[arch-dev-public] Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.23-rc1

[Tom Gundersen]

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 <kzak at redhat.com>
Date: Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 1:56 PM
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.23-rc1
To: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel at vger.kernel.org,
util-linux at 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/