2024-05-06 08:51:55

by Karel Zak

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Subject: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux stable v2.40.1


The util-linux maintenance release v2.40.1 is now available at:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.40/

Feedback and bug reports, as always, are welcomed.

Karel


util-linux v2.40.1 Release Notes
================================

Changes between v2.40 and v2.40.1
---------------------------------

README.licensing/flock:
- Add MIT license mention [Richard Purdie]
agetty:
- Don't override TERM passed by the user [Daan De Meyer]
- fix resource leak [Karel Zak]
- make reload code more robust [Karel Zak]
all_syscalls:
- don't hardcode AWK invocation [Thomas Weißschuh]
- don't warn during cleanup [Thomas Weißschuh]
- fail if any step fails [Thomas Weißschuh]
- use sed to extract defines from headers [Thomas Weißschuh]
autotools:
- distribute pam_lastlog2/meson.build [Thomas Weißschuh]
bcachefs:
- Remove BCACHEFS_SB_MAX_SIZE & check [Tony Asleson]
build-sys:
- release++ (v2.40.1-rc1) [Karel Zak]
cal:
- use unsigned int to follow union with unsigned int [Karel Zak]
docs:
- add COPYING.MIT [Karel Zak]
- fix GPL name typo [Karel Zak]
- update AUTHORS file [Karel Zak]
- update v2.40.1-ReleaseNotes [Karel Zak]
findmnt:
- always zero-terminate SOURCES data [Thomas Weißschuh]
- revise the code for -I and -D option [Masatake YAMATO]
fsck.minix:
- fix possible overrun [Karel Zak]
getopt:
- remove free-before-exit [Karel Zak]
hwclock:
- free temporary variable before return [Karel Zak]
- initialize parser variables [Karel Zak]
lastlog2:
- begin descriptions of options with a lowercase letter [Benno Schulenberg]
lib/pager:
libblkid:
- Fix segfault when blkid.conf doesn't exist [Karel Zak]
- topology/ioctl correctly handle kernel types [Thomas Weißschuh]
- topology/ioctl simplify ioctl handling [Thomas Weißschuh]
libfdisk:
- add initializer to geometry [Karel Zak]
libmount:
- Fix access check for utab in context [Karel Zak]
- fix comment typo for mnt_fs_get_comment() [Tianjia Zhang]
- fix possible memory leak [Karel Zak]
- fix umount --read-only [Karel Zak]
libsmartcols:
- fix column reduction [Karel Zak]
- reset wrap after calculation [Karel Zak]
libuuid:
- (man) fix function declarations [CismonX]
losetup:
- losetup.8 Clarify --direct-io [Colin Walters]
lsblk:
- simplify SOURCES code [Karel Zak]
lsclocks:
- fix FD leak [Karel Zak]
lsfd:
- (man) fix license name [Jakub Wilk]
- add LSFD_DEBUG env var for debugging [Masatake YAMATO]
lslocks:
- don't abort gathering per-process information even if opening a /proc/[0-9]* fails [Masatake YAMATO]
- remove a unused local variable [Masatake YAMATO]
lsns:
- fix netns use [Karel Zak]
- report with warnx if a namespace related ioctl fails with ENOSYS [Masatake YAMATO]
- tolerate lsns_ioctl(fd, NS_GET_{PARENT,USERNS}) failing with ENOSYS [Masatake YAMATO]
meson:
- Add build-blkdiscard option [Jordan Williams]
- Add build-blkpr option [Jordan Williams]
- Add build-blkzone option [Jordan Williams]
- Add build-blockdev option [Jordan Williams]
- Add build-chcpu option [Jordan Williams]
- Add build-dmesg option [Jordan Williams]
- Add build-enosys option [Jordan Williams]
- Add build-fadvise option [Jordan Williams]
- Add build-fsfreeze option [Jordan Williams]
- Add build-ipcmk option [Jordan Williams]
- Add build-ldattach option [Jordan Williams]
- Add build-lsclocks option [Jordan Williams]
- Add build-lsfd option and make rt dependency optional [Jordan Williams]
- Add build-rtcwake option [Jordan Williams]
- Add build-script option [Jordan Williams]
- Add build-scriptlive option [Jordan Williams]
- Add build-setarch option [Jordan Williams]
- Add have_pty variable to check if pty is available [Jordan Williams]
- Add missing check for build-ipcrm option [Jordan Williams]
- Define _DARWIN_C_SOURCE on macOS as is done in Autotools [Jordan Williams]
- Don't define HAVE_ENVIRON_DECL when environ is unavailable [Jordan Williams]
- Fix build by default and install behavior for build-pipesz option [Jordan Williams]
- Fix false positive detection of mempcpy on macOS [Jordan Williams]
- Only build libmount when required [Jordan Williams]
- Only pick up the rt library once [Jordan Williams]
- Only require the crypt library when necessary [Jordan Williams]
- Only use the --version-script linker flag where it is supported [Jordan Williams]
- Remove libblkid dependency on libmount [Jordan Williams]
- Remove lingering mq_libs variable [Jordan Williams]
- Require pty for the su and runuser executables [Jordan Williams]
- Require the seminfo type for ipcmk, ipcrm, and ipcs [Jordan Williams]
- Use has_type instead of sizeof to detect cpu_set_t type [Jordan Williams]
- Use libblkid as a dependency [Jordan Williams]
- Use libmount as a dependency [Jordan Williams]
- respect c_args/CFLAGS when generating syscalls [Karel Zak]
pam_lastlog2:
- link against liblastlog [Thomas Weißschuh]
po:
- merge changes [Karel Zak]
- update cs.po (from translationproject.org) [Petr Písař]
- update fr.po (from translationproject.org) [Frédéric Marchal]
- update hr.po (from translationproject.org) [Božidar Putanec]
- update ja.po (from translationproject.org) [Takeshi Hamasaki]
- update ko.po (from translationproject.org) [Seong-ho Cho]
- update pl.po (from translationproject.org) [Jakub Bogusz]
- update ro.po (from translationproject.org) [Remus-Gabriel Chelu]
- update uk.po (from translationproject.org) [Yuri Chornoivan]
po-man:
- merge changes [Karel Zak]
- update de.po (from translationproject.org) [Mario Blättermann]
- update ko.po (from translationproject.org) [Seong-ho Cho]
- update ro.po (from translationproject.org) [Remus-Gabriel Chelu]
strutils.h:
- Include strings.h header for strncasecmp function [Jordan Williams]
tests:
- (lsfd mkfds-multiplexing) skip if /proc/$pid/syscall is broken [Masatake YAMATO]
- (lsns ioctl_ns) add more debug print [Masatake YAMATO]
- (lsns ioctl_ns) record stdout/stderr for debugging the case [Masatake YAMATO]
- (test_mkfds sockdiag) verify the recieved message to detect whether the socket is usable or not [Masatake YAMATO]
textual:
- fix some typos and inconsistencies in usage and error messages [Benno Schulenberg]
wall:
- check sysconf() returnvalue [Karel Zak]
- fix possible memory leak [Karel Zak]
- make sure unsigned variable not underflow [Karel Zak]
xalloc.h:
- Include stdio.h header for vasprintf function [Jordan Williams]