v2.32.0

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

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

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

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

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 support 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

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

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

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

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

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

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