Re: Dmidecode 3.6 has been released

[Erwan Velu]

Thanks for the release and congrats to HPE updating and adding new types.
That is much appreciated, I'd love to see more vendors doing the same.


Le mer. 24 avr. 2024, 14:19, Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> a écrit :

> Hi all,
>
> Dmidecode 3.6 was released today. The changes from 3.5 are as follows:
>   - [PORTABILITY] Use -DALIGNMENT_WORKAROUND on arm.
>   - [PORTABILITY] Read SMBIOS entry point via kenv on DragonFly BSD.
>   - Support for SMBIOS 3.6.0. This includes new memory device types, new
>     processor upgrades, and Loongarch support.
>   - Support for SMBIOS 3.7.0. This includes new port types, new processor
>     upgrades, new slot characteristics and new fields for memory modules.
>   - Add bash completion.
>   - Decode HPE OEM records 197, 239 and 245.
>   - Implement options --list-strings and --list-types.
>   - Update HPE OEM records 203, 212, 216, 221, 233, 236, 237, 238 and 242.
>   - Update Redfish support.
>   - Bug fixes:
>     Fix option --from-dump for user root
>     Fix enabled slot characteristics not being printed
>   - Minor improvements:
>     Print slot width on its own line
>     Use standard strings for slot width
>
> This new release is available for download from the usual place:
>   http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/dmidecode/dmidecode-3.6.tar.xz
>
> http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/dmidecode/dmidecode-3.6.tar.xz.sig
>
> Please allow for up to 24 hours before the files propagate to all
> mirrors.
>
> --
> Jean Delvare
> SUSE L3 Support
>
>