New minor release of the libblockdev library with multiple fixes. See below
for details.
Notable changes
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features
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New plugin: nvdimm
- support for NVDIMM namespaces management
- requires libndctl >= 58.4
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LUKS2 support
- support for creating LUKS2 format including authenticated disk encryption
- multiple new functions for working with LUKS devices (suspend/resume, header backup, metadata size...)
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Extended support for opening TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt volumes
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Support for building crypto plugin without escrow device support (removes
build dependency on libvolume_key and libnss) -- configure option--without-escrow
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Support for building libblockdev without Python 2 support -- configure option
--without-python2
.
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See NEWS.rst for full list of changes.