smartmontools NEWS
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-$Id: NEWS 4594 2017-11-05 15:21:35Z chrfranke $
+$Id: NEWS 4883 2018-12-30 14:48:54Z chrfranke $
The most up-to-date version of this file is:
https://sourceforge.net/p/smartmontools/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/smartmontools/NEWS
+Date 2018-12-30
+Summary: smartmontools release 7.0
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+- smartctl: New options '-j' and '--json[=giosu]' to enable experimental
+ JSON output mode. Also supports an alternative flat format suitable
+ for grep ('--json=g').
+- smartctl '-l devstat': Fix for logs with 256 sectors.
+- smartctl '-l error': Prints SCSI Pending Defects log page if supported.
+- smartctl '-H': Prints SCSI Format Status log page if supported.
+- smartctl '-x': Now includes '-l defects'.
+- NVMe/USB: Device type '-d sntjmicron' for NVMe drives behind JMicron USB
+ to NVMe bridges.
+- NVMe: SMART/Health Information and Error Information are always read with
+ broadcast NSID.
+- SCSI: Various improvements for the decoding of log pages.
+- SCSI: Improved handling of READ CAPACITY command.
+- SCSI: Support for SAS host managed drives.
+- New option '-d scsi+TYPE' to disable SAT auto detection for 'aacraid'
+ and 'cciss'.
+- update-smart-drivedb: New option '-u github'.
+- update-smart-drivedb: New signing key.
+- configure: New options '--with-cxx11-regex' and '--with-libsystemd'.
+- configure: Default for '--with-nvme-devicescan' is now 'yes' on Linux
+ and Windows.
+- configure: Default for '--with-scriptpath' now includes '/usr/local/bin'.
+- configure: Options '-with-initscriptdir=[auto|yes]' are no longer
+ supported.
+- Reworked handling of unaligned LE and BE integers.
+- Dropped various backward compatibility fixes for very old compilers.
+- Replaced GPL header with 'SPDX-License-Identifier' in all source files.
+- HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database.
+- Always use '-d sat' for USB vendor IDs with known SAT support.
+- Linux: Device scan with '-d by-id' scans '/dev/disk/by-id/*' symlinks.
+- Linux: Dropped device scan support for devfs.
+- Linux: Fixed device scan with multiple '-d TYPE' options.
+- Linux: Fixed device scan crash on missing '/proc/devices'.
+- Linux: USB ID detection also for '/dev/sgN'.
+- Linux: Compile fix for systems with musl libc.
+- Linux smartd: Could now run as systemd service with 'Type=notify' set.
+- FreeBSD: NVMe device scanning.
+- FreeBSD: Various compile fixes.
+- NetBSD: Fixed regression in name based device type detection.
+- NetBSD big endian: Fixed regression in ATA code.
+- NetBSD big endian: Fixed byte ordering of ATA IDENTIFY data from USB/SAT
+ drives.
+- Windows: Improved search for actual CSMI port number.
+- Windows: Installer includes VERSIONINFO resource.
+
Date 2017-11-05
Summary: smartmontools release 6.6
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