BLKSSZ in blockdev.8  [Karel Zak]
build-sys:
   - move rfkill to /usr/sbin  [Karel Zak]
column:
   - use \x<hex> for invalid multibyte seq.  [Karel Zak]
dmesg:
   - add note about -F format to the man page  [Karel Zak]
docs:
   - improve setarch(8) manual page  [Sami Kerola]
   - update AUTHORS file  [Karel Zak]
fincore:
   - fix a typo in fincore.1  [Masatake YAMATO]
fsck.cramfs:
   - Fix bus error on broken file system.  [Tobias Stoeckmann]
hwclock:
   - add iso-8601 overflow check  [J William Piggott]
   - fix debug regression  [J William Piggott]
   - revert ioctl test  [Karel Zak]
lib/mbsalign:
   - add mbs_invalid_encode()  [Karel Zak]
lib/md5:
   - use ul_/UL_ prefix  [Karel Zak]
lib/sha1:
   - use ul_/UL_prefix for symbols  [Karel Zak]
lib/timeutils:
   - ISO_8601_BUFSIZ too small  [J William Piggott]
libblkid:
   - vfat  Fix reading labels which starts with byte 0x05  [Pali Rohár]
libfdisk:
   - (sun) enhance searching of free space  [Mikhail Vorobyov]
   - (sun) fix creation of whole disk partition  [Mikhail Vorobyov]
   - (sun) move aligning of the first sector before availability check  [Mikhail Vorobyov]
   - Fix uninitialized structure  [Roddy Shuler]
libmount:
   - Allow MNT_FORCE and MNT_DETACH at umount  [Joshua Watt]
   - add nsfs between pseudo filesystems  [Karel Zak]
libsmartcols:
   - don't add blank padding after left aligned title  [Karel Zak]
lsblk:
   - add hint about perms to man page  [Karel Zak]
lscpu:
   - Treat read failure on Xen Hypervisor properties as non-fatal  [Dirk Mueller]
lslocks:
   - add note about OFDLCK  [Karel Zak]
man:
   - use long options in text and add example to uuidgen  [Sami Kerola]
mcookie:
   - properly initialize hash  [Karel Zak]
md5:
   - declare byteReverse as static  [Luca Ceresoli]
misc:
   - fix typos  [Sami Kerola]
mount:
   - add hint about -t and root perms to the man page  [Karel Zak]
   - add more details about UUIDs and LABELs to the man page  [Karel Zak]
nsenter:
   - fix compiler warning [-Wuninitialized]  [Karel Zak]
po:
   - merge changes  [Karel Zak]
   - update cs.po (from translationproject.org)  [Petr Písař]
   - update ja.po (from translationproject.org)  [Takeshi Hamasaki]
   - update pl.po (from translationproject.org)  [Jakub Bogusz]
rtcwake:
   - add note about HW and sleep to the man page  [Karel Zak]
   - fix sys vs. rtc time delta usage  [Karel Zak]
sample-scols-title:
   - add left title without padding  [Karel Zak]
sfdisk:
   - create empty label on 'write' command  [Karel Zak]
test_sha1:
   - update helper  [Karel Zak]
tests:
   - add LUKS test images  [Milan Broz]
   - add fsck.cramfs bad-header test  [Karel Zak]
   - don't use mount.<type> helpers in mount-by-pattern tests  [Karel Zak]
   - update columns test due to dda229c7b2b16a31fae8e99079ab4f4ae5bc8eac  [Karel Zak]
   - update libsmartcols/title  [Karel Zak]
vipw:
   - do not let editor to inherit open file descriptors  [Sami Kerola]

-- 
 Karel Zak  <kzak@...hat.com>
 http://karelzak.blogspot.com