[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.28.1

[Karel Zak]

The util-linux release v2.28.1 is available at

  http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.28

Feedback and bug reports, as always, are welcomed.

    Karel


util-linux 2.28.1 Release Notes
===============================

agetty:
   - call uname() only when necessary  [Karel Zak]
   - don't modify argv[] when parse speeds  [Karel Zak]
   - fix \S usage  [Karel Zak]
blkdiscard:
   - Improve man page  [Allon Mureinik]
build-sys:
   - add --enable-libuuid-force-uuidd  [Ruediger Meier]
   - add tools/Makemodule.am  [Karel Zak]
   - fix uClibc-ng scanf check  [Waldemar Brodkorb]
   - workaround for autoconf "present but cannot be compiled"  [Karel Zak]
cfdisk:
   - use libsmartcols ASCII for non-widechar environment  [Karel Zak]
chfn:
   - chsh  use selinux_check_passwd_access()  [Karel Zak]
colcrt:
   - avoid the command getting hung [afl]  [Sami Kerola]
deprecated.txt:
   - Add sfdisk --show-pt-geometry  [Stanislav Brabec]
dmesg:
   - --notime should not suppress --show-delta  [Sami Kerola]
docs:
   - update AUTHORS file  [Karel Zak]
fdisk:
   - make -l <dev ...> behaves like fdisk -l  [Thierry Vignaud]
fsck:
   - fix racing between unlock/unlink and open  [Yuriy M. Kaminskiy]
lib:
   - avoid double free in loopdev.c  [Sami Kerola]
libblkid:
   - Add metadata signature check for IMSM on 4Kn drives  [Alexey Obitotskiy]
   - avoid non-empty recursion in EBR  [Karel Zak]
   - ignore extended partition at zero offset  [Karel Zak]
   - make I/O errors on CDROMs non-fatal  [Karel Zak]
   - make blkid_do_wipe() work with probes with offset  [Petr Uzel]
   - Add length check in probe_nilfs2 before crc32  [Torsten Hilbrich]
   - fix probe_nilfs2 I/O error backup  [Karel Zak]
libfdisk:
   - (gpt) be more careful with 64bit constants  [Karel Zak]
   - don't offer zero length freespace  [Karel Zak]
   - fix range checking for fdisk_set_last_lba  [Sassan Panahinejad]
libmount:
   - Preserve empty string value in optstr parsing  [Filipe Brandenburger]
   - fix memory leak  [Sami Kerola]
   - fix mnt_table_parse_stream() logic  [Karel Zak]
   - make kernel_fs_postparse() more robust  [Karel Zak]
libsmartcols:
   - Corrected JSON escaping  [Karel Zak, Bryan Elliott]
logger:
   - add man page note about the default --tag  [Karel Zak]
   - be more precise about --port description  [Karel Zak]
lsblk:
   - improve support for nvme  [Karel Zak]
   - use ID_WWN_WITH_EXTENSION is possible  [Karel Zak]
man pages:
   - fix spacing between man page name & section number  [Mike Frysinger]
mkswap:
   - tolerate ENOTSUP when failing to relabel  [Lubomir Rintel]
mount:
   - try to tell what mount was doing when it failed  [Sami Kerola]
po:
   - merge changes  [Karel Zak]
   - update ja.po (from translationproject.org)  [Takeshi Hamasaki]
   - update nl.po (from translationproject.org)  [Benno Schulenberg]
   - update sv.po (from translationproject.org)  [Sebastian Rasmussen]
pylibmount:
   - include c.h  [Karel Zak]
script:
   - avoid trying fclose(NULL)  [Sami Kerola]
   - use empty-slave heuristic more carefully  [Karel Zak]
setpwnam:
   - fix memory leak  [Sami Kerola]
sfdisk:
   - Add --show-pt-geometry compatibility code  [Stanislav Brabec]
   - add show-pt-geometry to usage() and sfdisk.8  [Karel Zak]
   - exit with error if rereading partition table fails  [Victor Dodon]
tailf:
   - Fix previously adjusted segfault patch  [Tobias Stoeckmann]
   - Fix segmentation fault in tailf on 32 bit  [Tobias Stoeckmann]
taskset:
   - clarify that masks are always hex in man page  [Chris Metcalf]
tests:
   - Use proper word splitting when executing tests  [Filipe Brandenburger]
   - update build-sys test  [Karel Zak]
tools:
   - add script to load .po from translationproject.org  [Karel Zak]
umount:
   - add note about FS names differences to the man page  [Karel Zak]
wipefs:
   - force GPT detection  [Karel Zak]
write:
   - fix setuid related regression  [Wayne Pollock]

-- 
 Karel Zak  <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>
 http://karelzak.blogspot.com