Documentation/releases/v2.14-ReleaseNotes

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   2 Util-linux-ng 2.14 Release Notes (09-Jun-2008)
   3 ==============================================
   4
   5 Release highlights
   6 ------------------
   7
   8  mount(8) supports new "nofail" mount option.
   9
  10  mount(8) supports auto-destruction of loop devices.
  11
  12  losetup(8) supports new command line option "-j" to show status of all
  13  loop devices associated with given file.
  14
  15  losetup(8) supports unlimited number of loop devices.
  16
  17  losetup(8) supports new command line option "--sizelimit" to set data end.
  18
  19  ldattach(8) command has been added to util-linux-ng. The ldattach
  20  daemon opens the specified device file and attaches the line discipline
  21  to it for processing of the sent and/or received data.
  22
  23  setterm(8) supports new command line option "-blank [force|poke]" for
  24  TIOCL_{BLANKED,BLANK}SCREEN.
  25
  26  tailf(8) has been reimplemented to use inotify.
  27
  28  tailf(8) supports new command line option "-n" to specifying output lines.
  29
  30  mkswap(8) supports new command line option "-U" to set UUID explicitly.
  31
  32  fdisk(8) has been fixed to calculate partition size in 2^N.
  33
  34  cal(8) supports highlighting an arbitrary date.
  35
  36  agetty(8) makes username-in-uppercase feature optional (off by default).
  37  Users who use uppercase-only terminals need to use the option "-U" now.
  38
  39  losetup(8), mount(8), umount(8), fdisk(8) and sfdisk(8) support static
  40  linking when compiled with --enable-static-programs.
  41
  42  hwclock(8) supports new command line option "adjfile" to override
  43  the default /etc/adjtime.
  44
  45  scriptreplay(1) command has been re-written from Perl to C.
  46
  47
  48 Deprecated
  49 ----------
  50
  51  The losetup(8) '-s' option (introduced by util-linux-ng-2.13) is deprecated
  52  now.  This short form of the option '--show' could be in collision with
  53  Loop-AES losetup implementation where the same option is used for the loop
  54  sizelimit.
  55
  56
  57 Fixed security issues
  58 ---------------------
  59
  60  CVE-2008-1926 - audit log injection via login
  61
  62                  The problem was originally reported for OpenSSH few months
  63                  ago (CVE-2007-3102). The login(1) is affected by the same
  64                  bug when built with the option "--with-audit".
  65
  66
  67 Stable maintenance releases between v2.13 and v2.14
  68 ---------------------------------------------------
  69
  70 util-linux-ng 2.13.1.1 [22-Apr-2008]
  71
  72  * ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.13/v2.13.1.1-ReleaseNotes
  73    ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.13/v2.13.1.1-ChangeLog
  74
  75 util-linux-ng 2.13.1 [16-Jan-2008]
  76
  77  * ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.13/v2.13.1-ReleaseNotes
  78    ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.13/v2.13.1-ChangeLog
  79
  80
  81 ChangeLog between v2.13 and v2.14
  82 ---------------------------------
  83
  84  For more details see ChangeLog files at:
  85  ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.14/
  86
  87 agetty:
  88    - cleanup MAXHOSTNAMELEN  [Karel Zak]
  89    - make username-in-uppercase feature optional (off by default.)  [Hamish Coleman]
  90    - non-linux support (use pathnames.h)  [Karel Zak]
  91    - replace termio with termios interface  [Samuel Thibault]
  92    - ungettextize several debugging messages.  [Benno Schulenberg]
  93 blockdev:
  94    - add --getsz to blockdev.8  [Karel Zak]
  95    - add missing description about option --report in manpage  [Li Zefan]
  96    - fix  opened file leaving unclosed  [lizf]
  97    - use lib/blkdev.c, fix --report  [Karel Zak]
  98 build-sys:
  99    - add --enable-static-programs  [Stepan Kasal, Karel Zak]
 100    - add AC_CANONICAL_HOST  [Miklos Szeredi]
 101    - add VARSUFFIX to UTIL_CHECK_LIB  [Karel Zak]
 102    - add err.h check  [Karel Zak]
 103    - add support ionice for Super-H architecture  [Karel Zak]
 104    - add v2.14 to NEWS  [Karel Zak]
 105    - autogen.sh reports versions of autotools now  [Karel Zak]
 106    - build arch(1) during distcheck  [Stepan Kasal]
 107    - cleanup "x$foo" usage  [Karel Zak]
 108    - cleanup disk-utils/Makefile.am (use $utils_common)  [Karel Zak]
 109    - cleanup usage of linux/major.h  [Samuel Thibault]
 110    - disable syscall fallbacks for non-linux systems  [Karel Zak]
 111    - do not add -luuid to BLKID_LIBS  [Stepan Kasal]
 112    - fix missing deps for swapon  [Matthias Koenig]
 113    - ignore a bunch of generated files, mostly binaries  [James Youngman]
 114    - nls/locale handling in util-linux-ng general  [Mike Frysinger]
 115    - non-linux support  [Samuel Thibault]
 116    - release++  [Karel Zak]
 117    - remove errs.h  [Karel Zak]
 118    - remove files that are no longer delivered from git  [LaMont Jones]
 119    - remove hardcoded _GNU_SOURCE  [Karel Zak]
 120    - remove unnecessary check-local target from login-utils/  [Karel Zak]
 121    - set AC_PREREQ to 2.60, increment version to 2.14  [Karel Zak]
 122    - simplify code around RDEV_LINKS and SETARCH_LINKS  [Stepan Kasal]
 123    - unify method for checking system calls and fallback handling  [Mike Frysinger, Stepan Kasal]
 124    - update .gitignore files  [Karel Zak]
 125    - use dist_man_MANS instead of man_MANS  [Stepan Kasal]
 126    - use ncursesw (wide version) when possibe  [Karel Zak, Mike Frysinger]
 127    - use pkg-config to find the libs for static build  [Stepan Kasal]
 128    - use portable $(VAR =) instead of gmake-specific $(addsuffix)  [Stepan Kasal]
 129 cal:
 130    - add description about option -V to manpage  [Li Zefan]
 131    - add support for highlighting an arbitrary date  [Pádraig Brady]
 132    - avoid -Wformat warnings  [Jim Meyering]
 133    - fix weekday alignment for certain locales  [Pádraig Brady]
 134    - replace errs.h with libc err.h  [Karel Zak]
 135    - use HAVE_LIB{NCURSES,NCURSESW} instead HAVE_NCURSES  [Karel Zak]
 136 cfdisk:
 137    - define portable {DEFAULT,ALTERNATE}_DEVICE  [Samuel Thibault]
 138    - display cylinders beyond 1024  [Peter Breitenlohner]
 139    - slightly increase the size of menu buttons  [Benno Schulenberg]
 140    - translate partition-type names when they are printed.  [Benno Schulenberg]
 141 chfn:
 142    - add pam_end() call and cleanup PAM code  [Karel Zak]
 143    - fix compiler warnings in selinux stuff  [Karel Zak]
 144 chfn, chsh, login:
 145    - collapsing three similar messages into a single one  [Benno Schulenberg]
 146 chsh:
 147    - should use pam_end function to terminate the PAM transaction  [Yu Zhiguo, Karel Zak]
 148 column:
 149    - replace errs.h with libc err.h  [Karel Zak]
 150 ddate:
 151    - 11th, 12th and 13th of month  [Volker Schatz]
 152 docs:
 153    - add a note about minix v3 to TODO file  [Karel Zak]
 154    - add info about .bugfix releases and branches  [Karel Zak]
 155    - add note about incorrect tag 2.13.1  [Karel Zak]
 156    - add note about losetup --sizelimit to ReleaseNotes  [Karel Zak]
 157    - add note about static linking  [Karel Zak]
 158    - add v2.14 ReleaseNotes  [Karel Zak]
 159    - cleanup DEPRECATED file  [Karel Zak]
 160    - cleanup README.devel, add note about coding style and Signed-off-by  [Karel Zak]
 161    - fix ChangeLog URL  [Pascal Terjan]
 162    - fix stable branche name in README.devel  [Karel Zak]
 163    - mark vipw(1) is deprecated in favor of vipw from shadow-utils  [Karel Zak]
 164    - refresh TODO list  [Karel Zak]
 165    - remove date from ReleasNotes  [Karel Zak]
 166    - tweak a few messages for clarity  [Benno Schulenberg]
 167    - update AUTHORS file  [Karel Zak]
 168    - update TODO file  [Karel Zak]
 169    - update v2.14 ReleaseNotes  [Karel Zak]
 170    - we already rewrote the scriptreplay script; remove that TODO entry  [James Youngman]
 171 elvtune:
 172    - use get_linux_version()  [Karel Zak]
 173 fdformat:
 174    - install to /usr/sbin instead to /usr/bin  [Karel Zak]
 175 fdisk:
 176    - better fallback for get_random_id()  [H. Peter Anvin]
 177    - calculate +size{K,M,G} in 2^N  [Karel Zak]
 178    - cleanup BLK* ioctls usage  [Karel Zak]
 179    - doesn't recognize the VMware ESX partitions  [Karel Zak]
 180    - doing useless ioctl when editing an image  [Pascal Terjan]
 181    - fix building for AVR32 and CRIS  [Imre Kaloz]
 182    - fix typo  [Karel Zak]
 183    - message tweak  [Karel Zak]
 184    - non-linux support (MAXPATHLEN)  [Karel Zak]
 185    - non-linux support (use standard uintxy_t instead __uxy)  [Samuel Thibault]
 186    - use more readable "GPT" name rather than "EFI GPT"  [Robert Millan]
 187    - use swab macros from bitops.h  [Karel Zak]
 188 flock:
 189    - typo in man page  [A. Costa]
 190 fsck.cramfs:
 191    - clean up gcc warnings  [Randy Dunlap]
 192 fsck.minix:
 193    - correct the error message given when we can't open the device  [James Youngman]
 194    - reset the terminal state if we are killed by a fatal signal  [James Youngman]
 195 getopt:
 196    - fix path to examples in getopt.1  [Karel Zak]
 197    - install example scripts as SCRIPTS, not DATA  [Peter Breitenlohner]
 198 hwclock:
 199    - add --adjfile=path option  [Karel Zak]
 200    - check for ENODEV  [David Woodhouse]
 201    - do not create a zero adjfile  [Alain Guibert]
 202    - fix --rtc option  [Matthias Koenig, Karel Zak]
 203 include:
 204    - <stdint.h> provides everything  [Samuel Thibault]
 205    - add bitops.h with swab{16,32,64} macros  [Karel Zak]
 206    - add mount paths to pathnames.h  [Karel Zak]
 207    - cleanup pathnames.h  [Karel Zak]
 208 ionice:
 209    - add a note about permissions to ionice.1  [Karel Zak]
 210    - update man page to reflect IDLE class change in  2.6.25  [Karel Zak]
 211 ipcs:
 212    - add information about POSIX compatibility to ipcs.1  [Karel Zak]
 213 kill:
 214    - man page is missing a description of "kill -0"  [Karel Zak]
 215 ldattach:
 216    - add NLS support  [Karel Zak]
 217    - new command  [Tilman Schmidt]
 218    - use glibc termios  [Karel Zak]
 219 lib:
 220    - add blkdev.{c,h}  [Stefan Krah, Karel Zak]
 221    - add linux_version.{c,h}  [Stefan Krah]
 222 login:
 223    - audit log injection attack via login  [Steve Grubb]
 224    - fix a small memory leak and remove unnecessary zeroing  [Karel Zak]
 225    - login segfaults on EOF (rh#298461)  [Karel Zak]
 226    - replace termio with termios interface  [Samuel Thibault]
 227    - rewrite is_local() to remove limits on line length  [James Youngman]
 228 login-utils:
 229    - cleanup strlen() and fgets() usage  [James Youngman]
 230 losetup:
 231    - add --associated option  [Karel Zak]
 232    - add --sizelimit option  [Shachar Shemesh]
 233    - canonicalize loopfile name  [Karel Zak, Matthias Koenig]
 234    - clean up gcc warnings  [Randy Dunlap]
 235    - fix errno usage  [Karel Zak]
 236    - fix typo in losetup.8  [Karel Zak]
 237    - mark the option -s as deprecated  [Karel Zak]
 238    - remove duplicate xstrdup() and error()  [Karel Zak]
 239    - split help message into two smaller parts  [Benno Schulenberg]
 240    - support unlimited number of loops  [Karel Zak]
 241    - use standard uintxy_t types (struct loop_info64)  [Samuel Thibault]
 242 mesg:
 243    - replace errs.h with libc err.h  [Karel Zak]
 244 mkfs.cramfs:
 245    - clean up gcc warnings  [Randy Dunlap, Karel Zak]
 246    - remove unused header file  [lizf]
 247    - switch on localization.  [Benno Schulenberg]
 248 mkfs.minix:
 249    - add sectorsize check  [Matthias Koenig]
 250    - clean up gcc warnings  [Karel Zak]
 251    - clean up gcc warnings  [Randy Dunlap]
 252    - device size cleanup  [Matthias Koenig]
 253 mkswap:
 254    - BLKGETSIZE cleanup  [Karel Zak]
 255    - cleanup kB vs. KiB usage in error messages  [Karel Zak]
 256    - fix compiler warnings  [Karel Zak]
 257    - linux_version() code consolidation  [Karel Zak]
 258    - possible to crash with SELinux relabeling support  [KaiGai Kohei]
 259    - set UUID for swap space (add -U option)  [Martin Schulze]
 260    - set errno=0 in write_all()  [Karel Zak]
 261    - when writing the signature page, handle EINTR returns  [Karel Zak]
 262 more:
 263    - cleanup gcc warnings  [Randy Dunlap]
 264    - non-linux support  [Samuel Thibault]
 265    - replace CBAUD with cfgetispeed()  [Samuel Thibault]
 266    - use HAVE_WIDECHAR instead ENABLE_WIDECHAR  [Karel Zak]
 267 mount:
 268    - "can't create lock file" message sometimes means failure, sometimes not  [Mark McLoughlin]
 269    - "nofail" mount option  [Matthias Koenig, Karel Zak]
 270    - -L|-U segfault when label or uuid doesn't exist  [Karel Zak]
 271    - add more details to the --version output  [Karel Zak]
 272    - add support for sizelimit= mount option (for loop mounts)  [Shachar Shemesh]
 273    - allow auto-destruction of loop devices  [Bernardo Innocenti]
 274    - chain of symlinks to fstab causes use of pointer after free  [Norbert Buchmuller]
 275    - clean up gcc warnings (mount_mntent.c)  [Randy Dunlap]
 276    - clean up global variables  [Karel Zak]
 277    - cleanup "none" fstype usage  [Karel Zak]
 278    - cleanup KERNEL_VERSION, remove my_dev_t.h  [Karel Zak]
 279    - cleanup canonicalize() usage  [Karel Zak]
 280    - cleanup error() and die()  [Karel Zak]
 281    - cleanup usage of _PATH_*  [Karel Zak]
 282    - doesn't drop privileges properly when calling helpers  [Ludwig Nussel]
 283    - don't call canonicalize(SPEC) for cifs, smbfs and nfs  [Karel Zak]
 284    - don't canonicalize LABEL= or UUID= spec  [Karel Zak]
 285    - drop the part always true from a while condition  [Pascal Terjan]
 286    - fix a small typo in mount.8  [Christophe Blaess]
 287    - fix fd leak  [Matthias Koenig]
 288    - fix typo in mount.8  [Karel Zak]
 289    - hint about helper program if device doesn't exist  [Karel Zak]
 290    - improve chmod & chown usage and clean up gcc warnings (fstab.c)  [Karel Zak]
 291    - improve error message when helper program not present  [LaMont Jones]
 292    - prevent loop mounting the same file twice  [Karel Zak, Matthias Koenig]
 293    - remount doesn't care about loop=  [Karel Zak]
 294    - remove MS_{REPLACE,AFTER,BEFORE,OVER}  [Karel Zak]
 295    - remove built-in support for background mounts  [Karel Zak]
 296    - remove redundant fflush  [Karel Zak]
 297    - remove set_proc_name()  [Karel Zak]
 298    - remove useless if-before-my_free, define my_free as a macro  [Karel Zak]
 299    - use MNTTYPE_SWAP (from mntent.h)  [Karel Zak]
 300    - use atexit() rather than (*at_die)()  [Karel Zak]
 301    - use blkdev_get_size()  [Karel Zak]
 302    - use canonicalize in getfs_by_devname  [Karel Zak]
 303 namei:
 304    - add to identify FIFO (named pipe) and update manpage  [Li Zefan]
 305    - cleanup tailing white-spaces  [Karel Zak]
 306    - non-linux support (get_current_dir_name() and PATH_MAX)  [Karel Zak, Samuel Thibault]
 307 partx:
 308    - fix compiler warnings  [Karel Zak]
 309    - use swab macros from bitops.h  [Karel Zak]
 310 pg:
 311    - fix segfault on search  [Rajeev V. Pillai]
 312 po:
 313    - add eu.po (from translationproject.org)  [Mikel Olasagasti]
 314    - add pl.po (from translationproject.org)  [Andrzej Krzysztofowicz]
 315    - fix typo in de.po  [Karel Zak]
 316    - merge changes  [Karel Zak]
 317    - update POTFILES.in  [Karel Zak]
 318    - update ca.po (from translationproject.org)  [Josep Puigdemont]
 319    - update cs.po (from translationproject.org)  [Petr Pisar]
 320    - update da.po (from translationproject.org)  [Claus Hindsgaul]
 321    - update de.po (from translationproject.org)  [Michael Piefel]
 322    - update es.po (from translationproject.org)  [Santiago Vila Doncel]
 323    - update et.po (from translationproject.org)  [Meelis Roos]
 324    - update fi.po (from translationproject.org)  [Lauri Nurmi]
 325    - update fr.po (from translationproject.org)  [Michel Robitaille]
 326    - update hu.po (from translationproject.org)  [Gabor Kelemen]
 327    - update id.po (from translationproject.org)  [Arif E. Nugroho]
 328    - update it.po (from translationproject.org)  [Marco Colombo]
 329    - update ja.po (from translationproject.org)  [Daisuke Yamashita]
 330    - update nl.po (from translationproject.org)  [Benno Schulenberg]
 331    - update po files  [Karel Zak]
 332    - update pt_BR.po (from translationproject.org)  [Rodrigo Stulzer Lopes]
 333    - update ru.po (from translationproject.org)  [Pavel Maryanov]
 334    - update sl.po (from translationproject.org)  [Simon Mihevc]
 335    - update sv.po (from translationproject.org)  [Daniel Nylander]
 336    - update tr.po (from translationproject.org)  [Nilgün Belma Bugüner]
 337    - update uk.po (from translationproject.org)  [Maxim V. Dziumanenko]
 338    - update vi.po (from translationproject.org)  [Clytie Siddall]
 339 rename:
 340    - add description about option -V to manpage  [Li Zefan]
 341    - remove useless variable  [Li Zefan]
 342 renice:
 343    - detect errors in arguments, add -v, -h and long options  [LaMont Jones, Karel Zak]
 344 rev:
 345    - use warn() in errs.h  [Li Zefan]
 346 rtcwake:
 347    - fix UTC time usage  [David Brownell]
 348    - fix the default mode to "standby"  [Paulius Zaleckas]
 349    - fix typo  [Karel Zak]
 350    - fix typo SATE -> STATE  [Mike Frysinger]
 351    - fix verbose message  [Karel Zak]
 352    - include libgen.h for basename prototype  [Mike Frysinger]
 353    - misc cleanups  [David Brownell]
 354 script:
 355    - cleanup gcc warnings  [Randy Dunlap]
 356    - cleanup includes  [Samuel Thibault]
 357    - dies on SIGWINCH  [Karel Zak]
 358    - read returns a size_t  [James Youngman]
 359 scriptreplay:
 360    - gettextize a forgotten messages  [Karel Zak]
 361    - rewrite in C  [Karel Zak, James Youngman]
 362 setarch:
 363    - add fallback for linux/personality  [Karel Zak]
 364    - add long options to setarch and update manpage  [Karel Zak, Li Zefan]
 365    - add missing alpha subarchs  [Oliver Falk]
 366    - adding groff symlinks to setarch manual page  [Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]
 367    - fix compiler warning  [LaMont Jones]
 368    - generate groff links in a better way  [Karel Zak]
 369    - provide backwards compatibility  [Dmitry V. Levin]
 370    - tweak the help text, and gettextize a forgotten message  [Benno Schulenberg]
 371 setterm:
 372    - add -blan [force|poke] options for TIOCL_{BLANKED,BLANK}SCREEN  [Samuel Thibault, Karel Zak]
 373    - dump by TIOCLINUX is deprecated since linux 1.1.92.  [Karel Zak]
 374    - opened file leaving unclosed  [Karel Zak, lizf]
 375    - remove unnecessaty ifndef TCGETS  [Samuel Thibault]
 376 sfdisk:
 377    - allow partitioning drives of over 2^31 sectors.  [Kunihiko IMAI]
 378    - cleanup 83 gcc warnings  [Randy Dunlap]
 379    - opened files leaving unclosed  [Karel Zak, Li Zefan]
 380    - remove unnecessary linux/unistd.h  [Samuel Thibault]
 381    - use get_linux_version()  [Karel Zak]
 382 shutdown:
 383    - use _PATH_MOUNTED instead of _PATH_MTAB  [Stepan Kasal]
 384 swapon:
 385    - Reinitialize software suspend areas to avoid future corruption.  [Kees Cook, Karel Zak]
 386    - add sundries.h  [Karel Zak]
 387    - clean up gcc warnings  [Randy Dunlap]
 388    - cleanup usage output  [Karel Zak]
 389    - cleanup usage()  [Karel Zak]
 390    - fix swsuspend detection  [Karel Zak]
 391    - fix typo in usage()  [Karel Zak]
 392    - readjust the usage summaries  [Benno Schulenberg]
 393    - remove unnecessary myrealpath() call  [Karel Zak]
 394 sys-utils:
 395    - correct setarch.8 manpage link creation  [Frédéric Bothamy]
 396 tailf:
 397    - add option -n to specifying output lines  [Li Zefan]
 398    - clean up gcc warnings & fix use of errno  [Karel Zak]
 399    - inotify based reimplementation  [Karel Zak]
 400    - non-linux support  [Samuel Thibault]
 401    - opened file leaving unclosed  [lizf]
 402    - replace errs.h with libc err.h  [Karel Zak]
 403 tests:
 404    - add "sort" to cramfs test  [Karel Zak]
 405    - add test for include/pathnames.h  [Karel Zak]
 406    - add ts-mount-noncanonical  [Karel Zak]
 407    - exactly define a time format in ls -l output  [Karel Zak]
 408    - fix blkid cache usage  [Karel Zak]
 409    - move test_bkdev to lib/  [Karel Zak]
 410    - redirect libblkid cache to BLKID_FILE  [Karel Zak]
 411    - rename test_sysinfo, remove tailing white-spaces  [Karel Zak]
 412    - use losetup -s  [Karel Zak]
 413 umount:
 414    - add hint about lsof & fuser  [Karel Zak]
 415    - don't print duplicate error messages  [Karel Zak]
 416    - use atexit() rather than (*at_die)()  [Karel Zak]
 417 wall:
 418    - cleanup MAXHOSTNAMELEN  [Karel Zak]