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+Util-linux 2.32 Release Notes
+=============================
+
+Release highlights
+------------------
+
+The command cal(1) has been improved to provide better control on used calendar
+system. Now it is possible to switch between Gregorian and Julian exclusively,
+or use the current default (reform in September 1752). The new command line
+options --reform and --iso have been added. The command also follows terminal
+width to format output.
+
+The library libblkid has been extended to support LUKS2, Micron mpool, VDO and
+Atari partition table.
+
+The command rfkill(8) has been move to /usr/sbin to be compatible with the
+original rfkill implementation.
+
+The command dmesg(1) provides better support for multi-line messages and the
+new command line option --force-prefix to print facility, level or timestamp
+information to each line of a multi-line message
+
+The command fallocate(1) --dig-holes is faster and more effect now.
+
+The command fdisk(8) provides access to Protective MBR accessible from main
+menu. The Sun label support has been improved.
+
+The command lscpu(1) provides more details about ARM CPUs now.
+
+The command lsmem(1) supports memory zone awareness now.
+
+The command lsns(8) provides netnsid and nsfs columns now.
+
+The command rtcwake(8) waits stdin to settle down before entering a system
+sleep.
+
+The new command line option --kill-child has been added to unshare(1).
+
+
+Stable maintenance releases between v2.31 and v2.32
+---------------------------------------------------
+
+util-linux 2.31.1 [Dec 19 2017]
+
+ * https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.31/v2.31.1-ReleaseNotes
+ https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.31/v2.31.1-ChangeLog
+
+
+Changes between v2.31 and v2.32
+-------------------------------
+
+agetty:
+ - Fix a use of uninitialised memory in an agetty error path. [Steven Smith]
+ - add support for /etc/issue.d [Karel Zak]
+ - remove unused flag [Karel Zak]
+bash-completion:
+ - (umount) use findmnt, escape a space in paths [Karel Zak]
+ - 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:
+ - (configure) fix bashisms [Mike Frysinger]
+ - add --enable-asan and --memcheck-asan for tests [Karel Zak]
+ - add missing include [Karel Zak]
+ - automake is able to find headers in builddir ... [Ruediger Meier]
+ - avoid using prog_DEPENDENCIES [Ruediger Meier]
+ - don't check for swapon() number of arguments [Karel Zak]
+ - gtkdoc-fixxref v1.27 requires module option [Karel Zak]
+ - lsns requires libmount [Karel Zak]
+ - move rfkill to /usr/sbin [Karel Zak]
+ - remove generated headers from dist tar ball [Ruediger Meier]
+ - remove redundant EXTRA_DIST files [Ruediger Meier]
+ - remove unneeded dependencies on bla.h.in [Ruediger Meier]
+cal:
+ - Use ALTMON_* correctly [Rafal Luzynski]
+ - add ifdef TEST_CAL [Karel Zak]
+ - add option to set Gregorian reform date [J William Piggott]
+ - clean up man page synopsis syntax [Karel Zak]
+ - do not set months_in_row with -3 option [J William Piggott]
+ - don't use year header for -1, -3 or -n [Karel Zak]
+ - explain magic values for day of week calculation [Karel Zak]
+ - fix first week calculation [J William Piggott]
+ - fix julian calendars for large years [J William Piggott]
+ - fix multi-byte comment, explain in better way [Karel Zak, J William Piggott]
+ - fix week calculations for 1752 [J William Piggott]
+ - follow terminal width [Karel Zak]
+ - honor num_months when only a year argument [J William Piggott]
+ - move REFORMATION_YEAR to control struct [J William Piggott]
+ - remove extra space after year output [Karel Zak]
+ - update man page [J William Piggott]
+chmem:
+ - cleanup includes [Karel Zak]
+ - cleanup usage() [Karel Zak]
+column:
+ - add --table-noheadings [Karel Zak]
+ - allow to hide unnamed columns [Karel Zak]
+ - don't ignore space-char separators at begin of the line [Karel Zak]
+ - use \x<hex> for invalid multibyte seq. [Karel Zak]
+dmesg:
+ - Add --force-prefix option [Prarit Bhargava]
+ - add note about -F format to the man page [Karel Zak]
+ - fix compiler warning [-Wuninitialized] [Karel Zak]
+ - use xstrdup() in xalloc.h based util [Karel Zak]
+docs:
+ - add ISC licence [Carlos Santos]
+ - improve setarch(8) manual page [Sami Kerola]
+ - update AUTHORS file [Karel Zak]
+ - update TODO [Karel Zak]
+ - update TODO file [Karel Zak]
+eject:
+ - remove list_speeds() #ifdef CDROM_SELECT_SPEED protection [Sami Kerola]
+fallocate:
+ - dig holes only in data extents [Karel Zak, Vaclav Dolezal]
+ - remove typo [Karel Zak]
+fdisk:
+ - (gpt) make PMBR accessible from main menu [Karel Zak]
+fincore:
+ - fix a typo in fincore.1 [Masatake YAMATO]
+findfs:
+ - don't include exitcodes.h [Karel Zak]
+findmnt:
+ - findmnt.8 remove spurious spaces before "--tree" and "--verbose" [Jakub Wilk]
+fsck.cramfs:
+ - Fix bus error on broken file system. [Tobias Stoeckmann]
+ - fix crash when superblock size is too small [Ruediger Meier]
+ - fix error message [Ruediger Meier]
+fstrim:
+ - don't include exitcodes.h [Karel Zak]
+hwclock:
+ - add --ul-debug implementing debug.h [J William Piggott]
+ - add iso-8601 overflow check [J William Piggott]
+ - fix debug regression [J William Piggott]
+ - rename --debug option to --verbose [J William Piggott]
+ - revert ioctl test [Karel Zak]
+ - use reentrant time conversion functions [J William Piggott]
+include/c:
+ - add errexec() [Karel Zak]
+include/debug:
+ - don't print pointer address for SUID programs [Karel Zak]
+ - improve debug message [Karel Zak]
+ - introduce __UL_INIT_DEBUG_FROM_STRING() [Karel Zak]
+ - print info when addresses suppressed [Karel Zak]
+kill:
+ - Extract signal names into signames.h/signames.c [Niklas Hambüchen]
+lib:
+ - Add simple crc32c() function [John Groves]
+lib/exec_shell:
+ - (and pager) use errexec() [Karel Zak]
+ - cleanup function attributes [Karel Zak]
+lib/mangle:
+ - return size of the decoded buffer [Karel Zak]
+lib/mbsalign:
+ - Fix escaping nonprintable multibyte characters [Vaclav Dolezal]
+ - add mbs_invalid_encode() [Karel Zak]
+ - encode \x to \xecx [Karel Zak]
+ - encode backslash to prevent ambiguity [Vaclav Dolezal]
+ - escape "\x" when HAVE_WIDECHAR not defined [Vaclav Dolezal]
+lib/md5:
+ - use ul_/UL_ prefix [Karel Zak]
+lib/path:
+ - make path_set_prefix() independent on cpu_set_t [Karel Zak]
+lib/sha1:
+ - fix indention [Karel Zak]
+ - use proper WORDS_BIGENDIAN macro [Karel Zak]
+ - use ul_/UL_prefix for symbols [Karel Zak]
+lib/signames:
+ - fix redefinition of 'sys_signame' on OSX [Karel Zak]
+ - remove signame array from header file [Karel Zak]
+ - remove unused function [Sami Kerola]
+lib/timeutils:
+ - ISO_8601_BUFSIZ too small [J William Piggott]
+ - add common ISO timestamp masks [J William Piggott]
+ - add get_gmtoff() [J William Piggott]
+lib/timeutils.c:
+ - bug fix Segmentation fault [J William Piggott]
+ - strxxx_iso do not wrap tm_year [J William Piggott]
+ - strxxx_iso test conversion errors [J William Piggott]
+ - warn format_iso_time() overflow [J William Piggott]
+libblkid:
+ - (bcache) cleanup magic string definition [Karel Zak]
+ - Add VDO superblock information into blkid [Sweet Tea Dorminy]
+ - Add support for Micron mpool formatted drives [John Groves]
+ - Add support for stratis [Tony Asleson]
+ - Mark char* params to blkid_dev_set_search as const [Andy Grover]
+ - Support for Atari partitioning scheme [Vaclav Dolezal]
+ - add debug messages when ignore useless devices [Karel Zak]
+ - atari - don't add duplicate entries [Vaclav Dolezal]
+ - atari - fix bad variable name [Vaclav Dolezal]
+ - atari - reject devices with blocksize != 512 [Vaclav Dolezal]
+ - atari - test if any partition fits disk size [Vaclav Dolezal]
+ - improve FreeBSD partitions parsing [Karel Zak]
+ - make mpool independent on libuuid [Karel Zak]
+ - udf Fix parsing LVID location [Pali Rohár]
+ - udf Fix parsing UDF revision [Pali Rohár]
+ - udf Fix reading Logical Volume Integrity Descriptor Implementation Use (LVIDIU) [Pali Rohár]
+ - udf Optimize and fix probing when block size > 2048 bytes [Pali Rohár]
+ - udf Really try to read only first LVID [Pali Rohár]
+ - udf Stop scanning Volume Descriptors after we found Terminating Descriptor [Pali Rohár]
+ - udf Update copyright [Pali Rohár]
+ - udf Use UDF revision field from LVD domain id "*OSTA UDF Compliant" as a fallback value for ID_FS_VERSION when LVIDIU is missing [Pali Rohár]
+ - vfat Fix reading labels which starts with byte 0x05 [Pali Rohár]
+libfdisk:
+ - (dos) fix max heads [Karel Zak]
+ - (gpt) add VMware specific UUIDs [Karel Zak]
+ - (gpt) move backup header after device resize [Karel Zak]
+ - (gpt) use fdisk_warn() for failed name setting [Karel Zak]
+ - (script) be consistent in code with types [Karel Zak]
+ - (script) support R (RAID) and V (LVM) shortcuts [Karel Zak]
+ - (sun) enhance searching of free space [Mikhail Vorobyov]
+ - (sun) fix creation of whole disk partition [Mikhail Vorobyov]
+ - (sun) fix n-1 bug and whole-disk [Karel Zak]
+ - (sun) move aligning of the first sector before availability check [Mikhail Vorobyov]
+ - Fix uninitialized structure [Roddy Shuler]
+ - allocate enough bytes for ucs2 to utf8 encoding [Vaclav Dolezal]
+ - allow to start freespace for zero [Karel Zak]
+ - extend API to provide label specific geometry ranges [Karel Zak]
+ - gpt properly encode string on rename [Vaclav Dolezal]
+ - return bytes processed from gpt_entry_set_name(), process rc [Vaclav Dolezal]
+libmount:
+ - Allow MNT_FORCE and MNT_DETACH at umount [Joshua Watt]
+ - Use waitpid() when waiting for mount helper child process [Vratislav Podzimek]
+ - add nsfs between pseudo filesystems [Karel Zak]
+ - check waitpid() return code [Karel Zak]
+ - fix access() utab write test [Karel Zak]
+ - fix debug message [Karel Zak]
+ - fix mnt_table_is_fs_mounted() for rbind [Karel Zak]
+ - minimize utimensat() write test usage [Karel Zak]
+ - use eacess() rather than open() to check mtab/utab [Karel Zak]
+libsmartcols:
+ - don't add blank padding after left aligned title [Karel Zak]
+ - fix mem-leaks in samples [Karel Zak]
+login:
+ - add LOGIN_PLAIN_PROMPT to login.defs [Karel Zak]
+login-utils:
+ - use free_getlogindefs_data() [Karel Zak]
+lsblk:
+ - add hint about perms to man page [Karel Zak]
+ - try device/dev to read devno [Karel Zak]
+lscpu:
+ - (arm) cleanup code [Karel Zak]
+ - Decode ARM CPUs [Riku Voipio]
+ - Treat read failure on Xen Hypervisor properties as non-fatal [Dirk Mueller]
+ - move ARM decoding to lscpu-arm.c [Karel Zak]
+ - move struct lscpu_desc header file [Karel Zak]
+lslocks:
+ - add note about OFDLCK [Karel Zak]
+lsmem:
+ - add --split [Karel Zak]
+ - add hint about block merges to the man page [Karel Zak]
+ - improve path_read_xxx() usage [Karel Zak]
+ - make --split optional, follow output by default [Karel Zak]
+lsmem/chmem:
+ - add memory zone awareness [Gerald Schaefer]
+ - add memory zone awareness to bash-completion [Andre Wild]
+lsns:
+ - (man) write about using multi-line in NSFS cell of lsns [Masatake YAMATO]
+ - add --nowrap(-W) option [Masatake YAMATO]
+ - add a case for testing netnsid column [Masatake YAMATO]
+ - add a case for testing nsfs column [Masatake YAMATO]
+ - add netnsid column [Masatake YAMATO]
+ - add nsfs column [Masatake YAMATO]
+ - disable netnsid column by default [Masatake YAMATO]
+ - initialize stuff when really necessary [Karel Zak]
+ - nsfs stuff cleanup [Karel Zak]
+ - rename notruns to no_trunc [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 printf i386 compiler warnings [Ruediger Meier]
+ - fix typos [Sami Kerola]
+ - remove %p from debug messages [Karel Zak]
+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]
+ - add note about "already mounted" behavior [Karel Zak]
+ - be more accurate in man page about propagation flags [Karel Zak]
+mount(8):
+ - drop redundant filesystem-specific sections [Mike Frysinger]
+ - point people to the proc(5) page for mount options [Mike Frysinger]
+ - umount does not (anymore?) say `none busy' [Alan Jenkins]
+newgrp:
+ - use errexec() [Karel Zak]
+nsenter:
+ - fix compiler warning [-Wuninitialized] [Karel Zak]
+ - revert changes committed by accident [Karel Zak]
+po:
+ - merge changes [Karel Zak]
+ - update cs.po (from translationproject.org) [Petr Písař]
+ - update es.po (from translationproject.org) [Antonio Ceballos Roa]
+ - update fi.po (from translationproject.org) [Lauri Nurmi]
+ - update ja.po (from translationproject.org) [Takeshi Hamasaki]
+ - update pl.po (from translationproject.org) [Jakub Bogusz]
+ - update pt_BR.po (from translationproject.org) [Rafael Fontenelle]
+ - update uk.po (from translationproject.org) [Yuri Chornoivan]
+rename:
+ - rename.1 fix typo, where -> were [Kenyon Ralph]
+ - use access(3) to check if a file exists [Sami Kerola]
+rfkill:
+ - provide RFKILL_TYPE_FM if undefined [Ruediger Meier]
+rtcwake:
+ - add note about HW and sleep to the man page [Karel Zak]
+ - fix sys vs. rtc time delta usage [Karel Zak]
+ - wait stdin to settle down before entering a system sleep [Sami Kerola]
+sample-scols-title:
+ - add left title without padding [Karel Zak]
+schedutils:
+ - use errexec() [Karel Zak]
+setarch:
+ - minor code clean up [Sami Kerola]
+setsid:
+ - new option --fork [Karel Zak]
+sfdisk:
+ - add hint about udev and flock to the man page [Karel Zak]
+ - allow to disable bootable flag on all partitions [Karel Zak]
+ - allow to use --activate for PMBR [Karel Zak]
+ - cleanup shortcuts in man page too [Karel Zak]
+ - create empty label on 'write' command [Karel Zak]
+ - wait before re-read [Karel Zak]
+signames:
+ - Make input char buffers const [Niklas Hambüchen]
+su:
+ - build fix for the case where USE_PTY is not defined [Samuel Thibault]
+ - use errexec() [Karel Zak]
+sys-utils:
+ - use errexec() [Karel Zak]
+test:
+ - Add UDF hdd image with final block size 4096 created by Linux mkudffs 1.3 [Pali Rohár]
+ - use subtests for jan1753 cal(1) test [Karel Zak]
+test_sha1:
+ - update helper [Karel Zak]
+tests:
+ - Add UDF cd image created by mkudfiso 20100208 [Pali Rohár]
+ - GPT device resize test [Karel Zak]
+ - add LUKS test images [Milan Broz]
+ - add cal(1) --week=40 1752 [Karel Zak]
+ - add fsck.cramfs bad-header test [Karel Zak]
+ - add lock on shared resources (e.g. scsi_debug) [Karel Zak]
+ - add mdadm locks [Karel Zak]
+ - add mpool blkid test image [Karel Zak]
+ - add set-x to lsns test [Karel Zak]
+ - add tests for encode functions from lib/mbsalign.c [Vaclav Dolezal]
+ - added missing expected outputs for partx (atari) [Vaclav Dolezal]
+ - added test for libblkid atari pt [Vaclav Dolezal]
+ - adjust for ISO timezone colon use [J William Piggott]
+ - allow to use memory checks for libsmartcols [Karel Zak]
+ - better lsns report on fail [Karel Zak]
+ - check for HAVE_LINUX_NET_NAMESPACE_H [Karel Zak]
+ - column(1) test for space-char separator [Karel Zak]
+ - column(1) test non-space separator at begin of line [Karel Zak]
+ - don't call tests with races in --parallel [Karel Zak]
+ - don't use mount.<type> helpers in mount-by-pattern tests [Karel Zak]
+ - fix fincore/count KNOWN_FAIL [Ruediger Meier]
+ - fix lsns perms [Karel Zak]
+ - make lsns test more robust [Karel Zak]
+ - mark fincore/count as KNOWN_FAIL [Karel Zak]
+ - mark mbsencode as KNOWN_FAIL [Vaclav Dolezal]
+ - mbsencode - removed emoji, added control unicode character [Vaclav Dolezal]
+ - mbsencode - test for HAVE_WIDECHAR [Vaclav Dolezal]
+ - merge 1m and 3m cal(1) tests [Karel Zak]
+ - merge sep1752 cal(1) tests [Karel Zak]
+ - merge year cal(1) tests [Karel Zak]
+ - rename --memcheck to --memcheck-valgrind [Karel Zak]
+ - rename ts_valgrind to ts_run [Karel Zak]
+ - rewrite cal(1) bigyear test [Karel Zak]
+ - rewrite fsck-bad-header [Ruediger Meier]
+ - simplify cal(1) sep1752w test [Karel Zak]
+ - support multiple locks [Karel Zak]
+ - suppress warning for old sync(1) [root]
+ - unlocks on failed ts_scsi_debug_init [Karel Zak]
+ - update build-sys tests [Karel Zak]
+ - update cal(1) tests [Karel Zak]
+ - update columns test due to dda229c7b2b16a31fae8e99079ab4f4ae5bc8eac [Karel Zak]
+ - update default lsmem output [Karel Zak]
+ - update libsmartcols/title [Karel Zak]
+ - update lsmem [Karel Zak]
+ - update setarch test [Karel Zak]
+ - use TS_HELPER_CAL [Karel Zak]
+ - use flock to modify fstab [Karel Zak]
+ - use subtests for sep1752w test [Karel Zak]
+ - use subtests for weekarg cal(1) tests [Karel Zak]
+ - use subtests for weeknum cal(1) tests [Karel Zak]
+tests/lsmem:
+ - update lsmem test with ZONES column [Gerald Schaefer]
+text-utils:
+ - use errexec() [Karel Zak]
+unshare:
+ - Add --kill-child option. [Niklas Hambüchen]
+ - Allow passing <signame> to --kill-child [Niklas Hambüchen]
+ - cleanup if-if code [Karel Zak]
+vipw:
+ - do not let editor to inherit open file descriptors [Sami Kerola]
+ - use errexec() [Karel Zak]
+whereis:
+ - fix typo in debug message [Karel Zak]
+zramctl:
+ - use xstrdup() [Karel Zak]
+misc:
+ - priorty -> priority [Yuri Chornoivan]
+ - use xstrdup() [Karel Zak]
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