passt: new version 2026_05_26.038c51e available

passt: new version 2026_05_26.038c51e available

[Stefano Brivio]

The new version with tag 2026_05_26.038c51e includes the following changes:

    038c51e vhost_user: Offer VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_CSUM
    196a9e5 ip: Wrap CASE macro body in braces for pre-C23 compatibility
    da00969 tcp_splice: Simplify tracking of read/written bytes
    ac9814e tcp_splice: Clean up flow control path for splice forwarding
    bda8230 tcp_splice: Avoid missing EOF recognition while forwarding
    aa6b796 tcp_splice: Improve error reporting
    21ea343 tcp_vu: Support multibuffer frames in tcp_vu_send_flag()
    feb9a11 tcp_vu: Support multibuffer frames in tcp_vu_sock_recv()
    f8cace2 tcp_vu: Build headers on the stack and write them into the iovec
    92845dd tcp: Encode checksum computation flags in a single parameter
    dec66c0 udp: Pass iov_tail to udp_update_hdr4()/udp_update_hdr6()
    9361b6b iov: Introduce IOV_PUSH_HEADER() macro
    28ee143 udp_vu: Allow virtqueue elements with multiple iovec entries
    76fd546 selinux: Allow pasta to create and use its control socket when started by Podman
    cea2d19 Makefile: Remove misleading comments on BASE_*FLAGS
    5038f92 netlink: Fix comments to variables for netlink sockets and sequence
    d00255b netlink: Use regular request/response netlink socket for initial neighbour sync
    b64ef53 conf, repair, tap: Document reasons for blocking Unix sockets
    5ef0fc4 tap: Report accept() errors
    1d16476 treewide: Add SOCK_CLOEXEC to accept() calls that are missing it
    db798fc vhost-user: Centralise Ethernet frame padding in vu_collect() and vu_pad()
    de6387a tcp: Pass explicit data length to tcp_fill_headers()
    d83470f vu_common: Pass explicit frame length to vu_flush()
    533ef11 pcap: Pass explicit L2 length to pcap_iov()
    aa78f63 checksum: Pass explicit L4 length to checksum functions
    7cd5afb udp_vu: Pass iov explicitly to helpers instead of using file-scoped array
    ee0ba3f udp_vu: Move virtqueue management from udp_vu_sock_recv() to its caller
    d3a4868 vu_common: Move vnethdr setup into vu_flush()
    d7259ea iov: Add iov_memcpy() to copy data between iovec arrays
    a804574 iov: Introduce iov_memset()
    bcc3d37 util: Fix changes to assert_with_msg()
    296d7e3 fwd_rule: Allow parsing * as a forwarding address
    666ef9e fwd_rule: Don't attempt dual stack listen()s if only one IP family
    8bb21e3 test: Add test for builds with -DNDEBUG
    e514945 Fix build with -DNDEBUG
    fd4b637 test: Extend exeter build tests to cover more recent binaries
    ab12293 lib/term: Quote tr character ranges to prevent glob expansion
    9b1ef47 pesto: Run static checkers on pesto sources
    bf63970 passt-repair: Run static checkers
    3c6e797 passt-repair: Simplify construction of Unix path from inotify
    1254a1f passt-repair: Split out inotify handling to its own function
    a2a2f40 Makefile: Split static checker targets
    b356b62 cppcheck, clang-tidy: Static checkers don't need non-preprocessor flags
    fb9be08 Makefile: Split $(FLAGS) into cpp and cc components
    88ce87e Makefile: Add header dependencies for secondary binaries
    9015b76 Makefile: Remove unhelpful $(HEADERS) variable
    d4632a4 Makefile: Use common binary compilation rule
    59b14b2 Makefile: Make conditional definition of $(BIN) clearer
    1cd6276 Makefile: Use make variables for static checker configuration
    4de7c38 clang-tidy: Suppress some new unhelpful new warnings
    97e478b treewide: Make some additional variables static
    90f175d packet, clang-tidy: Packet pool buffers are not NULL
    7bafe71 clang-tidy: Suppress sscanf() warning harder
    a82a217 clang-tidy: Squash inconsistent brace warnings in foreach macros
    db02221 conf: Fix not-actually-const parameter to conf_runas() and conf_ugid()
    5b3ca87 virtio: Reduce scope of variable
    1e6b638 netlink: erromsg should be const in nl_status()

    https://passt.top/passt/log/?qt=range&q=2026_05_07.1afd4ed..2026_05_26.038c51e

Packages:

- Alpine Linux:
  https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=passt

- Arch Linux:
  https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/passt/
  https://archlinuxarm.org/packages/aarch64/passt
  https://archlinuxarm.org/packages/armv7h/passt

- Chimera:
  https://pkgs.chimera-linux.org/packages?name=passt

- Clear Linux:
  https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/passt/

- Copr (CentOS Stream, EPEL, Fedora, Mageia):
  https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/sbrivio/passt/build/10514454/
  permanent mirror: https://passt.top/builds/copr/0^20260526.g038c51e/

- Debian tracker:
  https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/passt

- Fedora updates:
  https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?packages=passt

- Gentoo versions:
  https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-misc/passt

- GNU Guix:
  https://packages.guix.gnu.org/packages/passt/

- Homebrew:
  https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/passt

- NixOS:
  https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/nixos-unstable/pkgs/by-name/pa/passt

- openSUSE:
  https://software.opensuse.org/package/passt

- OpenMandriva:
  https://github.com/OpenMandrivaAssociation/passt/tree/master

- PLD Linux:
  https://git.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=packages/passt.git

- Solus:
  https://github.com/getsolus/packages/tree/main/packages/p/passt

- Ubuntu tracker:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/passt

- Void Linux:
  https://voidlinux.org/packages/?q=passt

- Static builds:
  - Package for other RPM-based distributions, x86_64 only:
    https://passt.top/builds/latest/x86_64/passt-g038c51e-1.x86_64.rpm

  - x86_64 static binaries:
    https://passt.top/builds/latest/x86_64/

  - Debian package, from x86_64 static build:
    https://passt.top/builds/latest/x86_64/passt_038c51e-1_all.deb

-- 
Stefano