X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=8f7871d566c5f6be9a29219a5a4ebecd58569a60;hp=a7a5579de946c3b74d513bd97b4a0a80d7d89453;hb=a035bf274477689920bcac12792b28de9d35ab6c;hpb=47b0c350952116cb09130cf02f172aa12a37f829 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a7a5579de..8f7871d56 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,35 @@ +udev 128 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The udevadm info --device-id-of-file= output has changed to use +the obvious format. Possible current users should use the --export +option which is not affected. + +The old udev commands symlinks to udevadm are not installed since +a while, if these symlinks are used, a deprecation warning to stderr +is printed. + +udev 127 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Optical drive's media is no longer probed for raid signatures, +reading the end of the device causes some devices to malfunction. +Also the offset of the last session found is used now to probe +for the filesystem. + +The volume_id library got a major version number update to 1, +some deprecated functions are removed. + +A shared library "libudev" gets installed now to provide access +to udev device information. DeviceKit, the successor of HAL, will +need this library to access the udev database and search sysfs for +devices. +The library is currently in an experimental state, also the API is +expected to change, as long as the DeviceKit integration is not +finished. + udev 126 ======== We use ./configure now. See INSTALL for details. Current @@ -16,11 +48,15 @@ options are: --disable-logging disable all logging and compile-out all log strings --with-selinux - link against SELInux libraries to set the expected context + link against SELInux libraries, to set the expected context for created files -No symlinks to udevadm are installed anymore, if still neded, the -package should create them. +In the default rules, the group "disk" gets permissions 0660 instead +of 0640. One small step closer to unify distro rules. Some day, all +distros hopefully end up with the same set of rules. + +No symlinks to udevadm are installed anymore, if they are still needed, +they should be provided by the package. udev 125 ========