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authorDavid Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>2009-06-19 19:10:15 -0400
committerDavid Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>2009-06-19 19:10:15 -0400
commit1c872b184e91308e35a3e8e6b0a3e597f208198d (patch)
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parent8992709f72d7d6f8923092b595a4e0c141e10d84 (diff)
Update NEWS for release005
Also includes news about the 004 release since that slipped in the previous release...
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+DeviceKit-disks 005
+-------------------
+
+DeviceKit-disks is a daemon that provide interfaces to obtain
+information and perform operations on storage devices.
+
+NOTE NOTE NOTE: This is an unstable release of DeviceKit-disks, all
+ API is subject to change.
+
+David Zeuthen (28):
+ Move to using a capital letter for commit messages
+ Port to polkit-1
+ Post-release version bump
+ Remove unneeded code for PolicyKit
+ Update to latest PolicyKit API
+ Update to latest polkit API where PolkitAuthorizationResult is an object
+ Catch up with latest polkit API changes
+ Only check for ATA SMART if the device reports non-removable media
+ Use PolkitDetails, not GHashTable to pass details to PolicyKit
+ Add a pkg-config file
+ The PolicyKit extensions dir has moved
+ Add a DriveDetach() method to properly power down USB hard disk enclosures
+ Don't insert NULL pointers in details
+ Suspend USB device on DriveDetach() if it only has one interface
+ Remove :drive-requires-eject and read udev props for detached/ejectable
+ Use gudev-1.0 instead of devkit-gobject
+ Fix bug when retrieving historical ATA SMART data
+ Bug 22149 – Do not poll floppy drives
+ Better handling of Floppy and Zip drives
+ GIO modules, for the polkit action lookup module, need to be prefixed with
+ Update udev rules
+ Use ID_CDROM_MEDIA to detect optical drives
+ Add API to check/repair Linux MD RAID arrays
+ Sort out dbus-glib registration mess
+ Remove unused SMART test files
+ Clean up build a bit
+ Use AM_SILENT_RULES if available
+ Update NEWS for release
+
+David Zeuthen,
+June 19, 2009
+
+-------------------
+DeviceKit-disks 004
+-------------------
+
+DeviceKit-disks is a daemon that provide interfaces to obtain
+information and perform operations on storage devices.
+
+NOTE NOTE NOTE: This is an unstable release of DeviceKit-disks, all
+ API is subject to change.
+
+David Zeuthen (54):
+ use dev_t to identify mounts, not device files
+ allow users with appropriate authorizations to unmount all fstab mounts
+ add a --dump option to devkit-disks(1)
+ only export holders/slaves if the devices are in our db
+ only use a single PolicyKit action for Linux MD operations
+ add newline for debug message
+ export all linux-md raid devices (except ones marked as 'clear')
+ avoid taking action if a component is removed from an array
+ rework default mount options
+ don't poll SATA AN drives
+ fix up how device-is-system-internal is computed
+ port to libatasmart
+ forgot to add ATA SMART prober in last commit
+ if BLKRRPART fails with EBUSY, just try a few more times
+ allow job-num-tasks to be 0 (meaning "unknown")
+ ensure a MS-DOS extended partition is busy if logical partitions are busy
+ rework partition table handling
+ print the scheme of the main partition table, never the nested one
+ use /proc/self/mountinfo and handle a device being mounted in multiple pla
+ export device-major and device-minor properties
+ remove device-is-busy property
+ remove a lot of unnecessary errors
+ remove erase= option and the notion of tasks within jobs
+ rework some of the ATA SMART stuff, go back to using sqlite
+ fix udev rules to keep udev from complaining
+ prefix all D-Bus objects paths with /org/freedesktop/DeviceKit/Disks
+ add FindDeviceByMajorMinor() to look up a device by dev_t
+ also move umount.devkit over to use the correct object paths
+ change devkit-disks(1) to use device node paths instead of object paths
+ install udev rules into /lib/udev/rules.d not /etc/udev/rules.d
+ fix grammar/spelling for ATA SMART output in devkit-disks(1)
+ remove debug spew from mount monitor
+ remove hack for working around broken USB card reader
+ use /var/run/DeviceKit-disks, not /tmp as a temporary directory
+ bump version
+ fix a race where /etc/fstab mount points where sometimes removed
+ change default mount options for vfat to utf8=1 and shortname=lower
+ fix some bugs in the man page
+ add command line options to devkit-disks for refreshing ATA SMART data
+ use correct dmode for iso9660 mounts
+ also check if partitions on a device is busy
+ remove debug spew
+ add temporary workaround for btrfs
+ rework how we detect whether a device is busy
+ be more careful when probing for ATA SMART
+ add device-presentation-hide property
+ document influential udev properties in the DeviceKit-disks man page
+ add property device-detection-time
+ fix up some warnings
+ allow the 'flush' mount option for vfat
+ properly detect devices with vfat on the whole disk
+ add support for ext2
+ add :device-media-detection-time property
+ only consider Prefail attibutes when checking for bad attributes
+
+Matthias Clasen (3):
+ fix up inhibit parameter handling
+ fix typo in error name
+ make umount work on mount points
+
+David Zeuthen,
+May 1st, 2009
+
+-------------------
DeviceKit-disks 003
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