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diff --git a/docs/v2.13-ReleaseNotes b/docs/v2.13-ReleaseNotes new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5480757e --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/v2.13-ReleaseNotes @@ -0,0 +1,356 @@ + +Util-linux-ng 2.13 Release Notes +================================ + +Release highlights: +------------------ + + mount(8) doesn't include NFS client code anymore. Don't forget to + install nfs-utils 1.1.0 or newer with /sbin/[u]mount.{nfs,nfs4}. + + mount(8) doesn't include filesystem detection code anymore. You + have to compile --with-fsprobe={blkid,volume_id}, and libblkid + (e2fsprogs) or libvolume_id (udev >= v110) is required. + + mount(8) supports new relatime, context, fscontext, and defcontext + mount options. + + losetup(8) supports command line option "-a" to list all used loop + devices, '-s' to print a device name if "-f" and a file argument + are present, and "-r" to create a read-only loop device. + + fdisk(8) Sun label support has been improved. fdisk(8) is also able + to warn about detected GPT (fdisk doesn't support GPT). + + taskset(1) is independent on hardcoded NR_CPUS. chrt(1) supports + SCHED_BATCH scheduling policy. + + The package build system is now based on autotools. The build system + supports separate CFLAGS and LDFLAGS for suid programs (SUID_CFLAGS, + SUID_LDFLAGS). For more details see the README file + + hwclock(8) supports command line option --rtc=<path> and /dev/rtc0 + device. --systohc functionality has been improved, and it doesn't cause + a 500ms inaccuracy each time it is used. + + Audit system support (--with-audit) has been added to hwclock(8) and + login(1). + + SELinux support (--with-selinux) has been added to mkswap(8) and + mount(8). + + The setarch(8) upstream has been merged with util-linux-ng. + + +Fixed security issues: +--------------------- + + CVE-2007-0822 - mount(8) allows local users to trigger a NULL + dereference and an application crash + CVE-2006-7108 - login(1) omits PAM account validation when auth is + skipped + + +Changelog: +--------- + +agetty: + add 'O' escape code to display domain name + check gethostname() return value +blockdev: + add BLKFRAGET/BLKFRASET ioctls + cleanup usage() and update man page +build-sys: + add AC_GNU_SOURCE + add Automake option dist-bzip2 + add missing files + add SUID_CFLAGS + add SUID_LDFLAGS + add support for audit + amend .gitignore + call automake after autoconf + cleanup architecture conditionals + cleanup sys-utils/ rdev symlinks + configure.am selinux support cleanup + declare SUID_CFLAGS and SUID_LDFLAGS as precious + do not build convenience libraries in lib/ + do not kick off AM_CFLAGS by SUID_CFLAGS + do not play with DEFS, use AM_CPPFLAGS + do not set with_foo twice + do not use internal Autoconf variables + do not use wildcards in EXTRA_DIST + factor out common parts from mount/Makefile.am + fix HAVE_NCURSES + fix ifdef ENABLE_WIDECHAR usage + fix linking when ncurses is built with --with-termlib=tinfo + fix README filenames and add missing files to EXTRA_DISTs + fix the example configure call in README + fix the final message of autogen.sh + in configure.ac, change "po" -> "$srcdir/po" + in the clean targets use "find ... | xargs rm -f" + let configure instantiate the misc-utils/*.pl scripts + make the getopt example directory relative to datadir + merge adjacent AC_CONFIG_HEADERS and AC_CONFIG_FUNCS calls + minor fixes in configure.in + mount/Makefile.am tiny cleanup + mount/Makefile.am tiny cleanup II + move -D flags to *_CPPFLAGS + move the optimization flags to AM_CFLAGS + --prefix defaults to /usr + remove aclocal.m4 from SCM + remove AC_PROG_RANLIB + remove config.h.in from VCS + remove config/include-Makefile.am from EXTRA_DIST + remove DEFAULT_INCLUDES workaround + remove -fomit-frame-pointer + remove generated autotools stuff from git + remove po/Makevars.template from EXTRA_DIST + remove swapargs.h, move the tests to main configure.ac + rename to -ng, change maintainer name + replace AC_TRY_* by AC_*_IFELSE + s/AC_HELP_STRING/AS_HELP_STRING/ + set DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS in top-level makefile + simplify "clean" in tests/Makefile.am + update po/POTFILES.in + use dist_example_DATA + use dist_noinst_DATA to work around the bug with dist_man_MANS + use dist_noinst_HEADERS in include/Makefile.am + use dist_usrbinexec_SCRIPTS in misc-utils/Makefile.am + check exit status of autotools +cal: + fix a segfault and -3m highlighting + ifdef cleanup, non-curses/tempcap code fixes + widechar code cleanup +cfdisk: + build-sys defines HAVE_RPMATCH, not HAVE_rpmatch + fix stupid typo in GPT checker call +chsh: + remove tailing wihit-spaces and use PATH_BSHELL +col: + getwchar() errors shouldn't be hidden +ddate: + fix compiler warnings +docs: + add the DEPRECATED file + clean up TODO file and add a new resuest for 2.14 + fix info about devel/master branchs + fix URL and typos in README.devel + refresh AUTHORS file + remove deprecated section from README + update AUTHORS file + update TODO file +fdisk: + add GPT detection code + add MAC label detection + cleanup full disk detection code + fix "differ in signedness" compiler warnings + fix "type qualifiers ignored on function return type" + Makefile.am refactoring + many significant improvements and fixes to Sun label handling + move duplicate stuff from fdisk*label.h to fdisk.h + use unsigned long long instead int for sectors +getopt: + remove old unused files +hexdump: + don't use memset with zero lenght +hwclock: + add --rtc=<path> option and support for /dev/rtc0 + add support for audit system + fix --systohc sets clock 0.5 seconds slow + make ggc happy and check return values from fgets, read and write + remove tailing white-spaces and clean up clock.h +ipcs: + add new tests for ipcs limits + add regression test for output headers + fix typo in Semaphore headers + max total shared memory in kbytes instead pages +login: + add audit support + add IPv6 support + add regression test for IP address checking code + attempt to run if it has no read/write access to its terminal + close PAM session after failed pam_setcred + improve work with signals + keep syslog useful for end of PAM session. + login's timeout can fail + omits PAM account validation when auth is skipped (CVE-2006-7108) + remove triiling white-spaces + update 32bit utmp correctly on 64bit system +look: + fix problem with !isalnum() words + remove tailing white-spaces +losetup: + add a new option -s + add -a option to list all used loop devices + add long options and fix man page + add support read-only loops + add to man page info about deprecated cryptoloop +man pages: + add "AVAILABILITY" section +mcookie: + remove non-linux code +misc-utils: + add scriptreplay manpage + remove old cal test +mkfs.cramfs: + cleanup HAVE_ macros usage + fix a way how mkfs works with empty files + remove hardcoded limit for directories +mkswap: + add regression test + automatically add selinux label to swapfile + avoid mkswap usage on already mounted device + gcc happy: unsigned long usage + fix libuuid usage in mkswap +more: + fix file descriptor leak +mount: + add note about /etc/mtab unreliability to mount.8 + add note about fcntl/ioctl unreliability on NFS to mount.8 + add -s and -f and note to man page for external mount helpers + add simple (printf-like) debug routine and --debug option + add support for context, fscontext and defcontext selinux mount options + add support for mixed usage of SPECes + add support for mtab "uhelper" option + avoid duplicate entries in mtab when mount -f + call /sbin/mount.<type> also when mounting without "-t" + clean up getfs* (fstab.c) interface + clean up info about NFS in mount.8 + doesn't rpc_pipefs and nfsd on umount -a + do not treat arm/sparc specially. + don't umount sysfs when running umount -a + fix -fv so that it doesn't incorrectly spit out an error that nothing was done. + fix has_* functions (CVE-2007-0822) + fix list logic in update_mtab + fix memory usage in update_mtab + fix mtab_lock + fix typo in error message + fsprobe: add libvolume_id support + fsprobe: add libvolume_id support to configure.ac + fsprobe: make fsprobe_get_devname functions more generic + fsprobe: remove mount_guess_fstype.{c,h} + fsprobe: remove non-blkid code + fsprobe: rename files to fsprobe_* + fsprobe: rename the rest of API routines to fsprobe_* + fsprobe: use blkid cache only when really necessary + getfs_* (fstab) interface has to work with canonicalize() + kill mount_guess_rootdev + loop device race condition + needs to handle special mountprog even on guessed file systems. + parse SPEC before search in fstab + relative atime support + remove all NFS code + remove nfsmount() from sundries.h + rewrite getfs_by_specdir() without mem leaks + shared-subtree support + update mtab correctly when mount --move + use encoded labels for volume_id + use growable string for options + use loop= option when mounting by /sbin/mount.<type> + use realloc for xstrconcat functions + use verbose mode instead debug mode +namei: + fix logic and infinite loop of symlinks + new regression test +newgrp: + add support for /etc/gshadow + check result from getgrnam() more carefully +partx: + add man pages for addpart, delpart and partx +po: + rename mount/mntent.c to mount/mount_mntent.c + typo in french translation of mount error. + update po files + vipw doesn't use rpmatch, all translations have to use y/n +raw: + add file with udev rule example + don't accept raw0 as a target name + move the raw command to /sbin + update man page (about dd and O_DIRECT) +schedutils: + add support for SCHED_BATCH + define SCHED_BATCH when compile with old glibc + remove extra hyptens from man pages + taskset is independent of hardcoded NR_CPUS max + fix ionice build on sparc +setarch: + add NLS support +sfdisk: + fix "differ in signedness" compiler warnings + fix "may be used uninitialized" compiler warnings + setting default geometry values +swapon: + cleanup PATH_ macros and tailing white-spaces + does not correctly deal with symlinks + fix swapon headers and syscalls + simplify an #if +sys-utils: + added setarch command + add note about obsolete ramsize option to rdev.8 + fix man page headers + move some man pages from category 8 to 1 +tests: + add basic infrastructure for regression tests + add cal -1 test + add cal -3 test + add cal -y test + add expected outputs for cramfs + add functions for label, uuid and fstype detection + add hwclock systohc test + add library for LD_PRELOAD to manipulate with time() in tests + add lock_mtab() performance and reliability test + add look test for words with separator + add missing header + add mkfs.cramfs tests + add more variants to {mount,fstab}-by-{label,uuid,devname} + add mount by devname from fstab + add mount by devname test + add mount by devname with label in fstab + add mount by devname with uuid in fstab + add mount by label from fstab test + add mount by LABEL test + add mount by label with devname in fstab + add mount by label with uuid in fstab + add mount by UUID from fstab test + add mount by UUID test + add mount by uuid with devname in fstab + add mount by uuid with label in fstab + add mount /dev/symlink test + add mount --move test + add mount -o remount test + add return code + add simple helper that returns info about system + add support for fstab modification + add support for suid programs + add swapon by devname test + add swapon by UUID test + add test for /sbin/mount.<type> call + add ts_log and --verbose support + add ts_ok and ts_failed + cleanup blkid cache after test device deinitialization + code refactoring -- new ts_device_init function + code refactoring -- new ts_skip_nonroot function + code refactoring -- new ts_udev_loop_support function + enable mtablock test when uid=0 only + fix argv[] usage in mnt_test_sysinfo.c + fix dependence on blkid + fix Makefile.am (add missing tests) + fix ts_fstab_add function + "if [...]" clean up + make clean need to remove diffs and outputs + pass all arguments to ts_init, add ts_has_option function + refresh mtablock output in expected/ directory + simplify devices usage +text-utils: + fix the more command compilation against termcap +tools: + add codecheck-config that checks for {HAVE,ENABLE}_ orphans +vipw: + fix permissions (600->400) for edited /etc/[g]shodow files +wall: + fix O_NONBLOCK usage +misc: + Clean up pagesize/PAGE_SIZE usage. + clean up realpath.[ch] includes and macros + execl() should be use NULL not 0 + |