New major release of the libblockdev library. This release contains a large
API overhaul, please check the documentation for full list of API changes.
Notable changes
- VDO a KBD plugins were removed.
- New NVMe plugin was added.
- Runtime dependencies are no longer checked during plugin initialization.
- Part plugin was rewritten to use libfdisk instead of libparted.
- Crypto plugin API went through an extensive rewrite.
- Support for new technologies was added to the crypto plugin: FileVault2 encryption,
DM Integrity, LUKS2 tokens. - Filesystem plugin adds support for btrfs, F2FS, NILFS2, exFAT and UDF.
- Support for new filesystem operations was added to the plugin: setting label and UUID,
generic mkfs function and API for getting feature support for filesystems. - dmraid support was removed from the DM plugin.
- Python 2 support was dropped.