Release announcement of this version as per
https://www.smartmontools.org/browser/tags/RELEASE_7_2/smartmontools/NEWS:
Date 2020-12-30
Summary: smartmontools release 7.2
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- smartctl: New option '--json=y[c]' selects YAML output.
- smartctl '-i': Prints ATA TRIM and Zoned Device capabilities.
- smartctl '-j': Fixed 'scsi_grown_defect_list' value.
- smartctl '-a': Prints SCSI 'Accumulated power on time'.
- smartctl '-n POWERMODE': SCSI support.
- smartctl '-s standby,now' and '-s standby,off': SCSI support.
- smartctl '-c': NVMe 1.4 additions.
- smartd: Support for staggered self-tests.
- smartd: No longer writes attribute log if no attributes were read
due to standby mode or other error.
- smartd: Now resolves symlinks before device names are checked for
duplicates.
- smartd: Fixed SMARTD_DEVICETYPE environment variable if DEVICESCAN is
used without '-d TYPE'.
- ATA: Device type '-d jmb39x-q,N' for JMB39x protocol variant used by
some QNAP NAS devices.
- ATA: Device type '-d jms56x,N' for JMS562 USB to SATA RAID bridges.
- SCSI: Improved heuristics for log subpages of new and very old disks.
- NVMe: Log transfer size limited to avoid device or kernel crashes.
- NVMe/USB: Device type '-d sntrealtek' for Realtek RTL9210 USB to
NVMe bridges.
- update-smart-drivedb: New option '--branch X.Y'.
- HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database.
- Dropped support for pre-C99 snprintf().
- configure: Dropped option '--without-working-snprintf'.
- configure: Fixed '-fstack-protector*' detection.
- Linux: Various fixes of smartd.service file.
- Darwin: NVMe log support.
- FreeBSD: Device scan does no longer include T_ENCLOSURE devices.
- NetBSD: Fixed timeout handling.
- NetBSD big endian: Fixed ATA register handling.
- OpenBSD: Fixed timeout handling.
- Windows: Dropped backward compatibility fixes for very old compilers.
Signed-off-by: Peter Müller <peter.mueller@ipfire.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>