smartmontools-7.5

[Bruce Dubbs]

New minor version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Summary: smartmontools release 7.5 - Date 2025-04-30

• CI and release builds are now reproducible if same SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH, build recipes and toolchains are used.
• smartctl '-j -A': New JSON value 'endurance_used' (ATA/SCSI/NVMe).
• smartctl '-j -A': New JSON value 'spare_available' (ATA/NVMe).
• smartctl '-j -i': Re-added the JSON value 'model_name' also for SCSI devices (regression).
• smartctl '-j -c': NVMe support.
• smartctl '-j -n ...': New JSON values 'power_mode.*' (ATA only).
• smartctl '-H -A': Support for NVMe SMART/Health Information per namespace.
• smartctl '-i': ATA ACS-6 updates.
• smartctl '-x': No longer includes '-g wcreorder'.
• smartctl '-x', '-l scterc': No longer returns exit status 4 if SCT ERC is not supported by the device.
• smartctl '-l error': No longer prints bogus ATA error log entries if the error index is nonzero but the error count is zero.
• smartctl '-l ssd': Fixed corruption of the output of the SCSI Format Status log page.
• smartctl '-l ssd': Now detects 'no format since manufacture' from the SCSI Format Status log page.
• smartctl '-l farm': Fixed the unit of 'Write Power On' time.
• smartctl '-l farm': Fixed the byte order of ATA 'Assembly Date'.
• smartctl '-l farm': Fixed a possible segfault.
• smartctl '-l farm -q noserial': Suppresses serial and WWN also from FARM.
• smartctl '-l farm -T permissive': Overrides false negative FARM support check for rebranded drives.
• smartctl '-t TEST': Fixed self-tests of single namespace NVMe devices.
• smartd '-A': NVMe attribute log support.
• smartd: Ignores NSID in duplicate check of single namespace devices.
• smartd: No longer issues LOG_CRIT warnings for 'Set Feature' related NVMe error information log entries.
• smartd: No longer hangs on systems with large file descriptor limits.
• smartd: No longer logs invalid "old test ... not run" messages if staggered self-tests are used.
• smartd.conf '-l selftest[sts] -s ...': NVMe self-test support.
• smartd.conf '-H MASK': Ability to ignore specific bits of NVMe SMART/Health value 'Critical Warning'.
• smartd.conf '-p': Checks NVMe SMART/Health value 'Available Spare'.
• smartd.conf '-u [-f]': Checks NVMe SMART/Health values 'Percentage Used' and 'Media and Data Integrity Errors'.
• smartd.conf '-W ...': No longer includes individual sensors in NVMe temperature check as some devices report other values there.
• ATA: Device type '-d jmb39x-q2,N' for another JMB39x protocol variant used by QNAP-TR002 NAS devices.
• SCSI: Fixed range checks of mode page offset and VPD inquiry.
• SCSI: Fixed buffer overflow parsing of VPD page.
• SCSI: Fixed handling of multiple designators in VPD page.
• USB/NVMe: '-d sntjmicron' no longer triggers USB resets on queries of the self-test log.
• USB/NVMe: '-d sntasmedia' now supports log pages > 512 bytes.
• USB/NVMe/SAT: New experimental NVMe/SAT autodetection options '-d snt*/sat'.
• Fixed segfault on missing option argument on systems using musl libc.
• HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database.
• automake < 1.13 are no longer supported.
• Custom make rules are now silenced if 'make V=0' is used.
• Enhanced makefile targets 'dist-*' to create reproducible source tarballs if SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is set.
• The makefile no longer uses GNU make specific syntax elements (exception: reproducible builds for macOS).
• Dropped support for platforms without 'sigaction()'.
• configure: Now also detects MidnightBSD.
• configure: Dropped option '--with-signal-func'.
• configure: Default for '--with-nvme-devicescan' is now 'yes' also on NetBSD.
• Version information is now also set if build from GH R/O mirror.
• Linux: 'smartd.service' now avoids a warning about an unset environment variable.
• Linux: Dropped autodetection of deprecated device type '-d marvell'.
• macOS: Support for reproducible builds of the DMG image.
• OpenBSD: NVMe support.
• Windows: Increased WMI timeout.
• Windows: Support for reproducible builds of the installer.
• Windows: Uninstaller is no longer damaged if the installer is signed.
• Windows 'update-smartd-drivedb.ps1': Fixed call of 'gpg.exe' if it appears more than once in the PATH.
• Windows 'update-smartd-drivedb.ps1 -Verbose': Now also prints the download command.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commits

1d8671328f Update to fltk-1.4.3.
eca8cf4d9e Update to ghostscript-10.05.1 (Security release).
8f41b7b60a Update to pixman-0.46.0.
45d1de2874 Update to smartmontools-7.5.