2 Util-linux-ng 2.16 Release Notes (15-Jul-2009)
3 ==============================================
8 libuuid, uuidgen(1) and uuidd(8):
9 - the libuuid library has been moved from e2fsprogs to util-linux-ng
12 - this NEW COMMAND allows to switch to another filesystem as the root
16 - DOES NOT SUPPORT linking against obsolete libvolume_id (from udev)
19 - development files (.so, .a, ...) have been moved from /lib to /usr/lib.
22 Stable maintenance releases between v2.15 and v2.16
23 ---------------------------------------------------
25 util-linux-ng 2.15.1 [10-Jun-2009]
27 * ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.15/v2.15.1-ReleaseNotes
28 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.15/v2.15.1-ChangeLog
31 ChangeLog between v2.15 and v2.16
32 ---------------------------------
34 For more details see ChangeLog files at:
35 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.16/
39 - add --disable-libblkid, remove volume_id support [Karel Zak]
40 - add --disable-switch_root [Karel Zak]
41 - add --disable-tls [Karel Zak]
42 - add --disable-uuidd [Karel Zak]
43 - add UTIL_{SET,RESTORE}_FLAGS [Karel Zak]
44 - check for openat() and linux for switch_root [Karel Zak]
45 - cleanup libuuid stuff [Karel Zak]
46 - complete /libs to /shlibs rename [Karel Zak]
47 - enable fsck by default [Karel Zak]
48 - fix "make -C" bug [Karel Zak]
49 - fix --disable-uuidd [Karel Zak]
50 - fix blkid.h include for old e2fsprogs [Karel Zak]
51 - fix exec/data install hooks [Karel Zak]
52 - fix headers in mkswap and libblkid [Karel Zak]
53 - fix libuuid Makefile.am [Karel Zak]
54 - fix libuuid and libblkid version-info [Karel Zak]
55 - fix typo from 30688dde55f637c9b984809c685b61378b82805f [Robert Förster]
56 - improve $libdirname definition [Karel Zak]
57 - improve symlinks creation in shlibs/ [Karel Zak]
58 - release++ (v2.16-rc1) [Karel Zak]
59 - release++ (v2.16-rc2) [Karel Zak]
60 - rename /libs to /shlibs [Karel Zak]
61 - rename to _execdir [Karel Zak]
62 - reverse shlibs installation [Kay Sievers]
64 - move $usr{bin,sbin,lib}execdir definition to ./configure [Karel Zak]
66 - Highlight today even when month or year specified [Rajeev V. Pillai]
67 - uClibc has langinfo.h but not _NL_TIME_WEEK_1STDAY. [Tom Prince]
69 - don't assume SCHED_BATCH and SCHED_IDLE exist [Aurelien Jarno]
71 - add missing commands/projects to AUTHORS file [Karel Zak]
72 - add v2.16 ReleaseNotes [Karel Zak]
73 - refresh TODO list [Karel Zak]
74 - remove example.files/rc[.local] [Karel Zak]
75 - remove obsolete information from fstab example [Karel Zak]
76 - update AUTHORS file [Karel Zak]
77 - update v2.16 ReleaseNotes [Karel Zak]
78 - update v2.16-ReleaseNotes [Karel Zak]
80 - (and cfdisk) fix to be consistent about maximum heads [Chris Webb]
81 - add simple test for doslabel stuff [Zdenek Behan]
83 - fix mismatched popen/fclose. [John Keeping]
85 - clean up _PATH_DEV_* macros [Karel Zak]
86 - fix _PATH_DEV [Karel Zak]
88 - Allow setting the none class [Jakob Unterwurzacher]
90 - add N_PPS support [Tilman Schmidt]
92 - add device-mapper snapshot cow device probe [Milan Broz]
93 - add install-hook for libuuid.[a,so] devel files [Karel Zak]
94 - add stdarg.h to blkidP.h [Karel Zak]
95 - blkid_do_safeprobe() has to be tolerant to RAIDs [Karel Zak]
96 - cleanup debug messages and return codes in blkid_do_probe() [Karel Zak]
97 - don't require udev symlinks verification for non-root users [Karel Zak]
98 - fix "hangs forever with partition type mdraid" [Karel Zak]
99 - fix #ifdefs readability [Karel Zak]
100 - fix $libdir in blkid.pc [Karel Zak]
101 - fix LVM1 probe [Milan Broz]
102 - fix reiserfs name [Karel Zak]
103 - make libuuid optional [Karel Zak]
104 - move to misc-utils/ directory [Karel Zak]
105 - update man page [Karel Zak]
107 - add --disable-libuuid and LIBUUID_VERSION [Karel Zak]
108 - add .gitignore [Karel Zak]
109 - add info about u-l-ng to man pages [Karel Zak]
110 - add install-hook for libuuid.[a,so] devel files [Karel Zak]
111 - Don't run uuidd if it would fail due to permission problems [Theodore Ts'o]
112 - fix $libdir in uuid.pc [Karel Zak]
113 - fix parallel building [Karel Zak]
114 - generate uuid_generate_{random,time}.3 man page links [Karel Zak]
115 - import UUID library from e2fsprogs [Karel Zak]
116 - Make sure fd's 0, 1, and 2 are valid before exec'ing uuidd [Theodore Ts'o]
117 - move clock state file from /var/lib to /var/run [Karel Zak]
119 - Avoid infinite loop while reading from the socket fd [Theodore Ts'o]
121 - add --set-capacity [Karel Zak]
122 - fix return codes of functions arounf is_associated() [Karel Zak]
123 - handle symlinks in /dev/loop/ [Mike Frysinger]
124 - suggest to use modprobe rather than insmod in losetup.8 [Karel Zak]
126 - fix cpuid code on x86/PIC [Mike Frysinger]
128 - (and fsck) remove libvolume_id support [Karel Zak]
129 - a little clean up info about loopdevs in man page [Karel Zak]
130 - add ext4 to mount.8 [Karel Zak]
131 - add ext4 to the list of filesystems in mount.8 [Karel Zak]
132 - add info about obsolete vfat options to mount.8 [Karel Zak]
133 - allow loop suid umount [Kay Sievers]
134 - cleanup notes about -l option in mount.8 [Karel Zak]
135 - fix undefined reference to `security_get_initial_context' [Karel Zak]
136 - move MS_{PROPAGATION,BIND,MOVE} detection [Karel Zak]
137 - use "none" fstype for MS_PROPAGATION mounts [Karel Zak]
138 - use TAG parsing function from libblkid [Karel Zak]
139 - when a remount to rw fails, quit and return an error [Valerie Aurora]
141 - fix typo in French translation [Olivier Blin]
142 - merge changes [Karel Zak]
143 - refresh POTFILES.in [Karel Zak]
144 - update cs.po (from translationproject.org) [Petr Pisar]
145 - update fi.po (from translationproject.org) [Lauri Nurmi]
146 - update fr.po (from translationproject.org) [Nicolas Provost]
147 - update vi.po (from translationproject.org) [Clytie Siddall]
149 - Use the RAW_SETBIND ioctl without stat'ing the raw# file [Jeff Mahoney]
150 - undeprecate raw [Karel Zak]
152 - add man page [Karel Zak]
153 - add subroot support [Daniel Drake]
154 - clean up argv[] usage, add -h and -V [Karel Zak]
155 - do recursiveRemove after our root is moved to avoid races. [Peter Jones]
156 - fix coding style [Karel Zak]
157 - fork before cleaning up the filesystem. [Peter Jones]
158 - new command [Karel Zak]
159 - rewrite to use fstatat() and unlinkat() [Karel Zak]
160 - use err.h, clean up return codes [Karel Zak]
161 - use file descriptor instead of path for recursiveRemove() [Peter Jones]
162 - use snprintf() rather tan str{cpy,cat}() [Karel Zak]
164 - add functions for work withdisk images [Karel Zak]
165 - add mdraid libblkid test [Karel Zak]
166 - don't run some mount tests for non-root users [Karel Zak]
167 - fix 'delete extended partition' checksum [Karel Zak]
168 - fix reiserfs test [Karel Zak]
169 - fix script that creates lscpu dumps [Karel Zak]
170 - move lscpu /proc and /sys dumps to tarballs [Karel Zak]
171 - remove broken Xen dumps for lscpu [Karel Zak]
173 - clean up help output [Karel Zak]
175 - Avoid closing the server socket when calling create_daemon() [Theodore Ts'o]
176 - fix $PIDFILE in uuidd.rc [Karel Zak]
177 - init /var/run/uuidd, add option for on-demand mode to .rc file [Karel Zak]
178 - move uuidd files from /var/lib/libuuid to /var/run/uuidd [Karel Zak]
179 - move uuidd.rc to misc-utils directory [Karel Zak]
180 - new command (UUID daemon from e2fsprogs) [Karel Zak]
182 - new command (from e2fsprogs) [Karel Zak]