Changelog:
What's New
VMware Tools is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of the virtual machine's guest operating system and improves management of the virtual machine. Read about the new and enhanced features in this release below:
vmware-namespace-cmd: Added vmware-namespace-cmd command line utility that exposes set/get commands for the namespace database in the VMX.
gtk3 support: open-vm-tools has been updated to use gtk3 libraries.
Common Agent Framework (CAF): CAF provides the basic services necessary to simplify secure and efficient management of agents inside virtual machines.
xmlsec1: Changed guest authentication to xmlsec1.
FreeBSD: Changes to support open-vm-tools on FreeBSD.
Automatic Linux Kernel Modules: Automatic rebuilding of kernel modules is enabled by default.
New sub-command: Added a new sub-command to push updated network information to the host on demand.
udev-rules: Added udev rules for configuring SCSI timeout in the guest.
Ubuntu 16.10: Fixes for running on Ubuntu 16.10.
Quiesced Snapshot: Fix for quiesced snapshot failure leaving guest file system quiesced.
Internationalization
open-vm-tools 10.1.0 supports the following languages:
English
French
German
Spanish
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Compatibility
open-vm-tools 10.1.0 is compatible with all supported versions of VMware vSphere, VMware Workstation 12.5 and VMware Fusion 8.5.
same process. The idea is that this will cause poll(2) in the main
thread to exit with the reaper pipe readable, and do child cleanup here.
Unfortunably, is the child also has a write pipe back to the
parent (as e.g. with pygrub), the loop in afterpoll_internal() may see the
POLLHUP event on this pipe before the POLLIN even on the reaper pipe, and
this will be considered as an error (from e.g. pygrub).
work around by filtering POLLHUP events here
bump PKGREVISION
Makefile.{linux,macos} MAKE_FILEs will set their MANPREFIX differently to the
one defined in Makefile.bsd)
No functional changes intended for Makefile.bsd MAKE_FILE OPSYSs
(and so no PKGREVISION bump).
- Revise versioning system to be date-based.
- Pedantic changes to capitalisation of byte/kilobyte/megabyte etc.
- Clarify the --cgi usage a bit, and give an example.
- Rearrange documentation of -S, -L and -D.
This adds a dependency on devel/colordiff.
Changelog for this version:
* Greatly improve speed for large archives by fixing O(n^2) complexity for
archive member lookup.
- There is still O(n^2) complexity for archive member extraction, but this
is less noticeable for various reasons and would require more complexity
to fix, so for now is left as a task for the future.
* Text output: add coloured diff support via colordiff(1).
* Html-dir output: add +/- buttons to fold sub-diffs (i.e. toggle their
visibility) as well as the whole diff itself. As with similar features in
other programs, the effect affects all descendants if you shift-click.
The complete list of changes between version 44 and 63 can be found at
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/tree/debian/changelog
D-Bus 1.10.14 (2016-11-28)
==
The “Well, other bands know more than three chords” release.
Fixes:
• Work around an undesired effect of the fix for CVE-2014-3637
(fd.o #80559), in which processes that frequently send fds, such as
logind during a flood of new PAM sessions, can get disconnected for
continuously having at least one fd "in flight" for too long;
dbus-daemon interprets that as a potential denial of service attack.
The workaround is to disable that check for uid 0 process such as
logind, with a message in the system log. The bug remains open while
we look for a more general solution.
(fd.o #95263, LP#1591411; Simon McVittie)
• Don't run the test test-dbus-launch-x11.sh if X11 autolaunching
was disabled at compile time. That test is not expected to work
in that configuration. (fd.o #98665, Simon McVittie)
Most of the NetBSD specific patches were re-applied due to code
syntax changes.
Upstream changes in 5.6.2:
- collectd: A compile error on AIX has been fixed: "MSG_DONTWAIT" is not
available on AIX.
- collectd: The capability checking has been rewritten to be more
portable.
- collectd.conf(5): Various typos have been fixed.
- collectd-tg: Incorrect usage of "nanosleep()" has been fixed which
caused the tool to sleep (almost) indefinitely.
- Build system: Detection of the Java environment has been made
deterministic to allow for reproducible builds.
- Build system: Detection of the Lua headers has been improved.
- APC UPS plugin: Unavailable metrics are now skipped instead of
reported as 0 (zero).
- Modbus plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed.
- OpenVPN plugin: Gracefully handle empty configurations.
- PowerDNS plugin: The "recursor command" has been fixed so PowerDNS can
correctly parse all requested fields.
- Write Graphite and AMQP plugins: A bug that could lead to a missing
null-termination has been fixed.
- Write HTTP plugin: A logic error when checking the correctness of the
data set has been fixed.
- Write Kafka plugin: The "Key Random" config option has been fixed.
- Write Kafka plugin: Support for librdkafka 0.9.0 has been added.
- Write Riemann plugin: Build issues on Solaris have been fixed.
- ZFS ARC plugin: A duplicate metric has been removed.
Changes include:
- autocreate working properly ... finally (?)
- per destination pre and post SEND commands (complementary to the pre and post snap commands)
- send delay property
Changes in 8.23.0 (abridged):
- KSI signatures: removed SHA2-224 hash algorithm
This is considered insecure and no longer supported by the underlying
KSI library. If still used within a configuration, a descriptive error
message is emitted during config processing.
- imfile: new timeout feature for multi-line reads
- omfile: improve robustness against network file system failures
in case of failure, a close and re-open is tried, which often solves the
issue (and wasn't handle before this patch).
- pmaixforwardedfrom: support for AIX syslogd -s option
- omelasticsearch: add ability to specify max http request size
- omelasticsearch: high availability addressing of ElasticSearch cluster
allow to specify an array of servers, which is tried until a working
one is found (and given up only if none works).
- omelasticsearch: make compatible with ElasticSearch 2.x and 5.x
fixes omelasticsearch logs response from ElasticSearch 5.0 _bulk
endpoint as error
- omhiredis: add dynakey attribute.
- omtcl: new contributed module
- RainerScript: provide a capability to set environment variables
via 'global(environment="var=val")' config statement.
- lookup tables: improved error checking
- queue subsystem: add configuration parameter "queue.samplinginterval"
- bugfix core: errmsg.LogError now switches to dfltErrLogger just before shutdown
- bugfix core: fixed un-freed memory in non-transactional action using string-passing
- rsgtutil: option to specify KSI publications file certificate constraints
- omprog: bugfixes and enhancements
- bugfix imfile: ReopenOnTruncate processing, file open processing
- bugfix omlibdbi: libdbi-driver-sqlite3/2 requires to provide a path to
database split into two strings:
* absolute path, where the database file sits
* database filename itself.
- bugfix RainerScript: issue in prifilt() function
Initialize func-data(and to-be-freed flag) correctly for prifilt
function-node
- bugfix omrelp: invalid module name imrelp was used in some error messages
- bugfix core: abort when persisting object state
- bugfix: segfault if hostname is unset on system
- bugfix external module perl skeleton: did not work properly
- bugfix build system: Fix detection of pthread_setschedparam() on platforms
such as FreeBSD
- bugfix omelasticsearch: modifies constant memory under some circumstances
- "bugfix": theoretical queue file corruption when more than MAX_INT files
- bug fix/KSI: LOGSIG11 missing in the beginning of KSI log signature file
- bugfix template processor: missing escaping of backslash in json mode
- testbench improvements
1.12 - 2016-08-24
Add NCDU_SHELL environment variable
Add --confirm-quit flag
Fix compilation due to missing sys/wait.h include
1.11 - 2015-04-05
Added 'b' key to spawn shell in the current directory
Support scanning (and refreshing) of empty directories
Added --si flag for base 10 prefixes
Fix toggle dirs before files
Version 1.0.8 (2016-10-29)
Bug fixes:
RemoteRepository: Fix busy wait in call_many, #940
New features:
implement borgmajor/borgminor/borgpatch placeholders, #1694 {borgversion} was already there (full version string). With the new placeholders you can now also get e.g. 1 or 1.0 or 1.0.8.
Other changes:
avoid previous_location mismatch, #1741
due to the changed canonicalization for relative pathes in PR #1711 / #1655 (implement /./ relpath hack), there would be a changed repo location warning and the user would be asked if this is ok. this would break automation and require manual intervention, which is unwanted.
thus, we automatically fix the previous_location config entry, if it only changed in the expected way, but still means the same location.
docs:
deployment.rst: do not use bare variables in ansible snippet
add clarification about append-only mode, #1689
setup.py: add comment about requiring llfuse, #1726
update usage.rst / api.rst
repo url / archive location docs + typo fix
quickstart: add a comment about other (remote) filesystems
vagrant / tests:
no chown when rsyncing (fixes boxes w/o vagrant group)
fix fuse permission issues on linux/freebsd, #1544
skip fuse test for borg binary + fakeroot
ignore security.selinux xattrs, fixes tests on centos, #1735
Version 1.0.8rc1 (2016-10-17)
Bug fixes:
fix signal handling (SIGINT, SIGTERM, SIGHUP), #1620#1593 Fixes e.g. leftover lock files for quickly repeated signals (e.g. Ctrl-C Ctrl-C) or lost connections or systemd sending SIGHUP.
progress display: adapt formatting to narrow screens, do not crash, #1628
borg create --read-special - fix crash on broken symlink, #1584. also correctly processes broken symlinks. before this regressed to a crash (5b45385) a broken symlink would've been skipped.
process_symlink: fix missing backup_io() Fixes a chmod/chown/chgrp/unlink/rename/... crash race between getting dirents and dispatching to process_symlink.
yes(): abort on wrong answers, saying so, #1622
fixed exception borg serve raised when connection was closed before reposiory was openend. add an error message for this.
fix read-from-closed-FD issue, #1551 (this seems not to get triggered in 1.0.x, but was discovered in master)
hashindex: fix iterators (always raise StopIteration when exhausted) (this seems not to get triggered in 1.0.x, but was discovered in master)
enable relative pathes in ssh:// repo URLs, via /./relpath hack, #1655
allow repo pathes with colons, #1705
update changed repo location immediately after acceptance, #1524
fix debug get-obj / delete-obj crash if object not found and remote repo, #1684
pyinstaller: use a spec file to build borg.exe binary, exclude osxfuse dylib on Mac OS X (avoids mismatch lib <-> driver), #1619
New features:
add "borg key export" / "borg key import" commands, #1555, so users are able to backup / restore their encryption keys more easily.
Supported formats are the keyfile format used by borg internally and a special "paper" format with by line checksums for printed backups. For the paper format, the import is an interactive process which checks each line as soon as it is input.
add "borg debug-refcount-obj" to determine a repo objects' referrer counts, #1352
Other changes:
add "borg debug ..." subcommands (borg debug-* still works, but will be removed in borg 1.1)
setup.py: Add subcommand support to build_usage.
remote: change exception message for unexpected RPC data format to indicate dataflow direction.
improved messages / error reporting:
IntegrityError: add placeholder for message, so that the message we give appears not only in the traceback, but also in the (short) error message, #1572
borg.key: include chunk id in exception msgs, #1571
better messages for cache newer than repo, #1700
vagrant (testing/build VMs):
upgrade OSXfuse / FUSE for macOS to 3.5.2
update Debian Wheezy boxes, #1686
openbsd / netbsd: use own boxes, fixes misc rsync installation and fuse/llfuse related testing issues, #1695#1696#1670#1671#1728
docs:
add docs for "key export" and "key import" commands, #1641
fix inconsistency in FAQ (pv-wrapper).
fix second block in "Easy to use" section not showing on GitHub, #1576
add bestpractices badge
link reference docs and faq about BORG_FILES_CACHE_TTL, #1561
improve borg info --help, explain size infos, #1532
add release signing key / security contact to README, #1560
add contribution guidelines for developers
development.rst: add sphinx_rtd_theme to the sphinx install command
adjust border color in borg.css
add debug-info usage help file
internals.rst: fix typos
setup.py: fix build_usage to always process all commands
added docs explaining multiple --restrict-to-path flags, #1602
add more specific warning about write-access debug commands, #1587
clarify FAQ regarding backup of virtual machines, #1672
tests:
work around fuse xattr test issue with recent fakeroot
simplify repo/hashindex tests
travis: test fuse-enabled borg, use trusty to have a recent FUSE
re-enable fuse tests for RemoteArchiver (no deadlocks any more)
clean env for pytest based tests, #1714
fuse_mount contextmanager: accept any options
pkgsrc changes:
- Fix minor pkglint warnings (bad indentation)
- Take MAINTAINERship
Changes:
== 3.6: July 01, 2016
- Do not print warning if _TTY_PATH cannot be opened (for chroot, docker, ...)
- Non-existent input files produce a warning instead of an error
- Trigger run when permissions change on regular files
BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES:
- Child process reaping support has been removed, along with the reap
configuration option.
- The default for max_stale has been increased to a near-indefinite
threshold (10 years) to allow DNS queries to continue to be served in
the event of a long outage with no leader.
- The api package's PreparedQuery.Delete() method now takes WriteOptions
instead of QueryOptions.
FEATURES:
- Key/Value Store Command Line Interface: New consul kv commands were
added for easy access to all basic key/value store operations.
- Snapshot/Restore: A new /v1/snapshot HTTP endpoint and corresponding
set of consul snapshot commands were added for easy point-in-time
snapshots for disaster recovery.
- AWS auto-discovery: New -retry-join-ec2 configuration options added to
allow bootstrapping by automatically discovering AWS instances with a
given tag key/value at startup.
IMPROVEMENTS:
- api: All session options can now be set when using api.Lock().
- agent: Added the ability to bind Serf WAN and LAN to different
interfaces than the general bind address.
- agent: Added a new tls_skip_verify configuration option for HTTP
checks.
- agent: Consul is now built with Go 1.7.3.
BUG FIXES:
- agent: Fixed a Go race issue with log buffering at startup.
- agent: Fixed a panic during anti-entropy sync for services and checks.
- agent: Fixed an issue on Windows where "wsarecv" errors were logged
when CLI commands accessed the RPC interface.
- agent: Syslog initialization will now retry on errors for up to 60
seconds to avoid a race condition at system startup.
- agent: Fixed a panic when both -dev and -bootstrap-expect flags were
provided.
- agent: Added a retry with backoff when a session fails to invalidate
after expiring.
- agent: Fixed an issue where Consul would fail to start because of
leftover malformed check/service state files.
- agent: Fixed agent crashes on macOS Sierra by upgrading Go.
- agent: Log a warning instead of success when attempting to deregister
a nonexistent service.
- api: Trim leading slashes from keys/prefixes when querying KV
endpoints to avoid a bug with redirects in Go 1.7 (golang/go#4800).
- dns: Fixed external services that pointed to consul addresses (CNAME
records) not resolving to A-records.
- dns: Fixed an issue with SRV lookups where the service address was
different from the node's.
- dns: Fixed an issue where truncated records from a recursor query were
improperly reported as errors.
- server: Fixed the port numbers in the sample JSON inside peers.info.
- server: Squashes ACL datacenter name to lower case and checks for
proper formatting at startup.
- ui: Fixed an XSS issue with the display of sessions and ACLs in the
web UI.
