sg3_utils-1.42 available

sg3_utils is a package of command line utilities for sending SCSI and some ATA commands to devices. This package targets the Linux 4, 3, 2.6 and 2.4 kernel series. It has ports to FreeBSD, Tru64, Solaris, and Windows (cygwin and MinGW).

There are two new utilities (sg_read_attr and sg_timestamp) and additions to many others, see the ChangeLog below. This version tracks various changes made by www.t10.org since May 2015 until January 2016.

Changelog for sg3_utils-1.42 [20160217] [svn: r663]
- sg_timestamp: new, to report or set timestamp
- sg_read_attr: new, supported by tape drives
- sg_stpg: fix truncation of target port field
- sg_inq: cope with unicode strings, udev fixes
- update version descriptor list to 20160125
- '--export': new entries for UUID descriptor
- sg_ses: add more field acronyms (ses3r11)
- sg_logs: add Utilization lpage (sbc4r07)
- add Background operation lpage
- add Pending defects lpage
- add LPS misalignment lpage (sbc4r10)
- document '--All' ('-A') option
- rework lto tape vendor lpages
- sg_vpd: add Block limits extension VPD page
- add Device constituents VPD page
- add LB Protection VPD page (ssc 15-296r1)
- LB provisioning VPD page: expand LBPRZ, add Minimum and Threshold percentage fields
- rework lto tape vendor VPD pages
- sg_inq+sg_vpd+sg_xcopy: add support for locally

    assigned UUIDs in VPD page 0x83 (spc5r08)

- sg_sanitize: add --znr option (sbc4r07)
- sg_rep_zones: add --partial option (zbc-r04)
- sg_format: add ffmt option (sbc4r10)
- add support for FORMAT MEDIUM (for tape)
- sg_raw: document length relationships
- rescan-scsi-bus.sh: updates from Suse
- sg_lib_data: sync asc/ascq codes with T10 20151126
- sg_lib: add 'sense' categories for SCSI statuses:
condition met, busy, task set full, ACA active and task aborted
- add pr2serr() extern
- change sg_get_sense_str() and dStrHexStr(), return chars written (returned void previously)
- add sg_get_sense_descriptors_str() function
- add sg_get_designation_descriptor_str() function
- sg_get_desig_type_str()+sg_get_desig_assoc_str() and sg_get_desig_code_set_str() added
- sg_get_opcode_sa_name() break out zoning in/out, read attribute and read position service actions
- sg_cmds_extra: add sg_ll_format_unit2() for FFMT
- sg_pr2serr.h: new, to shorten fprintf(stderr, ...)
- sg_io_linux, sg_pt_linux: drop SUGGEST_* decoding
- sg_unaligned.h: add 48 bit support and gets for variable length unsigned integers

Changelog for sg3_utils-1.41 [20150511] [svn: r644]
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Doug Gilbert

Missed the links:
For an overview of sg3_utils and downloads see this page:

    http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg3_utils.html
The sg_ses utility (for enclosure devices) is discussed at:
    http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg_ses.html
A full changelog can be found at:
    http://sg.danny.cz/sg/p/sg3_utils.ChangeLog

Hi Doug,

Thanks for all the work you have done for maintaining sg3_utils and also for having prepared a new release. I have already downloaded version v1.42 and started using that version. The detailed changelog is helpful. However, I think for sg3_utils contributors it would be convenient to have access to the sg3_utils source code repository such that we can see all the patches that went in. Is such a repository publicly available, and if not, do you have any plans to make such a repository available ? Since I have a few patches ready that I would like to contribute to the sg3_utils package, is there a mailing list that I should CC when sending these patches to you ?

Thanks,

Bart.