open-vm-tools 11.2.0 has been released

[John Wolfe]

open-vm-tools 11.2.0 has been released.

See https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/stable-11.2.0

This source update contains fixes for a couple of detected memory leaks, issues reported by Coverity and issues and pull requests submitted to https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/

This release provides suggested vmtoolsd pam configuration files for major Linux vendors. By default, the generic pam configuration settings will be used by "make install". To select a Linux vendor specific pam configuration, the following line on "./services/vmtoolsd/Makefile"

     $(INSTALL) $(top_srcdir)/pam/generic $(DESTDIR)/$(PAM_PREFIX)/pam.d/vmtoolsd

should be edited - replacing "generic" with "debian".

A complete list of the granular changes that are in the open-vm-tools 11.2.0 release is available at:

    https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-11.2.0/open-vm-tools/ChangeLog

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

2:11.1.5-1ubuntu1 were just two FTBFS fixes.

I'll do a merge of 11.2 that is in Debian now and our fixes because
11.2 is still affected by:
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/pull/469
So that fix we need to keep.
@John could you take a look at that from upsterams POV to integrate?

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Just checked - also still affected by:
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/467

[John Wolfe (johnwvmw)]

Both issue #467 and pull #469 are targeted for the next update (11.2.5) of open-vm-tools.

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 3:11 PM John Wolfe <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Both issue #467 and pull #469 are targeted for the next update (11.2.5)
> of open-vm-tools.

Thanks, good to know an ETA for them - thanks John!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package open-vm-tools - 2:11.2.0-1ubuntu1

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open-vm-tools (2:11.2.0-1ubuntu1) hirsute; urgency=medium

  * Merge with Debian unstable (LP: #1901116). Remaining changes:
    - d/rules: avoid FTBFS by ignoring nonnull errors for now
    - d/p/fix-FTBFS-glibc2.32.patch: fix tirpc flags to propagate correctly
      fixing an FTFBS with glibc >=2.32

open-vm-tools (2:11.2.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * [447d833] Update upstream source from tag 'upstream/11.2.0'
    Update to upstream version '11.2.0'
    with Debian dir 67243748d9ba09fc4e53f1ab4e921e119c981beb
    Closes: #972732
  * [704edba] remove pam-use-common-auth-account patch.
    Not needed anymore
  * [f792922] Use upstream pam file for Debian

 -- Christian Ehrhardt <email address hidden> Fri, 30 Oct 2020 11:58:55 +0100