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+udev 143
+========
+Bugfixes.
+
+Event processes now get re-used after they handled an event. This reduces
+pressure on the CPU significantly because cloned event processes no longer
+cause page faults in the main daemon. After the events have settled, the
+no longer needed worker processes get killed.
+
+To be able to use signalfd(), udev depends on kernel version 2.6.25 now.
+Also inotify support is required now to run udev.
+
+The format of the queue exported by the udev damon has changed. There is
+no longer a /dev/.udev/queue/ directory. The current event queue can be
+accessed with udevadm settle and libudedv.
+
 udev 142
 ========
 Bugfixes.
 
+The program vol_id and the library libvolume_id are removed from the
+repository. Libvolume_id is merged with libblkid from the util-linux-ng
+package. Persistent disk links for label and uuid depend on the
+util-linux-ng version (2.15) of blkid now. Older versions of blkid
+can not be used with udev.
+
 Libudev allows to subscribe to udev events. To prevent unwanted messages
 to be delivered, and waking up the subscribing process, a filter can be
 installed, to drop messages inside a kernel socket filter. The filters
 match on the <subsytem>:<devtype> properties of the device.
     This is part of the ongoing effort to replace HAL, and switch current
-users over to directly use libudev, or for higher-level services use the
-specialized D-Bus interface of a DeviceKit service.
+users over to directly use libudev.
     Libudev is still marked as experimental, and its interface might
-change if needed, but no major changes of the currently exported interface
-are expected anymore, and a first stable release should happen soon.
+eventually change if needed, but no major changes of the currently exported
+interface are expected anymore, and a first stable release should happen
+soon.
 
 A too old kernel (2.6.21) or a kernel with CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED
 is not supported since while and udevd will log an error message at
-startup.
+startup. It should still be able to boot-up, but advanced rules and system
+services which depend on the information not available in the old sysfs
+format will fail to work correctly.
 
 DVB device naming is supplied by the kernel now. In case older kernels
 need to be supported, the old shell script should be added to a compat