open-vm-tools 12.2.0 has been released

[John Wolfe]

There are no new features in the open-vm-tools 12.2.0 release. This is primarily a maintenance release that addresses a few critical problems, including:

  * Linux quiesced snapshots have been updated to avoid intermittent hangs of the vmtoolsd process.

  * Updated the guestOps to handle some edge cases when File_GetSize() fails or returns -1.

  * A number of Coverity reported issues have been addressed.

For complete details, see: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/stable-12.2.0

Release Notes are available at: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.2.0/ReleaseNotes.md

The granular changes that have gone into the 12.2.0 release are in the ChangeLog at: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.2.0/open-vm-tools/ChangeLog

Please rebase open-vm-tools to release 12.2.o on supported Ubuntu releases as appropriate.

[Athos Ribeiro (athos-ribeiro)]

Hi John,

Thanks for reporting this one.

Since we are already in a development feature freeze for 23.04, and that open-vm-tools in Ubuntu is currently a sync with Debian, which is also in a freeze for its next release, it is more likely that this will only land in the next development cycle unless someone decides to pick this one up in the next 2 weeks (before the beta freeze).

If someone does decide to work on this bug during the feature freeze, one would need to double check whether a feature freeze exception is not needed (then we would fall in this case: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess#FeatureFreeze_for_bugfix-only_updates).

Since Debian is in a freeze as well, pushing this through Debian may not be feasible ATM, meaning we would need a delta to go ahead of Debian here.

In case this is not picked up by then (beta freeze), then it will be handled after the lunar (23.04) release next month.

[John Wolfe (johnwvmw)]

Hi Athos,

Thanks for sharing that info. Fully understabd the nature of feature freezes in the release scheduling.

Will watch for the open-vm-tools 12.2.0 update post lunar release.

[Athos Ribeiro (athos-ribeiro)]

Debian did update this in unstable. mantic is open for development and already got 12.2.0 sync'd. I am closing this as fixed.