Util-linux 2.24 Release Notes
=============================
+This is the last release where the old non-libmount mount(8) implementation
+is supported and maintained.
+
Release highlights
------------------
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.24/
agetty:
- - unrecognized option '--loginpause'" [kernc]
- -L accepts optional argument [Karel Zak]
- add \S to output /etc/os-release data [Karel Zak]
- add baud rates available from glibc that are not already supported [James Buren]
- only use EXTA/EXTB macros if B19200/B38400 macros are not present [James Buren]
- update man page and usage() [Karel Zak]
- use O_NONBLOCK only for serial lines with CLOCAL [Karel Zak]
+ - use standard angular brackets in usage message [Benno Schulenberg]
+ - unrecognized option '--loginpause'" [kernc]
bash-completion:
- add mount and umount [Sami Kerola]
- fix typos in mkfs.bfs logic [Mike Frysinger]
+ - use '\n' as IFS when ask for filenames [Karel Zak]
blkdiscard:
- use fstat() rather than stat() [coverity scan] [Karel Zak]
blkid:
- fix typo in ID_FS_AMBIVALEN= [Karel Zak]
blkid, hwclock, ldattach:
- use program_invocation_short_name [Sami Kerola]
+blockdev:
+ - add note about --setbsz usability [Karel Zak]
build-sys:
+ - Check for type sighandler_t and use if present [Michael Forney]
+ - Fix check for __GNU_LIBRARY__ [Michael Forney]
+ - Use _POSIX_VERSION to determine support for %m [Michael Forney]
- add *vim and clang_complete to gitignore [Karel Zak]
- add --disable-setterm [Karel Zak]
- add CFLAGS and LDFLAGS for daemons and shared libs [Karel Zak]
- prefer AS_CASE rather than shell 'case' [Sami Kerola]
- prefer AS_IF rather than shell 'if' [Sami Kerola]
- pylibmount will not work when python3 is present [Sami Kerola]
+ - release++ (v2.24-rc1) [Karel Zak]
- remove deprecated elvtune command [Karel Zak]
- remove unnecessary environment variable [Sami Kerola]
+ - simplify python detection [Sami Kerola]
- support --with-python[={2,3}] [Karel Zak]
- use -Wno-clobbered for some BSD crap [Karel Zak]
- use backticks rather than $() for commands in configure [Sami Kerola]
- use m4 quoting consistently [Sami Kerola]
+ - use tinfo *or* ncurses for more(1), ul(1) and setterm(1) [Karel Zak]
cal:
- add --color to usage() [Sami Kerola]
- clean up use of constants [Sami Kerola]
- de-duplicate julian specific functions [Sami Kerola]
- fix -y output for UTF8 [Karel Zak]
- fix few type mismatches [Sami Kerola]
+ - fix gettext warning [Karel Zak]
- fix preprocessor directive indendation [Sami Kerola]
- improve coding style [Karel Zak]
+ - improve the help text and man page [Pádraig Brady]
- mark all functions static [Sami Kerola]
- remove arbitrary limit of maxium year being 9999 [Sami Kerola]
- remove unnecessary initializations [Sami Kerola]
column:
- dereference of null pointer [clang-analyzer] [Sami Kerola]
- use variable lenght printf field width to wprint blanks [Sami Kerola]
+cytune:
+ - fix glush typo in cytune [Rafael Ferreira]
dmesg:
- add --time-format option [Sami Kerola]
- add iso-8601 time format [Sami Kerola]
- regroup time related options close to each other [Sami Kerola]
- support --color[={auto,always,never}] [Karel Zak]
docs:
+ - fix grammar of referring phrase, and indicate location better [Benno Schulenberg]
- add --present to last(1) manual page [Sami Kerola]
- add --since and time option formats to last(1) manual [Sami Kerola]
- add --time-format option and ISO-8601 format to manual [Sami Kerola]
- fix wording and formatting of man page for dmesg [Benno Schulenberg]
- improve formatting and wording of man pages for fdisk and cfdisk [Benno Schulenberg]
- improve grammar and consistency of comments in login.c [Benno Schulenberg]
+ - improve grammar and wording of the release-schedule text [Benno Schulenberg]
- make description of --activate clearer on man page of sfdisk [Benno Schulenberg]
- normalize the formatting of man pages for nsenter and unshare [Benno Schulenberg]
- note ddate removal [Mike Frysinger]
- slightly correct the man page of column [Benno Schulenberg]
+ - tweak the grammar of an agetty man-page fragment [Benno Schulenberg]
- update AUTHORS file [Karel Zak]
+ - update TODO [Karel Zak]
- update TODO [Sami Kerola]
+ - update v2.24-ReleaseNotes [Karel Zak]
eject:
- Check host_status and driver_status when using SG_IO. [Karel Zak]
- assigned value is never read [clang-analyzer] [Sami Kerola]
- (sun) use tt.c to list disk label [Karel Zak]
- -l refactoring [Karel Zak]
- add -L to colorize output [Karel Zak]
+ - add -t <type> to enable only specified type [Karel Zak]
- add GPT specific callback to menu [Karel Zak]
- add asktype "string" and support UUID partition change [Karel Zak]
- add bsd, dos and sgi menus [Karel Zak]
- don't use ptes[] in generic code [Karel Zak]
- fix 'r' in BSD menu [Karel Zak]
- fix -l [Karel Zak]
+ - fix possible memleak [coverity scan] [Karel Zak]
- improve info output [Karel Zak]
- improve menus to make it more usable for BSD label [Karel Zak]
- main() refactoring [Karel Zak]
- use remove read_int() usage from fdisk.c [Karel Zak]
- use xalloc stuff [Karel Zak]
findmnt:
+ - always allocate memory for cell value [Dave Reisner]
- avoid unused parameter warning [Karel Zak]
- make udev usage more robust [Karel Zak]
- test for fstype/options/maj min before source and target [Karel Zak]
- use TT_FL_FREEDATA for tt table [Karel Zak]
fsck:
+ - don't print warning if there is no /etc/fstab at all [Karel Zak]
- use libmount fs reference counter [Karel Zak]
fsck.cramfs:
- check writing to a file descriptor was successful [Sami Kerola]
- add long options to the command [Sami Kerola]
- remove unnecessary global variables [Sami Kerola]
- revert global exitval variable change [Sami Kerola]
+hexsyntax:
+ - in help text, wrap argument of option -e in angular brackets [Benno Schulenberg]
hwclock:
- remove references to adjtimex from man page [Karel Zak]
- use warn() to print cmos errors [Karel Zak]
include:
+ - Add missing includes [Michael Forney]
- add close_fd() for noticing write errors before close() [Sami Kerola]
- carefulput print determined char when unprintable char is found [Sami Kerola]
include/pt-mbr:
- add long options, improve usage() [Karel Zak]
- allow --file to be defined multiple times [Sami Kerola]
- check expected numeric user input is number [Sami Kerola]
+ - check fstat() return [coverity scan] [Karel Zak]
- clean up the begin of the file [Karel Zak]
- coding style clean up [Karel Zak]
- consolidate btmp/wtmp file paths [Karel Zak]
- split blkid_parttable_set_id() [Karel Zak]
- support pseudo PARTUUID= for MBR [Karel Zak]
- update docs [Karel Zak]
+ - use proper type in xfs log checker [coverity scan] [Karel Zak]
- use separate function to verify checksums [Karel Zak]
libfdisk:
- (bds) cleanup includes [Karel Zak]
+ - (dos) correct the grammar of the disk-identifier prompt [Benno Schulenberg]
- (dos) cosmetic changes [Karel Zak]
+ - (dos) improve the grammar of an error message [Benno Schulenberg]
- (gpt) cleanup structs members names [Karel Zak]
+ - (gpt) fix warning [Karel Zak]
- (gpt) more robust PMBR partition size check [Karel Zak]
- (gpt) print UUID and NAME in expert mode only [Karel Zak]
- (gpt) support for disklabel dump [Karel Zak]
+ - (gpt) use consistent final period in status messages [Benno Schulenberg]
- (gpt) use generic 'created partition' message [Karel Zak]
- (gpt) use lib/tt.c to list partitions [Karel Zak]
- (sgi) add driver [Karel Zak]
- (sun) make it more obvious why the first sector moved [Karel Zak]
- (sun) move driver from fdisk to library [Karel Zak]
- (sun) remove duplicate code [Karel Zak]
+ - add API to disable specified label [Karel Zak]
- add FDISK_DEBUG_FRONTEND [Karel Zak]
- add FDISK_LABEL_FL_REQUIRE_GEOMETRY [Karel Zak]
- add asktype "string" and support UUID partition change [Karel Zak]
- allow to address partition by chars [Karel Zak]
- clean up sun geometry stuff [Karel Zak]
- cleanup SGI functions names [Karel Zak]
+ - cleanup warning messages [Karel Zak]
- copy ask callback from parental context [Karel Zak]
- do not use va_list in the Ask API [Karel Zak]
- don't re-allocate range string in Ask API [Karel Zak]
- gpt loosen check fot pmbr size in lba [Davidlohr Bueso]
- improve fdisk_save_user_geometry() [Karel Zak]
- improve nested context initialization [Karel Zak]
+ - improve spelling of two comments [Benno Schulenberg]
- make default geom usage more robust [Karel Zak]
- make it possible to reset device properties [Karel Zak]
- make the library usable with tests [Karel Zak]
+ - mark label modified for PMBR mismatch [Karel Zak]
- move mbr code to the library [Karel Zak]
- move sync() and reread PT code from fdisk to libfdisk [Karel Zak]
- provide more details about GPT [Karel Zak]
- remove "gpt support is new" warning [Karel Zak]
- remove unnecessary code from test_fdisk_ask [Karel Zak]
- support GPT partition name (label) change [Karel Zak]
+ - treat size mismatch as a warning, not an error [Karel Zak]
- update test_ranges() code [Karel Zak]
- use context geometry in SGI and SUN [Karel Zak]
- use fdisk_colon() and fdisk_sinfo() [Karel Zak]
- use fdisk_warnx() in fdisk_ask_partnum() [Karel Zak]
+libfdisk/gpt:
+ - partly pluralize one message [Benno Schulenberg]
+libfdisk/sgi:
+ - properly pluralize three messages [Benno Schulenberg]
+ - tweak and harmonize some comments [Benno Schulenberg]
+ - tweak and harmonize some message strings [Benno Schulenberg]
libmount:
+ - (docs) make it obvious how we call mount.<type> helpers [Karel Zak]
- (test) check writing to a file was successful [Sami Kerola]
+ - Fix typo in comment [Namhyung Kim]
- Free splitted optstr's when error occurred [Namhyung Kim]
- Get rid of an unnecessary check [Namhyung Kim]
- Remove stale comment on mnt_context_mount() [Namhyung Kim]
+ - Save errno if mkostemp() failed [Namhyung Kim]
- Set each optstr's to NULL if failed [Namhyung Kim]
- add a generic append_string() function [Karel Zak]
- add function for context userdata [Karel Zak]
- compose mount.<type> helpers paths more carefully [Karel Zak]
- don't ignore root fs on umount -a [Karel Zak]
- fix memory leak [clang-analyzer] [Karel Zak]
+ - fix mnt_context_is_child() comment [Karel Zak]
- fix typos [Ondrej Oprala]
- free username after check [Dave Reisner]
- make mnt_fs_{ap,pre}pend_options() more robust [Karel Zak]
+ - make mnt_table_replace_file() more robust [coverity scan] [Karel Zak]
- more robust options string parsing [Karel Zak]
+ - remove dead code [coverity scan] [Karel Zak]
- small cleanup in umount code [Karel Zak]
- update docs [Karel Zak]
- use MS_SILENT for /{proc,etc}/filesystems [Karel Zak]
- use TCSANOW to remove HUPCL [Karel Zak]
losetup:
- add --raw and --noheadings [Karel Zak]
+ - cut the remaining little block of help text into slices too [Benno Schulenberg]
+ - don't require 512-byte aligned offsets [Karel Zak]
- fix loop device name usage [Karel Zak]
- make -j <path> more robust [Karel Zak]
- set errno for misaligned offsets [Karel Zak]
lscpu:
- add max MHz value to make cpu governor effects more visible [Sami Kerola]
- add virtualization types [Karel Zak]
+ - check strchr() result [coverity scan] [Karel Zak]
+ - cleanup DMI code [coverity scan] [Karel Zak]
- detect more hypervisor vendors [Ondrej Oprala]
+ - don't pass null pointer to string functions [coverity scan] [Karel Zak]
- fix memory leak [clang-analyzer] [Sami Kerola]
- fix shadow declaration [smatch scan] [Sami Kerola]
- report cpu min mhz [Davidlohr Bueso]
- use TT_FL_FREEDATA for tt table [Karel Zak]
lslocks:
- use TT_FL_FREEDATA for tt table [Karel Zak]
+mcookie:
+ - pluralize two messages [Benno Schulenberg]
mesg:
- sync usage() with howto-usage-function.txt [Sami Kerola]
misc:
- use standard error message [Karel Zak]
mkfs.minix:
- check writing to a file descriptor was successful [Sami Kerola]
+ - properly pluralize four messages [Benno Schulenberg]
mkswap:
- add note about swap header limit to the man page [Karel Zak]
- unify write check to a file descriptor [Sami Kerola]
- fix mistaken word and some grammar in man page of mount [Benno Schulenberg]
- fix repeating words in the man page [Karel Zak]
- update xfs docs [Karel Zak]
+nologin:
+ - add new command [Karel Zak]
nsenter:
- Allow selecting the uid and gid to be used in the entered userns [Richard Weinberger]
partx:
- check writing to a file descriptor was successful [Sami Kerola]
+ - correct three messages [Benno Schulenberg]
+ - pluralize one message [Benno Schulenberg]
- use TT_FL_FREEDATA for tt table [Karel Zak]
pg:
- check writing to a file was successful [Sami Kerola]
- update ja.po (from translationproject.org) [Takeshi Hamasaki]
- update nl.po (from translationproject.org) [Benno Schulenberg]
- update pl.po (from translationproject.org) [Jakub Bogusz]
+ - update pt_BR.po (from translationproject.org) [Rafael Ferreira]
- update pt_BR.po (from translationproject.org) [Rodrigo Stulzer Lopes]
- update ru.po (from translationproject.org) [Pavel Maryanov]
- update sl.po (from translationproject.org) [Simon Mihevc]
- add debug messages [Karel Zak]
- add regression tests [Ondrej Oprala]
- basic code [Ondrej Oprala]
+ - check for mnt_fs_get_tag() return value [coverity scan] [Karel Zak]
- cleanup *_HELP strings formatting [Karel Zak]
- cleanup cxt usage [Karel Zak]
- cleanup object names [Karel Zak]
- coding style changes, don't touch Context() status [Karel Zak]
- fs.c - cleanup, remove libmount private stuff [Karel Zak]
- improve helps strings formatting [Karel Zak]
+ - make tab parsers more robust [coverity scan] [Karel Zak]
- remove Context_get_table() [Karel Zak]
- remove bindsrc from fs API [Karel Zak]
- remove unnecessary code [Karel Zak]
setsid:
- add an option to wait child return value [Daniel Kahn Gillmor]
- exit when control terminal cannot be set [Sami Kerola]
+setterm:
+ - fix term.h/ncurses.h include ordering [Mike Frysinger]
sfdisk:
- assigned value is never read [clang-analyzer] [Sami Kerola]
- check writing to a file descriptor was successful [Sami Kerola]
- use program_invocation_short_name to determine program name [Sami Kerola]
su:
- consistent angular brackets and lowercase in help text of 'su' [Benno Schulenberg]
+ - fix caught_signal logic and initialize oldact [coverity scan] [Karel Zak]
- fix exit status if terminated by signal [Ondrej Oprala]
- fix lastlog and btmp logging [Karel Zak]
- ignore --preserve-environment, it's mutually exclusive to --login [Karel Zak]
- suppress PAM info messages for -c or non-login sessions [Karel Zak]
+su-common:
+ - pluralize one message [Benno Schulenberg]
sulogin:
- clean up error messages [Karel Zak]
- fix compiler warning [Karel Zak]
- update lscpu tests [Karel Zak]
- update odd output fdisk test [Karel Zak]
- update sun label test [Karel Zak]
+ - use 'btrfs' rather than 'btrfsctl' [Karel Zak]
- use stable MBR ID [Karel Zak]
textual:
+ - change spelling of "disk label" to the more abundant "disklabel" [Benno Schulenberg]
+ - end both the singular and the plural message with a period [Benno Schulenberg]
+ - fix misspelled words in -rc1 [Karel Zak]
- fix several typos and angular brackets in messages [Benno Schulenberg]
- fix typo in error message and uniformize their use of period [Benno Schulenberg]
- fixing typos in a warning and an error message [Benno Schulenberg]
- harmonize some loop-device error messages [Benno Schulenberg]
- improve clarity of some error messages [Benno Schulenberg]
+ - make two messages somewhat easier to understand [Benno Schulenberg]
+ - properly use uppercase in certain abbreviations [Benno Schulenberg]
+ - standardize some "cannot read" and "seek failed" error messages [Benno Schulenberg]
- standardize synopsis for login, and improve an error message [Benno Schulenberg]
- standardize the spelling of "superuser" [Benno Schulenberg]
+ - tag a translator comment and put it in proper place [Benno Schulenberg]
- tiny alphabetical and grammatical tweak [Benno Schulenberg]
+ - use consistent wording and punctuation in fdisk stuff [Benno Schulenberg]
+ - use the standard angular brackets for non-literal arguments [Benno Schulenberg]
tools:
- generate autotools files if missing [Sami Kerola]
ul:
- add option to write to a file [Sami Kerola]
- assigned values are never read [clang-analyzer] [Sami Kerola]
- make IPv6 addresses work [Sami Kerola]
+ - make analyzers happy [Karel Zak]
uuidd:
- add missing initializer [clang-analyzer] [Karel Zak]
- clean up error messages [Karel Zak]
+various:
+ - fix mixing declarations and code compiler warnings [smatch] [Sami Kerola]
wall:
- allow to specify <message> on command line [Karel Zak]
- check writing to a file descriptor was successful [Sami Kerola]
- sync usage() with howto-usage-function.txt [Sami Kerola]
wdctl:
- check writing to a file descriptor was successful [Sami Kerola]
+ - gettextize and pluralize one forgotten message [Benno Schulenberg]
+ - pluralize one thrice-repeated message [Benno Schulenberg]
- use TT_FL_FREEDATA for tt table [Karel Zak]
wipefs:
- Also wipe superblocks with bad checksums [Gabriel de Perthuis]
- add --backup [Ondrej Oprala]
- clean up code [Karel Zak]
+ - pluralize one message [Benno Schulenberg]
write:
- change determination can user write to a terminal [Sami Kerola]
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