For your informawion.
Please note that the tunelp tool has been deprecated and is no longer
included. If this is a problem, please speak up now.
I built and uploaded the release candidate for people to test:
https://dev.archlinux.org/~tomegun/.
Cheers,
Tom
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Karel Zak
Date: Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 1:56 PM
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.23-rc1
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
util-linux@vger.kernel.org
The util-linux release v2.23-rc1 is available at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.23
Feedback and bug reports, as always, are welcomed.
Karel
Util-linux 2.23 Release Notes
=============================
The cryptoloop support in the commands mount(8) and losetup(8) has been
REMOVED. The encryption= mount option and -e,-E,--encryption losetup options
are no more supported.
The command arch(1) has been REMOVED from util-linux in favour of coreutils
version.
The command chkdupexe has been REMOVED from util-linux.
Release highlights
------------------
nsenter(1):
- this NEW COMMAND provides command line interface to setns() Linux syscall
and allows to run program with namespaces of other processes
unshare(1):
- supports new PID and USER namespaces
fdisk(8):
- provides experimental support for GUID Partition Table (GPT), the
implementation is still not complete and some (unimportant)
features are missing.
- ~50% of fdisk code has been refactored, this task is going to be complete
in the next release. The goal is to have libfdisk shared between all fdisks.
partx(8):
- supports new "update" command (implemented by BLKPG_RESIZE_PARTITION ioctl)
mount(8):
- supports new userspace mount option x-mount.mkdir[=<mode>] to create
mountpoints on demand
- the support for propagation flags has been improved, now the flags could be
specified in /etc/fstab and used together with regular mount options. It's
also possible to specify more propagation flags together. This EXPERIMENTAL
feature is implemented by additional mount(2) syscalls, because Linux does
not allow to use propagation flags with another options or more flags
together.
umount(8):
- supports new command line option --recursive to recursively unmount
all sub-mounts for the specified mountpoint
- supports new command line option --all-targets to unmount all mountpoints in
the current namespace for the specified filesystem
- the options --recursive and --all-targets could be used together
dmesg(1):
- supports new command line options --color, --human and --nopager, the
--human option enables relative times, colors and pager support.
su(1):
- supports new command line options --group and --supp-group to specify
primary and supplementary groups
chfn(1) and chsh(1):
- the commands could be linked with libuser to support non-local
accounts modification (e.g. LDAP, etc).
kill(1):
- the command has been improved to be compatible with procps version, the
procps version is deprecated now, the util-linux version is enabled by
default.
blkdiscard(8):
- this NEW COMMAND discard sectors on a device (for example on SSD disks)
sulogin(8):
- provides multi-console feature from SysVinit
findmnt(8):
- provides new columns FREQ, PASSNO, ID, OPT-FIELDS, PROPAGATION
lslocks(8):
- provides new column BLOCKER and detects blocked locks
lsblk(8):
- supports new command line option --scsi and new columns HCTL, TRANsport
VENDOR and REVision
swapon(8) and losetup(8):
- the commands prints basic overview by default if no option specified
column(1):
- supports new command line option --output-separator to specify table
output delimiter
rename(1):
- supports new command line option --symlink to rename symlink target
hwclock(8):
- supports new command line option --compare to periodically compare
the Hardware Clock to the System Time (based on adjtimex -c)
ipcs(1):
- supports new command line options --bytes and --human
wipefs(1):
- supports new command line option --force to force erase on used devices
Stable maintenance releases between v2.22 and v2.23
---------------------------------------------------
util-linux 2.22.1 [10-Oct-2012]
* ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.22/v2.22.1-ReleaseNotes
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.22/v2.22.1-ChangeLog
util-linux 2.22.2 [13-Dec-2012]
* ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.22/v2.22.2-ReleaseNotes
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.22/v2.22.2-ChangeLog
Changes between v2.22 and v2.23
-------------------------------
For more details see ChangeLog files at:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.23/