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<patchinfo incident="6682">
  <issue id="1047198" tracker="bnc">smartd to suppress "failed to read Temperature" messages on controllers that do not support the feature</issue>
  <issue id="1038271" tracker="bnc">Partner-L3: smartctl return code is 4 for "-H"  Health</issue>
  <issue id="983938" tracker="bnc">`After=syslog.target` left-overs in several unit files</issue>
  <issue id="900099" tracker="bnc">smartmontools: generate_smartd_opts refers to init script</issue>
  <issue id="1080611" tracker="bnc">[TRACKERBUG] FATE#321901: [ECO] smartmontools 6.5 for NVMe support</issue>
  <issue id="321901" tracker="fate" />
  <issue id="322874" tracker="fate" />
  <category>recommended</category>
  <rating>moderate</rating>
  <packager>sbrabec</packager>
  <description>This update for smartmontools fixes the following issues:

smartmontools was updated to 6.6 version (FATE#321901, bsc#1080611, FATE#322874)

Changes:

- smartctl:

* -i' and '--identify': ATA ACS-4 and SATA 3.3 enhancements.
    * Control ATA write cache through SCT Feature Control
    with '-s wcache-sct,ata|on|off[,p]' and '-g wcache-sct'.
    * Print ATA Pending Defects log with '-l defects'.
    * '-s wcreorder,on|off': New persistent flag ',p'.
    * '-s standby': Prevent temporary drive spinup.
    * '-n POWERMODE': New parameter to set exit status.
    * '-g security': ATA Security Level check fixed.
    * '-l scttemp*': Print minimum supported ERC Time Limit.
    * '-q noserial': Now also suppresses "SAS address" output.
    * '-i': Print IEEE EUI-64 of NVMe namespace.
    * '-c': Print NVMe 1.3 feature flags.
    * '-A': Print NVMe 1.3 thermal temperature transition
    statistic.
    * '-g/s dsn': Get/set ATA DSN.

- smartd

* Uses also device identify information to detect for duplicate
    devices.
    * '-e dsn' directive: Set ATA DSN.
    * Improved SCSI/SAS temperature logging.
    * Silence emails and log messages on open errors of
    '-d removable' devices.
    * Exit on device open error unless '-q never' or '-d removable'
    is specified (regression).

- update-smart-drivedb: Now authenticates downloaded file with GnuPG.
  - update-smart-drivedb: New options '--trunk', '--no-verify' and
    '--export-key'.
  - Device type '-d intelliprop,N' for IntelliProp controllers.
  - SCSI: Default timeout increased to 1 minute.
  - configure: New options '--with-gnupg', '--with-scriptpath' and
    '--with-update-smart-drivedb=X.Y'
  - configure: Checks for C++11 support option and requires
    '--with[out]-cxx11-option' if option unknown or no C++11 support.
  - HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database.
  - New smartmontools-* mailing list addresses.
  - Man page formatting reworked.
  - Linux:

* Uses SG_IO V4 API if supported.
    * Devices behind hpsa driver are no longer detected as regular
      SCSI devices.

- Darwin: Initial NVMe support based on undocumented API.
  - FreeBSD:

* Fix panic on INVARIANTS enabled kernel.
    * Improve ATA SMART STATUS check for legacy controllers.
    * Compile fix for FreeBSD-11 and newer.

- NetBSD:

* NVMe support.
    * Full 28-bit ATA support.
    * Compile fix.
    * Use a raw disk device file.

- OpenBSD: Compile fix.
  - OS/2: Support for the OS2AHCI driver, updating source code,
    adding autoscan support, adding self-test support.
  - Windows fixes:

* Support for Windows 10 NVMe driver (stornvme.sys).
    * Fix CSMI access for IRST driver 15.2.
    * smartd: Ability to run PowerShell scripts with '-M exec'.
    * smartd: New PowerShell script to send smartd warning emails
      without external tools.
    * package now provides PDF man pages.

- SCSI temperature error fixes (bsc#1047198)

- Drop systemd dependency on syslog.target (bsc#983938).
  https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-packaging/2013-05/msg00102.html

Updated to 6.5 version:

* Experimental support for NVMe devices on FreeBSD, Linux and Windows.
  * smartctl '-i', '-c', '-H' and '-l error': NVMe support.
  * smartctl '-l nvmelog': New option for NVMe.
  * smartd.conf '-H', '-l error' and '-W': NVMe support.
  * Optional NVMe device scanning support on Linux and Windows.
  * configure option '--with-nvme-devicescan' to include NVMe in
  * default device scanning result.
  * Device scanning now allows to specify multiple '-d TYPE' options.
  * ATA: Added new POWER MODE values introduced in ATA ACS-2.
  * ATA: SCT commands are no longer issued if ATA Security is locked.
  * SCSI: LB provisioning improvements.
  * SCSI: Fixed GLTSD bit set/cleared info messages.
  * SCSI: Solid State media log page is no longer checked for tapes.
  * SCSI: Improved handling when no tape cartridge in drive.
  * SCSI: Workaround for buggy Seagate firmware.
  * SAT: Improved heuristics to detect bogus sense data from SAT layer.
  * smartd: Fixed crash on missing argument to '-s' directive.
    update-smart-drivedb: Now uses HTTPS for download by default.
  * update-smart-drivedb: New options to select URL and download tool.
  * update-smart-drivedb: New download tool 'svn'.
  * configure option '--without-update-smart-drivedb' to disable
    update-smart-drivedb script.
  * configure options '--disable-drivedb', '--enable-savestates',
    '--enable-attributelog' and '--with-docdir' are no longer supported.
  * autoconf &lt; 2.60 and automake &lt; 1.10 are no longer supported.
  * Drive database file now also includes the DEFAULT setting
    for each attribute.
  * HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database.
  * Darwin: New support files for package installer.
  * New makefile target 'install-darwin' builds DMG image.
  * Solaris: Auto detection of SATA devices behind SAT layer.
  * Solaris SPARC: Legacy ATA support disabled by default.
    New configure option '--with-solaris-sparc-ata' enables it.
    File os_solaris_ata.s is no longer included in source tarball.
  * Windows: Auto detection of USB devices specified by drive letter.
  * Windows: Device scanning does no longer ignore unknown USB devices.
  * Windows: Prevent drive spin up by '-n standby' check.
  * Windows: New application manifests indicating Win 10 support.
  * Windows smartd: '-m [sys]msgbox' is no longer supported.
  * Windows installer: Defaults to 64-bit version on 64-bit Windows.
  * Various code changes suggested by Clang Static Analyser and Cppcheck.

- enable "--with-nvme-devicescan" option
- use --with-savestates, --with-attributelog, --docdir instead of old options

Updated to version 6.0.4:

* Device type '  *d usbprolific' for Prolific PL2571/277x USB bridges.
  * SAT: Support for ATA registers returned in fixed format sense data.
  * smartctl '  *i' and '  *  *identify': ATA ACS  *4 and SATA 3.2 enhancements.
  * smartctl '  *l xerror': Support for logs with more than 255 pages.
  * smartctl '  *l devstat': Prints ACS  *3 DSN flags.
  * smartctl '  *l devstat': Read via SMART command if GP log is not
    available.
  * smartctl '  *l scttempsts': Prints SCT SMART STATUS (ACS  *4) and
    vendor specific SCT bytes.
  * configure option '  *  *with  *systemdenvfile=auto' as new default.
  * configure options '  *  *disable  *drivedb', '  *  *enable  *savestates'
    and '  *  *enable  *attributelog' are deprecated.
  * Corresponding '  *  *with  **' options are enhanced accordingly.
  * Configure option '  *  *with  *docdir' is deprecated.
  * autoconf &lt; 2.60 and automake &lt; 1.10 are deprecated.
    (all of the above still work but a warning is printed if used)
  * HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database.
  * Linux: AACRAID fixes, SMART STATUS should work now.
  * Linux: '/dev/megaraid_sas_ioctl_node' fd leak fix.
  * Darwin: '  *S' command implemented, '  *l devstat' should work now.
  * Cygwin: Compile fix.
  * Windows: Device type '  *d aacraid' for AACRAID controllers.
  * Windows: SAT autodetection based on IOCTL_STORAGE_QUERY_PROPERTY.
  * Windows installer: Fix possible loss of user PATH environment variable.
- Cleanup and remove conditional macros; the package doesn't build
  for SLE anyway

- Run Self Tests:

* Short Self Test every night
  * Extended Self Test every month
  * Discussion:
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2015-03/msg00040.html

- Package empty /etc/smartd_warning.d for warning plugins.

- Re-add /usr/sbin/rcsmards symlink (bsc#900099).
- Fix service restart in smartmontools.generate_smartd_opts.in
  (bsc#900099).

Updated to version 6.3:

- smartctl: Fixed bogus error messages from '-g/-s wcreorder'.
  - smartctl prints ATA form factor.
  - SCSI: Improved support of modern disks (SAS SSDs).
  - SCSI: Fixed sense data noise from old disks.
  - update-smart-drivedb man page.
  - configure option '--with-smartdscriptdir'.
  - configure option '--with-smartdplugindir'.
  - configure option '--with-systemdenvfile'.
  - configure option '--with-working-snprintf'.
  - Removed build time stamps to support reproducible builds.
  - Compile fixes for C++11.
  - HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database.
  - Linux: Support for controllers behind AACRAID driver.
  - Linux: Fixed DEVICESCAN max path count.
  - FreeBSD: Fixed possible crash caused by wrong SCSI error handling.
  - FreeBSD: Compile fix for kFreeBSD.
  - Windows: Reworked CSMI port scanning.
  - QNX: Compile fix.

- Make possible to disable broken SAT support by -d scsi+cciss,N
  (bsc#1038271 https://www.smartmontools.org/ticket/871).
- Build with large file support in 32 bit systems. 
</description>
  <summary>Recommended update for smartmontools</summary>
</patchinfo>

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