smartmontools-7.4

[Bruce Dubbs]

New minor version.

[Douglas R. Reno]

Move to Milestone 12.0

[Douglas R. Reno]

Date 2023-08-01
Summary: smartmontools release 7.4
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- The docker image used for CI and release builds is now based on
  Debian 12 instead of Ubuntu 18.04.
- macOS: CI and release builds are now generated for the x86_64 and arm64
  targets. 32 bit platforms will require to be compiled from the source.
- smartctl '-t short', '-t long' and '-X': NVMe support.
- smartctl '-l selftest': NVMe support.
- smartctl '-l farm': Prints Seagate's vendor-specific Field Access
  Reliability Metrics (FARM) log for ATA and SCSI drives.
- smartctl '-l error': Now also prints an error message for each entry
  of NVMe error information log.
- smartctl '-l genstats': Prints SCSI General statistics and performance
  log page.
- smartctl '-i' and '--identify': ACS-4/5/6 enhancements.
- smartctl '-c': Added NVMe 2.0 capability flags.
- smartctl '-g security': Added 'ata_security.master_password_id'
  to JSON output.  Plaintext output shows Master Password ID if set
  to a non-default value.
- smartctl '-q noserial': Now also suppresses the output of NVMe Namespace
  IEEE EUI-64.
- smartctl '-j': '-l error -l selftest' JSON output for NVMe devices.
- smartctl '-j': Avoid invalid UTF-8 sequences in JSON/YAML strings.
- smartctl '-j': Fixed a bogus exception during SCSI JSON output.
- smartctl '-j': Renamed JSON element 'scsi_temperature' back to
  'temperature' (regression).
- smartctl '-a': Now suggests '-x' for ATA devices because '-a' only
  provides legacy SMART information.
- smartd: No longer issues LOG_CRIT warnings if new entries of NVMe error
  information log do not indicate device problems.
- smartd: Now detects accidental use of smartd_warning script as
  '-M exec' parameter.
- smartd: No longer writes the 'Copyright...' line to syslog.
- smartd.conf '-M always': Sends reminder emails without any delay.
- smartd.conf '-M diminishing': Limited email delay to 32 days.
- ATA: Fixed decoding of extended self-test log on big endian hosts.
- ATA: Enhanced LBA range for device types '-d jmb39x-q,...' and
  '-d jms56x,...' from 33-62 to 1-255.
- ATA: Device type '-d intelliprop,N' now fails with a deprecation message.
  Added '-d intelliprop,N,force' flag to use it anyway.
- ATA/USB: Device type '-d usbasm1352r,N' for ASMedia ASM1352R USB to SATA
  RAID bridges
- SCSI: Fixed possible corruption issue with the Error Counter and
  Non medium Error log pages.
- SCSI: Added more "Informational Exceptions" strings.
- SCSI: Added initial support for REPORT SUPPORTED OPERATION command.
- SCSI: Initial rework of SCSI debug output.
- NVMe: Added error messages for NVMe status values.
- NVMe: Fixed crash after read of error information log on big endian hosts.
- HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database.
- update-smart-drivedb: Fixed syntax for 'sed' versions which require
  ';' before '}' or do not support ';' at all.
- update-smart-drivedb: Replaced a usually not executed bashism.
- configure: Default for '--with-nvme-devicescan' is now 'yes' also on
  Darwin and FreeBSD.  It is still 'no' on NetBSD only.
- configure: Defines '_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3' if supported and not predefined.
- configure: No longer fails if libsystemd-dev is installed and
  'LDFLAGS=-static' is used.
- Compile fix for systems without legacy 'getdtablesize()'.
- Pre-releases from SVN snapshots now show "pre-VERSION" in version
  information and 'smartctl.pre_release=true' in JSON output.
- Linux: Device type '-d sssraid' for 3SNIC RAID controllers.
- Linux: Device type '-d marvell' now fails with a deprecation message.
  Added '-d marvell,force' flag to use it anyway.
- Linux: The generic SCSI code now defaults to SG_IO_V3 and does no
  longer fall back to the deprecated SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND
  (but this ioctl is still used for '-d 3ware' and '-d marvell,force').
- Linux smartd: Now prevents systemd unit startup timeout when many
  devices are registered and then initially checked.
- Linux smartd: Systemd no longer reports a service failure if no device
  is present and a '-q *nodev0*' option is used.
- Solaris SPARC: Dropped legacy ATA support.  Dropped configure option
  '--with-solaris-sparc-ata'.
- Windows: IOCTL_STORAGE_PROTOCOL_COMMAND variant for NVMe self-tests.
- Windows: Installer now defaults to 64-bit executables.
- Windows: No longer prints bogus 'Local Time' if enhanced TZ syntax is used.
- Windows: Workaround to keep backward compatibility with old versions
  of Windows if some versions of MinGW-w64 are used.

[Douglas R. Reno]

Fixed at e183e3ce75d73b26d04c16efe7153c70b48c5276