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author | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2018-08-19 00:22:24 -0400 |
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committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2018-08-19 00:22:24 -0400 |
commit | 27cc5746b3f63daf2738f9bb8f9f6daefcb8e84d (patch) | |
tree | 7b2b3c8d88bea7146a12f7a11906096d48a89a32 | |
parent | c9a2785a2a661c1e0671fcd09d12c5620ddbcfb0 (diff) | |
download | e2fsprogs-27cc5746b3f63daf2738f9bb8f9f6daefcb8e84d.tar.gz |
Update for 1.44.4 release.
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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diff --git a/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html b/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html index af36ea693..af0da95a3 100644 --- a/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html +++ b/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ <H2>Release notes for the e2fsprogs package</H2> <UL> +<LI><A HREF="#1.44.4">E2fsprogs 1.44.4 (August 18, 2018)</A> <LI><A HREF="#1.44.3">E2fsprogs 1.44.3 (July 10, 2018)</A> <LI><A HREF="#1.44.2">E2fsprogs 1.44.2 (May 14, 2018)</A> <LI><A HREF="#1.44.1">E2fsprogs 1.44.1 (March 24, 2018)</A> @@ -126,6 +127,61 @@ <LI><A HREF="#1.02">E2fsprogs 1.02 (January 16, 1996)</A> </UL> +<H2><A NAME="1.44.4">E2fsprogs 1.44.4 (August 18, 2018)</A> + +<H3>UI and Features</H3> + +<P>Add basic support for the ext4 verity feature (aka fsverity). It is a +read-only compatibility feature which uses Merkle trees to add +functionality much like dm-verity on a per-file basis. For this release +we simply allow e2fsck to accept file systems with the verity feature +enable (no special handling is needed) and mke2fs to create file systems +with the verity feature.</P> + + +<H3>Fixes</H3> + +<P>E2fsck will now properly repair a file system that has both the +resize_inode and meta_bg features enabled simultaneously (which is never +supposed to happen, but it could happen in versions of mke2fs before +1.44.3 when it was given parameters where more than 75% of the block +group was used for group descriptor tables).</P> + +<P>Avoid a floating point exception crash when libblkid tries probing a +maliciously corrupted HFS+ superblock.</P> + +<P>Debugfs's ncheck command now properly will handle inodes that have +multiple hard links.</P> + +<P>On platforms that don't supply strdup, the replacement function for +strdup() had a bug which would cause it to crash if it was used. +(Fortunately this only happens if the [scratch_files] feature in e2fsck +is used.)</P> + +<P>Fixed support for devices which have non-512 byte block sizes on Apple +Darwin.</P> + +<P>E2fsprogs 1.44.3 would fail to compile on very old versions of gcc. +This is now fixed.</P> + +<P>Update and clarify man pages. (Addresses Debian Bug: #757831)</P> + + +<H3>Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.</H3> + +<P>Synchronized changes from Android's AOSP e2fsprogs tree.</P> + +<P>Instead of building the subset e2fsprogs-libs tar file, add a new +configure option, --enable-subset. This along with other changes (such +as dropping obsolete files that aren't shipped as part of +e2fsprogs-X.YY.tar.gz) allows us to be able to build the tarball using +the "git archive" command.</P> + +<P>Fixed various debian packaging issues (Addresses Debian Bug: #905195)</P> + +<P>Update Danish, Spanish, and Swedish translations.</P> + + <H2><A NAME="1.44.3">E2fsprogs 1.44.3 (July 10, 2018)</A> <H3>UI and Features</H3> diff --git a/htdocs/ext2.html b/htdocs/ext2.html index e8a3050fe..9d33410a4 100644 --- a/htdocs/ext2.html +++ b/htdocs/ext2.html @@ -28,9 +28,9 @@ <!-- Begin actual content --> <IMG SRC="../images/new.gif" ALIGN=LEFT> -<H2>Release 1.44.3 of e2fsprogs is available!</H2> +<H2>Release 1.44.4 of e2fsprogs is available!</H2> -<P>On July 10, 2018, version 1.44.3 of e2fsprogs was <A +<P>On August 18, 2018, version 1.44.4 of e2fsprogs was <A HREF="http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net">announced</A>.</P> <H2>Ext2fs Utilities</H2> diff --git a/htdocs/index.html b/htdocs/index.html index 069f7b5f3..48522e052 100644 --- a/htdocs/index.html +++ b/htdocs/index.html @@ -34,18 +34,18 @@ <A HREF="http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gittutorial.html">here</A>.</P> - <IMG SRC="images/new.gif" ALIGN=LEFT><H2>Release 1.44.3 of e2fsprogs is + <IMG SRC="images/new.gif" ALIGN=LEFT><H2>Release 1.44.4 of e2fsprogs is available!</H2> <P>I am happy to announce a new release of the e2fsprogs distribution. - All users of e2fsprogs are urged to upgrade to the 1.44.3 version as + All users of e2fsprogs are urged to upgrade to the 1.44.4 version as soon as possible, which can be - downloaded from <A HREF="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.44.3.tar.gz">sourceforge</A> - or <A HREF="http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs/v1.44.3">kernel.org</A>.</P> + downloaded from <A HREF="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.44.4.tar.gz">sourceforge</A> + or <A HREF="http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs/v1.44.4">kernel.org</A>.</P> <P>This release contains a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous releases. For more details, see the - <A HREF="e2fsprogs-release.html#1.44.2">release notes.</A></P> + <A HREF="e2fsprogs-release.html#1.44.4">release notes.</A></P> <ADDRESS> |