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+- Rework VMware OEM to become a sysext image.
+- The open-vm-tools package in VMware OEM now comes with vmhgfs-fuse, udev rules, pam and vgauth.
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+- rpcsvc-proto ([1.4.4](https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto/releases/tag/v1.4.4))
+- VMWARE: libdnet ([1.16.2](https://github.com/ofalk/libdnet/releases/tag/libdnet-1.16.2) (includes [1.16](https://github.com/ofalk/libdnet/releases/tag/libdnet-1.16))