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An open-vm-tools bug fix and enhancement update has been released for Oracle Linux 7.



El-errata: ELBA-2021-1393 Oracle Linux 7 open-vm-tools bug fix and enhancement update


Oracle Linux Bug Fix Advisory ELBA-2021-1393

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELBA-2021-1393.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 7 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
open-vm-tools-11.0.5-3.0.1.el7_9.3.x86_64.rpm
open-vm-tools-desktop-11.0.5-3.0.1.el7_9.3.x86_64.rpm
open-vm-tools-devel-11.0.5-3.0.1.el7_9.3.x86_64.rpm
open-vm-tools-test-11.0.5-3.0.1.el7_9.3.x86_64.rpm

SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol7/SRPMS-updates/open-vm-tools-11.0.5-3.0.1.el7_9.3.src.rpm


Description of changes:

[11.0.5-3.0.1]
- fix spaces in vmware udev rule for scsi devices
[Orabug: 24461968]
- Fix vmware udev rule in 99-vmware-scsi-timeout.rules file.
[Orabug: 22815019]
- Increase timeout for scsi devices on VMWare guests by adding a udev rule.
- Created a new file 99-vmware-scsi-timeout.rules
- Modified spec file to install this new file.
[Orabug: 21819156]

[11.0.5-3.el7_9.3]
- ovt-Fix-memory-leaks-in-guestInfo-diskInfo.c.patch [bz#1937420]
- Resolves: bz#1937420
([ESXi][RHEL7.9] Memory leak in vmtoolsd when disable-query-diskinfo is set to false [rhel-7.9.z])