Open-vm-tools 12.0.5 has been released

[John Wolfe]

Open-vm-tools 12.0.5 was released on May 24, 2022.

There are no new features or significant changes in the open-vm-tools 12.0.5 release. This is primarily a maintenance release that contains fixes for two potential FTBFS issues.

It contains a known problem - a potential FTBFS for 32-bit architectures. A pointer to an available fix in the "devel" branch is provided in the Known Problems" section of the Release Notes.

For complete details, see: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/stable-12.0.5

Release Notes are available at: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.0.5/ReleaseNotes.md

The granular changes that have gone into the 12.0.5 release are in the ChangeLog at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.0.5/open-vm-tools/ChangeLog.

Please rebase open-vm-tools to release 12.0.5 on supported Ubuntu releases as appropriate

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Covered together with bug 1963831

[Lucas Kanashiro (lucaskanashiro)]

Assuming this bug is targeting only Kinetic, the fix was already release since we have version 2:12.1.0-1. Please, if this is supposed to target other series add tasks for them.