smartmontools/smartmontools RELEASE_7_0

Release 7.0

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7.0 Changelog

• smartctl: New options -j and --json[=giosu] to enable experimental
  JSON output mode. Also supports an alternative flat format suitable
  for grep (--json=g).
• smartctl -l devstat: Fix for logs with 256 sectors.
• smartctl -l error: Prints SCSI Pending Defects log page if supported.
• smartctl -H: Prints SCSI Format Status log page if supported.
• smartctl -x: Now includes -l defects.
• NVMe/USB: Device type -d sntjmicron for NVMe drives behind JMicron USB
  to NVMe bridges.
• NVMe: SMART/Health Information and Error Information are always read with
  broadcast NSID.
• SCSI: Various improvements for the decoding of log pages.
• SCSI: Improved handling of READ CAPACITY command.
• SCSI: Support for SAS host managed drives.
• New option -d scsi+TYPE to disable SAT auto detection for aacraid
  and cciss.
• update-smart-drivedb: New option -u github.
• update-smart-drivedb: New signing key.
• configure: New options --with-cxx11-regex and --with-libsystemd.
• configure: Default for --with-nvme-devicescan is now yes on Linux
  and Windows.
• configure: Default for --with-scriptpath now includes /usr/local/bin.
• configure: Options -with-initscriptdir=[auto\|yes] are no longer
  supported.
• Reworked handling of unaligned LE and BE integers.
• Dropped various backward compatibility fixes for very old compilers.
• Replaced GPL header with 'SPDX-License-Identifier' in all source files.
• HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database.
• Always use -d sat for USB vendor IDs with known SAT support.
• Linux: Device scan with -d by-id scans /dev/disk/by-id/* symlinks.
• Linux: Dropped device scan support for devfs.
• Linux: Fixed device scan with multiple -d TYPE options.
• Linux: Fixed device scan crash on missing /proc/devices.
• Linux: USB ID detection also for /dev/sgN.
• Linux: Compile fix for systems with musl libc.
• Linux smartd: Could now run as systemd service with Type=notify set.
• FreeBSD: NVMe device scanning.
• FreeBSD: Various compile fixes.
• NetBSD: Fixed regression in name based device type detection.
• NetBSD big endian: Fixed regression in ATA code.
• NetBSD big endian: Fixed byte ordering of ATA IDENTIFY data from USB/SAT
  drives.
• Windows: Improved search for actual CSMI port number.
• Windows: Installer includes VERSIONINFO resource.