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   1 util-linux 2.34: Apr 30 2018
   2 * see Documentation/releases/v2.34-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
   3   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.34/v2.34-ChangeLog
   4
   5 util-linux 2.33: Nov 6 2018
   6 * see Documentation/releases/v2.33-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
   7   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.33/v2.33-ChangeLog
   8
   9 util-linux 2.33-rc2: Oct 19 2018
  10 * see Documentation/releases/v2.33-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  11   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.33/v2.33-rc2-ChangeLog
  12
  13 util-linux 2.33-rc1: Sep 25 2018
  14 * see Documentation/releases/v2.33-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  15   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.33/v2.33-rc1-ChangeLog
  16
  17 util-linux 2.32: Mar 21 2018
  18 * see Documentation/releases/v2.32-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  19   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.32/v2.32-ChangeLog
  20
  21 util-linux 2.32-rc2: Mar 01 2018
  22 * see Documentation/releases/v2.32-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  23   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.32/v2.32-rc2-ChangeLog
  24
  25 util-linux 2.32-rc1: Feb 13 2018
  26 * see Documentation/releases/v2.32-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  27   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.32/v2.32-rc1-ChangeLog
  28
  29 util-linux 2.31: Oct 19 2017
  30 * see Documentation/releases/v2.31-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  31   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.31/v2.31-ChangeLog
  32
  33 util-linux 2.31-rc2: Oct 03 2017
  34 * see Documentation/releases/v2.31-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  35   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.31/v2.31-rc2-ChangeLog
  36
  37 util-linux 2.31-rc1: Sep 22 2017
  38 * see Documentation/releases/v2.31-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  39   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.31/v2.31-rc1-ChangeLog
  40
  41 util-linux 2.30: Jun 02 2017
  42 * see Documentation/releases/v2.30-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  43   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.30/v2.30-ChangeLog
  44
  45 util-linux 2.30-rc2: May 12 2017
  46 * see Documentation/releases/v2.30-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  47   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.30/v2.30-rc2-ChangeLog
  48
  49 util-linux 2.30-rc1: May 12 2017
  50 * see Documentation/releases/v2.30-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  51   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.30/v2.30-rc1-ChangeLog
  52
  53 util-linux 2.29: Nov 8 2016
  54 * see Documentation/releases/v2.29-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  55   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.29/v2.29-ChangeLog
  56
  57 util-linux 2.29-rc2: Oct 19 2016
  58 * see Documentation/releases/v2.29-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  59   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.29/v2.29-rc2-ChangeLog
  60
  61 util-linux 2.29-rc1: Sep 30 2016
  62 * see Documentation/releases/v2.29-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  63   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.29/v2.29-rc1-ChangeLog
  64
  65 util-linux 2.28: Apr 12 2016
  66 * see Documentation/releases/v2.28-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  67   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.28/v2.28-ChangeLog
  68
  69 util-linux 2.28-rc2: Mar 29 2016
  70 * see Documentation/releases/v2.28-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  71   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.28/v2.28-rc2-ChangeLog
  72
  73 util-linux 2.28-rc1: Mar 11 2016
  74 * see Documentation/releases/v2.28-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  75   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.28/v2.28-rc1-ChangeLog
  76
  77 util-linux 2.27: Sep 07 2015
  78 * see Documentation/releases/v2.27-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  79   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.27/v2.27-ChangeLog
  80
  81 util-linux 2.27-rc2: Aug 24 2015
  82 * see Documentation/releases/v2.27-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  83   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.27/v2.27-rc2-ChangeLog
  84
  85 util-linux 2.27-rc1: Jul 31 2015
  86 * see Documentation/releases/v2.27-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  87   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.27/v2.27-rc1-ChangeLog
  88
  89 util-linux 2.26: Feb 19 2015
  90 * see Documentation/releases/v2.26-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  91   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.26/v2.26-ChangeLog
  92
  93 util-linux 2.26-rc2: Feb 4 2015
  94 * see Documentation/releases/v2.26-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  95   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.26/v2.26-rc2-ChangeLog
  96
  97 util-linux 2.26-rc1: Jan 14 2015
  98 * see Documentation/releases/v2.26-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  99   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.26/v2.26-rc1-ChangeLog
 100
 101 util-linux 2.25: Jul 22 2014
 102 * see Documentation/releases/v2.25-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 103   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.25/v2.25-ChangeLog
 104
 105 util-linux 2.25-rc2: Jul 2 2014
 106 * see Documentation/releases/v2.25-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 107   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.25/v2.25-rc2-ChangeLog
 108
 109 util-linux 2.25-rc1: Jun 18 2014
 110 * see Documentation/releases/v2.25-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 111   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.25/v2.25-rc1-ChangeLog
 112
 113 util-linux 2.24: Oct 21 2013
 114 * see Documentation/releases/v2.24-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 115   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.24/v2.24-ChangeLog
 116
 117 util-linux 2.24-rc2: Oct 11 2013
 118 * see Documentation/releases/v2.24-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 119   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.24/v2.24-rc2-ChangeLog
 120
 121 util-linux 2.24-rc1: Sep 27 2013
 122 * see Documentation/releases/v2.24-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 123   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.24/v2.24-rc1-ChangeLog
 124
 125 util-linux 2.23: Apr 25 2013
 126 * see Documentation/releases/v2.23-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 127   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.23/v2.23-ChangeLog
 128
 129 util-linux 2.23-rc2: Apr 10 2013
 130 * see Documentation/releases/v2.23-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 131   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.23/v2.23-rc2-ChangeLog
 132
 133 util-linux 2.23-rc1: Mar 22 2013
 134 * see Documentation/releases/v2.23-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 135   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.23/v2.23-rc1-ChangeLog
 136
 137 util-linux 2.22: Sep 04 2012
 138 * see Documentation/releases/v2.22-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 139   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.22/v2.22-ChangeLog
 140
 141 util-linux 2.22-rc2: Aug 15 2012
 142 * see Documentation/releases/v2.22-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 143   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.22/v2.22-rc2-ChangeLog
 144
 145 util-linux 2.22-rc1: Jul 27 2012
 146 * see Documentation/releases/v2.22-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 147   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.22/v2.22-rc1-ChangeLog
 148
 149 util-linux 2.21: Feb 24 2012
 150 * see Documentation/releases/v2.21-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 151   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.21/v2.21-ChangeLog
 152
 153 util-linux 2.21-rc2: Feb 06 2012
 154 * see Documentation/releases/v2.21-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 155   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.21/v2.21-rc2-ChangeLog
 156
 157 util-linux 2.21-rc1: Jan 18 2012
 158 * see Documentation/releases/v2.21-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 159   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.21/v2.21-rc1-ChangeLog
 160
 161 util-linux 2.20: Aug 29 2011
 162 * see Documentation/releases/v2.20-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 163   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.20/v2.20-ChangeLog
 164
 165 util-linux 2.20-rc2: Aug 17 2011
 166 * see Documentation/releases/v2.20-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 167   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.20/v2.20-rc2-ChangeLog
 168
 169 util-linux 2.20-rc1: Jul 29 2011
 170 * see Documentation/releases/v2.20-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 171   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.20/v2.20-rc1-ChangeLog
 172
 173 util-linux 2.19: Feb 10 2011
 174 * see Documentation/releases/v2.19-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 175   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.19/v2.19-ChangeLog
 176
 177 util-linux 2.19-rc3: Jan 25 2011
 178 * see Documentation/releases/v2.19-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 179   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.19/v2.19-rc3-ChangeLog
 180
 181 util-linux 2.19-rc2: Jan 25 2011
 182 * see Documentation/releases/v2.19-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 183   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.19/v2.19-rc2-ChangeLog
 184
 185 util-linux 2.19-rc1: Jan 05 2011
 186 * see Documentation/releases/v2.19-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 187   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.19/v2.19-rc1-ChangeLog
 188
 189 util-linux-ng 2.18: Jun 30 2010
 190 * see Documentation/releases/v2.18-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 191   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.18/v2.18-ChangeLog
 192
 193 util-linux-ng 2.18-rc2: Jun 18 2010
 194 * see Documentation/releases/v2.18-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 195   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.18/v2.18-rc2-ChangeLog
 196
 197 util-linux-ng 2.18-rc1: Jun 7 2010
 198 * see Documentation/releases/v2.18-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 199   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.18/v2.18-rc1-ChangeLog
 200
 201 util-linux-ng 2.17: Jan 8 2010
 202 * see Documentation/releases/v2.17-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 203   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.17/v2.17-ChangeLog
 204
 205 util-linux-ng 2.17-rc3: Dec 10 2009
 206 * see Documentation/releases/v2.17-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 207   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.17/v2.17-rc3-ChangeLog
 208
 209 util-linux-ng 2.17-rc2: Dec 9 2009
 210 * see Documentation/releases/v2.17-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 211   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.17/v2.17-rc2-ChangeLog
 212
 213 util-linux-ng 2.17-rc1: Nov 20 2009
 214 * see Documentation/releases/v2.17-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 215   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.17/v2.17-rc1-ChangeLog
 216
 217 util-linux-ng 2.16: Jul  2009
 218 * see Documentation/releases/v2.16-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 219   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.16/v2.16-ChangeLog
 220
 221 util-linux-ng 2.16-rc2: Jul 2 2009
 222 * see Documentation/releases/v2.16-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 223   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.16/v2.16-rc2-ChangeLog
 224
 225 util-linux-ng 2.16-rc1: Jun 28 2009
 226 * see Documentation/releases/v2.16-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 227   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.16/v2.16-rc1-ChangeLog
 228
 229 util-linux-ng 2.15: May 5 2009
 230 * see Documentation/releases/v2.15-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 231   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.15/v2.15-ChangeLog
 232
 233 util-linux-ng 2.15-rc2: Apr 17 2009
 234 * see Documentation/releases/v2.15-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 235   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.15/v2.15-rc2-ChangeLog
 236
 237 util-linux-ng 2.15-rc1: Mar 18 2009
 238 * see Documentation/releases/v2.15-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 239   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.15/v2.15-rc1-ChangeLog
 240
 241 util-linux-ng 2.14: Jun 9 2008
 242 * see Documentation/releases/v2.14-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 243   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.14/v2.14-ChangeLog
 244
 245 util-linux-ng 2.14-rc3: May 19 2008
 246 * see Documentation/releases/v2.14-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 247   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.14/v2.14-rc3-ChangeLog
 248
 249 util-linux-ng 2.14-rc2: Apr 28 2008
 250 * see Documentation/releases/v2.14-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 251   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.14/v2.14-rc2-ChangeLog
 252
 253 util-linux-ng 2.14-rc1: Apr 16 2008
 254 * see Documentation/releases/v2.14-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 255   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.14/v2.14-rc1-ChangeLog
 256
 257 util-linux-ng 2.13: Aug 28 2007
 258 * see Documentation/releases/v2.13-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 259   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.13/v2.13-ChangeLog
 260
 261 util-linux-ng 2.13-rc3: Aug 8 2007
 262 * see Documentation/releases/v2.13-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 263   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.13/v2.13-rc3-ChangeLog
 264
 265 util-linux-ng 2.13-rc2: Jul 17 2007
 266 * see Documentation/releases/v2.13-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 267   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.13/v2.13-rc2-ChangeLog
 268
 269 util-linux-ng 2.13-rc1: Jul 4 2007
 270 * see Documentation/releases/v2.13-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 271   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.13/v2.13-rc1-ChangeLog
 272
 273 util-linux 2.13-pre7
 274
 275 * mount: default to cifs instead of smbfs for sources
 276          starting with // (Lars Mueller)
 277 * flock: documentation updates (H. Peter Anvin)
 278 * new translation: id
 279 * updated translations: de, it, sl, uk
 280
 281 util-linux 2.13-pre6
 282
 283 * getopt: updated to 1.1.4
 284 * replaced all *llseek variants with lseek
 285 * misc build system, code and docs cleanups and fixes
 286 * updated translations: fr, it
 287
 288 util-linux 2.13-pre5
 289
 290 * {fsck,mkfs}.cramfs: updated to cramfs-1.1
 291 * {fsck,mkfs}.cramfs: removed PAGE_CACHE_SIZE usage
 292 * umount: fix "umount -n -r" (Derick Swanepoel)
 293 * misc build system and code cleanups and fixes
 294 * updated translation: ca
 295
 296 util-linux 2.13-pre4
 297
 298 * don't build fdisk on m68k (Mike Frysinger)
 299 * misc build system and documentation fixes
 300 * removed program: clear
 301
 302 util-linux 2.13-pre3
 303
 304 * misc buld system fixes
 305 * cfdisk: fix a segfault with ReiserFS partitions
 306 * umount: disallow -r option for non-root users
 307 * updated translations: da, fr, it, nl, ru, sl, tr
 308
 309 util-linux 2.13-pre2
 310
 311 * flock: replaced with flock-2.0.2 by H. Peter Anvin
 312 * misc build system fixes, libtool is no longer used
 313 * misc code fixes
 314 * updated translations: ca, fi, fr, nl, ru, tr
 315
 316 util-linux 2.13-pre1
 317
 318 * use GNU autoconf/automake/libtool for building
 319 * added schedutils
 320 * removed support for curses implementations other than ncurses
 321 * removed programs: arch, passwd, rescuept, setfdprm, sln
 322 * removed mkminix-0.1/
 323 * misc fixes and documentation updates
 324 * new translation: vi
 325 * updated translations: ca, de, fi, fr, it, nl, ru, tr
 326
 327 util-linux 2.12q
 328
 329 * updated translation: nl
 330
 331 util-linux 2.12q-pre2
 332
 333 * sfdisk: document -G option in --help output
 334 * updated translations: ca, et, fr
 335
 336 util-linux 2.12q-pre1
 337
 338 * new maintainer
 339 * sfdisk: add -G option (Andries Brouwer)
 340 * updated translations: de, es, ru, sv, tr
 341
 342 util-linux 2.12p
 343
 344 * cfdisk: fix number of new partition when partitions not in disk order
 345 * fdisk: fix Sun label handling in sector mode
 346 * mkfs: never truncate filename (not that that ever happened)
 347 * more: fix redraw flaw
 348
 349 util-linux 2.12n,o
 350
 351 * lomount: revert patch from 2.12j
 352 * lptune.8: -T option is obsolete
 353 * mkswap, mkswap.8, swapon: support labels
 354   (use HAVE_BLKID=no as long as the blkid library doesn't support this)
 355 * umount: allow user unmounting repeatedly mounted nfs mounts
 356
 357 util-linux 2.12m
 358
 359 * cfdisk: recognize JFS, support reiserfs labels (flavio.stanchina@tin.it)
 360 * mount: fix option parsing bug
 361 * mount.8: several updates
 362 * swapon.8: document -v option
 363
 364 util-linux 2.12l
 365
 366 * Makefile: remove cat-id-tbl.c upon make clean
 367 * fdisk: fixed a bug that would cause a non-update of a sun disklabel
 368 * fdisk: use sectorsize instead of 512 for SGI (Eric Y. Theriault)
 369 * fdisk: use __attribute__((packed)) for alpha, ARM: avoid unaligned accesses
 370 * hwclock: actually use HAVE_tm_gmtoff
 371 * swapon: fix priority handling
 372 * umount: refuse to unmount an empty string
 373
 374 util-linux 2.12k
 375
 376 * cfdisk: fixed a signed character bug causing problems for Spanish users
 377 * configure, MCONFIG: detect gcc 3.4.0 and use -mtune option (Matthew Burgess)
 378 * configure: do not run ./conftest (for cross compilation) (NIIBE Yutaka)
 379 * fsck.cramfs: try to get correct PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
 380 * losetup: try to give better error messages
 381 * readprofile: default map file is /boot/System.map
 382 * rdev.8: added historical info on ramdisk
 383 * New French, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish messages
 384
 385 util-linux 2.12j
 386
 387 * cal: highlight today (Pádraig Brady)
 388 * lomount: stop reading passwd at NUL, fix lo_encrypt key_size (Wolfram Kleff)
 389 * losetup: add -f option to find an unused loop device
 390   (Alexander Wigen, Remco van Mook)
 391 * more: code cleanup (Joachim Henke)
 392 * mount: add "group" mount option (Martin Dickopp)
 393 * sfdisk: fix 2.6.8 BLKRRPART ioctl damage (Eric Lammerts)
 394 * swapon: let swapon -a skip the swapfiles marked "noauto" (Dale R. Worley)
 395 * umount: fix problem with empty mtab (Bryan Kadzban)
 396 * umount: use special umount program if it exists (Ram Pai)
 397 * New Danish and French messages
 398
 399 util-linux 2.12i
 400
 401 * MCONFIG: fix build conditions
 402 * chfn, chsh: add error checking
 403 * cytune: use local header cyclades.h
 404 * fdisk: fix default SGI volume header size (Eric Sandeen)
 405 * fstab.c: use strsignal() instead of sys_siglist[]
 406 * hwclock: use <sys/io.h> when available on i386
 407 * hwclock: don't try KDGHWCLK on archs other than __m68k__
 408 * sfdisk: correct typo in __attribute__used nonsense
 409 * sfdisk: use PACKED on __arm__ (Jeroen Dobbelaere)
 410 * sfdisk: fix warning printout
 411
 412 util-linux 2.12e,f,g,h
 413
 414 * cfdisk: avoid crash if no partition table
 415 * elvtune: tell user that this only works on 2.4 kernels
 416 * lomount: clear passwords after use
 417 * mount: accept comments (introduced by \;) in fstab - withdrawn again
 418 * mount: accept comments (specified by comment=) in fstab
 419 * mount: support ocfs, ocfs2
 420 * [u]mount: be more careful with malloc, try to avoid OOM with many mounts
 421 * sfdisk: __attribute__used nonsense to support gcc 3.4
 422 * shutdown: do not unmount various virtual filesystems
 423
 424 util-linux 2.12c,d
 425
 426 * mount.8: added recent ext2 mount options
 427 * mount: support jfs mount-by-label, improve reiserfs support
 428 * sfdisk: remove strange "ends in a digit" heuristic
 429 * *fdisk: use common disksize() routine
 430
 431 util-linux 2.12b
 432
 433 * chsh: improved error message
 434 * dmesg: ask kernel proper buffer size
 435 * losetup: handle 64-bit offsets
 436 * blockdev: also report BLKGETSIZE64 result
 437 * blockdev, elvtune, fdisk: handle new kernel _IOR,_IOW defines
 438 * fdisk: remove strange "ends in a digit" heuristic
 439 * fdisk: also list Solaris as possible type for 0x82
 440 * mount: added --rbind option
 441 * mount: use blkid, uuid libraries when available
 442 * mount: support reiserfs mount by label
 443 * mount: attempt to use the right definition of dev_t in struct loopinfo
 444 * mount.8: jfs mount options added
 445 * readprofile: new -s option
 446 * rename.1: added ref to mmv.1
 447 * replay: renamed to scriptreplay; correct typos
 448 * script: do not use locale for time delay floating point number format
 449 * sfdisk: error messages to stderr
 450 * New Catalan, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish,
 451   Ukrainian messages
 452
 453 util-linux 2.12a
 454
 455 * chfn, chsh, login, vipw: SElinux support
 456 * fdisk: fix for kernels 2.4.15-2.4.17
 457 * fdisk: fix when all partitions are in use
 458 * hwclock: add a timeout when waiting for a clock update (Göran Weinholt)
 459 * ipcs: compilation fix
 460 * ipcs: shminfo.shmall gives pages
 461 * login: use getutline() instead of getutid()
 462 * login: fix for 64-bit time_t
 463 * mount: efs support
 464 * partx: bigendian fix
 465 * readprofile: support for 64-bit addresses
 466 * setterm: fix klogctl error message (Joern Heissler)
 467 * setterm.1: clarification
 468 * sfdisk: fix check for is_ide_cdrom_or_tape
 469 * umount: skip proc, devfs, devpts on umount -a
 470
 471 util-linux 2.12
 472
 473 * losetup: cryptoloop support
 474 * losetup: -p option specifies fd for passphrase
 475 * fdisk: sgi layout fix
 476 * mount: -p option specifies fd for passphrase
 477 * mount: recognize some PCDOS floppies
 478 * umount: in "umount name", first try to interpret "name" as a mount point
 479
 480 util-linux 2.12pre
 481
 482 * Catalan messages (Antoni Bella Pérez)
 483 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
 484 * Dutch messages (Taco Witte)
 485 * Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
 486 * French messages (Michel Robitaille)
 487 * German messages (Michael Piefel)
 488 * Slovenian messages (Primož Peterlin)
 489 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
 490 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
 491 * Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
 492 * cfdisk: localize the Y/N answer, improve printing localized messages
 493 * cfdisk: make various variables long long - some disks are close to 2 TB
 494 * cfdisk: use BLKGETSIZE64
 495 * fdisk: make various variables unsigned to lengthen the life of 32-bit vars
 496 * fdisk: some sgi fixes (Phillip Kesling)
 497 * fdisk: k=1000, K=1024
 498 * fdisk: removed last occurrences of HDIO_REQ
 499 * fdisk: use BLKGETSIZE64
 500 * hwclock: fix rtc test (Heiko Zuerker)
 501 * login: set a timeout on printing the timeout message (Robert Ambrose)
 502 * md5: x86_64 fix (mmj)
 503 * more: POSIX fixes
 504 * mount: do not supply MS_MGC_VAL when there are conflicting flags
 505 * mount: ncp and smb are called smbfs and ncpfs - global change
 506 * mount: add support for xvm mount by label (Eric Sandeen)
 507 * mount: correct hfs magic recognition
 508 * mount: keep original umask - it influences the mount call (mmj)
 509 * raw.8: documented unbinding of raw devices
 510 * readprofile: fixed off-by eight error (Werner Almesberger)
 511 * script: add -c option (Wayne Davison)
 512 * sfdisk.8: added an example of partitioning with logical partitions
 513 * sfdisk: only add a AA55 signature for DOS-type partition tables
 514 * tailf: new (Rik Faith)
 515
 516 util-linux 2.11z
 517
 518 * Catalan messages (Antoni Bella Pérez)
 519 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
 520 * Dutch messages (Taco Witte)
 521 * Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
 522 * French messages (Michel Robitaille) - HURRAY!
 523 * German messages (Michael Piefel)
 524 * Slovenian messages (Primož Peterlin)
 525 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
 526 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
 527 * Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
 528 * getopt: replaced getopt-1.1.2 by getopt-1.1.3 (Frodo Looijaard)
 529 * mkcramfs: change default blocksize for ia64 and alpha
 530 * more.help: removed (it is built-in now, and translated)
 531 * mount: add -i option (inhibit calling external mount programs)
 532 * mount: change default: do resolve symlinks
 533 * readprofile: look for System.map also in /boot/System.map-`uname -r` (mmj)
 534 * sfdisk: also translate "start" and "end"; s/MB/MiB/
 535
 536 util-linux 2.11y
 537
 538 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
 539 * Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
 540 * German messages (Michael Piefel)
 541 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
 542 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
 543 * cfdisk: improve escape seq recognition when compiled with slang
 544 * fdisk: decimal units
 545 * hwclock/rtc.c: minor cleanup (Joachim Henke)
 546 * ipcs: compilation fix
 547 * more: kill external help file (Joachim Henke)
 548 * mount: fix LABEL= handling for user umount
 549 * mount: don't abort on read error on photocds (György Kövesdi)
 550 * mount.8: add dmask and fmask vfat mount options
 551 * pg: compilation fix (Joachim Henke)
 552 * script: localized time strings (Göran Uddeborg)
 553 * setterm: accept devfs name (Joachim Henke)
 554 * simpleinit: security: refuse initctl_fd if setting FD_CLOEXEC fails
 555 * umount: allow user umount after mount by label or uuid
 556
 557 util-linux 2.11x
 558
 559 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
 560 * Dutch messages (Taco Witte)
 561 * Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
 562 * German messages (Michael Piefel)
 563 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
 564 * Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
 565 * cfdisk: correct error printout
 566 * fdisk: allow addition of a new partition when logicals all used
 567   but primary free
 568 * hwclock: detect systime jumps backward during setting hwclock
 569 * mkfs.cramfs: do not mmap all files simultaneously
 570 * mkfs.cramfs: make blocksize settable
 571 * mkfs.minix: correct error printout
 572 * mkswap.8: now max 32 swapspaces
 573 * mount: new --rbind flag, for recursive loopback mounts
 574 * mount, umount: new -O option (Michael K. Johnson)
 575 * mount.8: -O and win95 options documented
 576 * setpwnam.c: open temp pw file with O_EXCL
 577 * simpleinit: fix for "spawn too fast" (Denis Vlasenko)
 578 * swapon: new -e option (Erik Troan)
 579
 580 util-linux 2.11w
 581
 582 * cfdisk, fdisk: allow slightly larger disk sizes
 583 * fdisk: Makefile: also for m68 (sun3) (Kaj-Michael Lang)
 584 * fdisk: allow to use the last partial cylinder, change display format
 585 * fdisk: do not ask partition number in case there is only one choice
 586 * fdisk: new sunlabel fix
 587 * login: fix possible local root exploit (Wojciech Purczyński)
 588 * more: bigendian fix
 589
 590 util-linux 2.11v
 591
 592 * Catalan messages (Antoni Bella Pérez)
 593 * Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
 594 * Very few Russian messages (panivan@yandex.ru)
 595 * Slovenian messages (Primož Peterlin)
 596 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
 597 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
 598 * Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
 599 * fdisk: add -C, -H, -S command line options
 600 * fdisk: allow changing type 0
 601 * mkswap: enable use of > 2GB swapspace
 602 * more: translation fix
 603 * mount: set umask (Sebastian Krahmer)
 604 * mount: test both le and be version of cramfs magic (Olaf Hering)
 605 * mount: recognize Oracle magic
 606 * pg: use fseeko64 and ftello64 when available
 607
 608 util-linux 2.11u
 609
 610 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
 611 * German messages (Michael Piefel)
 612 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
 613 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
 614 * Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
 615 * configure: for fsck.cramfs, mkfs.cramfs: add test for libz
 616 * text-utils/Makefile: pg fix (Toomas Rosin)
 617 * po/Makefile: typo fix (Silvan Minghetti)
 618 * agetty: use same test as login does to find utmp entry
 619 * fdisk: fix for fdisk on empty disk (Michael D. Black)
 620 * hwclock: compilation fix on alpha
 621 * mount: add mount by label for jfs (Christoph Hellwig)
 622 * mount: add mount by label for evms (Luciano Chavez)
 623 * mount: allow regular files when guessing (Michal Svec)
 624 * partx/gpt.c: fix size computation (Matt Domsch)
 625 * readprofile: new option -b (David Mosberger)
 626 * umount: don't umount devfs upon umount -a (David Gilbert)
 627
 628 util-linux 2.11t
 629
 630 * fdformat: remove test on major
 631 * fsck.cramfs: added NLS
 632 * fdisk: fix device names with sundisklabels under devfs (Kaj-Michael Lang)
 633 * fdisk: minor polishing
 634 * hwclock: also handle ENOTTY ioctl return (Maciej W. Rozycki)
 635 * hwclock: minor polishing
 636 * ipcrm.8: minor polishing
 637 * mkfs.cramfs: added NLS
 638 * mkfs.cramfs: added -v (verbose) option, and made default silent
 639 * mount: patch for make -j (RedHat)
 640 * swapoff: minor polishing
 641
 642 util-linux 2.11s
 643
 644 * Estonian messages (Meelis Roos)
 645 * French messages: some minor corrections
 646 * German messages (Michael Piefel)
 647 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
 648 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
 649 * Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
 650 * MCONFIG: allow "make DISABLE_NLS=yes <target>" (Peter Breitenlohner)
 651 * configure: don't run ./conftest - better for cross-compilation (Magnus Damm)
 652 * fdisk: fixes for disks with OSF/1 label
 653 * fsck.cramfs: new (from kernel source)
 654 * hwclock: improved adjtime handling (James P. Rutledge)
 655 * hwclock: remove shhopts stuff
 656 * ipcs: remove unused heading (Michael Kerrisk)
 657 * line: replace by C version - the sh version was broken (Gunnar Ritter)
 658 * login: default root path: added /usr/local/[s]bin (RedHat)
 659 * mkfs.cramfs: new (from kernel source)
 660 * mount: when no type is known, assume that prefix // implies samba (RedHat)
 661 * mount -a: avoid stat on devices that have noauto option (Jeroen Mostert)
 662 * mount by label: ignore RAID partitions (RedHat)
 663 * [u]mount: fstab.c fix (ejb@ql.org)
 664 * pg: new (Gunnar Ritter)
 665 * sfdisk: small BSD partition fix
 666 * swapoff -a: also do swapoff on all files found in /proc/swaps
 667 * swapon -a: skip files already found in /proc/swaps
 668
 669 util-linux 2.11r
 670
 671 * Estonian messages (Meelis Roos)
 672 * German messages (Michael Piefel)
 673 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
 674 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
 675 * Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
 676 * MCONFIG: move $(CFLAGS) to the end to allow overrides (Kevin P. Fleming)
 677 * cal: tiny fix (Mitsuru Chinen)
 678 * fdisk: avoid <linux/hdreg.h>
 679 * fdisk: x86_64 patch (Mads Martin Jørgensen)
 680 * hwclock.8: zoneinfo is now in /usr/share
 681 * mkswap: report in KiB instead of bytes.
 682
 683 util-linux 2.11q
 684
 685 * fdisk: geometry improvement
 686 * login: open tty fix (Denis Vlasenko)
 687 * more: wide character patches (Mitsuru Chinen)
 688 * mount: complain on mount-by-label when label is not unique (Matt Copping)
 689 * partx: add GUID Partition Tables (Matt Domsch)
 690
 691 util-linux 2.11p
 692
 693 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
 694 * German messages (Karl Eichwalder)
 695 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
 696 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
 697 * Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
 698 * ipcrm: make POSIX compatible (Andre Corwin Mazzone)
 699 * ipcrm.8: idem
 700 * kill: fixed Makefile
 701 * login: setsid fixes
 702 * mkswap: max size of swap space is very large (Peter Chubb)
 703 * mount: JFS support for mount-by-label (hch)
 704 * nfsmount: check for <rpcsvc/nfs_prot.h> (hch)
 705 * readprofile: keep track of line numbers (John Levon)
 706 * umount: fix for MNT_DETACH
 707
 708 util-linux 2.11o
 709
 710 * Estonian messages (Meelis Roos)
 711 * Japanese messages (Daisuke Yamashita)
 712 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
 713 * cal: option -s: Sunday is first day of the week
 714 * cal.1: updated
 715 * cfdisk: give not only bytes but also MB or GB for clarity.
 716 * colrm: wide character fix (Elliot Lee)
 717 * *fdisk: added Darwin types (Vincent Bourgonjen)
 718 * fstab.5: updated
 719 * hexdump: -C option
 720 * hwclock: cmos.c: do not include <asm/io.h> on alpha
 721 * mount: improved detection of ufs (and slowdown of detection of iso9660)
 722 * mount.8: added info on * in /etc/filesystems, shortname option of vfat,
 723   mount --move, udf, return codes
 724 * raw: try /dev/raw/rawctl when /dev/rawctl fails (Thierry Vignaud)
 725 * rc.serial: removed - setserial is no longer in util-linux (kromJx)
 726 * README.admutil: removed - only of historical interest
 727 * README.bootutils-0.1: removed - only of historical interest
 728 * script: security fix
 729 * sfdisk: improved geometry detection; wider columns; default disks from
 730   /proc/partitions
 731 * umount: permission test owner umount
 732 * wall.1: added suid restriction
 733
 734 util-linux 2.11n
 735
 736 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
 737 * German messages (Karl Eichwalder)
 738 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
 739 * Turkish messages now in UTF-8 (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
 740 * blockdev: add --report option
 741 * cal: fix for wide multibyte-char (Motonobu Ichimura)
 742 * cfdisk: recognize ext3 and reiserfs (Flavio Stanchina)
 743 * fsck.minix: i18n changes
 744 * ipc.{info,texi}: minor correction
 745 * login: compilation fix (Jaroslaw J. Pyszny)
 746 * mount.8: tmpfs mount options (Karl Eichwalder)
 747 * mount: recognize minix v2
 748 * mount: support mount-by-label also for lvm (Kirby Bohling)
 749 * mount: order guessing of fstypes according to seek offset
 750 * pivot_root: compilation fix for ia64
 751 * readprofile: byte order auto-detection (Werner Almesberger)
 752
 753 util-linux 2.11m
 754
 755 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
 756 * German messages (Karl Eichwalder)
 757 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
 758 * Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
 759 * fdisk: added netbsd type (Steven J. Hill)
 760 * more: fix for unsigned char (Rusty Russell)
 761 * mount: added sysv magic (Tim Launchbury)
 762 * setterm: fixed "setterm -foreground default"
 763
 764 util-linux 2.11l
 765
 766 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
 767 * banner: removed - it is in bsdgames
 768 * fdisk: show partitions with empty type but some other nonzero field
 769 * login: copy the static struct that getpwnam() returns before calling
 770   PAM routines that might themselves use getpwnam(). Abort on problems.
 771   (Olaf Kirch)
 772 * mount: added jfs magic (Christoph Hellwig)
 773 * renice: report the correct new priority after a setpriority()
 774 * umount: add lazy unmount (Christoph Hellwig)
 775
 776 util-linux 2.11k
 777
 778   Various potential buffer overflows were pointed out by awayzzz@digibel.org.
 779   Fixes in agetty, hwclock, namei, readprofile, simpleinit, vipw.
 780   (Also added a few [f]close() calls - entirely superfluously.)
 781
 782 * agetty: avoid possible buffer overflow
 783 * cfdisk: recognize xfs (Nathan Scott)
 784 * cytune: added close()
 785 * fdformat: added close()
 786 * fdisk: added fclose()
 787 * hwclock: avoid possible buffer overflow
 788 * mkfs.minix: added fclose()
 789 * mount: remove the assumption that 635 is the default mount port
 790 * namei: avoid possible buffer overflow
 791 * rdev: added closedir()
 792 * readprofile: avoid possible buffer overflow
 793 * sfdisk: added fclose()
 794 * simpleinit: avoid possible buffer overflow
 795 * swapon: added fclose()
 796 * umount: use tcp when mount was done using tcp (James D Strandboge)
 797 * vipw: avoid possible buffer overflow
 798
 799 util-linux 2.11j
 800
 801 * fdisk: fix for AIX label (Olaf Hering)
 802 * fdisk: fix for creating DOS label when BSD label is present
 803 * mount.8: added remark about blocksize to ext2 sb= mount option description.
 804 * partitiontype: new, not installed
 805
 806 util-linux 2.11i
 807
 808 * testincl: do not run conftest (Brian Murphy)
 809 * blockdev: corrected ioctl numbers now that BLKBSZGET is in 2.4.10pre3
 810 * cal: fixed for Hungarian locale
 811 * cal: fixed for multibyte locales (Pablo Saratxaga)
 812 * fdisk: avoid superfluous warning about DOS partitions
 813 * line: new, to support SCO shell scripts (Christoph Hellwig)
 814 * mount: added vxfs magic
 815 * passwd: tiny fix for ARM (Ken Cox)
 816 * replay: replay typescript with timings (Joey Hess)
 817 * script: add -t flag for timing (Joey Hess)
 818
 819 util-linux 2.11h
 820
 821 * Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
 822 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
 823 * banner: minor fix (awayzzz@digibel.org)
 824 * mkfs.minix: minix v2 fix
 825 * more.1: improved (Edward Betts)
 826 * mount.8: corrected description of the nwfs uni_xlate mount option
 827 * vipw: make temp files of mode 0600 (Bill Nottingham)
 828 * wall: avoid writing to /dev/:0
 829
 830 util-linux 2.11g
 831
 832 * MCONFIG & configure: fix for gcc 3.0
 833   Note that nfsmount_xdr.c may give warnings with gcc 3.0, essentially
 834   because of defines in <rpc/xdr.h> that use things like ntohl(*buf++)
 835   where ntohl(x) is a macro with several occurrences of x.
 836 * blockdev: support for the get/set blocksize ioctls
 837   [not yet in the 2.4.5 kernel]
 838 * fdisk: added Linux/PA-RISC type (Matt Taggart)
 839 * mount: minor fix (Andrey J. Melnikoff)
 840 * mount: added some ext3 stuff (Andrew Morton)
 841 * mount: added heuristics for reiserfs (Andrew Morton)
 842 * mount.8: added ext3 and reiserfs docs (Andrew Morton)
 843
 844 util-linux 2.11f
 845
 846 * Czech messages (Jiří Pavlovský)
 847 * fdisk: fix for "reorder" expert command
 848   (use of sfdisk afterwards is still recommended)
 849 * mount: minor fixes
 850
 851 util-linux 2.11e
 852
 853 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
 854 * Brazilian Portuguese messages (Rodrigo Stulzer Lopes)
 855 * agetty: give tty mode 0600 instead of 0622
 856 * cal: improved manpage
 857 * cfdisk: add user-friendliness in case of empty disk (Matthew Wilcox)
 858 * dmesg: improved manpage
 859 * fdisk: SuperH fix (ISHIKAWA Mutsumi)
 860 * hwclock: accept alpha options in both upper and lower case
 861   (so as to make the man page correct)
 862 * hwclock: add option --noadjtime (Henrique M. Holschuh)
 863 * login: child must have controlling tty (Michał Moskal)
 864 * more: don't seek unseekable input (David Whedon)
 865 * mount: upon request by Richard Gooch: if the mount point is specified
 866   as symlink, put symlink, not actual mount point in mtab.
 867   (This avoids the long and ugly devfs names, but may break things.
 868   Please complain in case of problems.)
 869 * mount: with mount -a -t nfs:
 870   if we used fallback to nfs v3, don't do so for subsequent mounts
 871 * mount: add heuristics for ext3 (Andrew Morton)
 872 * mount: added quota info to mount.8
 873 * mount: allow comma-separated type lists, also in fstab
 874 * raw: small fix for ppc
 875
 876 util-linux 2.11d
 877
 878 * fdisk: fix for OSF (Will Woods)
 879 * chsh: compilation fix (Ronald Wahl)
 880
 881 util-linux 2.11c
 882
 883 * Czech messages (Jiří Pavlovský)
 884 * German messages (Elrond)
 885 * Makefile/MCONFIG improvements (Peter Breitenlohner)
 886 * fdisk: added a few partition types
 887 * fdisk: correct partition numbering for sgi partitions (Nathan Scott)
 888 * fdisk: make it compile on hppa by arbitrarily treating hppa like powerpc
 889   (Matt Taggart)
 890 * fsck.minix: improved localisation (Elrond)
 891 * getopt: updated to version 1.1.2 (Frodo Looijaard)
 892 * hwclock: fixes for IA64 (Thorsten Kukuk)
 893 * hwclock: use /dev/vc/1 when devfs is used (Thomas Koeller)
 894 * hwclock: more devfs support (e.g. /dev/misc/rtc)
 895 * ipcs: add spaces in output (DeWitt Clinton),
 896   correct some error messages (Bobby de Vos)
 897 * login: fix TIOCNOTTY (Andreas Haumer, Adam J. Richter)
 898 * login: add btmp logging of unsuccessful login attempts (Erik Troan)
 899 * login: avoid a SIGHUP race with PAM enabled (Peter 'Luna' Runestig)
 900 * login: copy the static result returned by gethostbyname to avoid
 901   corruption by pam_authenticate via pam_ldap (Andreas Damm)
 902 * login: removed the REDHAT_IGNORED_MAILSIZE hack
 903 * login: unconditionally do vhangup
 904 * login: zero PAM_USER when no username was given (Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz)
 905 * look: dictionary now under /usr/share (Erik Troan)
 906 * mount: add sanitize_env() (Solar Designer)
 907 * mount: another heuristic for vfat (Michal Svec)
 908 * mount: xfs magic has only one endianness (Nathan Scott)
 909 * mount: return failure when tcp used and portmap returns 0 (H. J. Lu)
 910 * rdev: allow unlimited recursion to find the long devfs names
 911   Also, allow major,minor pair the specify device (request by Russell Coker)
 912 * readprofile: array bound check (Andrew Morton)
 913 * script: transmit window changes to child (Joey Hess)
 914 * sfdisk: endian fix for ppc (Gregory Geiselhart)
 915 * sfdisk: new feature: sign is offset from default (Byron Stanoszek)
 916 * sfdisk: add some default devices to list (Luca Montecchiani)
 917 * sfdisk: no partition table on ide tape
 918 * shutdown: close files, unblock signals (Richard Gooch)
 919 * simpleinit: block signals in handlers; add no_reboot option (Richard Gooch)
 920 * swapdev: deleted, it was last used with Linux 0.12.
 921 * umount: mips does support umount2 (Maciej W. Rozycki)
 922 * umount: add sanitize_env() (Solar Designer)
 923 * umount: fix exit status
 924 * wall: do not forget 80th character (Thorsten Kukuk)
 925
 926 util-linux 2.11b:
 927
 928 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
 929 * umount: mips does not support umount2 (Christoph Martin)
 930 * fdisk: tiny fix
 931 * mount.8: adfs options documented, xfs corrected
 932
 933 util-linux 2.11a:
 934
 935 * tsort: deleted - it is part of GNU textutils 2.0
 936 * mount: fix rootdev() (Richard Kettlewell)
 937 * mount: fix gid of mtab file
 938 * mount: try /proc/filesystems after /etc/filesystems if the latter ends in "*"
 939 * fdisk: added a few system types
 940
 941 util-linux 2.11:
 942
 943 * Jump to 2.11 to note that libc-4.5.26 is no longer supported,
 944   and we require libc-4.6.27 (since now snprintf is used).
 945   Also, kbdrate has now been removed. Find it in kbd-1.05.
 946   Added -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 to CFLAGS.
 947 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
 948 * fdisk: avoid loop in case of extended without logical
 949 * ipcs: corrected interchanged report on msg_rtime/msg_stime (Arun Kumar U)
 950 * kill: updated manpage
 951 * last: very much faster with mmap (Marek Zelem)
 952 * login: Applied PAM patch by David MacKenzie <djm@web.us.uu.net>
 953 * login: do a setsid in the child (Erik Troan)
 954 * mount: make "mount 192.168.1.8:/ /a -o bg" work again (Bjoern Voigt)
 955 * mount: added constant MS_MOVE
 956 * readprofile: added -M option, updated manpage (Andrew Morton)
 957 * setsid: fork when it would fail otherwise (John Fremlin)
 958 * simpleinit: updated (Richard Gooch et al.)
 959 * vipw: also offer to edit shadow file (Erik Troan)
 960 * xfs docs (Nathan Scott)
 961
 962 util-linux 2.10s:
 963
 964 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
 965 * fixes to make gcc happy (Joseph S. Myers)
 966 * fix for more on parisc (Richard Hirst)
 967 * change rdev to search subdirectories of /dev (Paul Clements)
 968 * ul fix (Masao Kawamura) - set columns correctly
 969 * cal fix (Brendan Kehoe) - don't overflow weekday array in Gaelic
 970 * fdisk fix (niles@scyld.com) - flush stdout
 971 * fdisk fix - don't forget to write out empty label
 972 * login: make default tty mode 0600
 973 * script: refuse to write typescript if that is a symlink
 974 * script: accept -V to output version
 975 * whereis: also search /usr/share/man.
 976 * hwclock: improve locale handling
 977 * hwclock: fix for Nautilus (Neoklis Kyriazis)
 978 * isosize: new
 979
 980 util-linux 2.10r:
 981
 982 * mount: support mount by uuid or label for xfs (Nathan Scott)
 983 * mount: added probe for minix on bigendian systems (Nathan Scott)
 984 * mount: added probes for cramfs, hfs, hpfs and adfs (Sepp Wijnands)
 985 * mount: change setup; let umount remove at most one line from /etc/mtab
 986 * mount: improve man page
 987 * more, col, colcrt, colrm, column, ul: nls improvements (Masao Kawamura)
 988
 989 util-linux 2.10q:
 990
 991 * mount: accept nonnumeric uid= and gid= options
 992 * write and wall: security improvement
 993 * fixed fdformat flaw (Werner Almesberger)
 994 * use right mountport upon umount (Glenn Lingle)
 995 * simpleinit / need / initctl stuff (Richard Gooch)
 996 * Portuguese messages (Rodrigo Stulzer Lopes et al.)
 997
 998 util-linux 2.10p:
 999
1000 * mount: don't set up a loop file with -o loop,remount (Marc Mutz)
1001 * fdisk: changes for sectorsize different from 512
1002 * more: standout fix (Paul Vojta)
1003 * more: improve usage message (Lincoln Myers)
1004 * logger: Added -d option to use datagrams (Gerwin Pfab)
1005 * cal: Added -3 option to also print prev/next month (Michael Charles Pruznick)
1006 * French messages (Christophe Merlet)
1007 * Japanese messages (Daisuke Yamashita)
1008
1009 util-linux 2.10o:
1010
1011 * fdformat: fixed to work with kernel 2.4.0test6 (Marek Wojtowicz)
1012 * losetup: also return status when only showing loop device status (ewt)
1013 * mount: do not retry ro if mount was ro; improve error message
1014 * login: not installed suid
1015 * getopt: by default install aux files in /usr/share/misc
1016
1017 util-linux 2.10n:
1018
1019 * added blockdev.8
1020 * change to elvtune (andrea)
1021 * fixed overrun in agetty (vii@penguinpowered.com)
1022 * shutdown: prefer umounting by mount point (rgooch)
1023 * fdisk: added plan9
1024 * fdisk: remove empty links in chain of extended partitions
1025 * mount: define ALWAYS_STAT
1026 * mount: add replace, after, before, over, bind
1027 * umount: also free loop device when not writing mtab
1028 * lomount: try both /dev/loopN and /dev/loop/N
1029 * hwclock: handle both /dev/rtc and /dev/efirtc (Bill Nottingham)
1030 * script: added -f (flush) option (Ivan Schreter)
1031 * script: added -q (quiet) option (Per Andreas Buer)
1032 * getopt: updated to version 1.1.0 (Frodo Looijaard)
1033 * Czech messages (Jiří Pavlovský)
1034
1035 util-linux 2.10m:
1036
1037 * chfn fix when PAM is used (Martin-D. Lacasse)
1038 * do not use LC_NUMERIC part of locale in hwclock when writing /etc/adjtime
1039 * mount status return from smb or ncp fix (Mark Peloquin)
1040 * mount new option -l: also print label when listing mounts
1041 * mount add heuristic for xfs (Martin K. Petersen)
1042 * mount UUID and label cache (Erik Troan)
1043 * mount improve check for `already mounted' in case of label or uuid
1044 * fdisk partition names more devfs-friendly
1045 * fdisk bsdlabel large disk support
1046 * setterm.1: options documented (Colin Watson)
1047 * rename correction
1048 * German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese messages
1049   (Roger Luethi, Beth Powell, Alvaro Antunes)
1050
1051 util-linux 2.10l:
1052
1053 * Merged losetup.c and lomount.c
1054 * ANSIfied everything
1055
1056 util-linux 2.10k:
1057
1058 * NFS version 4 mount support (Trond Myklebust)
1059 * hwclock fix (Stefan Ring)
1060 * Added -p option to col, as required by SUS (Joseph S. Myers)
1061
1062 util-linux 2.10j:
1063
1064 * fdisk fixes (Michal Jaegermann)
1065
1066 util-linux 2.10i:
1067
1068 * new directory partx (with code to play with, not to use)
1069 * minor fdisk changes
1070
1071 util-linux 2.10h:
1072
1073 * Added pivot_root (Werner Almesberger)
1074 * Added elvtune (Andrea Arcangeli)
1075 * Added need and extended simpleinit and shutdown (Richard Gooch)
1076 * Removed all #include <linux/fs.h>
1077 * errno fixes (Joseph S. Myers)
1078 * IA-64 fixes (Michael K. Johnson)
1079 * fdisk fixes for OSF/1 on Alpha (David Huggins-Daines)
1080 * fdisk sectorsize fix (Greg Hosler)
1081 * mount speed= option to enable mounting bad CDROMs (Marco d'Itri)
1082 * ipcrm deletes several things at once (Frank Zago)
1083
1084 util-linux 2.10g:
1085
1086 * fdisk can now sort partitions into order [untested, beware!]
1087 * Update of mkswap for sparc64 (jj)
1088 * Update of raw (Stephen Tweedie):
1089   Control file was /dev/raw, now /dev/rawctl
1090   Access files were /dev/raw*, now /dev/raw/raw*
1091 * Czech messages (Jiří Pavlovský)
1092 * German messages (Daniel Egger)
1093 * losetup locks memory (Frank v Waveren)
1094
1095 util-linux 2.10f:
1096
1097 * Security fix for mount (okir)
1098 * Avoid infinite loop in namei (Brett Wuth)
1099 * added clock-ppc.c (from Matsuura Takanori), not merged yet
1100 * deleted clockB subdirectory
1101 * recognize mkdosfs string (Michal Svec)
1102
1103 util-linux 2.10e:
1104
1105 * New: rename
1106 * Added option to mkswap so that user can override pagesize
1107 * fdisk -l now reads /proc/partitions when no device was given
1108 * Fixed fdisk.8 (James Manning)
1109 * Added devpts info to mount.8 (Elrond)
1110 * Newline fix for logger output to stdout (Henri Spencer)
1111
1112 util-linux 2.10d:
1113
1114 * Do not try to mount something as udf without good reason
1115 * Do not loop in umount if there is a stale lock file
1116 * Allow fdisk twice as many cylinders
1117 * Fixed non-casefolding search in look (Markus Demleitner)
1118
1119 util-linux 2.10c:
1120
1121 * Various compilation fixes
1122
1123 util-linux 2.10b:
1124
1125 * Fixed smbmount problem (Andrew Tridgell)
1126 * Fixed ddate problem with the day after St. Tib's Day (Brad)
1127 * German messages (Elrond)
1128 * Made kill a bit more standard compliant
1129 * Made some more programs output a version
1130
1131 util-linux 2.10a:
1132
1133 * Japanese messages (Daisuke Yamashita)
1134 * French messages and several Debian fixes (Vincent Renardias)
1135 * Fixed infinite loop in mkfs.minix
1136
1137 util-linux 2.10:
1138
1139 * Added BSD disklabel code to rescuept
1140 * Added blockdev utility
1141 * Fix losetup return code
1142 * Fix unit display in cfdisk
1143 * Do not redefine _PATH_MAILDIR (so that recent systems can have /var/mail)
1144 * Added --localtime option to hwclock;
1145   added third line (LOCAL/UTC) to /etc/adjtime.
1146 * Add -H option to agetty (David Holland)
1147
1148 util-linux 2.9z:
1149
1150 * Japanese messages (Daisuke Yamashita)
1151 * Czech messages (Jiří Pavlovský)
1152 * Added some udf stuff to mount.8
1153 * Added ioctl for fdisk on bsdlabels
1154
1155 util-linux 2.9y:
1156
1157 * Wide character support (Bruno Haible)
1158 * German messages and some small fixes (Elrond)
1159 * Small fix to owner mount option (Erik Troan)
1160 * Don't sleep so long in clock/kd.c (Christian T. Steigies)
1161
1162 util-linux 2.9x:
1163
1164 * German messages and a i18n fix (Elrond)
1165 * mount option: allow the owner to mount a device (RedHat)
1166 * ugly: let login open console with O_NONBLOCK (Maciej W. Rozycki)
1167 * UGLY: let login ignore mail that is precisely 523 bytes long (RedHat)
1168 * added mkfs.bfs, mkfs.bfs.8
1169 * mount now recognizes qnx4 and bfs partitions
1170 * rescuept now recognizes Unixware partitions
1171 * hwclock fix on m68k (Roman Hodek)
1172 * several minor things
1173
1174 util-linux 2.9w:
1175
1176 * Updated mount.8 (Yann Droneaud)
1177 * Improved makefiles
1178 * Fixed flaw in fdisk
1179
1180 util-linux 2.9v:
1181
1182 * cfdisk no longer believes the kernel's HDGETGEO
1183   (and may be able to partition a 2 TB disk)
1184
1185 util-linux 2.9u:
1186
1187 * Czech more.help and messages (Jiří Pavlovský)
1188 * Japanese messages (Daisuke Yamashita)
1189 * fdisk fix (Klaus G. Wagner)
1190 * mount fix (Hirokazu Takahashi)
1191 * agetty: enable hardware flow control (Thorsten Kranzkowski)
1192 * minor cfdisk improvements
1193 * fdisk no longer accepts a default device
1194 * Makefile fix
1195
1196 util-linux 2.9t:
1197
1198 * national language support for hwclock
1199 * Japanese messages (both by Daisuke Yamashita)
1200 * German messages and some misc i18n fixes (Elrond)
1201 * Czech messages (Jiří Pavlovský)
1202 * wall fixed for /dev/pts/xx ttys
1203 * make last and wall use getutent() (Sascha Schumann)
1204   [Maybe this is bad: last reading all of wtmp may be too slow.
1205    Revert in case people complain.]
1206 * documented UUID= and LABEL= in fstab.5
1207 * added some partition types
1208 * swapon: warn only if verbose
1209
1210 util-linux 2.9s:
1211
1212 * tunelp patch (Andrea Arcangeli)
1213 * fixed mount race (HJLu)
1214 * German messages (Elrond)
1215
1216 util-linux 2.9[pqr]:
1217
1218 * errno->errsv patch (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
1219 * hwclock patch for the Award 4.50g BIOS "2094" bug. (Dave Coffin)
1220 * fdisk patch to correct deletion of last logical partition
1221
1222 util-linux 2.9o:
1223
1224 * fix to login by Ambrose C. Li
1225 * improvement to mcookie inspired by a patch from Rik Faith
1226 * more i18n by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo; pt_BR locale
1227
1228 util-linux 2.9n:
1229
1230 * Added -u option to logger (write to user-specified socket; Martin Schultze)
1231 * Added mount.smb script contributed by Greg Galperin
1232 * Some more national language support
1233 * mkfs.minix argument parsing fixed
1234 * write fixed for /dev/pts/xx ttys
1235 * configure adapted for the case of <scsi/scsi.h> that needs u_char.
1236
1237 util-linux 2.9m:
1238
1239 * Added national language support (misiek@pld.ORG.PL)
1240 * minor improvements in mount, fdisk, cfdisk, agetty, more
1241
1242 util-linux 2.9l:
1243
1244 * Added /dev/port use to hwclock again - it may be necessary for Jensen.
1245
1246 util-linux 2.9k:
1247
1248 * major reshuffle of hwclock stuff; added sparc and alpha code
1249 * fdisk fix
1250 * tiny shutdown fix
1251
1252 util-linux 2.9j:
1253
1254 * added configure
1255 * merged three lists of partition types in *fdisk
1256 * multi page display in cfdisk
1257 * test for getlogin() == "";
1258 * start fixup hwclock
1259
1260 util-linux 2.9i:
1261
1262 * fixed 2.9h typo in more
1263 * added -m: `Monday is 1st day' option to cal (Jean-Francois Bignolles)
1264 * changed PAM stuff in login.c (+- mjohnson)
1265 * added warning to cfdisk in case of multiple bootable partitions
1266 * added 2048-byte sector support in fdisk (Oliver Schaertel)
1267
1268 util-linux 2.9h:
1269
1270 * mount recognizes "uid=useruid" and "gid=usergid" in /etc/fstab.
1271 * documented the fact that "mount -t smb" will call /sbin/mount.smb.
1272 * mount gives clear error message when fstab does not end in newline.
1273 * swapon checks mode of file
1274 * cfdisk got a more specific exit status (Enrique Zanardi)
1275
1276 util-linux 2.9g:
1277
1278 * mount updates (locking, "users" keyword, "/etc/filesystems",
1279   "proto" and "vers" options in nfsmount, ...)
1280
1281 util-linux 2.9f:
1282
1283 * made ul handle lines of arbitrary length (Scott Maxwell)
1284 * killed some C/H/S nonsense in fdisk
1285 * fixes for archs with unsigned char type (Ambrose Li)
1286 * fdisk fixes for power pc (Tom Rini)
1287 * added a define for NCURSES_CONST
1288 * fixes for list of signals in kill.c
1289 * fixes for user name length in last.c
1290
1291 util-linux 2.9e:
1292
1293 * added a forgotten declaration to login.c (Christian Oyarzun)
1294
1295 util-linux 2.9d:
1296
1297 * fixed segfault in umount caused by Wilcox' patch (Steffen Zahn)
1298 * added lnz stuff to fdisk
1299
1300 util-linux 2.9c:
1301
1302 * refixed PAM stuff in login.c that was broken in 2.8.
1303
1304 util-linux 2.9b:
1305
1306 * split README into INSTALL and HISTORY
1307 * added a sentence to swapon.8
1308 * behavior of write on non-ASCII fixed
1309 * hwclock adapted to survive a failing mktime()
1310
1311 util-linux 2.9a:
1312
1313 * added an include to lib/my_reboot.c so that __GLIBC__ is defined
1314 * added setlocale() to login-utils/chfn.c
1315 * do not recompute MAIL in login-utils/login.c
1316
1317 util-linux 2.9:
1318
1319 HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.9:
1320
1321 1) Removed programs:
1322    - strings. There is a version in binutils.
1323    - frag. (Moved to historic in 2.4, crept back in 2.5. Gone again.)
1324 1a) Not yet removed program:
1325    - setfdprm. It also is in fdutils-5.2 (with an exceptionally
1326      ugly man page).
1327 1b) Removed directory:
1328    - bsd. (The routine getopt() is in libc. err() moved to lib.)
1329 2) Improvements:
1330    - ddate has been fixed to count down to the new, right X-day
1331    - look is now willing to search non-English dictionaries
1332      (i.e., uses locale)
1333    - cal now knows that Dutch day abbreviations have length 2 only
1334    - mcookie does not block when no random stuff is available
1335    - shutdown got a configuration file /etc/shutdown.conf
1336    - fdisk now reads SGI disk labels (thanks to Andreas Neuper)
1337    - mkswap now knows about new swap areas; mkswap.8 has been rewritten
1338    - umount knows about umount2() and forced unmounting of nfs mounts
1339      (however, I don't think it really works)
1340    - mount is now willing to handle file names with embedded spaces
1341    - mount can now mount things by UUID or volume name
1342 3) Uglifications:
1343    - swap.h has been replaced by a private swap_constants.h since
1344      <linux/swap.h> does not compile
1345    - reboot has become a private routine, since libc5 and glibc2 conflict
1346    - a mkminix-0.1 directory contains some patches to let mkfs.minix
1347      work under DOS. (Untested.)
1348 4) Numerous other small changes.
1349
1350 0xF) Send questions and/or patches to util-linux@math.uio.no
1351
1352 util-linux 2.9 was released by Andries Brouwer - aeb@cwi.nl
1353 The address util-linux@math.uio.no reaches Rik, Andries, Peter,
1354 Michael, Erik, Nicolai and possibly others.  Hwclock stuff is
1355 forwarded to Bryan.
1356
1357 util-linux 2.8:
1358
1359 HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.8:
1360
1361 1) New programs:
1362    - getopt(1) by Frodo Looijaard replaces the older bsd based version.
1363      Keywords: Backward compatible, supports --long options.
1364 1) Removed programs:
1365    - chroot: is no longer in util-linux.  Get it free with GNU sh-utils
1366    - hostid: No-one could figure out the right way for this program to
1367                 work.  Another hostid program is included in poeigl
1368                 (see the LSM, Primary-site: ftp.daimi.aau.dk /pub/linux/poe)
1369 2) Various portability enhancements.  Among other things hwclock now works
1370    a lot better on non Intel architectures.  Should compile with libc 4, 5
1371    and 6 as well as old and recent kernels.  People using non-intel hardware
1372    are encouraged to send patches.
1373 3) rev now only limits linelength to memory capacity
1374 4) dmesg now uses a buffer that matches the kernel buffer in size (8KB)
1375
1376
1377 util-linux 2.7:
1378
1379 HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.7:
1380
1381 1) util-linux now _requires_ ncurses.  Several programs are completely
1382    converted to use terminfo (instead of termcap).
1383
1384 2) Removed programs:
1385    - clock: Dropped entirely.  Use hwclock (included).
1386    - sync: is in gnu fileutils.
1387    - setserial: Is being maintained by Ted Ts'o, he recommends
1388         setserial-2.12 (2.13 is bad luck)
1389    - clear: Included in ncurses
1390    - hostname, domainname, dnsdomainname: It's in net-utils.
1391    - lpcntl.
1392
1393 3) Bugfixes, additions:
1394    - cfdisk: A much improved version. All known bugs have been fixed.
1395    - sfdisk: A command line fdisk type utility, formerly called fdisk-3.04.
1396    - SECURITY: All known holes in login, chfn, chsh and others have been
1397      plugged.  UPGRADE NOW if you haven't already fixed them yourself.
1398    - Should work with libc 4, 5 and 6 (gnulibc), on m68k, intel, alpha
1399      and sparc.
1400
1401 4) Problems:
1402    - The rpcgen that comes in NetKit-B-0.09 is broken.  At least as
1403      packaged with RedHat 4.2 (NetKit-B-0.09-6).  There are several
1404      ways to deal with this:
1405      - Don't run rpcgen, the needed pre-generated sources are included
1406        (nfsmount_xdr.c).  You must hack mount/Makefile to do this.
1407      - Edit the source emitted by rpcgen so it can compile.  This is very
1408        simple if you know C.
1409      - Disable the NFS parts of mount.  You have to edit mount/Makefile
1410        to do this.
1411      - Use some other rpcgen.
1412
1413 util-linux 2.6.1
1414
1415 This release was never made public
1416
1417 See notes for 2.6 for installation instructions.
1418
1419 This is a incremental release containing some fixes.  A new release
1420 will be made later fixing the outstanding bugs.
1421 - Things compiles and works better with recent releases of kernel,
1422   ncurses, and so forth: fdisk, more
1423 - Some fixes to make things compile out of the box on alphas.
1424 - There has been reported a problem with login and /etc/usertty.  It
1425   should be fixed.  If you still have problems get a recent MAKEDEV and
1426   use it to make new tty devices.  They were renumbered sometime during
1427   the 1.3 phase of the kernel.
1428 - ipcs now displays the key of the structures.
1429 - A (harmless?) overflow bug was fixed in login.
1430
1431 Outstanding bugs:
1432 - login/getty has a denial of service problem.
1433 - Several places needs a bit more polish.
1434 - There are a _lot_ of nonfatal warnings when compiling mount.  This will
1435   not necessarily be fixed.
1436
1437
1438 util-linux 2.6
1439
1440 HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.6:
1441
1442 0) The first release with me at the helm.  PLEASE SEND PATCHES AND
1443    UPDATES TO: util-linux@math.uio.no.
1444
1445 1) Removed programs:
1446    - md5sum, dsplit: available in GNU textutils.
1447    - syslogd: Sysklogd is now preferred.  It is available at
1448         tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/sources/sbin
1449         sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Daemons
1450
1451 2) Bugfixes, additions:
1452    - SECURITY: All known holes in mount have been fixed.  UPGRADE NOW
1453      if you haven't already!
1454    - Portability enhancements to the minix filesystem utils (m68k and
1455      Arm patches).
1456    - passwd/chsh/chfn will not mess up the passwd file on a NIS machine
1457    - others too numerous to enumerate.
1458
1459 3) New programs:
1460    - vigr (it's like vipw)
1461    - Introducing hwclock.  A complete rewrite of the latest available
1462      clock source.  It supports intel/CMOS, /dev/rtc and linux/m68k
1463      system clock interfaces.  Clock supports the same things but is now
1464      obsolete and will not be present in the next release.  Start using
1465      hwclock now.  Please.
1466
1467
1468 util-linux 2.5
1469
1470 HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.5:
1471 0) Nicolai Langfeldt is taking over maintenance of util-linux, with the
1472    help of a few others (Michael K. Johnson, Andries Brouwer, and Rik
1473    Faith).
1474
1475    PLEASE SEND PATCHES AND UPDATES TO: util-linux@math.uio.no
1476
1477 1) The following packages have been removed.  Please use the up-to-date,
1478    canonical versions of these packages from the listed places:
1479
1480     timezone support (/usr/lib/zoneinfo, libz.a, zic, zdump):
1481         elsie.nci.nih.gov:/pub/tzcode95d.tar.gz
1482         elsie.nci.nih.gov:/pub/tzdata95h.tar.gz
1483     MAKEDEV-C:
1484         sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Admin/MAKEDEV-C-1.5.tar.gz
1485     MAKEDEV:
1486         sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Admin/MAKEDEV-2.2.tar.gz
1487     md5sum:
1488         prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/textutils-1.3.tar.gz
1489         [The GNU version is now compatible with the Plumb/Lankester
1490         version.]
1491     ksymoops:
1492         Now bundled with the kernel in linux/scripts.
1493
1494 2) update_state has been removed
1495 3) fdisk now supports NetBSD disklabels courtesy of Bernhard Fastenrath
1496    <fasten@athene.informatik.uni-bonn.de> (and > 8GB disks, courtesy of
1497    Andries Brouwer)
1498 4) mount improved -- many patches from Andries Brouwer for greatly improved
1499    error reporting
1500 5) ddate, chkdupexe, and other programs have been improved and bug fixed
1501 6) util-linux is now a source-only distribution
1502 7) mcookie generates better random numbers and will use /dev/random or
1503    /dev/audio if available
1504 8) chfn, chsh, passwd, and vipw have been updated with security patches
1505    from Zefram <A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>.  Now, they all use the same
1506    locking, and several security holes have been patched.  Further, chsh
1507    and chfn can be configured at compile time to require a password before
1508    updates and chsh can be configured to only use shells from /etc/shells.
1509
1510
1511 HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.4 (2.3 was never released):
1512 0) Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@nigel.vnet.net> is the interim maintainer
1513    while Rik Faith is working on PhD work.
1514 1) login now makes the login tty mode 600 and places it in group "tty"
1515 2) wall, and write will not write dangerous escape sequences
1516 3) wall and write can be run setgid "tty".  If util-linux is compiled for
1517    this option, "mesg y" will only set group write instead of group/other
1518    write.
1519 4) fdisk and cfdisk have been patched with the latest llseek.c.  Although I
1520    had a lot of bug reports about fdisk from util-linux-2.2, I was unable
1521    to reproduce any of the problems.  Some of the problems appeared to be
1522    related to a failure to reboot the machine after changing the partition
1523    table, and some may have been due to a specific kernel revision problem.
1524    However, this doesn't seem to account for all of the bug reports -- if
1525    this version gives you problem, please send as complete a bug report as
1526    possible.
1527 5) chkdupexe from Nicolai Langfeldt (janl@ifi.uio.no)
1528 6) ctrlaltdel now installs into /sbin instead of /usr/sbin
1529 7) mkfs replacement from Ron Sommeling (sommel@sci.kun.nl)
1530 8) lpcntl removed.  Use tunelp instead.
1531 9) ksymoops from Greg McGary <gkm@magilla.cichlid.com>
1532 10) mkfs.minix now clears the first 512 bytes of the file system so that
1533     Minix disks won't be confused with MSDOS disks (Daniel Quinlan
1534     (quinlan@yggdrasil.com))
1535 11) mkswap should now work on an Alpha running Linux
1536 12) frag removed.  See
1537     sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/defrag-0.6.tar.gz for the
1538     latest version.
1539 13) mount patches from Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl and Dan Quinlan
1540     (quinlan@yggdrasil.com).
1541 14) MAKEDEV and MAKEDEV-C updated to the latest versions.
1542 15) Paths updated for FSSTND 1.2.  This means that you may need to make
1543     some links.  The links you need to make we system dependent.  The
1544     ultimate goal is to rename /var/adm to /var/log and have a symbolic
1545     link from /var/adm to /var/log during the transition period.  If you
1546     are running an ELF system, you probably won't have to do anything.  The
1547     bottom line is that the following files must exist or be pointers to
1548     the old version (used internally by the a.out libraries):
1549
1550              New                 Old
1551
1552         /var/log/wtmp       /var/adm/wtmp
1553         /var/log/lastlog    /var/adm/lastlog
1554         /var/run/utmp       /var/adm/utmp
1555
1556 HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.2:
1557 1) This is primarily a quick bug-fix release for version 2.1
1558 2) mkfs wrapper added back in, since e2fsprogs only supplies an fsck wrapper
1559 3) selection removed, since someone appears to be maintaining it now.  See
1560    sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/linux/kernel/patches/console for recent sources.
1561    For the time being, I'm keeping a copy in the historic subdirectory of
1562    util-linux.  A "make install" should work find from within that
1563    directory.
1564 4) Note that other floppy utilities are available from:
1565     ftp.imag.fr:pub/Linux/ZLIBC/fdutils/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
1566     sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Misc/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
1567     tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/sbin/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
1568
1569
1570 HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.1:
1571
1572 1) Directory structure rearrange, with configuration support for those who
1573    use shadow passwords and System V init (no support is provided for these
1574    things, but your utilities won't get overwritten if you do a "make
1575    install" after you properly edit MCONFIG).
1576 2) fdisk and cfdisk should work as expected with 2GB+ disk drives
1577 3) As usual, lots of stuff was updated and added, including mount, vipw,
1578    readprofile
1579 4) Some stuff was also deleted, and can now be found elsewhere:
1580     fsck wrapper: tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/ALPHA/ext2fs/e2fsprogs*
1581     pwd, su: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/sh-utils*
1582     ed: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/ed*
1583     od: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/textutils*
1584     uudecode/uuencode: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/sharutils*
1585     bdflush/update: ftp.funet.fi:/pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus/v1.1/bdflush*
1586
1587
1588
1589 PARTIAL HISTORY OF UTIL-LINUX:
1590
1591 bsd:
1592     Nothing in this directory gets installed, but some BSD programs need
1593     this support:
1594         err.c: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
1595         err.h: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/2/93
1596         getopt.c: 4.13 (Berkeley) 2/23/91
1597         pathnames.h: 5.3 (Berkeley) 5/9/89 with extensive modifications for
1598                      Linux
1599
1600 disk-utils:
1601     cfdisk: 0.8 BETA (>2GB) from Kevin E. Martin (martin@cs.unc.edu) with
1602             modifications for disks > 2GB.
1603             ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/users/martin/linux/cfdisk-0.8.tar.gz
1604     fdformat: Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch), with
1605               modifications by Marcel Mol (marcel@dutecad.et.tudelft.nl)).
1606               Later, updated with a September 1992 version by Werner.
1607     fdisk: A. V. Le Blanc (LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk) fdisk 1.5 release, with
1608            patched from Kevin Martin for DOS and OS/2 compatibility (1.5a);
1609            Rik Faith (1.5b, 2.0).
1610     fsck.minix, mkfs.minix: Linus Torvalds, with modifications by: Rik
1611                             Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu), Scott Heavner
1612                             (sdh@po.cwru.edu), Dr. Wettstein
1613                             (greg%wind.uucp@plains.nodak.edu), Daniel
1614                             Quinlan (quinlan@yggdrasil.com).
1615     mkfs: David Engel (david@ods.com) and Fred N. van Kempen
1616           (waltje@uWalt.NL.Mugnet.ORG)
1617           Version 1.9 from Ron Sommeling (sommel@sci.kun.nl)
1618     mkswap: Linus Torvalds, with modifications by Mike Jagdis
1619             (jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk. )
1620             Version for Alpha from
1621             cage.cs.arizona.edu:/pub/davidm/linux/mkswap-axp-950503.tar.gz
1622     setfdprm: Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch)
1623               Note that more floppy utilities are available from:
1624                 ftp.imag.fr:pub/Linux/ZLIBC/fdutils/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
1625                 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Misc/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
1626                 tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/sbin/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
1627     llseek.c: from Remy Card's e2fsprogs-0.5b.tar.gz (21Mar95 version) from:
1628                 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/ext2
1629
1630 games:
1631     banner: (8.3 (Berkeley) 4/2/94)
1632             ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1633
1634 login-utils:
1635     agetty: W. Z. Venema, ported by Peter Orbaek <poe@daimi.aau.dk>.
1636             ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
1637     chfn: Salvatore Valente <svalente@athena.mit.edu>
1638     chsh: Salvatore Valente <svalente@athena.mit.edu>
1639     last: 5.11 w/year (Berkeley) 6/29/88; Port by Michael Haardt with
1640           changes by Peter Orbaek.
1641           ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
1642     login: 5.40 (Berkeley) 5/9/89; with ports by Michael Glad and Peter Orbaek
1643            ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
1644     mesg: 8.2 (Berkeley) 1/21/94
1645           ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1646     newgrp: Michael Haardt, with modifications by Peter Orbaek.
1647             ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
1648     passwd: Peter Orbaek, with yp modifications by Alvaro Martinez
1649             Echevarria (alvaro@enano.etsit.upm.es)
1650             ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
1651     shutdown: Peter Orbaek, with new modifications by Stephen Tweedie, Rik
1652               Faith, and Dave (gentzel@nova.enet.dec.com).
1653               ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
1654     simpleinit: Peter Orbaek
1655                 ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
1656     vipw: 5.16 (Berkeley) 3/3/91, with modifications by Mike Grupenhoff
1657           <kashmir@umiacs.UMD.EDU>
1658     wall: 8.2 (Berkeley) 11/16/93 (With changes so that damaging escape
1659           sequences cannot be sent.)
1660           ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1661
1662
1663 misc-utils:
1664     cal: 8.4 (Berkeley) 4/2/94, with modifications by Rik Faith and
1665          Hein@student.tu-clausthal.de (Jochen Hein).
1666          ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1667     chkdupexe: Version 1.2 from "Nicolai Langfeldt" <janl@ifi.uio.no>
1668     clear: Rik Faith
1669     ddate: Druel the Chaotic aka Jeremy Johnson aka mpython@gnu.ai.mit.edu,
1670            with modifications by Lee Harvey Oswald Smith, K.S.C. and
1671            substantial updates from Rev. Bro. Lee H:. O:. Smith, KYTP
1672     domainname: Peter Orbaek
1673             ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
1674     dsplit: David Arnstein (arnstein@netcom.com)
1675             gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume40/dsplit
1676     getopt (getoptprog): jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu:
1677            /pub/public_domain_software/NetBSD/usr/src/usr.bin/getopt
1678            replaced by getopt-1.0.3.tar.gz from Frodo Looijaard,
1679            found at http://huizen.dds.nl/~frodol
1680     hostid: Mitch DSouza (m.dsouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk)
1681             ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
1682     hostname/dnsdomainname: Peter Tobias <tobias@server.et-inf.fho-emden.de>
1683               This version (1.6) should also be available soon in:
1684               nic.funet.fi:/pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus/net-source/base/NetKit-A*
1685     kill: BSD version, modified by Salvatore Valente <svalente@mit.edu>
1686     logger: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93, with modifications by Rik Faith
1687             ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1688     look.c: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/14/93, with modifications by Rik Faith
1689             ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1690     mcookie: Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
1691     md5sum: Branki Lankester and Colin Plumb.  The MD5 message-digest
1692             algorithm is in the Public Domain.  This implementation
1693             calculates message-digest information only, and can NOT be used
1694             for encryption.  Therefore it is exportable from the USA.
1695             Original sources in the MIT version of PGP 2.6.2.
1696     namei: Roger S. Southwick, with modifications by Steve Tell.
1697     reset: Rik Faith
1698     script: 5.13 (Berkeley) 3/5/91, with modifications by Rick Sladkey
1699             (jrs@world.std.com), Harald Koenig
1700             (koenig@nova.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de).
1701     setterm: Gordon Irlam (gordoni@cs.ua.oz.au), with modifications by
1702              Peter MacDonald, Mika Liljeberg (liljeber@cs.Helsinki.FI),
1703              John Walder (j-walder@uiuc.edu) [for dosemu].
1704     tsort: 5.3 (Berkeley) 6/1/90
1705            wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno
1706     whereis: 5.5 (Berkeley) 4/18/91
1707              wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno
1708     write: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93, with modifications by Mike Grupenhoff
1709            (kashmir@umiacs.umd.edu).  With changes so that damaging escape
1710            sequences cannot be sent.
1711            ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1712
1713
1714 mount:
1715     mount, umount, swapon
1716
1717     Rick Sladkey put together the mount-0.99.6.tar.Z package, and Stephen
1718     Tweedie provided updates.  The utilities were originally from that
1719     package (all appear to be by Doug Quale (quale@saavik.cs.wisc.edu),
1720     with modifications by H. J. Lu (hlu@eecs.wsu.edu) on 11/25/92; Rick
1721     Sladkey (jrs@world.std.com) in January 1993; and Stephen Tweedie
1722     <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk> on 8 October 1993.  This distribution mount now
1723     supports NFS stuff.  I have modified the man pages.  I have also added
1724     a small patch from Hamish Glen Coleman (t933093@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU)
1725     which restores the -o semantics.
1726
1727     Updated with Rick Sladkey's mount-0.99.14.tar.gz package, and with
1728     extra patches from Rick.  Adam J. Richter allowed -t option to be
1729     optional. Patrick J. Volkerding (volkerdi@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu) and
1730     Mitchum DSouza both provided patches that fixed the (null) problem when
1731     not using -t. Mitchum DSouza
1732     (mitch@mrc-applied-psychology.cambridge.ac.uk) added support for loop
1733     device mounts. Sebastian Lederer
1734     (lederer@next-pc.informatik.uni-bonn.de) added support for sending an
1735     unmount RPC call to the server when an NFS-filesystem is unmounted.
1736     Sander van Malssen (svm@kozmix.hacktic.nl) added support for remounting
1737     readonly file systems readonly.  Mike Grupenhoff
1738     <kashmir@umiacs.UMD.EDU> added a probe of the superblock for the type
1739     before /proc/filesystems is checked.  Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl fixed up
1740     error reporting.
1741
1742     Updated with patches from Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl and Dan Quinlan
1743     (quinlan@yggdrasil.com).  And more patches from Andries and others.
1744
1745 historic/selection: The complete selection-1.5 package, by Andrew Haylett
1746     <ajh@gec-mrc.co.uk>, 17th June 1993, is included in the historic tree.
1747     Kernel patches are no longer necessary for modern kernels, but these
1748     were tiny so I left them in for historical reasons.  The Makefile was
1749     modified for this distribution.  With changes from Rick Sladkey.
1750
1751 sys-utils:
1752     arch: Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu>
1753     chroot: Rick Sladkey <jrs@world.std.com>
1754     clock: Originally from the timesrc-1.2.tar.Z package, Charles Hedrick,
1755            hedrick@cs.rutgers.edu (V1.0); Rob Hooft, hooft@chem.ruu.nl
1756            (V1.1); Harald Koenig (koenig@nova.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
1757            (V1.2).  With additional changes: Hamish Coleman
1758            (hamish@zot.apana.org.au) (V1.2a); Alan Modra
1759            (alan@spri.levels.unisa.edu.au (V1.3, V1.4).
1760     ctrlaltdel: Peter Orbaek <poe@daimi.aau.dk>
1761                 ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
1762     cytune: Nick Simicish (njs@scifi.emi.net) and Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
1763     dmesg: Theodore Ts'o (tytso@athena.mit.edu); Rick Sladkey
1764            (jrs@world.std.com)
1765     ipcrm: From the ipcdelta.tar.z distribution by krishna
1766            balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu on 3/15/93.  ipc.info and ipc.texi
1767            are also from that distribution.
1768     ipcs: Also from the ipcdelta.tar.z distribution by krishna
1769           balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu, with patches from Mike Jagdis
1770           (jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk)
1771     kbdrate: Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu), with patches from
1772              Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl and John Bowman
1773              (bowman@hagar.ph.utexas.edu)
1774     ksymoops: 1.7 from Greg McGary <gkm@magilla.cichlid.com>
1775     rdev: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger), with
1776           modifications from Peter MacDonald, Stephen Tweedie
1777           (sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk), and Dave (gentzel@nova.enet.dec.com)
1778     readprofile: Alessandro Rubini from readprofile-2.0.tar.gz
1779     renice: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
1780             ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1781     setserial: Michael K. Johnson (johnsonm@stolaf.edu) re-released Rick
1782                Sladkey's setserial in January 1993, with changes by
1783                Theodore Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu).  I think that Theodore also
1784                did extensive changes for version 2.01, I can't find any
1785                notes about this in the documentation. However, Theodore
1786                Ts'o (tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) released version 2.10, and that
1787                is now included.
1788     setsid: Rick Sladkey <jrs@world.std.com>
1789     sln: Mike Parker and David MacKenzie (from Linux's libc)
1790     sync: Nick Holloway, with thanks to James Bonfield
1791     tunelp: Michael K. Johnson (johnsonm@nigel.vnet.net)
1792
1793
1794 syslogd:
1795    5.45 (Berkeley) 3/2/91
1796
1797    Most of the changes for syslogd come from Rick Sladkey
1798    (jrs@world.std.com), but I'd like to thank other people who sent in
1799    changes (which usually got forwarded to Rick): Carsten Paeth
1800    (calle@calle.in-berlin.de) and Kaz Sasayama (kaz@lilia.iijnet.or.jp).
1801
1802 text-utils:
1803     col: 5.3 (Berkeley) 2/2/91; with patches from Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
1804          and Carl Christofferson (cchris@connected.com)
1805          wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno/{bin,usr.bin}
1806     colcrt: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 (Bill Joy)
1807             ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1808     colrm: 5.4 (Berkeley) 6/1/90 (Jeff Schriebman)
1809     column: 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/2/94
1810             ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1811     hexdump: 5.5 (Berkeley) 6/1/90
1812              wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno/{bin,usr.bin}
1813     more: 5.19 (Berkeley) 6/29/88 (Eric Shienbrood, Geoff Peck, John Foderaro)
1814     rev: 5.2 (Berkeley) 3/21/92; with modifications by Charles Hannum
1815          (mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu), Brian Koehmstedt (bpk@gnu.ai.mit.edu),
1816          bjdouma@xs4all.nl
1817          wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno/{bin,usr.bin}
1818     strings: 5.10 (Berkeley) 5/23/91; with patches from Vitor Duarte
1819              <vad@fct.unl.pt>
1820              wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno/{bin,usr.bin}
1821     ul: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
1822         ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1823