smartmontools/smartmontools RELEASE_6_6

Release 6.6

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Changelog

• smartctl -i and --identify: ATA ACS-4 and SATA 3.3 enhancements.
• smartctl: Control ATA write cache through SCT Feature Control
  with -s wcache-sct,ata|on|off[,p] and -g wcache-sct.
• smartctl: Print ATA Pending Defects log with -l defects.
• smartctl -s wcreorder,on|off: New persistent flag ,p.
• smartctl -s standby: Prevent temporary drive spinup.
• smartctl -n POWERMODE: New parameter to set exit status.
• smartctl -g security: ATA Security Level check fixed.
• smartctl -l scttemp*: Print minimum supported ERC Time Limit.
• smartctl -q noserial: Now also suppresses "SAS address" output.
• smartctl -i: Print IEEE EUI-64 of NVMe namespace.
• smartctl -c: Print NVMe 1.3 feature flags.
• smartctl -A: Print NVMe 1.3 thermal temperature transition
  statistic.
• smartctl -g/s dsn: Get/set ATA DSN.
• smartd: Uses also device identify information to detect for duplicate
  devices.
• smartd -e dsn directive: Set ATA DSN.
• smartd: Improved SCSI/SAS temperature logging.
• smartd: Silence emails and log messages on open errors of
  -d removable devices.
• smartd: 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.
• Linux: 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.
• FreeBSD: Improve ATA SMART STATUS check for legacy controllers.
• FreeBSD: Compile fix for FreeBSD-11 and newer.
• NetBSD: NVMe support.
• NetBSD: Full 28-bit ATA support.
• NetBSD: Compile fix.
• NetBSD: 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: Support for Windows 10 NVMe driver (stornvme.sys).
• Windows: Fix CSMI access for IRST driver 15.2.
• Windows smartd: Ability to run PowerShell scripts with -M exec.
• Windows smartd: New PowerShell script to send smartd warning emails
  without external tools.
• Windows package: Now provides PDF man pages.

MD5

MD5 (smartmontools-6.6-1.dmg) = 3cb2a739967bd11c7a424fd33a8053b4
MD5 (smartmontools-6.6-1.win32-setup.exe) = f3abb6e80c758594d66b58939b751dd1
MD5 (smartmontools-6.6.tar.gz) = 9ae2c6e7131cd2813edcc65cbe5f223f