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util-linux 2.23-rc2: Apr 10 2013
* see Documentation/releases/v2.23-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.23/v2.23-rc2-ChangeLog
util-linux 2.23-rc1: Mar 22 2013
* see Documentation/releases/v2.23-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.23/v2.23-rc1-ChangeLog
util-linux 2.22: Sep 04 2012
* see Documentation/releases/v2.22-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.22/v2.22-ChangeLog
util-linux 2.22-rc2: Aug 15 2012
* see Documentation/releases/v2.22-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.22/v2.22-rc2-ChangeLog
util-linux 2.22-rc1: Jul 27 2012
* see Documentation/releases/v2.22-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.22/v2.22-rc1-ChangeLog
util-linux 2.21: Feb 24 2012
* see Documentation/releases/v2.21-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.21/v2.21-ChangeLog
util-linux 2.21-rc2: Feb 06 2012
* see Documentation/releases/v2.21-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.21/v2.21-rc2-ChangeLog
util-linux 2.21-rc1: Jan 18 2012
* see Documentation/releases/v2.21-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.21/v2.21-rc1-ChangeLog
util-linux 2.20: Aug 29 2011
* see docs/v2.20-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.20/v2.20-ChangeLog
util-linux 2.20-rc2: Aug 17 2011
* see docs/v2.20-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.20/v2.20-rc2-ChangeLog
util-linux 2.20-rc1: Jul 29 2011
* see Documentation/releases/v2.20-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.20/v2.20-rc1-ChangeLog
util-linux 2.19: Feb 10 2011
* see Documentation/releases/v2.19-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.19/v2.19-ChangeLog
util-linux 2.19-rc3: Jan 25 2011
* see Documentation/releases/v2.19-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.19/v2.19-rc3-ChangeLog
util-linux 2.19-rc2: Jan 25 2011
* see Documentation/releases/v2.19-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.19/v2.19-rc2-ChangeLog
util-linux 2.19-rc1: Jan 05 2011
* see Documentation/releases/v2.19-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.19/v2.19-rc1-ChangeLog
util-linux-ng 2.18: Jun 30 2010
* see Documentation/releases/v2.18-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.18/v2.18-ChangeLog
util-linux-ng 2.18-rc2: Jun 18 2010
* see Documentation/releases/v2.18-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.18/v2.18-rc2-ChangeLog
util-linux-ng 2.18-rc1: Jun 7 2010
* see Documentation/releases/v2.18-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.18/v2.18-rc1-ChangeLog
util-linux-ng 2.17: Jan 8 2010
* see Documentation/releases/v2.17-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.17/v2.17-ChangeLog
util-linux-ng 2.17-rc3: Dec 10 2009
* see Documentation/releases/v2.17-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.17/v2.17-rc3-ChangeLog
util-linux-ng 2.17-rc2: Dec 9 2009
* see Documentation/releases/v2.17-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.17/v2.17-rc2-ChangeLog
util-linux-ng 2.17-rc1: Nov 20 2009
* see Documentation/releases/v2.17-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.17/v2.17-rc1-ChangeLog
util-linux-ng 2.16: Jul 2009
* see Documentation/releases/v2.16-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.16/v2.16-ChangeLog
util-linux-ng 2.16-rc2: Jul 2 2009
* see Documentation/releases/v2.16-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.16/v2.16-rc2-ChangeLog
util-linux-ng 2.16-rc1: Jun 28 2009
* see Documentation/releases/v2.16-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.16/v2.16-rc1-ChangeLog
util-linux-ng 2.15: May 5 2009
* see Documentation/releases/v2.15-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.15/v2.15-ChangeLog
util-linux-ng 2.15-rc2: Apr 17 2009
* see Documentation/releases/v2.15-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.15/v2.15-rc2-ChangeLog
util-linux-ng 2.15-rc1: Mar 18 2009
* see Documentation/releases/v2.15-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.15/v2.15-rc1-ChangeLog
util-linux-ng 2.14: Jun 9 2008
* see Documentation/releases/v2.14-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.14/v2.14-ChangeLog
util-linux-ng 2.14-rc3
* see Documentation/releases/v2.14-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.14/v2.14-rc3-ChangeLog
util-linux-ng 2.14-rc2
* see Documentation/releases/v2.14-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.14/v2.14-rc2-ChangeLog
util-linux-ng 2.14-rc1
* see Documentation/releases/v2.14-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.14/v2.14-rc1-ChangeLog
util-linux-ng 2.13
* see Documentation/releases/v2.13-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.13/v2.13-ChangeLog
util-linux-ng 2.13-rc3
* see Documentation/releases/v2.13-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.13/v2.13-rc3-ChangeLog
util-linux-ng 2.13-rc2
* see Documentation/releases/v2.13-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.13/v2.13-rc2-ChangeLog
util-linux-ng 2.13-rc1
* see Documentation/releases/v2.13-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.13/v2.13-rc1-ChangeLog
util-linux 2.13-pre7
* mount: default to cifs instead of smbfs for sources
starting with // (Lars Mueller)
* flock: documentation updates (H. Peter Anvin)
* new translation: id
* updated translations: de, it, sl, uk
util-linux 2.13-pre6
* getopt: updated to 1.1.4
* replaced all *llseek variants with lseek
* misc build system, code and docs cleanups and fixes
* updated translations: fr, it
util-linux 2.13-pre5
* {fsck,mkfs}.cramfs: updated to cramfs-1.1
* {fsck,mkfs}.cramfs: removed PAGE_CACHE_SIZE usage
* umount: fix "umount -n -r" (Derick Swanepoel)
* misc build system and code cleanups and fixes
* updated translation: ca
util-linux 2.13-pre4
* don't build fdisk on m68k (Mike Frysinger)
* misc build system and documentation fixes
* removed program: clear
util-linux 2.13-pre3
* misc buld system fixes
* cfdisk: fix a segfault with ReiserFS partitions
* umount: disallow -r option for non-root users
* updated translations: da, fr, it, nl, ru, sl, tr
util-linux 2.13-pre2
* flock: replaced with flock-2.0.2 by H. Peter Anvin
* misc build system fixes, libtool is no longer used
* misc code fixes
* updated translations: ca, fi, fr, nl, ru, tr
util-linux 2.13-pre1
* use GNU autoconf/automake/libtool for building
* added schedutils
* removed support for curses implementations other than ncurses
* removed programs: arch, passwd, rescuept, setfdprm, sln
* removed mkminix-0.1/
* misc fixes and documentation updates
* new translation: vi
* updated translations: ca, de, fi, fr, it, nl, ru, tr
util-linux 2.12q
* updated translation: nl
util-linux 2.12q-pre2
* sfdisk: document -G option in --help output
* updated translations: ca, et, fr
util-linux 2.12q-pre1
* new maintainer
* sfdisk: add -G option (Andries Brouwer)
* updated translations: de, es, ru, sv, tr
util-linux 2.12p
* cfdisk: fix number of new partition when partitions not in disk order
* fdisk: fix Sun label handling in sector mode
* mkfs: never truncate filename (not that that ever happened)
* more: fix redraw flaw
util-linux 2.12n,o
* lomount: revert patch from 2.12j
* lptune.8: -T option is obsolete
* mkswap, mkswap.8, swapon: support labels
(use HAVE_BLKID=no as long as the blkid library doesn't support this)
* umount: allow user unmounting repeatedly mounted nfs mounts
util-linux 2.12m
* cfdisk: recognize JFS, support reiserfs labels ([email protected])
* mount: fix option parsing bug
* mount.8: several updates
* swapon.8: document -v option
util-linux 2.12l
* Makefile: remove cat-id-tbl.c upon make clean
* fdisk: fixed a bug that would cause a non-update of a sun disklabel
* fdisk: use sectorsize instead of 512 for SGI (Eric Y. Theriault)
* fdisk: use __attribute__((packed)) for alpha, ARM: avoid unaligned accesses
* hwclock: actually use HAVE_tm_gmtoff
* swapon: fix priority handling
* umount: refuse to unmount an empty string
util-linux 2.12k
* cfdisk: fixed a signed character bug causing problems for Spanish users
* configure, MCONFIG: detect gcc 3.4.0 and use -mtune option (Matthew Burgess)
* configure: do not run ./conftest (for cross compilation) (NIIBE Yutaka)
* fsck.cramfs: try to get correct PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
* losetup: try to give better error messages
* readprofile: default map file is /boot/System.map
* rdev.8: added historical info on ramdisk
* New French, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish messages
util-linux 2.12j
* cal: highlight today (Pádraig Brady)
* lomount: stop reading passwd at NUL, fix lo_encrypt key_size (Wolfram Kleff)
* losetup: add -f option to find an unused loop device
(Alexander Wigen, Remco van Mook)
* more: code cleanup (Joachim Henke)
* mount: add "group" mount option (Martin Dickopp)
* sfdisk: fix 2.6.8 BLKRRPART ioctl damage (Eric Lammerts)
* swapon: let swapon -a skip the swapfiles marked "noauto" (Dale R. Worley)
* umount: fix problem with empty mtab (Bryan Kadzban)
* umount: use special umount program if it exists (Ram Pai)
* New Danish and French messages
util-linux 2.12i
* MCONFIG: fix build conditions
* chfn, chsh: add error checking
* cytune: use local header cyclades.h
* fdisk: fix default SGI volume header size (Eric Sandeen)
* fstab.c: use strsignal() instead of sys_siglist[]
* hwclock: use <sys/io.h> when available on i386
* hwclock: dont try KDGHWCLK on archs other than __m68k__
* sfdisk: correct typo in __attribute__used nonsense
* sfdisk: use PACKED on __arm__ (Jeroen Dobbelaere)
* sfdisk: fix warning printout
util-linux 2.12e,f,g,h
* cfdisk: avoid crash if no partition table
* elvtune: tell user that this only works on 2.4 kernels
* lomount: clear passwords after use
* mount: accept comments (introduced by \;) in fstab - withdrawn again
* mount: accept comments (specified by comment=) in fstab
* mount: support ocfs, ocfs2
* [u]mount: be more careful with malloc, try to avoid OOM with many mounts
* sfdisk: __attribute__used nonsense to support gcc 3.4
* shutdown: do not unmount various virtual filesystems
util-linux 2.12c,d
* mount.8: added recent ext2 mount options
* mount: support jfs mount-by-label, improve reiserfs support
* sfdisk: remove strange "ends in a digit" heuristic
* *fdisk: use common disksize() routine
util-linux 2.12b
* chsh: improved error message
* dmesg: ask kernel proper buffer size
* losetup: handle 64-bit offsets
* blockdev: also report BLKGETSIZE64 result
* blockdev, elvtune, fdisk: handle new kernel _IOR,_IOW defines
* fdisk: remove strange "ends in a digit" heuristic
* fdisk: also list Solaris as possible type for 0x82
* mount: added --rbind option
* mount: use blkid, uuid libraries when available
* mount: support reiserfs mount by label
* mount: attempt to use the right definition of dev_t in struct loopinfo
* mount.8: jfs mount options added
* readprofile: new -s option
* rename.1: added ref to mmv.1
* replay: renamed to scriptreplay; correct typos
* script: do not use locale for time delay floating point number format
* sfdisk: error messages to stderr
* New Catalan, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish,
Ukrainian messages
util-linux 2.12a
* chfn, chsh, login, vipw: SElinux support
* fdisk: fix for kernels 2.4.15-2.4.17
* fdisk: fix when all partitions are in use
* hwclock: add a timeout when waiting for a clock update (Göran Weinholt)
* ipcs: compilation fix
* ipcs: shminfo.shmall gives pages
* login: use getutline() instead of getutid()
* login: fix for 64-bit time_t
* mount: efs support
* partx: bigendian fix
* readprofile: support for 64-bit addresses
* setterm: fix klogctl error message (Joern Heissler)
* setterm.1: clarification
* sfdisk: fix check for is_ide_cdrom_or_tape
* umount: skip proc, devfs, devpts on umount -a
util-linux 2.12
* losetup: cryptoloop support
* losetup: -p option specifies fd for passphrase
* fdisk: sgi layout fix
* mount: -p option specifies fd for passphrase
* mount: recognize some PCDOS floppies
* umount: in "umount name", first try to interpret "name" as a mount point
util-linux 2.12pre
* Catalan messages (Antoni Bella Pérez)
* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
* Dutch messages (Taco Witte)
* Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
* French messages (Michel Robitaille)
* German messages (Michael Piefel)
* Slovenian messages (Primož Peterlin)
* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
* cfdisk: localize the Y/N answer, improve printing localized messages
* cfdisk: make various variables long long - some disks are close to 2 TB
* cfdisk: use BLKGETSIZE64
* fdisk: make various variables unsigned to lengthen the life of 32-bit vars
* fdisk: some sgi fixes (Phillip Kesling)
* fdisk: k=1000, K=1024
* fdisk: removed last occurrences of HDIO_REQ
* fdisk: use BLKGETSIZE64
* hwclock: fix rtc test (Heiko Zuerker)
* login: set a timeout on printing the timeout message (Robert Ambrose)
* md5: x86_64 fix (mmj)
* more: POSIX fixes
* mount: do not supply MS_MGC_VAL when there are conflicting flags
* mount: ncp and smb are called smbfs and ncpfs - global change
* mount: add support for xvm mount by label (Eric Sandeen)
* mount: correct hfs magic recognition
* mount: keep original umask - it influences the mount call (mmj)
* raw.8: documented unbinding of raw devices
* readprofile: fixed off-by eight error (Werner Almesberger)
* script: add -c option (Wayne Davison)
* sfdisk.8: added an example of partitioning with logical partitions
* sfdisk: only add a AA55 signature for DOS-type partition tables
* tailf: new (Rik Faith)
util-linux 2.11z
* Catalan messages (Antoni Bella Pérez)
* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
* Dutch messages (Taco Witte)
* Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
* French messages (Michel Robitaille) - HURRAY!
* German messages (Michael Piefel)
* Slovenian messages (Primož Peterlin)
* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
* getopt: replaced getopt-1.1.2 by getopt-1.1.3 (Frodo Looijaard)
* mkcramfs: change default blocksize for ia64 and alpha
* more.help: removed (it is built-in now, and translated)
* mount: add -i option (inhibit calling external mount programs)
* mount: change default: do resolve symlinks
* readprofile: look for System.map also in /boot/System.map-`uname -r` (mmj)
* sfdisk: also translate "start" and "end"; s/MB/MiB/
util-linux 2.11y
* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
* Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
* German messages (Michael Piefel)
* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
* cfdisk: improve escape seq recognition when compiled with slang
* fdisk: decimal units
* hwclock/rtc.c: minor cleanup (Joachim Henke)
* ipcs: compilation fix
* more: kill external help file (Joachim Henke)
* mount: fix LABEL= handling for user umount
* mount: don't abort on read error on photocds (György Kövesdi)
* mount.8: add dmask and fmask vfat mount options
* pg: compilation fix (Joachim Henke)
* script: localized time strings (Göran Uddeborg)
* setterm: accept devfs name (Joachim Henke)
* simpleinit: security: refuse initctl_fd if setting FD_CLOEXEC fails
* umount: allow user umount after mount by label or uuid
util-linux 2.11x
* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
* Dutch messages (Taco Witte)
* Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
* German messages (Michael Piefel)
* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
* cfdisk: correct error printout
* fdisk: allow addition of a new partition when logicals all used
but primary free
* hwclock: detect systime jumps backward during setting hwclock
* mkfs.cramfs: do not mmap all files simultaneously
* mkfs.cramfs: make blocksize settable
* mkfs.minix: correct error printout
* mkswap.8: now max 32 swapspaces
* mount: new --rbind flag, for recursive loopback mounts
* mount, umount: new -O option (Michael K. Johnson)
* mount.8: -O and win95 options documented
* setpwnam.c: open temp pw file with O_EXCL
* simpleinit: fix for "spawn too fast" (Denis Vlasenko)
* swapon: new -e option (Erik Troan)
util-linux 2.11w
* cfdisk, fdisk: allow slightly larger disk sizes
* fdisk: Makefile: also for m68 (sun3) (Kaj-Michael Lang)
* fdisk: allow to use the last partial cylinder, change display format
* fdisk: do not ask partition number in case there is only one choice
* fdisk: new sunlabel fix
* login: fix possible local root exploit (Wojciech Purczyński)
* more: bigendian fix
util-linux 2.11v
* Catalan messages (Antoni Bella Pérez)
* Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
* Very few Russian messages ([email protected])
* Slovenian messages (Primož Peterlin)
* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
* fdisk: add -C, -H, -S command line options
* fdisk: allow changing type 0
* mkswap: enable use of > 2GB swapspace
* more: translation fix
* mount: set umask (Sebastian Krahmer)
* mount: test both le and be version of cramfs magic (Olaf Hering)
* mount: recognize Oracle magic
* pg: use fseeko64 and ftello64 when available
util-linux 2.11u
* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
* German messages (Michael Piefel)
* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
* configure: for fsck.cramfs, mkfs.cramfs: add test for libz
* text-utils/Makefile: pg fix (Toomas Rosin)
* po/Makefile: typo fix (Silvan Minghetti)
* agetty: use same test as login does to find utmp entry
* fdisk: fix for fdisk on empty disk (Michael D. Black)
* hwclock: compilation fix on alpha
* mount: add mount by label for jfs (Christoph Hellwig)
* mount: add mount by label for evms (Luciano Chavez)
* mount: allow regular files when guessing (Michal Svec)
* partx/gpt.c: fix size computation (Matt Domsch)
* readprofile: new option -b (David Mosberger)
* umount: don't umount devfs upon umount -a (David Gilbert)
util-linux 2.11t
* fdformat: remove test on major
* fsck.cramfs: added NLS
* fdisk: fix device names with sundisklabels under devfs (Kaj-Michael Lang)
* fdisk: minor polishing
* hwclock: also handle ENOTTY ioctl return (Maciej W. Rozycki)
* hwclock: minor polishing
* ipcrm.8: minor polishing
* mkfs.cramfs: added NLS
* mkfs.cramfs: added -v (verbose) option, and made default silent
* mount: patch for make -j (RedHat)
* swapoff: minor polishing
util-linux 2.11s
* Estonian messages (Meelis Roos)
* French messages: some minor corrections
* German messages (Michael Piefel)
* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
* MCONFIG: allow "make DISABLE_NLS=yes <target>" (Peter Breitenlohner)
* configure: don't run ./conftest - better for cross-compilation (Magnus Damm)
* fdisk: fixes for disks with OSF/1 label
* fsck.cramfs: new (from kernel source)
* hwclock: improved adjtime handling (James P. Rutledge)
* hwclock: remove shhopts stuff
* ipcs: remove unused heading (Michael Kerrisk)
* line: replace by C version - the sh version was broken (Gunnar Ritter)
* login: default root path: added /usr/local/[s]bin (RedHat)
* mkfs.cramfs: new (from kernel source)
* mount: when no type is known, assume that prefix // implies samba (RedHat)
* mount -a: avoid stat on devices that have noauto option (Jeroen Mostert)
* mount by label: ignore RAID partitions (RedHat)
* [u]mount: fstab.c fix ([email protected])
* pg: new (Gunnar Ritter)
* sfdisk: small BSD partition fix
* swapoff -a: also do swapoff on all files found in /proc/swaps
* swapon -a: skip files already found in /proc/swaps
util-linux 2.11r
* Estonian messages (Meelis Roos)
* German messages (Michael Piefel)
* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
* MCONFIG: move $(CFLAGS) to the end to allow overrides (Kevin P. Fleming)
* cal: tiny fix (Mitsuru Chinen)
* fdisk: avoid <linux/hdreg.h>
* fdisk: x86_64 patch (Mads Martin Jørgensen)
* hwclock.8: zoneinfo is now in /usr/share
* mkswap: report in KiB instead of bytes.
util-linux 2.11q
* fdisk: geometry improvement
* login: open tty fix (Denis Vlasenko)
* more: wide character patches (Mitsuru Chinen)
* mount: complain on mount-by-label when label is not unique (Matt Copping)
* partx: add GUID Partition Tables (Matt Domsch)
util-linux 2.11p
* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
* German messages (Karl Eichwalder)
* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
* ipcrm: make POSIX compatible (Andre Corwin Mazzone)
* ipcrm.8: idem
* kill: fixed Makefile
* login: setsid fixes
* mkswap: max size of swap space is very large (Peter Chubb)
* mount: JFS support for mount-by-label (hch)
* nfsmount: check for <rpcsvc/nfs_prot.h> (hch)
* readprofile: keep track of line numbers (John Levon)
* umount: fix for MNT_DETACH
util-linux 2.11o
* Estonian messages (Meelis Roos)
* Japanese messages (Daisuke Yamashita)
* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
* cal: option -s: Sunday is first day of the week
* cal.1: updated
* cfdisk: give not only bytes but also MB or GB for clarity.
* colrm: wide character fix (Elliot Lee)
* *fdisk: added Darwin types (Vincent Bourgonjen)
* fstab.5: updated
* hexdump: -C option
* hwclock: cmos.c: do not include <asm/io.h> on alpha
* mount: improved detection of ufs (and slowdown of detection of iso9660)
* mount.8: added info on * in /etc/filesystems, shortname option of vfat,
mount --move, udf, return codes
* raw: try /dev/raw/rawctl when /dev/rawctl fails (Thierry Vignaud)
* rc.serial: removed - setserial is no longer in util-linux (kromJx)
* README.admutil: removed - only of historical interest
* README.bootutils-0.1: removed - only of historical interest
* script: security fix
* sfdisk: improved geometry detection; wider columns; default disks from
/proc/partitions
* umount: permission test owner umount
* wall.1: added suid restriction
util-linux 2.11n
* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
* German messages (Karl Eichwalder)
* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
* Turkish messages now in UTF-8 (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
* blockdev: add --report option
* cal: fix for wide multibyte-char (Motonobu Ichimura)
* cfdisk: recognize ext3 and reiserfs (Flavio Stanchina)
* fsck.minix: i18n changes
* ipc.{info,texi}: minor correction
* login: compilation fix (Jaroslaw J. Pyszny)
* mount.8: tmpfs mount options (Karl Eichwalder)
* mount: recognize minix v2
* mount: support mount-by-label also for lvm (Kirby Bohling)
* mount: order guessing of fstypes according to seek offset
* pivot_root: compilation fix for ia64
* readprofile: byte order auto-detection (Werner Almesberger)
util-linux 2.11m
* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
* German messages (Karl Eichwalder)
* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
* fdisk: added netbsd type (Steven J. Hill)
* more: fix for unsigned char (Rusty Russell)
* mount: added sysv magic (Tim Launchbury)
* setterm: fixed "setterm -foreground default"
util-linux 2.11l
* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
* banner: removed - it is in bsdgames
* fdisk: show partitions with empty type but some other nonzero field
* login: copy the static struct that getpwnam() returns before calling
PAM routines that might themselves use getpwnam(). Abort on problems.
(Olaf Kirch)
* mount: added jfs magic (Christoph Hellwig)
* renice: report the correct new priority after a setpriority()
* umount: add lazy unmount (Christoph Hellwig)
util-linux 2.11k
Various potential buffer overflows were pointed out by [email protected].
Fixes in agetty, hwclock, namei, readprofile, simpleinit, vipw.
(Also added a few [f]close() calls - entirely superfluously.)
* agetty: avoid possible buffer overflow
* cfdisk: recognize xfs (Nathan Scott)
* cytune: added close()
* fdformat: added close()
* fdisk: added fclose()
* hwclock: avoid possible buffer overflow
* mkfs.minix: added fclose()
* mount: remove the assumption that 635 is the default mount port
* namei: avoid possible buffer overflow
* rdev: added closedir()
* readprofile: avoid possible buffer overflow
* sfdisk: added fclose()
* simpleinit: avoid possible buffer overflow
* swapon: added fclose()
* umount: use tcp when mount was done using tcp (James D Strandboge)
* vipw: avoid possible buffer overflow
util-linux 2.11j
* fdisk: fix for AIX label (Olaf Hering)
* fdisk: fix for creating DOS label when BSD label is present
* mount.8: added remark about blocksize to ext2 sb= mount option description.
* partitiontype: new, not installed
util-linux 2.11i
* testincl: do not run conftest (Brian Murphy)
* blockdev: corrected ioctl numbers now that BLKBSZGET is in 2.4.10pre3
* cal: fixed for Hungarian locale
* cal: fixed for multibyte locales (Pablo Saratxaga)
* fdisk: avoid superfluous warning about DOS partitions
* line: new, to support SCO shell scripts (Christoph Hellwig)
* mount: added vxfs magic
* passwd: tiny fix for ARM (Ken Cox)
* replay: replay typescript with timings (Joey Hess)
* script: add -t flag for timing (Joey Hess)
util-linux 2.11h
* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
* banner: minor fix ([email protected])
* mkfs.minix: minix v2 fix
* more.1: improved (Edward Betts)
* mount.8: corrected description of the nwfs uni_xlate mount option
* vipw: make temp files of mode 0600 (Bill Nottingham)
* wall: avoid writing to /dev/:0
util-linux 2.11g
* MCONFIG & configure: fix for gcc 3.0
Note that nfsmount_xdr.c may give warnings with gcc 3.0, essentially
because of defines in <rpc/xdr.h> that use things like ntohl(*buf++)
where ntohl(x) is a macro with several occurrences of x.
* blockdev: support for the get/set blocksize ioctls
[not yet in the 2.4.5 kernel]
* fdisk: added Linux/PA-RISC type (Matt Taggart)
* mount: minor fix (Andrey J. Melnikoff)
* mount: added some ext3 stuff (Andrew Morton)
* mount: added heuristics for reiserfs (Andrew Morton)
* mount.8: added ext3 and reiserfs docs (Andrew Morton)
util-linux 2.11f
* Czech messages (Jiří Pavlovský)
* fdisk: fix for "reorder" expert command
(use of sfdisk afterwards is still recommended)
* mount: minor fixes
util-linux 2.11e
* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
* Brazilian Portuguese messages (Rodrigo Stulzer Lopes)
* agetty: give tty mode 0600 instead of 0622
* cal: improved manpage
* cfdisk: add user-friendliness in case of empty disk (Matthew Wilcox)
* dmesg: improved manpage
* fdisk: SuperH fix (ISHIKAWA Mutsumi)
* hwclock: accept alpha options in both upper and lower case
(so as to make the man page correct)
* hwclock: add option --noadjtime (Henrique M. Holschuh)
* login: child must have controlling tty (Michał Moskal)
* more: don't seek unseekable input (David Whedon)
* mount: upon request by Richard Gooch: if the mount point is specified
as symlink, put symlink, not actual mount point in mtab.
(This avoids the long and ugly devfs names, but may break things.
Please complain in case of problems.)
* mount: with mount -a -t nfs:
if we used fallback to nfs v3, don't do so for subsequent mounts
* mount: add heuristics for ext3 (Andrew Morton)
* mount: added quota info to mount.8
* mount: allow comma-separated type lists, also in fstab
* raw: small fix for ppc
util-linux 2.11d
* fdisk: fix for OSF (Will Woods)
* chsh: compilation fix (Ronald Wahl)
util-linux 2.11c
* Czech messages (Jiří Pavlovský)
* German messages (Elrond)
* Makefile/MCONFIG improvements (Peter Breitenlohner)
* fdisk: added a few partition types
* fdisk: correct partition numbering for sgi partitions (Nathan Scott)
* fdisk: make it compile on hppa by arbitrarily treating hppa like powerpc
(Matt Taggart)
* fsck.minix: improved localisation (Elrond)
* getopt: updated to version 1.1.2 (Frodo Looijaard)
* hwclock: fixes for IA64 (Thorsten Kukuk)
* hwclock: use /dev/vc/1 when devfs is used (Thomas Koeller)
* hwclock: more devfs support (e.g. /dev/misc/rtc)
* ipcs: add spaces in output (DeWitt Clinton),
correct some error messages (Bobby de Vos)
* login: fix TIOCNOTTY (Andreas Haumer, Adam J. Richter)
* login: add btmp logging of unsuccessful login attempts (Erik Troan)
* login: avoid a SIGHUP race with PAM enabled (Peter 'Luna' Runestig)
* login: copy the static result returned by gethostbyname to avoid
corruption by pam_authenticate via pam_ldap (Andreas Damm)
* login: removed the REDHAT_IGNORED_MAILSIZE hack
* login: unconditionally do vhangup
* login: zero PAM_USER when no username was given (Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz)
* look: dictionary now under /usr/share (Erik Troan)
* mount: add sanitize_env() (Solar Designer)
* mount: another heuristic for vfat (Michal Svec)
* mount: xfs magic has only one endianness (Nathan Scott)
* mount: return failure when tcp used and portmap returns 0 (H. J. Lu)
* rdev: allow unlimited recursion to find the long devfs names
Also, allow major,minor pair the specify device (request by Russell Coker)
* readprofile: array bound check (Andrew Morton)
* script: transmit window changes to child (Joey Hess)
* sfdisk: endian fix for ppc (Gregory Geiselhart)
* sfdisk: new feature: sign is offset from default (Byron Stanoszek)
* sfdisk: add some default devices to list (Luca Montecchiani)
* sfdisk: no partition table on ide tape
* shutdown: close files, unblock signals (Richard Gooch)
* simpleinit: block signals in handlers; add no_reboot option (Richard Gooch)
* swapdev: deleted, it was last used with Linux 0.12.
* umount: mips does support umount2 (Maciej W. Rozycki)
* umount: add sanitize_env() (Solar Designer)
* umount: fix exit status
* wall: do not forget 80th character (Thorsten Kukuk)
util-linux 2.11b:
* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
* umount: mips does not support umount2 (Christoph Martin)
* fdisk: tiny fix
* mount.8: adfs options documented, xfs corrected
util-linux 2.11a:
* tsort: deleted - it is part of GNU textutils 2.0
* mount: fix rootdev() (Richard Kettlewell)
* mount: fix gid of mtab file
* mount: try /proc/filesystems after /etc/filesystems if the latter ends in "*"
* fdisk: added a few system types
util-linux 2.11:
* Jump to 2.11 to note that libc-4.5.26 is no longer supported,
and we require libc-4.6.27 (since now snprintf is used).
Also, kbdrate has now been removed. Find it in kbd-1.05.
Added -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 to CFLAGS.
* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
* fdisk: avoid loop in case of extended without logical
* ipcs: corrected interchanged report on msg_rtime/msg_stime (Arun Kumar U)
* kill: updated manpage
* last: very much faster with mmap (Marek Zelem)
* login: Applied PAM patch by David MacKenzie <[email protected]>
* login: do a setsid in the child (Erik Troan)
* mount: make "mount 192.168.1.8:/ /a -o bg" work again (Bjoern Voigt)
* mount: added constant MS_MOVE
* readprofile: added -M option, updated manpage (Andrew Morton)
* setsid: fork when it would fail otherwise (John Fremlin)
* simpleinit: updated (Richard Gooch et al.)
* vipw: also offer to edit shadow file (Erik Troan)
* xfs docs (Nathan Scott)
util-linux 2.10s:
* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
* fixes to make gcc happy (Joseph S. Myers)
* fix for more on parisc (Richard Hirst)
* change rdev to search subdirectories of /dev (Paul Clements)
* ul fix (Masao Kawamura) - set columns correctly
* cal fix (Brendan Kehoe) - don't overflow weekday array in Gaelic
* fdisk fix ([email protected]) - flush stdout
* fdisk fix - don't forget to write out empty label
* login: make default tty mode 0600
* script: refuse to write typescript if that is a symlink
* script: accept -V to output version
* whereis: also search /usr/share/man.
* hwclock: improve locale handling
* hwclock: fix for Nautilus (Neoklis Kyriazis)
* isosize: new
util-linux 2.10r:
* mount: support mount by uuid or label for xfs (Nathan Scott)
* mount: added probe for minix on bigendian systems (Nathan Scott)
* mount: added probes for cramfs, hfs, hpfs and adfs (Sepp Wijnands)
* mount: change setup; let umount remove at most one line from /etc/mtab
* mount: improve man page
* more, col, colcrt, colrm, column, ul: nls improvements (Masao Kawamura)
util-linux 2.10q:
* mount: accept nonnumeric uid= and gid= options
* write and wall: security improvement
* fixed fdformat flaw (Werner Almesberger)
* use right mountport upon umount (Glenn Lingle)
* simpleinit / need / initctl stuff (Richard Gooch)
* Portuguese messages (Rodrigo Stulzer Lopes et al.)
util-linux 2.10p:
* mount: don't set up a loop file with -o loop,remount (Marc Mutz)
* fdisk: changes for sectorsize different from 512
* more: standout fix (Paul Vojta)
* more: improve usage message (Lincoln Myers)
* logger: Added -d option to use datagrams (Gerwin Pfab)
* cal: Added -3 option to also print prev/next month (Michael Charles Pruznick)
* French messages (Christophe Merlet)
* Japanese messages (Daisuke Yamashita)
util-linux 2.10o:
* fdformat: fixed to work with kernel 2.4.0test6 (Marek Wojtowicz)
* losetup: also return status when only showing loop device status (ewt)
* mount: do not retry ro if mount was ro; improve error message
* login: not installed suid
* getopt: by default install aux files in /usr/share/misc
util-linux 2.10n:
* added blockdev.8
* change to elvtune (andrea)
* fixed overrun in agetty ([email protected])
* shutdown: prefer umounting by mount point (rgooch)
* fdisk: added plan9
* fdisk: remove empty links in chain of extended partitions
* mount: define ALWAYS_STAT
* mount: add replace, after, before, over, bind
* umount: also free loop device when not writing mtab
* lomount: try both /dev/loopN and /dev/loop/N
* hwclock: handle both /dev/rtc and /dev/efirtc (Bill Nottingham)
* script: added -f (flush) option (Ivan Schreter)
* script: added -q (quiet) option (Per Andreas Buer)
* getopt: updated to version 1.1.0 (Frodo Looijaard)
* Czech messages (Jiří Pavlovský)
util-linux 2.10m:
* chfn fix when PAM is used (Martin-D. Lacasse)
* do not use LC_NUMERIC part of locale in hwclock when writing /etc/adjtime
* mount status return from smb or ncp fix (Mark Peloquin)
* mount new option -l: also print label when listing mounts
* mount add heuristic for xfs (Martin K. Petersen)
* mount UUID and label cache (Erik Troan)
* mount improve check for `already mounted' in case of label or uuid
* fdisk partition names more devfs-friendly
* fdisk bsdlabel large disk support
* setterm.1: options documented (Colin Watson)
* rename correction
* German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese messages
(Roger Luethi, Beth Powell, Alvaro Antunes)
util-linux 2.10l:
* Merged losetup.c and lomount.c
* ANSIfied everything
util-linux 2.10k:
* NFS version 4 mount support (Trond Myklebust)
* hwclock fix (Stefan Ring)
* Added -p option to col, as required by SUS (Joseph S. Myers)
util-linux 2.10j:
* fdisk fixes (Michal Jaegermann)
util-linux 2.10i:
* new directory partx (with code to play with, not to use)
* minor fdisk changes
util-linux 2.10h:
* Added pivot_root (Werner Almesberger)
* Added elvtune (Andrea Arcangeli)
* Added need and extended simpleinit and shutdown (Richard Gooch)
* Removed all #include <linux/fs.h>
* errno fixes (Joseph S. Myers)
* IA-64 fixes (Michael K. Johnson)
* fdisk fixes for OSF/1 on Alpha (David Huggins-Daines)
* fdisk sectorsize fix (Greg Hosler)
* mount speed= option to enable mounting bad CDROMs (Marco d'Itri)
* ipcrm deletes several things at once (Frank Zago)
util-linux 2.10g:
* fdisk can now sort partitions into order [untested, beware!]
* Update of mkswap for sparc64 (jj)
* Update of raw (Stephen Tweedie):
Control file was /dev/raw, now /dev/rawctl
Access files were /dev/raw*, now /dev/raw/raw*
* Czech messages (Jiří Pavlovský)
* German messages (Daniel Egger)
* losetup locks memory (Frank v Waveren)
util-linux 2.10f:
* Security fix for mount (okir)
* Avoid infinite loop in namei (Brett Wuth)
* added clock-ppc.c (from Matsuura Takanori), not merged yet
* deleted clockB subdirectory
* recognize mkdosfs string (Michal Svec)
util-linux 2.10e:
* New: rename
* Added option to mkswap so that user can override pagesize
* fdisk -l now reads /proc/partitions when no device was given
* Fixed fdisk.8 (James Manning)
* Added devpts info to mount.8 (Elrond)
* Newline fix for logger output to stdout (Henri Spencer)
util-linux 2.10d:
* Do not try to mount something as udf without good reason
* Do not loop in umount if there is a stale lock file
* Allow fdisk twice as many cylinders
* Fixed non-casefolding search in look (Markus Demleitner)
util-linux 2.10c:
* Various compilation fixes
util-linux 2.10b: