open-vm-tools version 12.4.5 has been released - please rebase

[John Wolfe]

open-vm-tools 12.4.5 was released on June 27, 2024 - based on build 23787635.

There are no new features in the open-vm-tools 12.4.5 release. This is primarily a maintenance release that addresses a few critical problems, including:

  - A Github pull request and associated issue has been handled. Please see
    the Resolved Issues section of the Release Notes.

  - A number of issues flagged by Coverity and ShellCheck have been addressed.

  - A vmtoolsd process hang related to nested logging from an RPC Channel
   error has been fixed.

For a more complete list of issues resolved in this release, see the Resolved Issues section of the Release Notes.

For complete details, see: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/stable-12.4.5

Release Notes are available at: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.4.5/ReleaseNotes.md

The granular changes that have gone into the 12.4.5 release are in the ChangeLog at: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.4.5/open-vm-tools/ChangeLog

Please rebase open-vm-tools to release 12.4.5 on supported Ubuntu releases as appropriate

[Athos Ribeiro (athos-ribeiro)]

Thanks for the announcement, John.

As open-vm-tools is currently in sync with Debian, I added a tracker to the related Debian bug here so this may likely be closed once the Debian bug gets addressed.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

This sync'd to oracular already.
LP: 2073317 covers the backport work.