An open-vm-tools bug fix and enhancement update has been released for Oracle Linux 8.

El-errata: ELEA-2020-3049 Oracle Linux 8 open-vm-tools bug fix and enhancement update

Oracle Linux Enhancement Advisory ELEA-2020-3049

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELEA-2020-3049.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the
Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
open-vm-tools-11.0.5-3.0.1.el8.x86_64.rpm
open-vm-tools-desktop-11.0.5-3.0.1.el8.x86_64.rpm

SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/open-vm-tools-11.0.5-3.0.1.el8.src.rpm


Description of changes:

[11.0.5-3.0.1.el8]
- 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. [Orabug: 21819156]

[11.0.5-3.el8]
- ovt-Fix-a-trivial-memory-leak-in-namespacetool.c.patch [bz#1811729]
- ovt-Update-copyright-to-reflect-previous-change.patch [bz#1811729]
- ovt-add-appinfo-plugin.patch [bz#1809751]
- Resolves: bz#1809751
([ESXi][RHEL8.2.1]open-vm-tools add appinfo plugin patch)
- Resolves: bz#1811729
([ESXi][RHEL8.2.1]open-vm-tools coverity scan issue)

[11.0.5-1.el8]
- Rebase to 11.0.5 (bz#1798285)
- Resolves: bz#1798285
([ESXi][RHEL8.2.1]Rebase open-vm-tools to 11.0.5 for 8.2.1)