Hi guys, Changelog attached, Thomas wanted to add a patch before moving to core. Util-linux-ng 2.18 Release Notes ================================ The util-linux-ng package does not contain rdev(8), ramsize(8), vidmode(8) and rootflags(8) anymore. The fdisk(8) command does not use DOS-compatible mode and cylinders as display units by default. The old deprecated DOS behavior could be enabled by 'c' and 'u' fdisk commands or from command line by '-c=dos -u=cylinders' options. Release highlights ------------------ libmount: - this NEW LIBRARY is designed to be used in low-level utils like mount(8) and /sbin/mount.<type> helpers as well as in some other projects. - the library API is still officially unstable. The library provides fstab, mtab and mountinfo parser, routines for work with parsed data and mount options, mtab locking, etc. The high-level API for mount(2) is planned for the next major release. For more details see: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/3239 - the utils like mount(8) or umount(8) are not linked with the library yet. This change is planned for util-linux-ng-2.19. findmnt(8): - this NEW COMMAND is a command line interface to the libmount library for work with mountinfo, fstab and mtab files fsfreeze(8): - this NEW COMMAND is very simple wrapper around FIFREEZE/FITHAW ioctls swaplabel(8): - this NEW COMMAND allows to change swaparea UUID and label blkid(8): - supports new command line option "-i" to print I/O Limits - supports new command line option "-n" to restrict probing functions to defined list of superblock types (names). - returns details from partition table (type, flags, uuid, ...) chrt(1): - supports new command line option "-R/--reset-on-fork" to enable SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK flag fdisk(8): - supports new command line option "-c" to switch off DOS mode - uses 1MiB offset for the first partition (all these changes are already in the release 2.17.2) hwclock(8): - supports new command line option "--predict" to predict what the RTC will read at time given by the --date option based on the adjtime file. ldattach(8): - supports new command line option "-i/--iflag" to sets the specified bits in the c_iflag word of the serial line. fallocate(1), losetup(8) and mount(8): - the options --offset, --length or --sizelimit support suffixes (MiB, GiB, ...) and hex numbers umount(8): - supports new command line option "--fake" to avoid umount(2) syscall greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org