[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.40.3

The util-linux stable maintenance release v2.40.3 is now available at
      
  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.40/
      
Feedback and bug reports, as always, are welcomed.
 
  Karel



util-linux v2.40.3 Release Notes
================================

Changes between v2.40.2 and v2.40.3
-----------------------------------

agetty:
   - Prevent cursor escape  [Stanislav Brabec]
   - add "systemd" to --version output  [Karel Zak]
   - fix ambiguous ‘else’ [-Werror=dangling-else]  [Karel Zak]
audit-arch.h:
   - add defines for m68k, sh  [Chris Hofstaedtler]
autotools:
   - Check for BPF_OBJ_NAME_LEN (required by lsfd)  [Karel Zak]
   - add --disable-enosys, check for linux/audit.h  [Karel Zak]
   - add Libs.private to uuid.pc  [Karel Zak]
   - allow enabling dmesg with --disable-all-programs  [Henrik Lindström]
   - allow enabling lsblk with --disable-all-programs  [Henrik Lindström]
   - check for sys/vfs.h and linux/bpf.h  [Karel Zak]
   - fix securedir and pam_lastlog2 install  [Karel Zak]
bash-completion:
   - add `--pty` and `--no-pty` options for `su` and `runuser`  [Christoph Anton Mitterer]
   - complete `--user` only for `runuser`, not for `su`  [Christoph Anton Mitterer]
chcpu(8):
   - Document CPU deconfiguring behavior  [Mete Durlu]
   - Fix typo  [Mete Durlu]
ci:
   - bump coveralls compiler version to gcc 13  [Karel Zak]
doc:
   - fsck.8.adoc - fix email typo  [Geoffrey Casper]
docs:
   - update AUTHORS file  [Karel Zak]
fdisk:
   - (man) improve --sector-size description  [Karel Zak]
   - fix SGI boot file prompt  [mr-bronson]
   - fix fdisk_sgi_set_bootfile return value  [mr-bronson]
   - fix sgi_check_bootfile name size minimum  [mr-bronson]
   - fix sgi_menu_cb return value  [mr-bronson]
fincore:
   - Use correct syscall number for cachestat on alpha  [John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]
fstab.5 mount:
   - fstab.5 mount.8 add note about field separator  [Karel Zak]
hardlink:
   - fix memory corruption (size calculation)  [Karel Zak]
   - hardlink.1 directory|file is mandatory  [наб]
hwclock:
   - Remove ioperm declare as it causes nested extern declare warning  [Zhaoming Luo]
lib/env:
   - fix env_list_setenv() for strings without '='  [Karel Zak]
libblkid:
   - (exfat) validate fields used by prober  [Thomas Weißschuh]
   - (gpt) use blkid_probe_verify_csum() for partition array checksum  [Thomas Weißschuh]
   - add FSLASTBLOCK for swaparea  [Karel Zak]
   - bitlocker add image for Windows 7+ BitLocker  [Victor Westerhuis]
   - bitlocker fix version on big-endian systems  [Victor Westerhuis]
   - improve portability  [Yang Kun]
libfdisk:
   - make sure libblkid uses the same sector size  [Karel Zak]
libmount:
   - exec mount helpers with posixly correct argument order  [nilfsuser5678]
   - extract common error handling function  [John Keeping]
   - propagate first error of multiple filesystem types  [John Keeping]
libmount/context_mount:
   - fix argument number comments  [nilfsuser5678]
logger:
   - correctly format tv_usec  [Thomas Weißschuh]
lscpu:
   - Skip aarch64 decode path for rest of the architectures  [Pratik R. Sampat]
   - make code more readable  [Karel Zak]
lslocks:
   - remove deadcode [coverity scan]  [Karel Zak]
lsns:
   - ignore ESRCH errors reported when accessing files under /proc  [Masatake YAMATO]
man pages:
   - document `--user` option for `runuser`  [Christoph Anton Mitterer]
   - use `user` rather than `username`  [Christoph Anton Mitterer]
meson:
   - check for BPF_OBJ_NAME_LEN and linux/bpf.h  [Karel Zak]
mkswap:
   - set selinux label also when creating file  [Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]
more:
   - make sure we have data on stderr  [Karel Zak]
nsenter:
   - support empty environ[]  [Karel Zak]
partx:
   - Fix example in man page  [Michal Suchanek]
po:
   - merge changes  [Karel Zak]
   - update de.po (from translationproject.org)  [Mario Blättermann]
   - update ja.po (from translationproject.org)  [Hideki Yoshida]
   - update pt_BR.po (from translationproject.org)  [Rafael Fontenelle]
   - update sr.po (from translationproject.org)  [Мирослав Николић]
   - update zh_CN.po (from translationproject.org)  [Mingye Wang (Artoria2e5)]
po-man:
   - add missing langs to po4a.cfg  [Karel Zak]
   - fix typo, update .gitignore  [Karel Zak]
   - merge changes  [Karel Zak]
   - update fr.po (from translationproject.org)  [Frédéric Marchal]
   - update pt_BR.po (from translationproject.org)  [Rafael Fontenelle]
tests:
   - fdisk/bsd Update expected output for alpha  [John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]
umount, losetup:
   - Document loop destroy behavior  [Stanislav Brabec]
uuidd:
   - fix /var/lib/libuuid mode uuidd-tmpfiles.conf  [Karel Zak]
   - fix typo in tmpfiles.conf  [Karel Zak]

-- 
 Karel Zak  <[email protected]>
 http://karelzak.blogspot.com