openSUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for smartmontools ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-RU-2017:1949-1 Rating: low References: #900099 #983938 #999541 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 openSUSE Leap 42.2 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that has three recommended fixes can now be installed. Description: This update provides a new version of smartmontools with various improvements and bug fixes: - Experimental support for NVMe devices on FreeBSD, Linux and Windows. (boo#999541) - 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. - Drop systemd dependency on syslog.target (boo#983938). - SCSI: Improved support of modern disks (SAS SSDs). - AACRAID fixes, SMART STATUS should work now. - '/dev/megaraid_sas_ioctl_node' fd leak fix. - Re-add /usr/sbin/rcsmards symlink (boo#900099). - Fix service restart in smartmontools.generate_smartd_opts.in (boo#900099). - re-add sysvinit support in specfile. - HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database. - Build with large file support in 32 bit systems. Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE Leap 42.3: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-836=1 - openSUSE Leap 42.2: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-836=1 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64): smartmontools-6.5-8.1 smartmontools-debuginfo-6.5-8.1 smartmontools-debugsource-6.5-8.1 - openSUSE Leap 42.2 (i586 x86_64): smartmontools-6.5-5.3.1 smartmontools-debuginfo-6.5-5.3.1 smartmontools-debugsource-6.5-5.3.1 References: https://bugzilla.suse.com/900099 https://bugzilla.suse.com/983938 https://bugzilla.suse.com/999541