efivar-39

What's Changed

• Add -T workaround for GNU ld 2.36 by @frozencemetery in #201
• Add extern "C" to headers for easier use by C++ by @tedbrandston in #207
• Avoid format error on i686 by @itd0 in #211
• Fix the -march issue for riscv64 by @tekkamanninja in #210
• Fix musl build by @ncopa in #206
• Fix invalid free in main() by @frozencemetery in #212
• Remove deprecated --add-needed linker flag by @thrifty-txt in #218
• src/Makefile: build util.c separately for makeguids by @kanavin in #203
• Adjust dependency for libefivar and libefiboot objects by @floppym in #200
• Set LC_ALL=C to force English output from ld by @floppym in #221
• LLD: fix detection and remove not needed workarounds by @tpgxyz in #222
• Fix glibc 2.36 build (mount.h conflicts) by @frozencemetery in #228
• File device paths: don't print "File(" or ")" by @vathpela in #232
• Use off_t instead of off64_t by @kraj in #237
• Revamp efi_well_known_* variable handling by @nvinson in #235
• Allow overriding PKG_CONFIG by @tedbrandston in #236
• Allow passing of hex values to -A by @ozbenh in #239
• Allow -a to create a non-existent variable by @ozbenh in #240
• make: add option to disable building/installing the docs by @nicholasbishop in #241
• esl-iter.h: fix type declaration of return value for gcc-13 by @trofi in #242
• Minor code updates by @SergiiDmytruk in #243
• src/Makefile: do not override LIBS and CFLAGS for prerequisites by @trofi in #245
• linux: handle non-ACPI systems in device_get() by @xypron in #246
• Change set&append data to be const. by @schallee in #249
• dp.h: check _ucs2size in format_ucs2() by @century6 in #250
• Fix wrong if condition in efi_variable_get_data by @sherlock-zhouyh in #256
• Make README statement match license by @ferdnyc in #260
• Remove needless access() in efivarfs_probe() by @nabijaczleweli in #261
• efivar 39 by @vathpela in #262

New Contributors

• @tedbrandston made their first contribution in #207
• @itd0 made their first contribution in #211
• @tekkamanninja made their first contribution in #210
• @ncopa made their first contribution in #206
• @thrifty-txt made their first contribution in #218
• @kanavin made their first contribution in #203
• @floppym made their first contribution in #200
• @tpgxyz made their first contribution in #222
• @kraj made their first contribution in #237
• @nvinson made their first contribution in #235
• @ozbenh made their first contribution in #239
• @nicholasbishop made their first contribution in #241
• @trofi made their first contribution in #242
• @SergiiDmytruk made their first contribution in #243
• @xypron made their first contribution in #246
• @schallee made their first contribution in #249
• @century6 made their first contribution in #250
• @sherlock-zhouyh made their first contribution in #256
• @ferdnyc made their first contribution in #260

Full Changelog: 38...39

efivar-38

What's Changed

• Rework some makefile bits to make overriding some options simpler. by @vathpela in #140
• Handle /sys/devices/virtual/{nvme-fabrics,nvme-subsystem} devices by @vathpela in #139
• guids.S: Include <cet.h> when CET is enabled by @hjl-tools in #149
• Fix /sys/block sysfs parsing for eMMC-s by @jwrdegoede in #150
• Properly check mmap return error by @hannob in #152
• Fix s{yt,ty}le typo in efi_get_variable(3) by @nabijaczleweli in #162
• Handle NULL set_variable() by @lcp in #159
• Fix parsing for nvme-subsystem devices by @dannf in #158
• Attempt to fix the identified thread safety bugs by @vathpela in #155
• Make thread-test depend on libefivar.so by @hjl-tools in #176
• Upstream a local patch from rawhide by @frozencemetery in #177
• Fix conversion from UTF8 to UCS2 by @freedge in #171
• efivar: make docs match current code for 'efivar -A' by @vathpela in #178
• Migrate CI to Github actions by @frozencemetery in #179
• Add code of conduct by @frozencemetery in #180
• Misc minor fixes by @vathpela in #182
• Add efi_time_t declarations and helper functions. by @vathpela in #183
• More misc fixes by @vathpela in #185
• Run CI on more targets by @vathpela in #187
• Coverity fixes 20211208 by @vathpela in #189
• CI: run abicheck by @frozencemetery in #190
• Fix linux virtual root device parsing by @vathpela in #188
• efivar.spec.in: fix license to be valid SPDX by @frozencemetery in #192
• Add efisecdb tooling by @vathpela in #184
• Fix linker string comparison for dash by @frozencemetery in #194

New Contributors

• @hjl-tools made their first contribution in #149
• @jwrdegoede made their first contribution in #150
• @hannob made their first contribution in #152
• @nabijaczleweli made their first contribution in #162
• @lcp made their first contribution in #159
• @dannf made their first contribution in #158
• @frozencemetery made their first contribution in #177
• @freedge made their first contribution in #171

Full Changelog: 37...38

efivar-37

• Minor coverity fixes
• Improve ACPI device path formatting
• Add support for SOC devices that use FDT as their PCI root node
• Make devices we can't parse the "device" sysfs link for use DEV_ABBREV_ONLY
• Handle SCSI port numbers better
• Don't require an EUI for NVMe
• Fix the accidental requirement on ACPI UID nodes existing
• Add support for EMMC devices
• Add support for PCI root nodes without a device link in sysfs
• Add support for partitioned MD devices
• Fix partition number detection when the number isn't provided
• Add support for ACPI Generic Container and Embedded Controller root nodes
• Add limited support for SAS/SATA port expanders

efivar 36

• Add NVDIMM support
• Re-written linux interface parser to handle how devices are
  partitioned better, and for cleaner code, with one file per device
  type.
• lots of verbosity updates
• better CI
• analysis with clang's analyzer as well as coverity
• Better handling of immutable bits in sysfs
• LIBEFIVAR_OPS=help
• lots of code cleanups.

efivar 35

• fixes for older compilers
• efi_get_variable_exists()
• Lots of stuff to make CI work.
• use usleep() to avoid hitting the kernel rate limiter on efivarfs
• better EFI_GUID macro
• add efi_guid_fwupdate (0abba7dc-e516-4167-bbf5-4d9d1c739416)

efivar 34

• More fixes to nvdimm support
• Workarounds for abidiff bugs :/
• Build fixes for musl libc
• Better support for cross compiling
• UX Capsule symbol version fixes
• various cleanups

efivar version 31

• Work around NVMe EUI sysfs change
• Provide some oldish version strings we should have kept.
• lots of overflow checking on our pointer math in dp parsing
• fix major/minor device number handling in the linux code
• Do better formatting checks for MBR partitions
• Fixes for gcc 7
• Release ABI checking

efivar 30

• Fix efidp_*() functions with pure that break with some optimizations
• Fix NVMe EUI parsing.

efivar 29

• Use -pie not -PIE in our linker config
• Fix some overflow checks for gcc < 5.x
• Make variable class probes other than the first one actually work
• Move -flto to CFLAGS
• Pack all of the efi device path headers
• Fix redundant decl of efi_guid_zero()

efivar 27

• Bug fix for 086eeb1 in efivar 26.