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+Util-linux-ng 2.13 Release Notes
+================================
+
+Release highlights:
+------------------
+
+ mount(8) doesn't include NFS client code anymore. Don't forget to
+ install nfs-utils 1.1.0 or newer with /sbin/[u]mount.{nfs,nfs4}.
+
+ mount(8) doesn't include filesystem detection code anymore. You
+ have to compile --with-fsprobe={blkid,volume_id}, and libblkid
+ (e2fsprogs) or libvolume_id (udev >= v110) is required.
+
+ mount(8) supports new relatime, context, fscontext, and defcontext
+ mount options.
+
+ losetup(8) supports command line option "-a" to list all used loop
+ devices, '-s' to print a device name if "-f" and a file argument
+ are present, and "-r" to create a read-only loop device.
+
+ fdisk(8) Sun label support has been improved. fdisk(8) is also able
+ to warn about detected GPT (fdisk doesn't support GPT).
+
+ taskset(1) is independent on hardcoded NR_CPUS. chrt(1) supports
+ SCHED_BATCH scheduling policy.
+
+ The package build system is now based on autotools. The build system
+ supports separate CFLAGS and LDFLAGS for suid programs (SUID_CFLAGS,
+ SUID_LDFLAGS). For more details see the README file
+
+ hwclock(8) supports command line option --rtc=<path> and /dev/rtc0
+ device. --systohc functionality has been improved, and it doesn't cause
+ a 500ms inaccuracy each time it is used.
+
+ Audit system support (--with-audit) has been added to hwclock(8) and
+ login(1).
+
+ SELinux support (--with-selinux) has been added to mkswap(8) and
+ mount(8).
+
+ The setarch(8) upstream has been merged with util-linux-ng.
+
+
+Fixed security issues:
+---------------------
+
+ CVE-2007-0822 - mount(8) allows local users to trigger a NULL
+ dereference and an application crash
+ CVE-2006-7108 - login(1) omits PAM account validation when auth is
+ skipped
+
+
+Changelog:
+---------
+
+agetty:
+ add 'O' escape code to display domain name
+ check gethostname() return value
+blockdev:
+ add BLKFRAGET/BLKFRASET ioctls
+ cleanup usage() and update man page
+build-sys:
+ add AC_GNU_SOURCE
+ add Automake option dist-bzip2
+ add missing files
+ add SUID_CFLAGS
+ add SUID_LDFLAGS
+ add support for audit
+ amend .gitignore
+ call automake after autoconf
+ cleanup architecture conditionals
+ cleanup sys-utils/ rdev symlinks
+ configure.am selinux support cleanup
+ declare SUID_CFLAGS and SUID_LDFLAGS as precious
+ do not build convenience libraries in lib/
+ do not kick off AM_CFLAGS by SUID_CFLAGS
+ do not play with DEFS, use AM_CPPFLAGS
+ do not set with_foo twice
+ do not use internal Autoconf variables
+ do not use wildcards in EXTRA_DIST
+ factor out common parts from mount/Makefile.am
+ fix HAVE_NCURSES
+ fix ifdef ENABLE_WIDECHAR usage
+ fix linking when ncurses is built with --with-termlib=tinfo
+ fix README filenames and add missing files to EXTRA_DISTs
+ fix the example configure call in README
+ fix the final message of autogen.sh
+ in configure.ac, change "po" -> "$srcdir/po"
+ in the clean targets use "find ... | xargs rm -f"
+ let configure instantiate the misc-utils/*.pl scripts
+ make the getopt example directory relative to datadir
+ merge adjacent AC_CONFIG_HEADERS and AC_CONFIG_FUNCS calls
+ minor fixes in configure.in
+ mount/Makefile.am tiny cleanup
+ mount/Makefile.am tiny cleanup II
+ move -D flags to *_CPPFLAGS
+ move the optimization flags to AM_CFLAGS
+ --prefix defaults to /usr
+ remove aclocal.m4 from SCM
+ remove AC_PROG_RANLIB
+ remove config.h.in from VCS
+ remove config/include-Makefile.am from EXTRA_DIST
+ remove DEFAULT_INCLUDES workaround
+ remove -fomit-frame-pointer
+ remove generated autotools stuff from git
+ remove po/Makevars.template from EXTRA_DIST
+ remove swapargs.h, move the tests to main configure.ac
+ rename to -ng, change maintainer name
+ replace AC_TRY_* by AC_*_IFELSE
+ s/AC_HELP_STRING/AS_HELP_STRING/
+ set DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS in top-level makefile
+ simplify "clean" in tests/Makefile.am
+ update po/POTFILES.in
+ use dist_example_DATA
+ use dist_noinst_DATA to work around the bug with dist_man_MANS
+ use dist_noinst_HEADERS in include/Makefile.am
+ use dist_usrbinexec_SCRIPTS in misc-utils/Makefile.am
+ check exit status of autotools
+cal:
+ fix a segfault and -3m highlighting
+ ifdef cleanup, non-curses/tempcap code fixes
+ widechar code cleanup
+cfdisk:
+ build-sys defines HAVE_RPMATCH, not HAVE_rpmatch
+ fix stupid typo in GPT checker call
+chsh:
+ remove tailing wihit-spaces and use PATH_BSHELL
+col:
+ getwchar() errors shouldn't be hidden
+ddate:
+ fix compiler warnings
+docs:
+ add the DEPRECATED file
+ clean up TODO file and add a new resuest for 2.14
+ fix info about devel/master branchs
+ fix URL and typos in README.devel
+ refresh AUTHORS file
+ remove deprecated section from README
+ update AUTHORS file
+ update TODO file
+fdisk:
+ add GPT detection code
+ add MAC label detection
+ cleanup full disk detection code
+ fix "differ in signedness" compiler warnings
+ fix "type qualifiers ignored on function return type"
+ Makefile.am refactoring
+ many significant improvements and fixes to Sun label handling
+ move duplicate stuff from fdisk*label.h to fdisk.h
+ use unsigned long long instead int for sectors
+getopt:
+ remove old unused files
+hexdump:
+ don't use memset with zero lenght
+hwclock:
+ add --rtc=<path> option and support for /dev/rtc0
+ add support for audit system
+ fix --systohc sets clock 0.5 seconds slow
+ make ggc happy and check return values from fgets, read and write
+ remove tailing white-spaces and clean up clock.h
+ipcs:
+ add new tests for ipcs limits
+ add regression test for output headers
+ fix typo in Semaphore headers
+ max total shared memory in kbytes instead pages
+login:
+ add audit support
+ add IPv6 support
+ add regression test for IP address checking code
+ attempt to run if it has no read/write access to its terminal
+ close PAM session after failed pam_setcred
+ improve work with signals
+ keep syslog useful for end of PAM session.
+ login's timeout can fail
+ omits PAM account validation when auth is skipped (CVE-2006-7108)
+ remove triiling white-spaces
+ update 32bit utmp correctly on 64bit system
+look:
+ fix problem with !isalnum() words
+ remove tailing white-spaces
+losetup:
+ add a new option -s
+ add -a option to list all used loop devices
+ add long options and fix man page
+ add support read-only loops
+ add to man page info about deprecated cryptoloop
+man pages:
+ add "AVAILABILITY" section
+mcookie:
+ remove non-linux code
+misc-utils:
+ add scriptreplay manpage
+ remove old cal test
+mkfs.cramfs:
+ cleanup HAVE_ macros usage
+ fix a way how mkfs works with empty files
+ remove hardcoded limit for directories
+mkswap:
+ add regression test
+ automatically add selinux label to swapfile
+ avoid mkswap usage on already mounted device
+ gcc happy: unsigned long usage
+ fix libuuid usage in mkswap
+more:
+ fix file descriptor leak
+mount:
+ add note about /etc/mtab unreliability to mount.8
+ add note about fcntl/ioctl unreliability on NFS to mount.8
+ add -s and -f and note to man page for external mount helpers
+ add simple (printf-like) debug routine and --debug option
+ add support for context, fscontext and defcontext selinux mount options
+ add support for mixed usage of SPECes
+ add support for mtab "uhelper" option
+ avoid duplicate entries in mtab when mount -f
+ call /sbin/mount.<type> also when mounting without "-t"
+ clean up getfs* (fstab.c) interface
+ clean up info about NFS in mount.8
+ doesn't rpc_pipefs and nfsd on umount -a
+ do not treat arm/sparc specially.
+ don't umount sysfs when running umount -a
+ fix -fv so that it doesn't incorrectly spit out an error that nothing was done.
+ fix has_* functions (CVE-2007-0822)
+ fix list logic in update_mtab
+ fix memory usage in update_mtab
+ fix mtab_lock
+ fix typo in error message
+ fsprobe: add libvolume_id support
+ fsprobe: add libvolume_id support to configure.ac
+ fsprobe: make fsprobe_get_devname functions more generic
+ fsprobe: remove mount_guess_fstype.{c,h}
+ fsprobe: remove non-blkid code
+ fsprobe: rename files to fsprobe_*
+ fsprobe: rename the rest of API routines to fsprobe_*
+ fsprobe: use blkid cache only when really necessary
+ getfs_* (fstab) interface has to work with canonicalize()
+ kill mount_guess_rootdev
+ loop device race condition
+ needs to handle special mountprog even on guessed file systems.
+ parse SPEC before search in fstab
+ relative atime support
+ remove all NFS code
+ remove nfsmount() from sundries.h
+ rewrite getfs_by_specdir() without mem leaks
+ shared-subtree support
+ update mtab correctly when mount --move
+ use encoded labels for volume_id
+ use growable string for options
+ use loop= option when mounting by /sbin/mount.<type>
+ use realloc for xstrconcat functions
+ use verbose mode instead debug mode
+namei:
+ fix logic and infinite loop of symlinks
+ new regression test
+newgrp:
+ add support for /etc/gshadow
+ check result from getgrnam() more carefully
+partx:
+ add man pages for addpart, delpart and partx
+po:
+ rename mount/mntent.c to mount/mount_mntent.c
+ typo in french translation of mount error.
+ update po files
+ vipw doesn't use rpmatch, all translations have to use y/n
+raw:
+ add file with udev rule example
+ don't accept raw0 as a target name
+ move the raw command to /sbin
+ update man page (about dd and O_DIRECT)
+schedutils:
+ add support for SCHED_BATCH
+ define SCHED_BATCH when compile with old glibc
+ remove extra hyptens from man pages
+ taskset is independent of hardcoded NR_CPUS max
+ fix ionice build on sparc
+setarch:
+ add NLS support
+sfdisk:
+ fix "differ in signedness" compiler warnings
+ fix "may be used uninitialized" compiler warnings
+ setting default geometry values
+swapon:
+ cleanup PATH_ macros and tailing white-spaces
+ does not correctly deal with symlinks
+ fix swapon headers and syscalls
+ simplify an #if
+sys-utils:
+ added setarch command
+ add note about obsolete ramsize option to rdev.8
+ fix man page headers
+ move some man pages from category 8 to 1
+tests:
+ add basic infrastructure for regression tests
+ add cal -1 test
+ add cal -3 test
+ add cal -y test
+ add expected outputs for cramfs
+ add functions for label, uuid and fstype detection
+ add hwclock systohc test
+ add library for LD_PRELOAD to manipulate with time() in tests
+ add lock_mtab() performance and reliability test
+ add look test for words with separator
+ add missing header
+ add mkfs.cramfs tests
+ add more variants to {mount,fstab}-by-{label,uuid,devname}
+ add mount by devname from fstab
+ add mount by devname test
+ add mount by devname with label in fstab
+ add mount by devname with uuid in fstab
+ add mount by label from fstab test
+ add mount by LABEL test
+ add mount by label with devname in fstab
+ add mount by label with uuid in fstab
+ add mount by UUID from fstab test
+ add mount by UUID test
+ add mount by uuid with devname in fstab
+ add mount by uuid with label in fstab
+ add mount /dev/symlink test
+ add mount --move test
+ add mount -o remount test
+ add return code
+ add simple helper that returns info about system
+ add support for fstab modification
+ add support for suid programs
+ add swapon by devname test
+ add swapon by UUID test
+ add test for /sbin/mount.<type> call
+ add ts_log and --verbose support
+ add ts_ok and ts_failed
+ cleanup blkid cache after test device deinitialization
+ code refactoring -- new ts_device_init function
+ code refactoring -- new ts_skip_nonroot function
+ code refactoring -- new ts_udev_loop_support function
+ enable mtablock test when uid=0 only
+ fix argv[] usage in mnt_test_sysinfo.c
+ fix dependence on blkid
+ fix Makefile.am (add missing tests)
+ fix ts_fstab_add function
+ "if [...]" clean up
+ make clean need to remove diffs and outputs
+ pass all arguments to ts_init, add ts_has_option function
+ refresh mtablock output in expected/ directory
+ simplify devices usage
+text-utils:
+ fix the more command compilation against termcap
+tools:
+ add codecheck-config that checks for {HAVE,ENABLE}_ orphans
+vipw:
+ fix permissions (600->400) for edited /etc/[g]shodow files
+wall:
+ fix O_NONBLOCK usage
+misc:
+ Clean up pagesize/PAGE_SIZE usage.
+ clean up realpath.[ch] includes and macros
+ execl() should be use NULL not 0
+
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