From: Karel Zak Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:59:00 +0000 (+0100) Subject: docs: add v2.17.1 ReleaseNotes X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=03c7f31d9888088a9399ae0f01f91381fbefd43f;p=util-linux docs: add v2.17.1 ReleaseNotes Signed-off-by: Karel Zak --- diff --git a/docs/v2.17.1-ReleaseNotes b/docs/v2.17.1-ReleaseNotes new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4a6fe927 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/v2.17.1-ReleaseNotes @@ -0,0 +1,100 @@ +Util-linux-ng 2.17.1 Release Notes +================================== + +Release highlights +------------------ + +fdisk: + - supports new command line option "-c" to disable DOS-compatible mode from + command line. + + The DOS-compatible mode is DEPRECATED and will be disabled by default + in the next major release. Currently, the DOS mode is enabled by default + for backward compatibility only. + + The cylinders as display units are DEPRECATED. It's recommended to use + "-u" command line option or "u" fdisk command and use sectors as display + units. + + Note that the new support for 4K-sector disks is useless in DOS-compatible + mode. The fdisk command prints warning(s) when startup in DOS mode. + + +Changes since v2.17.1 +--------------------- + + For more details see ChangeLog files at: + ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.17/ + + +blkid: + - add newline when only one value is printed [Karel Zak] + - fix #ifdef HAVE_TERMIO[S]_H [Karel Zak] + - probe for PT, don't probe for FS on small whole-disks [Karel Zak] + - report open() errors in low-level probing [Karel Zak] +build-sys: + - add missing tests for libuuid and libblkid [Karel Zak] + - remove duplicate #includes [Karel Zak] +cal: + - 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] +docs: + - update AUTHORS file [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] + - 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 ALIGN_UP [Karel Zak] + - fix check_alignment() [Karel Zak] + - fix default first sector [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] +include: + - add min/max macros [Karel Zak] +libblkid: + - add minimal sizes for OCFS and GFS [Karel Zak] + - add sanity checks for FAT to DOS PT parser [Karel Zak] + - call read() per FAT root dir entry [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 probe for GPT and Unixware PT on floppies [Karel Zak] + - don't return error on empty files [Karel Zak] + - fix segfault in drdb [Matthias König] + - more robust minix probing [Karel Zak] + - read whole SB buffer (69kB) on large disks [Karel Zak] + - read() optimization for small devices [Karel Zak] + - restrict RAID/FS proving for small devices (1.4MiB) [Karel Zak] + - rewrite blkid_probe_get_buffer() [Karel Zak] + - set minimal size for jfs, reiser, swap and zfs [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] +mount: + - advise users to use "modprobe", not "insmod" [Karel Zak] + - update documentation about barrier mount options [Jan Kara] + - warn users that mtab is read-only [Karel Zak] +namei: + - fix man page formatting [Vladimir Brednikov] +po: + - update id.po (from translationproject.org) [Arif E. Nugroho] + - update pl.po (from translationproject.org) [Jakub Bogusz] + - update vi.po (from translationproject.org) [Clytie Siddall] +tests: + - add fdisk alignment tests [Karel Zak] + - fix RAIDs tests [Karel Zak] + - fix and update old fdisk tests [Karel Zak] + - update FS test images [Karel Zak] + - update fdisk tests [Karel Zak] + - update fdisk tests (add whitespaces) [Karel Zak] +wipefs: + - ignore devices with partition table [Karel Zak]