From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karel Zak Subject: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng v2.17.1 Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:30:26 +0100 Message-ID: <20100222103026.GA6375@nb.net.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, util-linux-ng@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:11731 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751592Ab0BVKa3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:30:29 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: The stable util-linux-ng 2.17.1 release is available at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.17/ =46eedback and bug reports, as always, are welcomed. Karel Util-linux-ng 2.17.1 Release Notes =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Release highlights ------------------ fdisk: - supports new command line option "-c" to disable DOS-compatible mo= de from command line. The DOS-compatible mode is DEPRECATED and will be disabled by defa= ult in the next major release. Currently, the DOS mode is enabled by d= efault for backward compatibility only.=20 The cylinders as display units are DEPRECATED. It's recommended to= use "-u" command line option or "u" fdisk command and use sectors as d= isplay units. Note that the new support for 4K-sector disks is useless in DOS-comp= atible mode. The fdisk command prints warning(s) when startup in DOS mode. Changes since v2.17 ------------------- 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] - release++ (v2.17.1-rc1) [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 instea= d of '[Help]'. [Francesco Cosoleto] - set '[Quit]' as default menu item on first run instead of '[Bootab= le]'. [Francesco Cosoleto] docs: - add v2.17.1 ReleaseNotes [Karel Zak] - 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] - 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] 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 ZSF detection [Andreas Dilger] - fix segfault in drdb [Matthias K=C3=B6nig] - 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: - merge changes [Karel Zak] - update cs.po (from translationproject.org) [Petr Pisar] - update eu.po (from translationproject.org) [Mikel Olasagasti Uran= ga] - 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] sfdisk: - make sure writes make it to disk in write_partitions() [Bryn M. R= eeves] swapon: - fix swapsize calculation [Karel Zak] 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] --=20 Karel Zak -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel= " in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html