+udev 145
+========
+Fix possible crash in udevd when worker processes are busy, rules are
+changed at the same time, and workers get killed to reload the rules.
+
+udev 144
+========
+Bugfixes.
+
+Properties set with ENV{.FOO}="bar" are marked private by starting the
+name with a '.'. They will not be stored in the database, and not be
+exported with the event.
+
+Firmware files are looked up in:
+ /lib/firmware/updates/$(uname -r)
+ /lib/firmware/updates
+ /lib/firmware/$(uname -r)
+ /lib/firmware"
+now.
+
+ATA devices switched the property from ID_BUS=scsi to ID_BUS=ata.
+ata_id, instead of scsi_id, is the default tool now for ATA devices.
+
+udev 143
+========
+Bugfixes.
+
+The configure options have changed because another library needs to be
+installed in a different location. Instead of exec_prefix and udev_prefix,
+libdir, rootlibdir and libexecdir are used. The Details are explained in
+the README file.
+
+Event processes now get re-used after they handled an event. This reduces
+the number of forks and the pressure on the CPU significantly, because
+cloned event processes no longer cause page faults in the main daemon.
+After the events have settled, a few worker processes stay around for
+future events, all others get cleaned up.
+
+To be able to use signalfd(), udev depends on kernel version 2.6.25 now.
+Also inotify support is mandatory 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.
+
+Libudev does not have the unstable API header anymore. From now on,
+incompatible changes will be handled by bumping the library major version.
+
+To build udev from the git tree gtk-doc is needed now. The tarballs will
+build without it and contain the pre-built documentation. An online copy
+is available here:
+ http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/libudev/
+
+The tools from the udev-extras repository have been merged into the main
+udev repository. Some of the extras have larger external dependencies, and
+they can be disabled with the configure switch --disable-extras.
+
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
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