open-vm-tools 12.5.0

open-vm-tools 12.5.0 release based on build 24276846

Please refer to the Release Notes at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.5.0/ReleaseNotes.md

The granular changes that have gone into the open-vm-tools 12.5.0 release are in the ChangeLog at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.5.0/open-vm-tools/ChangeLog

There are no new features in the open-vm-tools 12.5.0 release. This is primarily a maintenance release that addresses a few critical problems, including:

• A Github pull request has been integrated. Please see the Resolved Issues section of the Release Notes.

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

open-vm-tools 12.4.5

open-vm-tools 12.4.5 release based on build 23787635

Please refer to the Release Notes at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.4.5/ReleaseNotes.md

The granular changes that have gone into the open-vm-tools 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

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.

open-vm-tools 12.4.0

open-vm-tools 12.4.0 release based on build 23259341

Please refer to the Release Notes at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.4.0/ReleaseNotes.md

The granular changes that have gone into the 12.4.0 release are in the ChangeLog at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.4.0/open-vm-tools/ChangeLog

There are no new features in the open-vm-tools 12.4.0 release. This is primarily a maintenance release that addresses a few critical problems, including:

• A Github pull request has been handled. Please see the Resolved Issues section of the Release Notes.

• A number of issues flagged by Coverity have been addressed.

• For issues resolved in this release, see the Resolved Issues section of the Release Notes.

open-vm-tools 12.3.5

open-vm-tools 12.3.5 release based on build 22544099

Please refer to the Release Notes at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.3.5/ReleaseNotes.md

The granular changes that have gone into the 12.3.5 release are in the ChangeLog at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.3.5/open-vm-tools/ChangeLog

There are no new features in the open-vm-tools 12.3.5 release. This is primarily a maintenance release that addresses a few critical problems, including:

• This release resolves CVE-2023-34058. For more information on this vulnerability and its impact on VMware products, see https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0024.html.

• This release resolves CVE-2023-34059 which only affects open-vm-tools. For more information on this vulnerability, please see the Resolved Issues section of the Release Notes.

• A GitHub issue has been handled. Please see the Resolved Issues section of the Release Notes.

• For issues resolved in this release, see the Resolved Issues section of the Release Notes.

open-vm-tools 12.3.0 release based on build 22234872

Please refer to the Release Notes at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.3.0/ReleaseNotes.md

The granular changes that have gone into the 12.3.0 release are in the ChangeLog at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.3.0/open-vm-tools/ChangeLog

There are no new features in the open-vm-tools 12.3.0 release. This is primarily a maintenance release that addresses a few critical problems, including:

• This release resolves CVE-2023-20900. For more information on this vulnerability and its impact on VMware products, see https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0019.html.

• A tools.conf configuration setting is available to temporaily direct Linux quiesced snaphots to restore pre open-vm-tools 12.2.0 behavior of ignoring file systems already frozen.

• Building of the VMware Guest Authentication Service (VGAuth) using "xml-security-c" and "xerces-c" is being deprecated.

• A number of Coverity reported issues have been addressed.

• A number of GitHub issues and pull requests have been handled. Please see the Resolves Issues section of the Release Notes.

• For issues resolved in this release, see the Resolved Issues section of the Release Notes.

open-vm-tools 12.2.5 release based on build 21855600

Please refer to the release notes at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.2.5/ReleaseNotes.md

The granular changes that have gone into the 12.2.5 release are in the ChangeLog at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.2.5/open-vm-tools/ChangeLog

There are no new features in the open-vm-tools 12.2.5 release. This release resolves CVE-2023-20867. For more information on this vulnerability and its impact on VMware products, see https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0013.html.

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

open-vm-tools 12.2.0 release based on build 21223074

Please refer to the release notes at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.2.0/ReleaseNotes.md

The granular changes that have gone into the 12.2.0 release are in the ChangeLog at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.2.0/open-vm-tools/ChangeLog

There are no new features in the open-vm-tools 12.2.0 release. This is primarily a maintenance release that addresses a few critical problems, including:

• Linux quiesced snapshots have been updated to avoid intermittent hangs of the vmtoolsd process.

• Updated the guestOps to handle some edge cases when File_GetSize() fails or returns -1.

• A number of Coverity reported issues have been addressed.

• Detect the proto files for the containerd grpc client in alternate locations.

  • Pull request #626

• FreeBSD: Support newer releases and code clean-up for earlier versions.

  • Pull request #584

• For issues resolved in this release, see the Resolved Issues section of the Release Notes.

open-vm-tools 12.1.5

open-vm-tools 12.1.5 release based on build 20735119

Please refer to the release notes at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.1.5/ReleaseNotes.md

The granular changes that have gone into the 12.1.5 release are in the ChangeLog at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.1.5/open-vm-tools/ChangeLog

There are no new features in the open-vm-tools 12.1.5 release. This is primarily a maintenance release that addresses a few critical problems, including:

• The deployPkg plugin may prematurely reboot the guest VM before cloud-init has completed user data setup

• A SIGSEGV may be encountered when a non-quiescing snapshot times out.

• A number of Coverity reported issues have been addressed.

• For issues resolved in this release, see the Resolved Issues section of the Release Notes.

open-vm-tools 12.1.0

open-vm-tools 12.1.0 release based on build 20219665

Please refer to the release notes at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.1.0/ReleaseNotes.md

• This release resolves CVE-2022-31676. For more information on this vulnerability and its impact on VMware products, see https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0024.html.

  • A patch for existing open-vm-tools releases is provided in the CVE-2022-31676 README file.

• Other changes in this release include:

  • A number of Coverity reported issues have been addressed.
  • open-vm-tools pull request #588.
  • open-vm-tools pull request #387

The granular changes that have gone into the 12.1.0 release are in the ChangeLog at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.1.0/open-vm-tools/ChangeLog

• For issues resolved in this release, see the Resolved Issues section of the Release Notes.

open-vm-tools 12.0.5

open-vm-tools 12.0.5 release based on build 19716617

Please refer to the release notes at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.0.5/ReleaseNotes.md

The granular changes that have gone into the 12.0.5 release are in the ChangeLog at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.0.5/open-vm-tools/ChangeLog

There are no new features or significant changes in the open-vm-tools 12.0.5 release. This is primarily a maintenance release and addresses some potential FTBFS issues with newer versions of GCC.

• For issues resolved in this release, see the Resolved Issues section of the Release Notes.

• A potential failure to build from source [FTBFS] issue for 32-bit Linux systems was reported in issue #588. The fix did not make the code freeze cut-off date, but the fix is available on the development branch. Details to obtain the fix are available in the Known Issues section of the Release Notes.