[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.35.2

From: Karel Zak
Date: Wed May 20 2020 - 10:33:19 EST



The util-linux stable release v2.35.2 is available at

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.35/

Feedback and bug reports, as always, are welcomed.

Karel


util-linux 2.35.2 Release Notes
===============================

bash-completion:
- umount explicitly needs gawk [Wolfram Sang]
blkdiscard:
- (man) offset and length must be sector aligned [Lukas Czerner]
blkzone:
- deny destructive ioctls on busy blockdev [Johannes Thumshirn]
chsh:
- (man) fix default behavior description [Karel Zak]
ctrlaltdel:
- display error message indicated by errno [Sami Kerola]
docs:
- Correct ChangeLog URL to history log. [Anatoly Pugachev]
- Fix dead references to kernel documentation [Yannick Le Pennec]
- add swap to 1st fstab field [Karel Zak]
- kill.1 add note about shell-internal kill implementations [Sami Kerola]
- update AUTHORS file [Karel Zak]
eject:
- fix compiler warning [-Wformat-overflow] [Karel Zak]
exfat:
- Fix parsing exfat label [Pali RohÃr]
fstrim:
- do not use Protect setting in systemd service [Karel Zak]
hwclock:
- fix audit exit status [Karel Zak]
- make glibc 2.31 compatible [J William Piggott, Karel Zak]
ipcs:
- ipcs.1 ipcs no longer needs read permission on IPC resources [Michael Kerrisk]
kill:
- include sys/types.h before checking SYS_pidfd_send_signal [Sami Kerola]
lib/mangle:
- check for the NULL string argument [GaÃl PORTAY]
lib/strutils:
- remove redundant include [Karel Zak]
libblkid:
- Fix UTF-16 support in function blkid_encode_to_utf8() [Pali RohÃr]
- fix compiler warning [-Wsign-compare] [Karel Zak]
- fix fstatat() use in blkid__scan_dir() [Karel Zak]
libfdisk:
- (script) accept sector-size, ignore unknown headers [Karel Zak]
- (script) fix memory leak [Karel Zak]
- (script) fix partno_from_devname() [Karel Zak]
- (script) fix segmentation fault [GaÃl PORTAY]
- fix partition calculation for BLKPG_* ioctls [Karel Zak]
- remove unwanted assert() [Karel Zak]
libmount:
- do not unnecessarily chmod utab.lock [Tycho Andersen]
- fix mount -a EBUSY for cifs [Roberto Bergantinos Corpas]
- improve smb{2,3} support [Karel Zak]
- smb2 is unsupported alias [Karel Zak]
lsblk:
- Fall back to ID_SERIAL [Sven Wiltink]
- Ignore hidden devices [Ritika Srivastava]
- fix -P regression from v2.34 [Karel Zak]
lscpu:
- Adapt MIPS cpuinfo [Jiaxun Yang]
- fix SIGSEGV on archs without drawers & books [Karel Zak]
- use official name for HiSilicon tsv110 [Karel Zak]
po:
- merge changes [Karel Zak]
- update hr.po (from translationproject.org) [BoÅidar Putanec]
- update zh_CN.po (from translationproject.org) [Boyuan Yang]
pylibmount:
- cleanup and sync UL_RaiseExc [Karel Zak]
scriptlive:
- fix man page formatting [Jakub Wilk]
- fix typo [Jakub Wilk]
sfdisk:
- (man) fix typo [GaÃl PORTAY]
- fix ref-counting for the script [Karel Zak]
- only report I/O errors on --move-data [Karel Zak]
su, runuser:
- (man) add more info about PATH and PAM [Karel Zak]
tests:
- Fix for misc/fallocate test build failure. [Mark Hindley]
umount:
- don't try it as non-suid if not found mountinfo entry [Karel Zak]
wipefs:
- fix man page --no-headings short option [Karel Zak]
write:
- fix potential string overflow [Sami Kerola]

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