release 140

[elogind.git] / NEWS

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@@ -1,3 +1,38 @@
+udev 140
+========
+Bugfixes.
+
+"udevadm settle" now optionally accepts a range of events to wait for,
+instead of waiting for "all" events.
+
+udev 139
+========
+Bugfixes.
+
+The installed watch for block device metadata changes is now removed
+during event hadling, because some (broken) tools may be called from udev
+rules and (wrongly) open the device with write access. After the finished
+event handling the watch is restored.
+
+udev 138
+========
+Bugfixes.
+
+Device nodes can be watched for changes with inotify with OPTIONS="watch".
+If closed after being opened for writing, a "change" uevent will occur.
+/dev/disk/by-{label,uuid}/* symlinks will be automatically updated.
+
+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) or --resolve-names=late to
+lookup user and groups every time events are handled.
+
 udev 136
 ========
 Bugfixes.
@@ -22,8 +57,8 @@ 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 ever belongs in
-the "audio" group, because he could listen to the built-in microphone with
+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,
@@ -31,7 +66,7 @@ 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/
+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.