Release history for s390-tools (MIT version)

v2.xx.x (2023-xx-xx)

For Linux kernel version: 6.x

Add new tools / libraries:

Changes of existing tools:

Bug Fixes:
v2.32.0 (2024-04-03)

For Linux kernel version: 6.8

Changes of existing tools:
- cpumf/lscpumf: add support for machine type 3932
- genprotimg, pvattest, and pvsecret accept IBM signing key with Armonk as subject locality
- zdump/zipl: Support for List-Directed dump from ECKD DASD
- zkey: Detect FIPS mode and generate PBKDF for luksFormat according to it
Bug Fixes:
- dbginfo.sh: dash compatible copy sequence
- rust/pv_core: Fix UvDeviceInfo::get() method
- zipl/src: Fix leak of files if run with a broken configuration
- zkey: Fix convert command to accept only keys of type CCA-AESDATA
v2.31.0 (2024-02-02)

For Linux kernel version: 6.7

General:
- common.mak: Set default C/C++ standard to gnu11/gnu++11
Add new tools / libraries:
- pvapconfig: Tool to automatically configure APQNs in SE KVM guests
- s390-tools: Provide pre-commit configuration
Changes of existing tools:
- cpuplugd: Adjust to CPU 0 being no longer hotpluggable
- dbginfo.sh: Check for Dynamic Partition Mode
- dbginfo.sh: Update man page and copyright
- rust/pv: Add user-data signing and verifying
- rust/pvsecret: Add user defined signatures and verifications
- zdev/dracut: Consolidate device configuration
Bug Fixes:
- dbginfo.sh: Fix relative path on script copy
- libkmipclient: Fix build with libxml2-2.12.0
- pvsecret: Fix panic if empty file is used as host key document
- rust/pv: Fix 'elided_lifetimes_in_associated_constant' warning
v2.30.0 (2023-12-01)

For Linux kernel version: 6.6

Add new tools / libraries:
- lspai: Tool to display PAI counter sets
- s390-tools: Provide a ShellCheck configuration
Changes of existing tools / libraries:
- cpumf/pai: Add command line option for realtime scheduling
- dbginfo.sh: enhance ethtool collection for ROCE
- libutil/util_lockfile: add routine to return owning pid of file lock
- lszcrypt: Improve lszcrypt output on SE guests
- rust: Use a single workspace for all rust tools
- zdev: limit the derivation of ZDEV_SITE_ID
- zdump/df_s390: Update 'zgetdump -i' output with zlib info
- zdump/dfi_s390: Support reading compressed s390_ext dumps
- zipl/boot: Integrate zlib compression to single volume DASD dumper
- zipl/boot: compile the bootloaders only if HOST_ARCH is s390x
- zipl: Add --no-compress option to zipl command
- zkey: Also check for deconfigured and check-stopped cards
- dbginfo.sh: fix relative path on script copy
Bug Fixes:
- ap_tools/ap-check: handle get-attributes between pre and post event
- libutil: fix util_file_read_*() using wrong format specifiers
- rust/pv: fix Invalid write of size 1
v2.29.0 (2023-08-04)

For Linux kernel version: 6.5

General:
- s390-tools now supports tools written in Rust.
- Add compdb Makefile target to create 'compile_commands.json' to LSP backends in IDEs and editors
Add new tools / libraries:
- rust/pv: Library for pv tools written in rust
- rust/pvsecret: Tool to manage UV-secrets
Changes of existing tools:
- dbginfo.sh: Global IFS variable
- genprotimg: Add support for add-secret requests
- genprotimg: Build debuginfo files for bootloader
- hyptop: Add real SMT utilization field
- hyptop: Allow users to set speedup factor
- pvattest: Add yaml-output for verify command
- zipl: Build debuginfo files for bootloader
Bug Fixes:
- dump2tar: Fix truncated paths
- zdev/dracut: fix kdump build to integrate with site support
v2.28.0 (2023-07-11)

For Linux kernel version: 6.4

Changes of existing tools:
- chzcrypt: Support for SE AP pass-through support
- genprotimg: Add support for non-s390x architectures
- lszcrypt: Support for SE AP pass-through support
- zdev: Add support for autoquiesce related sysfs attributes
Bug Fixes:
- ap_tools/ap-check: Handle missing 'matrix' and 'control_domains' attrs
- ap_tools/ap-check: Hold ap config file lock over get attributes
- s390-tools: Fix build for ppc64le
- zdev: Add missing label in the udev-rules
- zdev: Add proper value input for the ZDEV_SITE_ID key
- zdev: Use rename-file to avoid any symlinks created
- zipl/dump: fix ngdump dracut helper script
v2.27.0 (2023-05-30)

For Linux kernel version: 6.3

Changes of existing tools:
- s390-tools cross-compile and non-s390x support:
  - pkg-config is now mandatory for the build process
  - Add PKG_CONFIG Makefile variable to select pkg-config program; default pkg-config or $(CROSS_COMPILE)pkg-config if CROSS_COMPILE is set
  - Rename Makefile variable ARCH to HOST_ARCH. HOST_ARCH is the architecture that will run the produced (executable) objects
  - Add the Makefile variable BUILD_ARCH. BUILD_ARCH is the architecture of the build system. For each Makefile variable like CC, LINK, CPP, ... there is a suffixed version of it - e.g. CC_FOR_BUILD. This is useful for cross compiling, and this naming convention is very similar to the Meson convention (see https://mesonbuild.com/Reference-tables.html#environment-variables-per-machine).
  - Limit build targets for non-s390x architectures (pvattest)
- dasdfmt: Fall back to full format if space release fails
- dbginfo.sh: Add nstat for network and SNMP stats
- dbginfo.sh: Rework crypto data collection
- hyptop: Show thread util by default
- zipl: Add support for list-directed IPL dump from ECKD DASD
Bug Fixes:
- lszcrypt: Fix argument parsing
- zdev/dracut: Fix out-of-memory (OOM) situations in the kdump crashkernel environment
- ziomon/ziorep_config: Fix for SCSI devices of type disk without block dev
- pvextract-hdr: Fix parsing issues on little-endian systems
v2.26.0 (2023-02-14)

For Linux kernel version: 6.2

Remove tools / libraries:
- Remove vmconvert and libvmdump in favor of vmdump file support in zdump
Changes of existing tools:
- ipl_tools: Add support for list-directed IPL from ECKD DASD
- lszcrypt: Display hardware filtering support capability
- vmur: Remove option -c for dump file conversion (See zdump changes)
- zdev: Add zfcp ber_stop parameter handling
- zdump: Add vmdump dfi for vmdump format to elf format
- zkey: Support EP11 host library version
Bug Fixes:
- zipl: Move dump parmline processing and verification
- zipl/genprotimg: Various build improvements
v2.25.0 (2022-12-08)

For Linux kernel version: 6.1

Changes of existing tools:
- ap_tools: Use new mdevctl installation location
- lsdasd/tunedasd/zdev: Add support to handle copy pair relations presented by the DASD driver
- zdev: Add --shell command line switch to generate output suitable for shell environments
- zipl: Add List-Directed IPL from ECKD DASD to support secure boot
Bug Fixes:
- ipl_tools: Fix chreipl node for NVMes with CONFIG_NVME_MULTIPATH
- libdasd: Fix bug that prevented positive ioctl return codes
v2.24.0 (2022-11-09)

For Linux kernel version: 6.0

Add new tools / libraries:
- Provide config files for checkpatch, codespell, and clang-format
Changes of existing tools:
- dbginfo.sh: Collect log from various distro tools (YaST, DNF, Anaconda)
- dbginfo.sh: add Kubernetes data collection
- libutil: Introduce util_lockfile
- zdev: Add site-aware device configuration
- zdump: Add support to read Protected Virtualization dumps
- zipl/boot: Add secure boot trailer
Bug Fixes:
- ap_tools/ap-check: Reject start for control domains without usage
- cpumf/lshwc: Fix incremented counter output
- cpumf/pai: Fix core dump when summary flag set
- dbginfo.sh: Ensure compatibility with /bin/dash shell
- dbginfo.sh: Save dbginfo.sh version to dbginfo.log
- zipl/src/zipl_helper.device-mapper: Fix bug in error path
v2.23.0 (2022-08-18)

For Linux kernel version: 5.19

Changes of existing tools:
- Makefile: use common Make definition for DRACUTDIR
- Makefile: use common Make definition for UDEVDIR and UDEVRULESDIR
- cpacfstats: Add PAI and hotplug support
- cpumf/pai: Omit file write progress information
- dbginfo.sh: Get more details on lspci command
- dumpconf: Prevent running the service in containers
- libcpumf: Detect PMU named pai_ext
- pvattest: Improve error reporting and logging
- zdev: Add some --type ap examples to manpages
- zkey: Use default benchmarked Argon2i with LUKS2
Bug Fixes:
- dbginfo.sh: Fix accidental ftrace buffer shrinkage/free
- genprotimg: Fix BIO_reset() returncode handling
- libpv: Fix dependency checking
- pvattest: Fix dependency checking
- zipl: Fix segmentation fault when no parmline is provided
v2.22.0 (2022-06-20)

For Linux kernel version: 5.18

Add new tools / libraries:
- ap_tools: Introduce ap_tools and the ap-check tool
- cpumf/pai: Add Processor Activity Instrumentation tool
- libpv: New library for PV tools
- pvattest: Add new tool to create, perform, and verify attestation measurements
- zipl/zdump: Add Next Gen Dump (NGDump) support
Changes of existing tools:
- Move man pages to System commands section (lscpumf, lshwc, pai, dbginfo.sh, zfcpdbf, zipl-switch-to-blscfg)
- README.md: Add 70-chreipl-fcp-mpath.rules to the list of udev rule descriptions
- Remove SysV related daemon scripts (cpacfstatsd, cpuplugd, mon_statd)
- genprotimg: Move man page to section 1 for user commands
- hyptop: increase initial update interval
- libseckey: Adapt keymgmt_match() implementation to OpenSSL
- libutil: Add util_exit_code
- libutil: Introduce util_udev
- zdev: Introduce the ap device type
- zipl-editenv: Add zIPL multienvironment support
- zipl: Implement sorting BLS entries by versions
- zkey: Add initramfs hook
Bug Fixes:
- cmsfs-fuse: Fix enabling of hard_remove option
- s390-tools: Fix typos that were detected by lintian as 'typo-in-manual-page'
- zkey-kmip: Fix possible use after free
- zkey: Fix EP11 host library version checking
- zkey_kmip: Setup ext-lib once the APQNs have been configured
v2.21.0 (2022-04-20)

For Linux kernel version: 5.17

Add new tools / libraries:
- libcpumf: Create library libcpumf for CPU Measurement functions
Changes of existing tools:
- chreipl-fcp-mpath: bundle a pre-cooked version of the manpage for build environments without access to pandoc
- dbginfo.sh: Add multipath info to map paths to FC addressing and prio group
- dbginfo.sh: Collect config files of systemd-modules-load.service
- dbginfo.sh: Sort list of environment variables for readability
- dbginfo.sh: Replace "which" by builtin command "type"
- dbginfo.sh: Rework script formatting (indents, order)
- dbginfo.sh: Update sysfs collection (excludes, messages)
- genprotimg: Add Protected Virtualization (PV) dump support
- genprotimg: Remove DigiCert root CA pinning
- lszcrypt: Add CEX8S support
- zcryptctl: Add control domain handling
- zcryptstats: Add CEX8 support
- zipl: Allow optional entries that are left out when files are missing
- zipl: make IPL sections defined with BLS to inherit a target field
- zpcictl: Add option to trigger firmware reset
Bug Fixes:
- cpictl: Handle excessive kernel version numbers
- dbginfo.sh: Collect all places where modprobe.d config files could exist
- fdasd: Fix endless menu loop on EOF
- zdump/dfi: Fix segfault due to double free
- zdump: Fix /dev/mem reading
- zpcictl: Fix race of SCLP reset and Linux recovery
v2.20.0 (2022-02-04)

For Linux kernel version: 5.16

Add new tools / libraries:
- Add EditorConfig configuration
Changes of existing tools:
- s390-tools switches to Fuse 3 as Fuse 2 is deprecated. Affected tools: cmsfs, hmcdrvfs, hsavmcore, zdsfs, zdump
- chreipl-fcp-mpath: don't compress the manpage before installing it
- cpictl: Report extended version information
- genprotimg: Add extended kernel command line support
- zdev: modify the lsblk output parser in lszdev
- zipl: Add support for longer kernel command lines (now supports up to 64k length)
Bug Fixes:
- cpictl: Suppress messages for unwritable sysfs files
- dbginfo.sh: Fix missing syslog for step create_package
- lshwc: Fix CPU list parameter setup for device driver
- zdev: Check for errors when removing a devtype setting
- zdev: Fix path resolution for multi-mount point file systems
v2.19.0 (2021-11-10)

For Linux kernel version: 5.15

Add new tools / libraries:
- chreipl-fcp-mpath: New toolset that uses multipath information to change the configured FCP re-IPL path on detecting issues with the current path
Changes of existing tools:
- dbginfo.sh: Add retry timeout and remove possible blocking "blockdev --report"
- dbginfo.sh: Collect config- and debug-data for chreipl-fcp-mpath
- hsci: Add support for multiple MAC addresses
Bug Fixes:
- lshwc: Fix compile error for gcc <8.1
- zdump: Various clean-ups and fixes
- ziomon: Correct throughput calculation in ziorep_printers
- zipl: Fix segmentation fault when setting stage3_parms
v2.18.0 (2021-10-01)

For Linux kernel version: 5.14

Add new tools:
- scripts: Add tool for parsing sclp s390dbf logs
- zdev: Add udev rule helper tool
- zipl-editenv: Add tool to operate with zIPL environment installed in the boot record
Changes of existing tools:
- Makefile: Fix order of build of libraries for parallel builds
- dbginfo.sh: Add collection in area of timedate, coredump and --check option
- dbginfo.sh: Add exception on dump2tar for /sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap
- dbginfo.sh: Cleanup of outdated sections and general code rework
- dbginfo.sh: Collect zipl boot menu entries from boot loader specification
- lszcrypt: Add support for vfio-ap status field
- lszcrypt: Improved output for deconfig cards and queues
- lszfcp: Add linkdown case to host marker of extended output
- zdev: Add auto-config for PCI and crypto devices
- zdump: Introduce multi-level message logging
- zipl: Add support for environment block interpretation
- zkey-cryptsetup: Support LUKS2 volumes with integrity support enabled
Bug Fixes:
- hsavmcore: Avoid recompilation of overlay during install step
- libkmipclient: Fix parsing of hex values for XML and JSON encoding
- vmur/vmur.cpp: Fix error handling on transfer failure
- zdump: Lots of smaller fixes across the board
v2.17.0 (2021-07-07)

For Linux kernel version: 5.12 / 5.13

Add new tools / libraries:
- hsavmcore: New utility to make the dump process with kdump more efficient
- libkmipclient: Add KMIP client shared library
- libseckey: Add a secure key library
- lshwc: New tool to extract and list complete counter sets
Changes of existing tools:
- genprotimg: Add '--(enable|disable)-pckmo' options
- genprotimg: Add OpenSSL 3.0 support
- genprotimg: Change plaintext control flags defaults so PCKMO functions are allowed
- libutil: Introduce multi-level message logging (util_log)
- libutil: Introduce util_arch module
- udev/dasd: Change DASD udev-rule to set none scheduler
- zdsfs: Add transparent codepage conversion
- zkey: Add support for KMIP-based key management systems
Bug Fixes:
- ttyrun-getty: Avoid conflicts with serial-getty@
- dbginfo: add /proc/kallsyms - refresh zVM, lscpu - fix WORKARCHIVE handling
- dbginfo: add KVM data collection for server and guest - fix lszdev
- genprotimg: Add missing return values in error paths
- zkey: Fix conversion of CCA DATA keys to CCA CIPHER keys
- znetconf: avoid conflict with "chzdev -e"
v2.16.0 (2021-02-19)

For Linux kernel version: 5.10 / 5.11

Add new tool:
- hsci: New tool to manage HSCI (HiperSockets Converged Interfaces)
Changes of existing tools:
- genprotimg: Add host-key document verification support
- genprotimg: boot: Make boot loader -march=z900 compatible
- libekmfweb: Make install directory for shared libraries configurable
- lsdasd: Add FC Endpoint Security information
- make: Add address sanitizer support
- netboot: Add version information to scripts
- netboot: Bump busybox version in pxelinux.0 build
- zdev: Add FC Endpoint Security information for DASD devices
- zdev: Add build option to update initial RAM-disk by default
- zkey-ekmfweb: Avoid sequence number clash when generating keys
- zkey/zkey-ekmfweb: Install KMS plugins into configurable location
- zkey: Add support to store LUKS2 dummy passphrase in key repository
Bug Fixes:
- dasdfmt: Fix segfault when an incorrect option is specified
- genprotimg: Fix several build issues
- genprotimg: Require argument for 'ramdisk' and 'parmfile' options
- zcryptstats: Fix handling of partial results with many domains
- zfcpdbf: Deal with crash 7.2.9 change in caller name formatting
- zipl/boot: Fix memory use after free in stage2
- zipl/boot: Fix potential heap overflow in stage2
- zipl: Fix reading 4k disk's geometry
v2.15.1 (2020-10-28)

For Linux kernel version: 5.9

Changes of existing tools:
- lsstp: Improve wording and fix typos in man page
- zkey: Ensure zkey and friends are skipped with HAVE_OPENSSL=0
- zkey: Add library versioning for libekmfweb and zkey-ekmfweb
- libutil: Add function to determine base device of a partition block device
Bug Fixes:
- dasdfmt: Fix bad file descriptor error when running on symlinks
- libdasd: Fix dasd_get_host_access_count()
- zipl: Fix multivolume dump
- zgetdump: Fix device node determination via sysfs to work with multivolume again
- genprotimg/boot: Fix build by disabling SSP
- zipl/boot: Fix build by disabling SSP
v2.15.0 (2020-10-15)

For Linux kernel version: 5.9

Add new tool:
- lsstp: A small utility to display the Server Time Protocol (STP) information present in sysfs
Changes of existing tools:
- dumpconf: support NVMe dump/reipl device
- ipl_tools: support clear attribute for nvme re-IPL
- zcrypt: Support new config state with lszcrypt and chzcrypt
- zkey: Add support for key management system plugins including the KMS commands: bind, unbind, info, configure, rencipher, list, import, refresh
- zkey: Add EKMFWeb support to remotely generate secure keys
- libekmfweb: Add new EKMFWeb client library
- libutil: Add util_file_read_va()
- libutil: Add util_file_read_i()/util_file_read_ui()
Bug Fixes:
- cpumf: Fix version and help printout when CPUMF is not installed
- ziomon/ziorep_printers: fix virtual adapter CSV output
- zipl: Fix Error when title is not the first field in BLS file
v2.14.0 (2020-08-21)

For Linux kernel version: 5.7 / 5.8

Changes of existing tools:
- cpacfstats: Add ECC counters
- dbginfo: Added collection of /proc/softirqs
- ipl-tools: Add nvme device support to lsreipl/chreipl
- zdsfs: Add coordinated read access
- libzds: Add curl interface to access zosmf rest api
- util_opt: Change util_opt_init() to honor current command, if set Bug Fixes:
- lsluns: Try harder to find udevadm
- mon_tools: Update udevadm location
- zipl: Fix NVMe partition and base device detection
- zipl/stage3: Correctly handle diag308 response code
- znetconf: Introduce better ways to locate udevadm
v2.13.0 (2020-05-06)

For Linux kernel version: 5.5 / 5.6

Add new tool:
- genprotimg: Add genprotimg to create protected virtualization images
- genprotimg: Add sample script to verify host keys
Changes of existing tools:
- dbginfo: Gather bridge related data (using 'bridge')
- dbginfo: Removed collection of /var/log/opencryptoki/
- dbginfo: collect softnet_stat
- dbginfo: gather ethtool output for per-queue coalescing
- ipl_tools: Support clear attribute for FCP and CCW re-IPL
- zdev: Report FC Endpoint Security of zfcp devices
- zdev/dracut/95zdev/module-setup.sh: Add ctcm kernel module
- cpumf/data: Add new deflate counters for IBM z15
- zkey: Add support for EP11 secure keys
- zpcictl: Initiate recover after reset
- zipl: Add support for NVMe devices
- zipl: A multitude of code and stability improvements
Bug Fixes:
- zipl: Prevent endless loop during IPL
- zipl/libc: Fix potential buffer overflow in printf
- zkey: Fix listing of keys on file systems reporting DT_UNKNOWN
- zkey: Fix display of clear key size for XTS, CCA-AESCIPHER, and EP11-AES XTS keys
v2.12.0 (2019-12-17)

For Linux kernel version: 5.4

Changes of existing tools:
- dbginfo: Gather qdisc related data (using 'tc')
- dbginfo: Gather extended network statistics (using 'ip link')
- dbginfo: Collect all files under /usr/lib/systemd/system/
- cpumf/cpumf_helper: Add IBM z15 machine name
- zkey: Display MKVP when validating a secure key
- zkey: Cross check APQNs when generating, validating, or importing secure keys, and when changing APQN associations
- zkey: Check crypto card level during APQN cross checking
- zkey: Add support for generating, validating, and re-enciphering AES CIPHER keys
- zkey-cryptsetup: Add --to-new and --from-old options
- zkey-cryptsetup: Allow setkey to set different key types
- lszcrypt/chzcrypt: CEX7S exploitation support
- zcryptstats: Add support for CEX7 crypto card
- zipl: Ship a minimal zipl.conf
- zipl: Add value of target= as search path for BLS case
Bug Fixes:
- dasdview: Fix exit status in error cases
- zipl: Fix various compile warnings
- zipl: Fix dependency generation in zipl/boot
- zipl: Fix entry point for stand-alone kdump
- zipl: Add missing options to help output
v2.11.0 (2019-09-06)

For Linux kernel version: 5.3

Changes of existing tools:
- dasdfmt: Add support for thin-provisioned volumes
- lsdasd: Add support for thin-provisioned volumes
- libdasd: Provide function to utilise release space ioctl
- libdasd: Provide function to read ese sysfs attribute
- dbginfo: Add lspci (PCI devices) and smc_dbg (SMC sockets)
- dbginfo: Gather ethtool related data
Bug Fixes:
- zipl: Fix freeing of uninitialized pointer
- zipl: Set correct secure IPL default value
v2.10.0 (2019-07-31)

For Linux kernel version: 5.2

Changes of existing tools:
- zdev: Add zfcp dix parameter handling
- cpumf: Add support for CPU-Measurement Facility counters SVN 6
Bug Fixes:
- libutil: Add functions to test path is read/write-only
- zdev: Fix reporting of read-only sysfs attributes
- zdev: Improve handling of invalid udev rules
- zipl: Fix stfle zero padding
- zipl: Fix build issues
- zipl: Remove trailing spaces from the fields defined in BLS files
- zipl: Do not overwrite BOOT_IMAGE entry
- zkey: Fix auto-detection of clear key bitsize for XTS keys
v2.9.0 (2019-05-21)

For Linux kernel version: 5.0 / 5.1

Add new tool:
- zcryptstats: Add zcryptstats to display usage statistics of IBM Crypto Express adapters
Changes of existing tools:
- lszfcp: New command line option to show module parameters
- lszfcp: Sdev attributes for scsi_disk, block, integrity, queue, iosched
- lszfcp: Add new output marker for non-good SCSI devices (luns)
- lszfcp: Add new output marker for non-good fc_rports
- lszfcp: Clean up whitespace (mixed indentation, trailing)
- lschp: Add support for specifying a CHPID
- zipl: Add secure boot capabilities
- zkey: Add common passphrase options for cryptsetup and crypttab
- zkey: Add batch-mode option to cryptsetup and zkey-cryptsetup
- libu2s: Remove the entire library and provide more robust functionality in libdasd and libutil instead
Bug Fixes:
- lszfcp: Allow to show zfcp_units without associated SCSI device
- lszfcp: Attribute details for: css, zfcp_port, zfcp_unit
- lszfcp: Allow to also enumerate FCP device that have never been online
- lszfcp: Fix error message if no zfcp-attached SCSI device found
- lszfcp: Fix to show defunct FCP devices again
- lszfcp: Fix to show non-good target ports again
- lszfcp: Fix missing block & sg device output without CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED
- lszfcp: New command line option for extended output format
- zfcpdbf: Warn about ambiguous payload records with dup reqid & payarea
- zpcictl: Check for regular directory to prevent possible buffer overflow
v2.8.0 (2019-02-15)

For Linux kernel version: 4.20

Changes of existing tools:
- Switch to using /run directory instead of the legacy /var/run
- zkey: Add --pbkdf pbkdf2 to generated cryptsetup luksFormat command
- zdsfs: Add online VTOC refresh
- pkey: Support autoloading kernel pkey module
Bug Fixes:
- zkey: Avoid EPERM on key change if user is not owner of key file
- cpumf/cpumf_helper: Always return list reference for --sfb-size
v2.7.1 (2018-12-13)

For Linux kernel version: 4.19

Changes of existing tools:
- zkey: Enhance file read/write error handling
- cmsfs-fuse: Write more than a single line in linefeed mode
- zpcictl: Add warning for unsupported operations
- zipl: Use the BLS "title" field as the IPL section name
Bug Fixes:
- cmsfs-fuse: Fix iconv buffer aliasing
- cmsfs-fuse: Fix memory leak in cmsfs_rename()
- fdasd: Fix possible integer overflow
- fdasd: Fix resource leak in fdasd_parse_conffile()
- zdev: Fix memory leak in misc_readlink()
- dasdinfo: Display error messages on stderr
- zkey: Include /sbin into PATH when executing commands
- Makefile: Fix parallel build
- GCC8 warning fixes across the board for: cmsfs-fuse, dasdinfo, dasdview, dump2tar, fdasd, hmcdrvfs, hyptop, ip_watcher, libvmdump, libvtoc, lsqeth, lszcrypt, qethqoat, zdev, zdsfs, zgetdump, zipl, zpcictl
v2.7.0 (2018-10-31)

For Linux kernel version: 4.19

Add new tool:
- zcryptctl: Add zcryptctl for multiple zcrypt node management
- zpcictl: Add zpcictl for reporting defective PCI devices
Changes of existing tools:
- qethqoat: Add OSA-Express7S support
- lszcrypt: Add support for alternative zcrypt device drivers
- zfcpdump: Add install script for zfcpdump
- zipl: Make zipl work with XFS by using the FIEMAP mapping ioctl
Bug Fixes:
- lstape: Fix output with SCSI lin_tape and multiple paths to same unit
- lstape: Fix output without SCSI generic (sg)
- lsluns: Fix to prevent error messages if there are non-zfcp SCSI devices
- lstape: Fix to prevent error messages if there are non-zfcp SCSI devices
- lstape: Fix description of --type and filter for channel tapes
- lstape: Fix SCSI output description in man page
- lstape: Fix SCSI HBA CCW device bus-ID e.g. for virtio-scsi-ccw
- Direct --help and --version output to stdout for several tools
- osasnmpd: Start without real OSA devices
v2.6.0 (2018-08-10)

For Linux kernel version: 4.18

Add new tool:
- zkey: Add zkey-cryptsetup tool Changes of existing tools:
- netboot: add BOOTIF support
Bug Fixes:
- mon_procd: fix parsing of /proc//stat
- netboot: Include compressed kernel modules in initramfs
- netboot: Send client architecture and handle path prefix
v2.5.0 (2018-06-08)

For Linux kernel version: 4.17

Changes of existing tools:
- zdev: Add support for reading firmware configuration files
- zipl: Add BootLoaderSpec support
- scripts: Add script to switch zipl config to a BootLoaderSpec setup
Bug Fixes:
- lsluns: Print a message if no adapter or port exists
v2.4.0 (2018-05-07)

For Linux kernel version: 4.16

Changes of existing tools:
- dbginfo: Gather nvme related data
- zipl: Rewrite helper script in C
- libutil: Add function util_strstrip
- libvmcp: Introduce libvmcp
- zipl: Extend DASD stand-alone dumpers to drop zero pages
- zgetdump: Add verbose option
- zgetdump: Add 'Dump file size' field for zgetdump -i output
- cpumf: Add IBM z14 ZR1 to the CPU Measurement Facility model list
- zkey: Add build dependency to OpenSSL (libcrypto)
- zkey: Add keystore implementation
Bug Fixes:
- hmcdrvfs: fix parsing of link count >= 1000
- zgetdump: Avoid Segfault on processing dumps with memory limit
- chreipl: correct fcp reipl sysfs write sequence
- udev: Replace WAIT_FOR with TEST keyword
v2.3.0 (2018-01-30)

For Linux kernel version: 4.15

Changes of existing tools:
- lscpumf: Add support for IBM z14 hardware counters
- libdasd: Introduce libdasd and use for dasd tools
- zipl: Always build and link without PIE
Bug Fixes:
- zgetdump: Fix handling of DASD multi-volume dump for partitions above 4 GB
- zdev: Fix zdev dracut module aborting on unknown root device
v2.2.0 (2017-12-07)

For Linux kernel version: 4.14

Removed tools:
- lsmem/chmem: Moved to util-linux >= 2.30
Changes of existing tools:
- lszcrypt: Add CEX6S support
- cpuplugd/mon_tools: Improve systemctl start error handling
- systemd: Install also the unit configuration files
Bug Fixes:
- build process: Fix parallel build for libutil
- cpi: Add missing Install section to service unit
- lsluns: Do not scan (all) if filters match nothing
- lsluns: Enhance usage statement and man page
- zdev: Use correct path to vmcp binary
- ziomon: Re-add missing line in ziomon_fcpconf
- ziomon: Fix non-zero return code in ziomon_util
- zipl: Remove invalid dasdview command line option
v2.1.0 (2017-09-25)

For Linux kernel version: 4.13

Added new tools:
- netboot: Scripts for building a PXE-style netboot image for KVM
- 90-cpi.rules/cpictl: New udev rule to update CPI when KVM is used
Changes of existing tools:
- lsqeth/zdev: Add VNIC Characteristics support
Bug Fixes:
- chzcrypt: Corrected handling of insufficient permissions
- cpacfstats: Add size setting to perf event
- fdasd: Skip partition check with the force option
- ttyrun: Fix deprecated BindTo usage in ttyrun-getty@.service.in
- lszcrypt: Fix core dump caused by stack overwrite
- lszcrypt: Fix random domain printout when no config available
- zdev: Fix segfault with unknown qeth attribute
- zdev: Fix IPv6 NDP proxy description
- zdev: Fix zdev dracut module temp file location
- zkey: Correctly detect abbreviated commands
- zkey: Validate XTS key: ignore domain and card
- zkey: Use octal values instead of S_IRWX* constants
- zkey: Properly set umask to prohibit permissions to group and others
- zkey: Add -ldl to LDLIBS (not LDFLAGS)
- znetconf: Re-add missing line in lsznet.raw
- Fix several gcc 7 warnings
v2.0.0 (2017-08-21)
- Publish package under the MIT license with the same contents as the already available s390-tools-1.39.0

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