Opened 6 years ago

Closed 6 years ago

#10701 closed enhancement (fixed)

libblockdev-2.17

Reported by: Bruce Dubbs Owned by: Bruce Dubbs
Priority: normal Milestone: 8.3
Component: BOOK Version: SVN
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description

New minor version.

Change History (3)

comment:1 by Bruce Dubbs, 6 years ago

Owner: changed from blfs-book to Bruce Dubbs
Status: new → assigned

comment:2 by Bruce Dubbs, 6 years ago

New minor release of the libblockdev library with multiple fixes. See below for details.

Notable changes

  • New plugin: nvdimm
    • support for NVDIMM namespaces management
    • requires libndctl >= 58.4
  • LUKS2 support
    • support for creating LUKS2 format including authenticated disk encryption
    • multiple new functions for working with LUKS devices (suspend/resume, header backup, metadata size...)
  • Extended support for opening TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt volumes
  • Support for building crypto plugin without escrow device support (removes build dependency on libvolume_key and libnss) -- configure option --without-escrow.
  • Support for building libblockdev without Python 2 support -- configure option --without-python2.

comment:3 by Bruce Dubbs, 6 years ago

Resolution: → fixed
Status: assigned → closed

Fixed at revision 20118.

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