- Update to 12.3.0 (build 22234872) (boo#1214850)
- There are no new features in the open-vm-tools 12.3.0 release. This is
primarily a maintenance release that addresses a few critical problems,
including:
- This release integrates CVE-2023-20900 without the need for a patch.
For more information on this vulnerability and its impact on VMware
products, see
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0019.html.
- A tools.conf configuration setting is available to temporaily direct
Linux quiesced snaphots to restore pre open-vm-tools 12.2.0 behavior
of ignoring file systems already frozen.
- Building of the VMware Guest Authentication Service (VGAuth) using
"xml-security-c" and "xerces-c" is being deprecated.
- A number of Coverity reported issues have been addressed.
- A number of GitHub issues and pull requests have been handled.
Please see the Resolves Issues section of the Release Notes.
- For issues resolved in this release, see the Resolved Issues section
of the Release Notes.
- For complete details, see:
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/stable-12.3.0
- Release Notes are available at
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.3.0/ReleaseNotes.md
- The granular changes that have gone into the 12.3.0 release are in the
ChangeLog at
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.3.0/open-vm-tools/ChangeLog
- Fix (bsc#1205927) - hv_vmbus module is loaded unnecessarily in VMware guests
- jsc-PED-1344 - reinable building containerinfo plugin for SLES 15 SP4.
- Drop patch now contained in 12.3.0:
+ 0001-build-put-l-specifiers-into-LIBADD-not-LDFLAGS.patch
+ 0002-build-use-grpc-pkgconfig-to-retrieve-flags-libraries.patch
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- Update to 12.2.0 (build 21223074) (boo#1209128)
- There are no new features in the open-vm-tools 12.2.0 release. This is
primarily a maintenance release that addresses a few critical problems,
including:
- Linux quiesced snapshots have been updated to avoid intermittent hangs of
the vmtoolsd process.
- Updated the guestOps to handle some edge cases when File_GetSize() fails
or returns -1.
- A number of Coverity reported issues have been addressed.
- Detect the proto files for the containerd grpc client in alternate
locations. Pull request #626
- FreeBSD: Support newer releases and code clean-up for earlier versions.
Pull request #584
- Please refer to the release notes at
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.2.0/ReleaseNotes.md
- The granular changes that have gone into the 12.2.0 release are in the
ChangeLog at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.2.0/
open-vm-tools/ChangeLog
- Update detect-suse-location.patch to remove upstream accepted portion of the
patch (jsc-PED-1344).
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- Add containerInfo plugin (jsc-PED-1344)
- Add dependencies on grpc, protobuf, and containerd for container introspection
- Add _service to handle open-vm-tools sources
- Update to 12.1.5 (build 20735119)
- A number of Coverity reported issues have been addressed.
- The deployPkg plugin may prematurely reboot the guest VM before cloud-init
has completed user data setup. If both the Perl based Linux customization
script and cloud-init run when the guest VM boots, the deployPkg plugin
may reboot the guest before cloud-init has finished. The deployPkg
plugin has been updated to wait for a running cloud-init process to
finish before the guest VM reboot is initiated. This issue is fixed in
this release.
- A SIGSEGV may be encountered when a non-quiesing snapshot times out.
This issue is fixed in this release.
- Unwanted vmtoolsd service error message if not on a VMware hypervisor.
When open-vm-tools comes preinstalled in a base Linux release, the vmtoolsd
services are started automatically at system start and desktop login.
If running on physical hardware or in a non-VMware hypervisor, the services
will emit an error message to the Systemd's logging service before stopping.
This issue is fixed in this release.
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- Update to 12.0.0 (build 19345655) (boo#1196803)
- jsc#SLE-24097 ECO Update open-vm-tools 12.0.0
+ New/Updated features:
- Support for managing Salt Minion through guest variables. A new
open-vm-tools-salt-minion rpm is added to handle this support.
jsc#SLE-24094 Update open-vm-tools 12.0.0 SLES15SP4
jsc#SLE-24095 Update open-vm-tools 12.0.0 SLES15SP3
jsc#SLE-24096 Update open-vm-tools 12.0.0 SLES12SP5
- New ComponentMgr plugin to manage (add, remove, monitor) components on
the guest VM.
- Patch to fix potential Fail to Build from Source [FTBFS] (boo#1196804).
- Build vmhgfs with either libfuse2 or libfuse3.
+ A number of Coverity and Codacy reported issues have been addressed.
+ The following issues and pull requests reported on
github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools have been addressed: Issue # 128,
Issue # 314, Pull # 513, Pull # 544, Pull # 573
- Added patches
+ gcc_size_t.patch (boo#1196804)
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- Update to 11.3.5 (build 18557794) (boo#1190987)
+ New/Updated features:
- Added a configurable logging capability to the network script.
The network script has been updated to:
use vmware-toolbox-cmd to query any network logging configuration from
the tools.conf file. Use vmtoolsd --cmd "log ..." to log a message to
the vmx logfile when the logging handler is configured to "vmx" or when
the logfile is full or is not writeable.
- The hgfsmounter (mount.vmhgfs) command has been removed from
open-vm-tools.
The hgfsmounter (mount.vmhgfs) command is no longer used in
Linux open-vm-tools. It has been replaced by hgfs-fuse. Therefore,
removing all references to the hgfsmounter in Linux builds.
+ Resolved issues:
- Customization: Retry the Linux reboot if telinit is a soft link to
systemctl.
- Open-vm-tools commands would hang if configured with "--enable-valgrind".
+ Spec file updates for:
- rpmlint errors
- arg_xmlsec1 --enable-xmlsec1 for better xmlsec1/libxml2 handling.
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