[ANNOUNCE] util-linux stable v2.31.1

From: Karel Zak
Date: Tue Dec 19 2017 - 10:25:29 EST



The util-linux release v2.31.1 is available at

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.31/

Feedback and bug reports, as always, are welcomed.

Karel


util-linux 2.31.1 Release Notes
===============================

bash-completion:
- Exclude /dev/fd from fsck find [Kevin Locke]
blkid:
- Add support for LUKS2 and new LABEL attributes. [Milan Broz]
blockdev:
- be more explicit for BLKSSZ in blockdev.8 [Karel Zak]
build-sys:
- move rfkill to /usr/sbin [Karel Zak]
column:
- use \x<hex> for invalid multibyte seq. [Karel Zak]
dmesg:
- add note about -F format to the man page [Karel Zak]
docs:
- improve setarch(8) manual page [Sami Kerola]
- update AUTHORS file [Karel Zak]
fincore:
- fix a typo in fincore.1 [Masatake YAMATO]
fsck.cramfs:
- Fix bus error on broken file system. [Tobias Stoeckmann]
hwclock:
- add iso-8601 overflow check [J William Piggott]
- fix debug regression [J William Piggott]
- revert ioctl test [Karel Zak]
lib/mbsalign:
- add mbs_invalid_encode() [Karel Zak]
lib/md5:
- use ul_/UL_ prefix [Karel Zak]
lib/sha1:
- use ul_/UL_prefix for symbols [Karel Zak]
lib/timeutils:
- ISO_8601_BUFSIZ too small [J William Piggott]
libblkid:
- vfat Fix reading labels which starts with byte 0x05 [Pali RohÃr]
libfdisk:
- (sun) enhance searching of free space [Mikhail Vorobyov]
- (sun) fix creation of whole disk partition [Mikhail Vorobyov]
- (sun) move aligning of the first sector before availability check [Mikhail Vorobyov]
- Fix uninitialized structure [Roddy Shuler]
libmount:
- Allow MNT_FORCE and MNT_DETACH at umount [Joshua Watt]
- add nsfs between pseudo filesystems [Karel Zak]
libsmartcols:
- don't add blank padding after left aligned title [Karel Zak]
lsblk:
- add hint about perms to man page [Karel Zak]
lscpu:
- Treat read failure on Xen Hypervisor properties as non-fatal [Dirk Mueller]
lslocks:
- add note about OFDLCK [Karel Zak]
man:
- use long options in text and add example to uuidgen [Sami Kerola]
mcookie:
- properly initialize hash [Karel Zak]
md5:
- declare byteReverse as static [Luca Ceresoli]
misc:
- fix typos [Sami Kerola]
mount:
- add hint about -t and root perms to the man page [Karel Zak]
- add more details about UUIDs and LABELs to the man page [Karel Zak]
nsenter:
- fix compiler warning [-Wuninitialized] [Karel Zak]
po:
- merge changes [Karel Zak]
- update cs.po (from translationproject.org) [Petr PÃsaÅ]
- update ja.po (from translationproject.org) [Takeshi Hamasaki]
- update pl.po (from translationproject.org) [Jakub Bogusz]
rtcwake:
- add note about HW and sleep to the man page [Karel Zak]
- fix sys vs. rtc time delta usage [Karel Zak]
sample-scols-title:
- add left title without padding [Karel Zak]
sfdisk:
- create empty label on 'write' command [Karel Zak]
test_sha1:
- update helper [Karel Zak]
tests:
- add LUKS test images [Milan Broz]
- add fsck.cramfs bad-header test [Karel Zak]
- don't use mount.<type> helpers in mount-by-pattern tests [Karel Zak]
- update columns test due to dda229c7b2b16a31fae8e99079ab4f4ae5bc8eac [Karel Zak]
- update libsmartcols/title [Karel Zak]
vipw:
- do not let editor to inherit open file descriptors [Sami Kerola]

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