Opened 6 years ago

Closed 6 years ago

#10001 closed enhancement (fixed)

smartmontools-6.6

Reported by: Pierre Labastie Owned by: bdubbs@…
Priority: normal Milestone: 8.2
Component: BOOK Version: SVN
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description

New minor version:

Changelog

smartctl -i and --identify: ATA ACS-4 and SATA 3.3 enhancements.
smartctl: Control ATA write cache through SCT Feature Control
with -s wcache-sct,ata|on|off[,p] and -g wcache-sct.
smartctl: Print ATA Pending Defects log with -l defects.
smartctl -s wcreorder,on|off: New persistent flag ,p.
smartctl -s standby: Prevent temporary drive spinup.
smartctl -n POWERMODE: New parameter to set exit status.
smartctl -g security: ATA Security Level check fixed.
smartctl -l scttemp*: Print minimum supported ERC Time Limit.
smartctl -q noserial: Now also suppresses "SAS address" output.
smartctl -i: Print IEEE EUI-64 of NVMe namespace.
smartctl -c: Print NVMe 1.3 feature flags.
smartctl -A: Print NVMe 1.3 thermal temperature transition
statistic.
smartctl -g/s dsn: Get/set ATA DSN.
smartd: Uses also device identify information to detect for duplicate
devices.
smartd -e dsn directive: Set ATA DSN.
smartd: Improved SCSI/SAS temperature logging.
smartd: Silence emails and log messages on open errors of
-d removable devices.
smartd: Exit on device open error unless -q never or -d removable
is specified (regression).
update-smart-drivedb: Now authenticates downloaded file with GnuPG.
update-smart-drivedb: New options --trunk, --no-verify and
--export-key.
Device type -d intelliprop,N for IntelliProp controllers.
SCSI: Default timeout increased to 1 minute.
configure: New options --with-gnupg, --with-scriptpath and
--with-update-smart-drivedb=X.Y
configure: Checks for C++11 support option and requires
--with[out]-cxx11-option if option unknown or no C++11 support.
HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database.
New smartmontools-* mailing list addresses.
Man page formatting reworked.
Linux: Uses SG_IO V4 API if supported.
Linux: Devices behind hpsa driver are no longer detected as regular
SCSI devices.
Darwin: Initial NVMe support based on undocumented API.
FreeBSD: Fix panic on INVARIANTS enabled kernel.
FreeBSD: Improve ATA SMART STATUS check for legacy controllers.
FreeBSD: Compile fix for FreeBSD-11 and newer.
NetBSD: NVMe support.
NetBSD: Full 28-bit ATA support.
NetBSD: Compile fix.
NetBSD: Use a raw disk device file.
OpenBSD: Compile fix.
OS/2: Support for the OS2AHCI driver, updating source code,
adding autoscan support, adding self-test support.
Windows: Support for Windows 10 NVMe driver (stornvme.sys).
Windows: Fix CSMI access for IRST driver 15.2.
Windows smartd: Ability to run PowerShell scripts with -M exec.
Windows smartd: New PowerShell script to send smartd warning emails
without external tools.
Windows package: Now provides PDF man pages.

Change History (3)

comment:2 by bdubbs@…, 6 years ago

Owner: changed from blfs-book@… to bdubbs@…
Status: newassigned

comment:3 by bdubbs@…, 6 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

Fixed at revision 19482.

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