+kmod 28
+=======
+
+- Improvements
+ - Add Zstandard to the supported compression formats using libzstd
+ (pass --with-zstd to configure)
+
+- Bug fixes
+ - Ignore ill-formed kernel command line, e.g. with "ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0"
+ option in it
+ - Fix some memory leaks
+ - Fix 0-length builtin.alias.bin: it needs at least the index header
+
+kmod 27
+=======
+
+- Improvements
+ - Link to libcrypto rather than requiring openssl
+
+ - Print a better error message when kernel doesn't support module unload
+
+ - Use PKCS#7 instead of CMS for parsing module signature to be
+ compatible with LibreSSL and OpenSSL < 1.1.0
+
+ - Teach modinfo to parse modules.builtin.modinfo. When using Linux kernel
+ >= v5.2-rc1 it's possible to get module information from this new file. Now
+ modinfo is able to show it instead of an error message that the module is
+ built-in:
+
+ Before:
+ $ modinfo ext4
+ modinfo: ERROR: Module ext4 not found.
+
+ After:
+ $ modinfo ext4
+ name: ext4
+ filename: (builtin)
+ softdep: pre: crc32c
+ license: GPL
+ description: Fourth Extended Filesystem
+ author: Remy Card, Stephen Tweedie, Andrew Morton, Andreas Dilger, Theodore Ts'o and others
+ alias: fs-ext4
+ alias: ext3
+ alias: fs-ext3
+ alias: ext2
+ alias: fs-ext2
+
+- Bug fixes
+ - Do not link python bindings with libpython to be compatible with
+ python3.8
+
+ - Fix module removal with `modprobe -r` when a dependency is built-in.
+ Now it properly ignores them and proceed with removal of other
+ dependencies
+
+ - Fix propagation of return code from install/remove commands to the
+ the probe function. The return values of kmod_module_probe_insert_module()
+ have very specific meanings, do not confuse the caller by return codes
+ from system()
+
+ - Fix softdep config parsing leading to buffer overflow
+
+kmod 26
+=======
+
+- Improvements
+ - Add more error-checking in library functions and remove warnings on newer
+ toolchains
+
+ - Depmod now handles parallel invoctions better by protecting the temporary
+ files being used
+
+ - Improvements to testsuite and added tests to check the our behavior
+ regardless of the features enabled in the kernel, or libraries we link to
+
+ - Teach the --show-exports option to modprobe. This works similarly to
+ --show-modversions, but it reports the exported symbols from that module.
+ Under the hood this reads the .symtab and .strtab section rather than
+ __versions so it shows useful data even if kernel is configured without
+ modversions (CONFIG_MODVERSIONS)
+
+ - Teach pkcs7 parsing to modinfo by using openssl. This allows modinfo to
+ correctly parse the signature appended to a module by the kernel build
+ system when configured with CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_ALL, or when externally
+ signed by the distro. Traditionally modules were signed and a struct
+ was appended together with the signature to the end of the module.
+ This has changed on the kernel for pkcs#7 and now the structure isn't
+ filled out with useful information. So we have to parse the signature
+ block in order to return useful data to the user.
+
+ If kmod is linked with openssl we parse the signature and return the
+ fields as we do for other signatures. An example of the relevant part
+ on the output of modinfo is below:
+
+ Before:
+ sig_id: PKCS#7
+ signer:
+ sig_key:
+ sig_hashalgo: md4
+ After:
+ sig_id: PKCS#7
+ signer: Fedora kernel signing key
+ sig_key: 51:C4:0C:6D:7E:A5:6C:D8:8F:B4:3A:DF:91:78:4F:18:BC:D5:E4:C5
+ sig_hashalgo: sha256
+
+ If kmod is not linked to openssl we just start printing "unknonwn" in the
+ sig_hashalgo field rather than the bogus value.
+
+
+kmod 25
+=======
+
+- Improvements
+ - Add module signature to modinfo output
+
+ - Add support for external directories in depmod: now there's a new
+ "external" keyword parsed by depmod when calculating the dependencies.
+ It allows to add modules to other directories which are not relative
+ to where the modules are commonly installed. This results in
+ modules.dep and friends now understanding absolute paths rather than
+ relative paths only. For more information see depmod.d(1).
+
+ - Add support for CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS
+
+ - Add missing documentation references in man pages
+
+ - Handle the case in which module has a .TOC symbol already while
+ calculating dependencies
+
+ - Improve testsuite and allow to use mkosi to run testsuite in different
+ distros
+
+kmod 24
+=======
+
+- Improvements:
+ - Add more information on dependency loop
+
+ - Sanitize use of strcpy and allow to grow from small strings on stack
+ (common case) to bigger strings on heap when needed
+
+- Bug fixes
+ - Fix wrong dependency loops being reported by depmod
+
+ - Fix crashes when reporting dependency loops
+
+ - Fix parsing kernel command line containing quotes
+
+ - Fix leaks on error paths
+
+kmod 23
+=======
+
+- Improvements:
+ - Don't add comment to modules.devname if it would otherwise be empty
+ to play nice with tools detecting empty files
+
+ - Allow building with BSD sed, that doesn't have -E flag
+
+ - Ignore .TOC. symbols in depmod parsing as it's for PPC64 the
+ equivalent of _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_
+
+ - Teach modinfo about PKCS#7 module signatures: it doesn't add any
+ other info besides telling the user the module is signed since
+ kernel doesn't add other info on the module section
+
+- Bug fixes
+
+ - Fix -s and -p compat options to insmod triggering force flag
+
+ - Fix long lines from /proc/modules not being handled correctly by
+ kmod_module_new_from_loaded() and kmod_module_get_size() and several
+ other library functions that use them
+
+ - Fix crash on modinfo while checking for available signature of
+ unknown type
+
+ - Fix documentation generation with gtk-doc
+
kmod 22
=======
- New features:
- libkmod now keeps a file opened after the first call to
kmod_module_get_{info,versions,symbols,dependency_symbols}. This
- reduces signficantly the amount of time depmod tool takes to
+ reduces significantly the amount of time depmod tool takes to
execute. Particularly if compressed modules are used.
- Remove --with-rootprefix from build system. It was not a great idea
after all and should not be use since it causes more harm then
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