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author | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2016-05-20 22:40:10 -0400 |
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committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2016-05-20 22:40:10 -0400 |
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diff --git a/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html b/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html index 77c4590c7..6b8e3664e 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="#1.43">E2fsprogs 1.43 (May 17, 2016)</A> <LI><A HREF="#1.42.13">E2fsprogs 1.42.13 (May 17, 2015)</A> <LI><A HREF="#1.42.12">E2fsprogs 1.42.12 (August 29, 2014)</A> <LI><A HREF="#1.42.11">E2fsprogs 1.42.11 (July 9, 2014)</A> @@ -111,6 +112,242 @@ <LI><A HREF="#1.02">E2fsprogs 1.02 (January 16, 1996)</A> </UL> +<H2><A NAME="1.43">E2fsprogs 1.43 (May 17, 2016)</A></H2> + +<P><B>KNOWN BUG:</B> "make check" will have many spurious failures in the tests + directory. The fix can be found at: + <A HREF="https://git.kernel.org/cgit/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git/commit/?id=e7d848266a224cc1ed3c74c6746b5c779a5f55ce">https://git.kernel.org/cgit/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git/commit/?id=e7d848266a224cc1ed3c74c6746b5c779a5f55ce</A></P> + +<P>Add support for the ext4 metadata checksum, checksum seed, inline +data, encryption, project quota, and read-only features.</P> + +<P>Support for the very old, experimental, and never-added-to-mainline +compression feature has been removed.</P> + +<P>Mke2fs will now create file systems with the metadata_csum and 64bit +features enabled by default.</P> + +<P>The mke2fs program will now support multiple -O options (instead of +just ignoring all but the last -O option).</P> + +<P>Mke2fs will now correctly determine the size of a file system and +handle the discard operation correctly when the "-E offset=NNN" is +used. (Addresses Debian Bug: #803629)</P> + +<P>The tune2fs program will ask the user for confirmation before starting +dangerous operations if the terminal is available, and it will replay +the journal if necessary.</P> + +<P>Add an ext2/3/4 FUSE server</P> + +<P>Debugfs can now modify extended attributes and journal transactions.</P> + +<P>Debugfs now can properly display and set extended timestamps.</P> + +<P>E2fsck will offer to fix extended timestamps that were incorrectly +encoded by older kernels.</P> + +<P>Fix miscellaneous MMP bugs in debugfs.</P> + +<P>Fix sparse_super2 bugs in mke2fs and resize2fs.</P> + +<P>Fix or improve offset support in mke2fs, e2undo, and libext2fs.</P> + +<P>The resize2fs command can now convert file systems between 64-bit and +32-bit mode.</P> + +<P>Fix potential out-of-bounds memory access in resize2fs when doing a +large off-line file system grow operation.</P> + +<P>We now use a new e2undo file format which is much more efficient and +faster than the old tdb-based scheme. Since it so much faster, +e2fsck, tune2fs, debugfs, and resize2fs now also can support using +creating an undo file.</P> + +<P>The mke2fs command can now set the error behavior when initializing +the file system (so the administrator doesn't have to issue a separate +tune2fs -e command).</P> + +<P>Teach mke2fs to parse a human-readable argument for -i option.</P> + +<P>Teach mke2fs to automatically handle creating file systems > 500T by +automatically enable the meta_bg feature.</P> + +<P>Mke2fs will now prompt for user verification before rewriting a file +system's superblock using the -S option.</P> + +<P>Mke2fs no longer complains if the user tries to create a file system +using the entire block device (e.g., without using a partition). The +minor number convention is not used by all block devices, and it's +quite normal in some circumstances to create a file system on /dev/sdc +instead of /dev/sdc1.</P> + +<P>Fix an "mke2fs -d" bug which could create inodes with invalid +extended attribute blocks</P> + +<P>E2fsck is now much more paranoid about not freeing or corrupting +critical metadata blocks, such as inode table blocks, even if +corrupted indirect blocks or extent trees point at these blocks.</P> + +<P>E2fsck now prints block ranges in pass1b instead of listing all of the +blocks exhaustively.</P> + +<P>E2fsck will try to expand the root directory if the lost+found can't +be linked to the root directory. Also, offer to use the root +directory if lost+found can't be created.</P> + +<P>E2fsck is now more paranoid handling corrupted extent trees as well as +corrupted journals.</P> + +<P>E2fsck can now rebuild extent trees, either (a) to optimize them, (b) +to recover from a corrupted extent tree, or (c) to convert +block-mapped inodes to use extents.</P> + +<P>E2fsck now has a readahead mechanism which can significantly speed its +performance, especially on RAID arrays.</P> + +<P>E2fsck now has a "yes to all" option which the user can give if she is +tired of answering 'y' to a very large number of questions.</P> + +<P>E2fsck will now ignore the badblocks inode if the contents of the +badblocks inode indicate that the portion inode table containing the +badblocks inode is bad. (We must go deeper...)</P> + +<P>E2fsck can now correctly fix directory with holes on bigalloc file +systems.</P> + +<P>E2fsck will now check for extent mapped inodes with no extent header +and clear them if found.</P> + +<P>E2fsck now checks to make sure the extended attribute header doesn't +result in the xattr extending beyond the bounds of the inode</P> + +<P>Fixed a bug in e2fsck to avoid overrunning a buffer containing jbd2 +revoke records if the journal is corrupted.</P> + +<P>Fixed a bug in e2fsck which could cause it loop forever if a special +inode has too many invalid block mappings.</P> + +<P>Fixed a bug in e2fsck which could cause pass1b/c/d processing to get +confused if an attempt to allocate a block can't find any free space +in the file system.</P> + +<P>E2fsck will no longer try to force rewrite blocks located beyond the +file system.</P> + +<P>The e2fsck program will no longer update the quota inodes when it is +interrupted.</P> + +<P>Fix a bug which in rare cases would cause e2fsck -fD to corrupt an +extent-mapped directory.</P> + +<P>Fixed a bug in resize2fs which could lead to resize2fs crashing or a +corrupted file system if the file system is almost completely full +when trying grow a file system and we need to allocate blocks to grow +the block group descriptors.</P> + +<P>Fixed a bug in resize2fs which could cause it to get fooled trying to +determinthe the RAID array's stride when flex_bg is enabled.</P> + +<P>Fix resize2fs bug that could leave block allocation bitmaps +uninitialized.</P> + +<P>The dumpe2fs output has been improved so it is cleaner and always fits +within 80 columns. Also added a more easily machine-parsable output +of dumpe2fs.</P> + +<P>The mke2fs program can now pre-populate a file system from a directory +hierarchy using the -d option.</P> + +<P>The mke2fs program now skips zeroing inode table blocks if they were +already zeroed using the discard feature.</P> + +<P>Check to make sure file system features which can not be supported by +HURD are not enabled if the file system is created to be +HURD-compatible.</P> + +<P>Added a new e2fuzz command that will fuzz an ext4 image for testing +purposes.</P> + +<P>The debugfs logdump command can now deal with 64-bit revoke tables +correctly. Also, "logdump -O" will print the old log contents (before +the journal was replayed).</P> + +<P>The debugfs bmap command can now be used to set or allocate a physical +block.</P> + +<P>Fixed a bug so "filefrag -B -e -v" does not return a separate entry +for each block.</P> + +<P>The filefrag program now accounts for holes in sparse files created by +the file punch operation as an expected/optimal mapping.</P> + +<P>The file I/O functions now correctly handle inodes containing +uninitialized blocks.</P> + +<P>Fix a bug in tune2fs so that removing uninit_bg feature on a bigalloc +file system won't result in corrupted block bitmaps.</P> + +<P>Updated/fixed various man pages. (Addresses Debian Bug: #798425)</P> + +<H3>Programmer's Notes</H3> + +<P>Fixed coverity, sparce gcc -Wall, and clang warnings/nits.</P> + +<P>Added Android build files so that e2fsprogs can be built in the +Android source tree.</P> + +<P>Reduce the use of libc functions in libext2fs that may not be present +in the boot loader environment, at least for those functions that are +needed by boot loadsers such as yaboot.</P> + +<P>Developers can now overide the debugging and optimization flags by +redefining the CFLAGS makefile macro.</P> + +<P>The libext2fs library now has support for fallocate.</P> + +<P>The mke2fs command will now ask the user for confirmation if block +device or image file contains an existing file system image, and +stdout and stdin are connected to a tty.</P> + +<P>The libext2fs library now picks a more intelligent goal block when +doing block allocations.</P> + +<P>The libext2fs library will now automatically set the BLOCK_UNINT flag +if all of the blocks in a block group are free, to speed up future +e2fsck and dumpe2fs operations on the file system.</P> + +<P>Add two new functions ext2fs_new_range() and ext2fs_alloc_range() to +libext2fs.</P> + +<P>The ext2fs_zero_blocks() command will use FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE for +file-based images.</P> + +<P>The ext2fs_bmap() function supports new flags BMAP_UNINIT and +BMAP_ZERO.</P> + +<P>The ext2fs_new_block2() function will now call the alloc_block hook +before checking fs->block_map.</P> + +<P>Support for the MMP feature can now be disabled at compile time.</P> + +<P>Added support to manipulate extended attributes to libext2fs.</P> + +<P>Added a lot of new regression tests.</P> + +<P>Added endian annotations so it's possible to scan e2fsprogs for endian +problems using a static code analyzer.</P> + +<P>Fixed memory leaks in libext2fs.</P> + +<P>The e2fsck jbd2 handling code has been resynced with the 3.16 kernel. +There is now a script in the contrib directory which automates most of +the resync process.</P> + +<P>The build system will now run cppcheck (a static code analysis tool) +via "make C=1"</P> + + <H2><A NAME="1.42.13">E2fsprogs 1.42.12 (May 17, 2015)</A></H2> <P>Fixed a potential buffer overflow while closing a file system in diff --git a/htdocs/ext2.html b/htdocs/ext2.html index 802d14999..5559ecfe6 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 1.42.13 of e2fsprogs is available!</H2> +<H2>Release 1.43 of e2fsprogs is available!</H2> -<P>On May 17, 2015, version 1.42.13 of e2fsprogs was <A +<P>On May 17, 2016, version 1.43 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 b9f832060..5835735e0 100644 --- a/htdocs/index.html +++ b/htdocs/index.html @@ -34,14 +34,14 @@ <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 1.42.13 of e2fsprogs is + <IMG SRC="images/new.gif" ALIGN=LEFT><H2>Release 1.43 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 1.42.13 version as + All users of e2fsprogs are urged to upgrade to the 1.43 version as soon as possible, which can be - downloaded from <A HREF="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.42.13.tar.gz">sourceforge</A> - or <A HREF="http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs/v1.42.13">kernel.org</A>.</P> + downloaded from <A HREF="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.43.tar.gz">sourceforge</A> + or <A HREF="http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs/v1.43">kernel.org</A>.</P> <P>This release contains a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous releases. 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