smartmontools 7.1

[Pierre Labastie]

New minor version:

smartmontools NEWS
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Date 2019-12-30
Summary: smartmontools release 7.1
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- smartctl: Fixed bogus exception on unknown form factor value (regression).
- smartctl '--json=cg': Suppresses extra spaces also in 'g' format.
- smartctl '-i': ATA ACS-4 and ACS-5 enhancements.
- smartd: No longer truncates very long device names in warning emails.
- smartd: No longer skips scheduled tests if system clock has been adjusted
to the past.
- smartd '-A': Attribute logs now use local time instead of UTC.
- ATA: Device type '-d jmb39x,N' for drives behind JMicron JMB39x RAID port
multipliers.
- SCSI: Workaround for incomplete Log subpages response from some SAS SSDs.
- HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database.
- Autodetection of '-d sntjmicron' type for JMicron USB to NVMe bridges.
- configure: Defines '_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' if supported and not defined.
- Linux/FreeBSD: Fixed segfault on CCISS transfer sizes > 512 bytes.
- Linux: Fixed smartd.service 'Type' if libsystemd-dev is not available.
- Linux: Fixed '/dev/megaraid_sas_ioctl_node' fd leak.
- Linux: Fixed GPL licensing problem of 'linux_nvme_ioctl.h'.
- FreeBSD update-smart-drivedb: Now uses 'fetch' as default download tool.
- FreeBSD big endian: Fixed NVMe access.
- FreeBSD: Compile fix for FreeBSD 12.
- NetBSD: Fixed device scan crash on empty name list.
- NetBSD: Fixed memory leak in device scan.
- Windows: Fixed log page access via Windows 10 NVMe driver for NVMe 1.2.1+.
- Windows: Allow drive letters as device names for Windows 10 NVMe driver.
- Windows: Workround to allow CSMI access to devices behind AMD RAID drivers.
- Windows: Fixed MinGW options to add relocation info if ASLR is enabled.
- Windows wtssendmsg: No longer writes '\n' line endings to event log.
- Windows wtssendmsg: New options '-t' and '-w'.