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+Util-linux-ng 2.18 Release Notes
+================================
+
+The util-linux-ng package does not contain rdev(8), ramsize(8),
+vidmode(8) and rootflags(8) anymore.
+
+Release highlights
+------------------
+
+libmount:
+ - this NEW LIBRARY is designed to be used in low-level utils like
+ mount(8) and /sbin/mount.<type> helpers as well as in some other
+ projects.
+
+ - the library API is still officially unstable. The library provides
+ fstab, mtab and mountinfo parser, routines for work with parsed
+ data and mount options, mtab locking, etc. The high-level API for
+ mount(2) is planned for the next major release. For more details see:
+ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/3239
+
+ - the utils like mount(8) or umount(8) are not linked with the library
+ yet. This change is planned for util-linux-ng-2.19.
+
+findmnt(8):
+ - this NEW COMMAND is a command line interface to the libmount library
+ for work with mountinfo, fstab and mtab files
+
+fsfreeze(8):
+ - this NEW COMMAND is very simple wrapper around FIFREEZE/FITHAW ioctls
+
+swaplabel(8):
+ - this NEW COMMAND allows to change swaparea UUID and label
+
+blkid(8):
+ - supports new command line option "-i" to print I/O Limits
+
+ - supports new command line option "-n" to restrict probing functions to
+ defined list of superblock types (names).
+
+ - returns details from partition table (type, flags, uuid, ...)
+
+chrt(1):
+ - supports new command line option "-R/--reset-on-fork" to enable
+ SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK flag
+
+fdisk(8):
+ - supports new command line option "-c" to switch off DOS mode
+ - uses 1MiB offset for the first partition
+ (all these changes are already in the release 2.17.2)
+
+hwclock(8):
+ - supports new command line option "--predict" to predict what the RTC will
+ read at time given by the --date option based on the adjtime file.
+
+ldattach(8):
+ - supports new command line option "-i/--iflag" to sets the specified bits
+ in the c_iflag word of the serial line.
+
+fallocate(1), losetup(8) and mount(8):
+ - the options --offset, --length or --sizelimit support suffixes
+ (MiB, GiB, ...) and hex numbers
+
+umount(8):
+ - supports new command line option "-f/--fake" to avoid umount(2) syscall
+
+
+Stable maintenance releases between v2.17 and v2.18
+---------------------------------------------------
+
+util-linux-ng 2.17.1 [22-Feb-2010]
+
+ * ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.17/v2.17.1-ReleaseNotes
+ ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.17/v2.17.1-ChangeLog
+
+util-linux-ng 2.17.2 [22-Mar-2010]
+
+ * ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.17/v2.17.2-ReleaseNotes
+ ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.17/v2.17.2-ChangeLog
+
+
+Changes between v2.17 and v2.18
+-------------------------------
+
+ For more details see ChangeLog files at:
+ ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.18/
+
+addpart:
+ - use atoll() for parsing command line arguments [Thomas Fehr]
+blkid:
+ - add \n to the "-o udev" output when probe more devices [Karel Zak]
+ - add 'export' output format [Karel Zak]
+ - add -i option to print I/O limits [Karel Zak]
+ - add -n <list> option [Karel Zak]
+ - add newline when only one value is printed [Karel Zak]
+ - cleanup -u <list> parsing [Karel Zak]
+ - cleanup man page [Karel Zak]
+ - encode PART_ENTRY_TYPE [Karel Zak]
+ - export ID_PART_ENTRY_* variables for udev [Karel Zak]
+ - fix #ifdef HAVE_TERMIO[S]_H [Karel Zak]
+ - fix blkid_probe_lookup_value() usage [Karel Zak]
+ - improve RAIDs and tiny devices probing [Karel Zak]
+ - probe for PT, don't probe for FS on small whole-disks [Karel Zak]
+ - remove _ENC from ID_PART_ENTRY_{NAME,TYPE} variables [Karel Zak]
+ - remove duplicate option from man page [Karel Zak]
+ - report open() errors in low-level probing [Karel Zak]
+ - support suffixes for -O <offset> and -S <size> [Karel Zak]
+ - update man page/usage() [Karel Zak]
+blockdev:
+ - reduce usage text width [Francesco Cosoleto]
+build-sys:
+ - add missing tests for libuuid and libblkid [Karel Zak]
+ - improved check for fallocate() [Yann Droneaud]
+ - remove duplicate #includes [Karel Zak]
+ - replace ../ with $top_srcdir [Karel Zak]
+ - update include/Makefile.am [Karel Zak]
+ - use include/list.h [Karel Zak]
+cal:
+ - factor out and update multibyte alignment code [Pádraig Brady]
+ - fix first day of the week calculation on BE systems [Karel Zak]
+cfdisk:
+ - set '[New]' as default item on menu for non allocated space instead of '[Help]'. [Francesco Cosoleto]
+ - set '[Quit]' as default menu item on first run instead of '[Bootable]'. [Francesco Cosoleto]
+ - support non-ascii characters in input [Karel Zak]
+ - use libblkid [Matthias König]
+chrt:
+ - add --reset-on-fork [Karel Zak]
+ - add support for SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK [Adrian Knoth]
+docs:
+ - update AUTHORS file [Karel Zak]
+ - update TODO file [Karel Zak]
+ - update tests/README [Karel Zak]
+fallocate:
+ - check for number of arguments [Karel Zak]
+ - support suffixes for --offset and --lenght [Karel Zak]
+fdisk:
+ - add -c option (switch off DOS mode) [Karel Zak]
+ - cleanup alignment, default to 1MiB offset [Karel Zak]
+ - cleanup help, add -h option [Karel Zak]
+ - cleanup warnings [Karel Zak]
+ - correctly truncate and align translated partition names [Pádraig Brady]
+ - don't check alignment_offset against geometry [Karel Zak]
+ - don't include scsi.h [Karel Zak]
+ - don't use 1MiB grain on small devices [Karel Zak]
+ - fallback for topology values [Karel Zak]
+ - fix 'p' output for sun label [Karel Zak]
+ - fix -b <sectorsize> [Karel Zak]
+ - fix ALIGN_UP [Karel Zak]
+ - fix check_alignment() [Karel Zak]
+ - fix default first sector [Karel Zak]
+ - improve 'move begin of partition' command [Karel Zak]
+ - improve add partition dialog [Karel Zak]
+ - replace bzero with memset [Jon Ringle]
+ - swap VTOC values for warning messages [Karel Zak]
+ - use "optimal I/O size" in warnings [Karel Zak]
+ - use 1MiB offset and grain always when possible [Karel Zak]
+ - use more elegant way to count and check alignment [Karel Zak]
+ - use optimal_io_size [Karel Zak]
+findmnt:
+ - add man page [Karel Zak]
+ - add new command [Karel Zak]
+ - add tree support [Karel Zak]
+ - add {fs,vfs}-options columns [Karel Zak]
+ - don't swap source and target for tags [Karel Zak]
+ - minor coding style fixes [Karel Zak]
+ - move from /sbin to /bin [Karel Zak]
+ - rewrite to use lib/tt.c [Karel Zak]
+ - small change in usage() [Karel Zak]
+fsck/mkfs/mount:
+ - unify default search paths for helpers [Mike Frysinger]
+fsfreeze:
+ - new command [Hajime Taira]
+git:
+ - ignore index files generated by ctags and cscope [Petr Uzel]
+hwclock:
+ - add --predict for predicting RTC reading at a given time [Timo Juhani Lindfors]
+include:
+ - add min/max macros [Karel Zak]
+ - move shlibs/.../list.h to the include/ directory [Karel Zak]
+ionice:
+ - fix typo [Pierre Hauweele]
+ - non-cryptic error message when ionice can't execvp [Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]
+ipcs:
+ - add missing "PIDs" to related shared memory header text [Francesco Cosoleto]
+ - get rid of colons from header strings for consistency [Francesco Cosoleto]
+ - reorganize help and usage texts [Francesco Cosoleto]
+ldattach:
+ - add --iflag command line option [Tilman Schmidt]
+ - create a generic functions for name=value tables [Karel Zak]
+ - prints help to stdout [Karel Zak]
+lib:
+ - add #ifndef around min() max() macros [Karel Zak]
+ - add fallback for libc (uClibc) without CPU_ALLOC [Karel Zak]
+ - add mangle.c for mtab (fstab or swaps) encoding [Karel Zak]
+ - add strtosize() function [Karel Zak]
+ - add tt.c (Tree and Table output) [Karel Zak]
+ - avoid compilation failure on rawhide [Jim Meyering]
+ - fix blkdev_find_size() [Karel Zak]
+ - remove unwanted debug messages [Karel Zak]
+ - tt.c don't print header for empty table [Karel Zak]
+ - tt.c - fix minimal width of column [Karel Zak]
+ - use fstat() as fallback in blkdev_get_size() [Karel Zak]
+libblkid:
+ - Add initial support for BeFS detection [Jeroen Oortwijn]
+ - Add probing function for BeFS [Jeroen Oortwijn]
+ - add PART_ENTRY_{SCHEME,NUMBER} [Karel Zak]
+ - add blkid_openat(), cleanup blkid_fstatat() [Karel Zak]
+ - add blkid_partition_set_type() [Karel Zak]
+ - add blkid_partlist_get_table() [Karel Zak]
+ - add blkid_probe_all_removable() [Karel Zak]
+ - add blkid_probe_get_{offset,fd} functions [Karel Zak]
+ - add exFAT file system detection support [Andrew Nayenko]
+ - add generic functions for sysfs attributes [Karel Zak]
+ - add microsecond resolution for cache entries [Karel Zak]
+ - add minimal sizes for OCFS and GFS [Karel Zak]
+ - add mnt_iter_get_direction() [Karel Zak]
+ - add partial support for superblock binary API [Karel Zak]
+ - add paths and tags cache [Karel Zak]
+ - add sanity checks for FAT to DOS PT parser [Karel Zak]
+ - add support for PART_ENTRY_* values [Karel Zak]
+ - add support for partition flags/attributes [Karel Zak]
+ - add ultrix PT support [Karel Zak]
+ - avoid probing CDs for RAID [M.S.Colclough]
+ - call read() per FAT root dir entry [Karel Zak]
+ - cleanup fstat() usage [Karel Zak]
+ - cleanup some docs [Karel Zak]
+ - cleanup superblocks_safeprobe() [Karel Zak]
+ - cleanup usage of empty topology values [Karel Zak]
+ - disable read-ahead when probing device files [Linus Torvalds]
+ - don't call read() per FAT dir-entry on large disks [Karel Zak]
+ - don't gather PART_ENTRY_* values for binary interface [Karel Zak]
+ - don't probe for GPT and Unixware PT on floppies [Karel Zak]
+ - don't probe for nested PT on tiny disks (<=1.44MiB) [Karel Zak]
+ - don't return error on empty files [Karel Zak]
+ - don't use fstat() in blkid_get_dev_size() [Karel Zak]
+ - export functions to get whole-disk devno [Karel Zak]
+ - fix 'partno' usage [Karel Zak]
+ - fix LUKS version [Karel Zak]
+ - fix ZSF detection [Andreas Dilger]
+ - fix blkid_partlist_devno_to_partition() for extended partitions [Karel Zak]
+ - fix collision between RAID and PT probing [Karel Zak]
+ - fix display of device size [Karel Zak]
+ - fix infinite loop when probe chain bails out early [Colin Watson]
+ - fix readline usage [Karel Zak]
+ - fix segfault in drdb [Matthias König]
+ - fix some typos [Milan Broz]
+ - improbe DDF detection [Karel Zak]
+ - improve MD 0.90 detection [Karel Zak]
+ - improve MD 0.90.0 detection (use sb->size) [Karel Zak]
+ - improve MD 1.0 detection, add UUID_SUB [Karel Zak]
+ - improve Sun VTOC [Karel Zak]
+ - improve ZFS detection and add LABEL and UUID extraction [Andreas Dilger]
+ - minor fixes in befs.c [Karel Zak]
+ - more robust minix probing [Karel Zak]
+ - optimize UDF label reading [Karel Zak]
+ - prevent overflow in BeFS [Jeroen Oortwijn]
+ - probe for (non-linux) RAIDs on whole devices only [Karel Zak]
+ - read whole SB buffer (69kB) on large disks [Karel Zak]
+ - read() optimization for small devices [Karel Zak]
+ - remove "0x" prefix from DRBD UUID [Karel Zak]
+ - reset BLKID_TINY_DEV flag in blkid_probe_set_device [Pascal Terjan]
+ - reset superblocks result after error [Karel Zak]
+ - restrict RAID/FS proving for small devices (1.4MiB) [Karel Zak]
+ - rewrite blkid_probe_get_buffer() [Karel Zak]
+ - set correct offsets for TuxOnIce signature [Chow Loong Jin]
+ - set minimal size for jfs, reiser, swap and zfs [Karel Zak]
+ - support alignment_offset=-1 [Karel Zak]
+ - tiny change in debug output [Karel Zak]
+ - export magic strings from raids [Karel Zak]
+ - move getsize.c code to lib/ [Karel Zak]
+libmount:
+ - add #warning libmount API is not stable yet! [Karel Zak]
+ - add basic dirs [Karel Zak]
+ - add basic utils [Karel Zak]
+ - add debug support [Karel Zak]
+ - add docs [Karel Zak]
+ - add fstab/mtab/mountinfo lookup routines [Karel Zak]
+ - add fstab/mtab/mountinfo parsing routines [Karel Zak]
+ - add list routines and generic iterator [Karel Zak]
+ - add mnt_cache_find_tag_value() [Karel Zak]
+ - add mnt_entry [Karel Zak]
+ - add mnt_match_{fstype,options} functions [Karel Zak]
+ - add mnt_optstr_* functions [Karel Zak]
+ - add mtab locking code [Karel Zak]
+ - add new debug messages [Karel Zak]
+ - add optls (options container) [Karel Zak]
+ - add support for userdata and work with VFS tree [Karel Zak]
+ - add test_version [Karel Zak]
+ - add version.c [Karel Zak]
+ - another Makefile.am fix [Karel Zak]
+ - cleanup cache flags and debug messages [Karel Zak]
+ - cleanup docs [Karel Zak]
+ - export mnt_init_debug() [Karel Zak]
+ - fix Makefile.am [Karel Zak]
+ - fix mnt_fs_match_source() [Karel Zak]
+ - fix name of mnt_fs_get_*_optstr() [Karel Zak]
+ - fix some gtkdoc warnings [Karel Zak]
+ - merge vfs and fs options more carefully [Karel Zak]
+ - proper tests definition in Makefile.am [Karel Zak]
+ - read devno, ID and parent ID from /proc/self/mountinfo [Karel Zak]
+ - remove mnt_open_device() [Karel Zak]
+ - rename mnt_optls_iterate_options() [Karel Zak]
+ - update symbols table [Karel Zak]
+ - use mangle function from lib/ [Karel Zak]
+logger:
+ - add note about 'kern' to the man page [Karel Zak]
+login:
+ - check that after tty reopen we still work with a terminal [Karel Zak]
+ - don't link PAMed version with libcrypt [Karel Zak]
+ - use fd instead of pathname for update tty's owner and permissions [Yann Droneaud]
+losetup:
+ - support suffixes and hex numbers for --offset and --sizelimit [Karel Zak]
+lscpu:
+ - cleanup path_scanstr() [Karel Zak]
+ - cleanup used names [Karel Zak]
+ - fix cpuid opcode detection [Henne Vogelsang]
+ - improve --sysroot code [Karel Zak]
+ - use cpuset masks, read data for all CPUs [Karel Zak]
+mkswap:
+ - don't call blkdev_find_size() [Karel Zak]
+ - fixed strtoll() usage [Yann Droneaud]
+ - more robust strtoull() usage [Karel Zak]
+ - move write_all() to include/writeall.h [Karel Zak]
+ - zap bootbits on regular files [Karel Zak]
+mount:
+ - advise users to use "modprobe", not "insmod" [Karel Zak]
+ - automatically detect and loop-mount regular files [Karel Zak]
+ - detect when kernel silently adds MS_RDONLY flag [Petr Uzel]
+ - fix coding style [Karel Zak]
+ - fix information about XFS log buffers in mount.8 [Christoph Hellwig]
+ - fix typo in comment [Petr Uzel]
+ - more explicitly explain fstab usage in mount.8 [Karel Zak]
+ - more robust offset= and sizelimit= parsing [Karel Zak]
+ - posix option of vfat is obsolete [Yoshihiro Takahashi]
+ - properly ignore comments in /etc/filesystems [Mike Frysinger]
+ - report ambivalent FS detection, improve brute force detection [Karel Zak]
+ - revert ugly ENOMEDIUM support [Karel Zak]
+ - support suffixes for offset= and sizelimit= [Karel Zak]
+ - update documentation about barrier mount options [Jan Kara]
+ - use auto-loopdev for all known filesystems [Karel Zak]
+ - use unmangle/mangle() from lib [Karel Zak]
+ - warn users that mtab is read-only [Karel Zak]
+namei:
+ - fix man page formatting [Vladimir Brednikov]
+partx:
+ - do not add nonexistent partitions [Phillip Susi]
+ - fix infinite loop [Karel Zak]
+po:
+ - merge changes [Karel Zak]
+ - update cs.po (from translationproject.org) [Petr Pisar]
+ - update es.po (from translationproject.org) [Santiago Vila Doncel]
+ - update eu.po (from translationproject.org) [Mikel Olasagasti Uranga]
+ - update id.po (from translationproject.org) [Arif E. Nugroho]
+ - update ja.po (from translationproject.org) [Makoto Kato]
+ - update list of files [Karel Zak]
+ - update pl.po (from translationproject.org) [Jakub Bogusz]
+ - update vi.po (from translationproject.org) [Clytie Siddall]
+rdev:
+ - remove this deprecated command [Karel Zak]
+rtcwake:
+ - add --dry-run option [Karel Zak]
+ - add disable action for rtc alarm [Marek Otahal]
+ - add disable action to rtcwake man page [Marek Otahal]
+ - does miss the "off" option [Karel Zak]
+script:
+ - optionally compile with libutempter to update utmp [Karel Zak]
+ - preserve child exit status [Karel Zak]
+sfdisk:
+ - make sure writes make it to disk in write_partitions() [Bryn M. Reeves]
+swaplabel:
+ - fix typo in man page [Karel Zak]
+ - new command [Jason Borden]
+swapon:
+ - fix swapsize calculation [Karel Zak]
+ - move DELETED_SUFFIX to include/pathnames.h [Karel Zak]
+ - remove " (deleted)" from filenames from /proc/swaps [Karel Zak]
+ - use unmangle() for filenames from /proc/swaps [Karel Zak]
+taskset:
+ - add NLS support, use err.h, cleanup [Karel Zak]
+ - move NR_CPUS determination to lib/cpuset.c [Karel Zak]
+ - move bitmap routines to lib/cpuset.c [Karel Zak]
+ - use libc based cpu_set_t [Karel Zak]
+tests:
+ - add BeFS test image [Karel Zak]
+ - add blkid test for TuxOnIce [Karel Zak]
+ - add blkid tests for RAID1 [Karel Zak]
+ - add cpuset regression test [Karel Zak]
+ - add fdisk alignment tests [Karel Zak]
+ - add lscpu dump from Dell R710, 8-core Nehalem w/HT (RHEL 5.5) [Karel Zak]
+ - added tests against strtosize [Yann Droneaud]
+ - explicitly use --chunk and --metadata in MD test [Karel Zak]
+ - fix RAIDs tests [Karel Zak]
+ - fix and update old fdisk tests [Karel Zak]
+ - fix whitespaces [Karel Zak]
+ - mount cramfs read-only [Karel Zak]
+ - update FS test images [Karel Zak]
+ - update blkid test for raid1 [Karel Zak]
+ - update blkid/md-raid1-* tests [Karel Zak]
+ - update fdisk tests [Karel Zak]
+ - update ipcs/headers test [Francesco Cosoleto]
+ - update lscpu [Karel Zak]
+ - update lscpu test [Karel Zak]
+ - use POSIX locale [Yann Droneaud]
+umount:
+ - add --fake option to umount(8) [Miklos Szeredi]
+ - do not sync() as the kernel does it by itself [Petr Uzel]
+unshare:
+ - drop potential euid privileges before exec [Karel Zak]
+wipefs:
+ - cleanup usage() and man page [Karel Zak]
+ - fix license (GPL -> GPLv2+) [Karel Zak]
+ - ignore devices with partition table [Karel Zak]
+ - print warning is PT detected [Karel Zak]
+ - support suffixes for --offset [Karel Zak]
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