Bug 2294721
| Summary: | open-vm-tools version 12.4.5 has been released - please rebase | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | John Wolfe <jwolfe> |
| Component: | open-vm-tools | Assignee: | John Wolfe <jwolfe> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 40 | CC: | jwolfe, negativo17, ravindrakumar, rjones |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | open-vm-tools-12.5.2-1.fc42 open-vm-tools-12.5.2-1.fc41 | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2025-05-20 01:13:26 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description of problem: open-vm-tools 12.4.5 was released on June 27, 2024 - based on build 23787635. Additional info: 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