+udev 137
+========
+Bugfixes.
+
+The udevadm test command has no longer a --force option, nodes and symlinks
+are always updated with a test run now.
+
+The udevd daemon can be started with --resolve-names=never to avoid all user
+and group lookups (e.g. in cut-down systems).
+
+udev 136
+========
+Bugfixes.
+
+We are currently merging the Ubuntu rules in the udev default rules,
+and get one step closer to provide a common Linux /dev setup, regarding
+device names, symlinks, and default device permissions. On udev startup,
+we now expect the following groups to be resolvable to their ids with
+glibc's getgrnam():
+ disk, cdrom, floppy, tape, audio, video, lp, tty, dialout, kmem.
+LDAP setups need to make sure, that these groups are always resolvable at
+bootup, with only the rootfs mounted, and without network access available.
+
+Some systems may need to add some new, currently not used groups, or need
+to add some users to new groups, but the cost of this change is minimal,
+compared to the pain the current, rather random, differences between the
+various distributions cause for upstream projects and third-party vendors.
+
+In general, "normal" users who log into a machine should never be a member
+of any such group, but the device-access should be managed by dynamic ACLs,
+which get added and removed for the specific users on login/logout and
+session activity/inactivity. These groups are only provided for custom setups,
+and mainly system services, to allow proper privilege separation.
+A video-streaming daemon uid would be a member of "audio" and "video", to get
+access to the sound and video devices, but no "normal" user should ever belong
+to the "audio" group, because he could listen to the built-in microphone with
+any ssh-session established from the other side of the world.
+
+/dev/serial/by-{id,path}/ now contains links for ttyUSB devices,
+which do not depend on the kernel device name. As usual, unique
+devices - only a single one per product connected, or a real
+USB serial number in the device - are always found with the same
+name in the by-id/ directory.
+Completely identical devices may overwrite their names in by-id/
+and can only be found reliably in the by-path/ directory. Devices
+specified by by-path/ must not change their connection, like the
+USB port number they are plugged in, to keep their name.
+
+To support some advanced features, Linux 2.6.22 is the oldest supported
+version now. The kernel config with enabled SYSFS_DEPRECATED is no longer
+supported. Older kernels should still work, and devices nodes should be
+reliably created, but some rules and libudev will not work correctly because
+the old kernels do not provide the expected information or interfaces.
+
+udev 135
+========
+Bugfixes.
+
+Fix for a possible segfault while swapping network interface names in udev
+versions 131-134.
+
+udev 134
+========
+Bugfixes.
+
+The group "video" is part of the default rules now.
+
udev 133
========
+Bugfix for kernels using SYSFS_DEPRECATED* option and finding parent
+block devices in some cases. No common distro uses this option anymore,
+and we do not get enough testing for this and recent udev versions. If
+this option is not needed to run some old distro with a new kernel,
+it should be disabled in the kernel config.
+
+Bugfix for the $links substitution variable, which may crash if no links
+are created. This should not happen in usual setups because we always
+create /dev/{block,char}/ links.
The strings of the parsed rules, which are kept in memory, no longer
-contain duplicate entries, or duplicate tails of strings. This reduces
-the total in-memory size of a huge distro rule set to 0.08 MB, compared
-to the 1.2MB of udev version 130.
+contain duplicate entries, or duplicate tails of strings. This, and the
+new rules parsing/matching code reduces the total in-memory size of
+a huge distro rule sets to 0.08 MB, compared to the 1.2MB of udev
+version 130.
The export of DEVTYPE=disk/partition got removed from the default
-rules. This value is available from the kernel.
-The pnp shell script modprobe hack is removed from the default rules.
-ACPI devices have proper modalias support and take care of the same
-functionality.
+rules. This value is available from the kernel. The pnp shell script
+modprobe hack is removed from the default rules. ACPI devices have _proper_
+modalias support and take care of the same functionality.
Installations which support old kernels, but install current default
udev rules may want to add that to the compat rules file.
Libvolume_id now always probes for all known filesystems, and does not
stop at the first match. Some filesystems are marked as "exclusive probe",
and if any other filesytem type matches at the same time, libvolume_id
-will by default not return any probing result. This is intended to help
-with conflicting left-over signatures from earlier file system formats.
-That way, we no longer depend on the probe-order in case of competing
-signatures. In some setups the kernel allows to mount a volume with just
-the old filesystem signature still in place. This may damage the new
-filesystem and cause data-loss, just by mounting it. Because volume_id
-can not decide which one the correct signature is, the wrong signatures
-need to be removed manually from the volume, or the volume needs to be
-reformatted, to enable filesystem detection and possible auto-mounting.
+will, by default, not return any probing result. This is intended to prevent
+mis-detection with conflicting left-over signatures found from earlier
+file system formats. That way, we no longer depend on the probe-order
+in case of multiple competing signatures. In some setups the kernel allows
+to mount a volume with just the old filesystem signature still in place.
+This may damage the new filesystem and cause data-loss, just by mounting
+it. Because volume_id can not decide which one the correct signature is,
+the wrong signatures need to be removed manually from the volume, or the
+volume needs to be reformatted, to enable filesystem detection and possible
+auto-mounting.
udev 132
========
-
Fix segfault if compiled without optimization and dbg() does not get
compiled out and uses variables which are not available.
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