2021-02-12 15:07:36

by Karel Zak

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Subject: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.36.2


The util-linux stable maintenance release v2.36.2 is available at

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.36/

Feedback and bug reports, as always, are welcomed.

Karel


util-linux 2.36.2 Release Notes
===============================

agetty:
- tty eol defaults to REPRINT [Sami Loone]
blkdiscard:
- fix compiler warnings [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] [Karel Zak]
build-sys:
- do not build plymouth-ctrl.c w/ disabled plymouth [Pino Toscano]
configure:
- test -a|o is not POSIX [Issam E. Maghni]
docs:
- update AUTHORS file [Karel Zak]
fsck.cramfs:
- fix fsck.cramfs crashes on blocksizes > 4K [ToddRK]
fstab:
- fstab.5 NTFS and FAT volume IDs use upper case [Heinrich Schuchardt]
github:
- remove cifuzz from stable branch [Karel Zak]
hwclock:
- do not assume __NR_settimeofday_time32 [Pino Toscano]
- fix compiler warnings [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] [Karel Zak]
lib/caputils:
- add fall back for last cap using prctl. [Érico Rolim]
lib/loopdev:
- make is_loopdev() more robust [Karel Zak]
lib/procutils:
- add proc_is_procfs helper. [Érico Rolim]
- improve proc_is_procfs(), add test [Karel Zak]
lib/signames:
- change license to public domain [Karel Zak]
libblkid:
- drbdmanage use blkid_probe_strncpy_uuid instead of blkid_probe_set_id_label [Pali Rohár]
- make gfs2 prober more extendible [Karel Zak]
libfdisk:
- (dos) fix last possible sector calculation [Karel Zak]
- (script) ignore empty values for start and size [Gaël PORTAY]
- ignore 33553920 byte optimal I/O size [Ryan Finnie]
libmount:
- (py) do not use pointer as an integer value [Karel Zak]
- add vboxsf, virtiofs to pseudo filesystems [Shahid Laher]
- do not canonicalize ZFS source dataset [Karel Zak]
- don't use "symfollow" for helpers on user mounts [Karel Zak]
- fix /{etc,proc}/filesystems use [Karel Zak]
login:
- use full tty path for PAM_TTY [Karel Zak]
losetup:
- fix wrong printf() format specifier for ino_t data type [Manuel Bentele]
lsblk:
- read SCSI_IDENT_SERIAL also from udev [Karel Zak]
lslogins:
- call close() for usable FD [coverity scan] [Karel Zak]
po:
- add sr.po (from translationproject.org) [Мирослав Николић]
- merge changes [Karel Zak]
- update hr.po (from translationproject.org) [Božidar Putanec]
- update sv.po (from translationproject.org) [Sebastian Rasmussen]
rfkill:
- stop execution when rfkill device cannot be opened [Sami Kerola]
script:
- fix compiler warnings [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] [Karel Zak]
scriptlive:
- fix compiler warnings [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] [Karel Zak]
setpriv:
- allow using [-+]all for capabilities. [Érico Rolim]
- small clean-up. [Érico Rolim]
su:
- use full tty path for PAM_TTY [Karel Zak]
switch_root:
- check if mount point to move even exists [Thomas Deutschmann]
sys-utils:
- mount.8 fix a typo [Eric Biggers]
tests:
- add checksum for cramfs/mkfs for LE 16384 (ia64) [Anatoly Pugachev]
- be explicit with file permissions for cramfs [Karel Zak]
- don't rely on scsi_debug partitions [Karel Zak]
umount:
- ignore --no-canonicalize,-c for non-root users [Karel Zak]

- Show the 'r' option in the help menu [Vincent McIntyre]

--
Karel Zak <[email protected]>
http://karelzak.blogspot.com