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@@ -24,6 +24,25 @@ configuration. TR1 types has been replaced with the use of the C++11 equivalents. + 4) The build system has been refactored to use nonrecursive make. + It is no longer possible to build individual subdirectories, but + parallel building is far faster and dependencies between objects + in different directories may now be described directly. + + 5) Support for device locking with liblockdev has been removed; + liblockdev is no longer required for using "block-device" or + "lvm-snapshot" chroot types. lockdev locking was not + particularly useful, and there is no decrease in safety with this + change. + + 6) Session identifiers are no longer UUIDs. The requirement for + libuuid has been removed. Session identifiers are now six random + alphanumeric characters (derived from the current system time) + plus the process ID. The new IDs are rather shorter and more + readable than UUIDs, and will remain sufficiently unique that + there should be no clashes between automatically-created session + names. + * Major changes in 1.6.4: 1) Canonicalise symlink mount points. If a mount point in fstab |