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author | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2017-08-29 11:45:17 -0400 |
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committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2017-08-29 11:45:17 -0400 |
commit | 5c09abe065a900469dbf5a8220f546a5d3a1a304 (patch) | |
tree | 12c67fff9c28c01e0656b5e30b2547c94bf2e3af | |
parent | 9ee36d7f64c93a7b8378a7107a0a658a96c42f1e (diff) | |
download | e2fsprogs-5c09abe065a900469dbf5a8220f546a5d3a1a304.tar.gz |
Update for 1.43.6 release
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diff --git a/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html b/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html index fea0ab03f..c11f75314 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="#1.43.6">E2fsprogs 1.43.5 (August 29, 2017)</A> <LI><A HREF="#1.43.5">E2fsprogs 1.43.5 (August 4, 2017)</A> <LI><A HREF="#1.43.4">E2fsprogs 1.43.4 (January 31, 2017)</A> <LI><A HREF="#1.43.3">E2fsprogs 1.43.3 (September 4, 2016)</A> @@ -117,6 +118,74 @@ <LI><A HREF="#1.02">E2fsprogs 1.02 (January 16, 1996)</A> </UL> +<H2><A NAME="1.43.5">E2fsprogs 1.43.6 (August 29, 2017)</A></H2> + +<P>Fix printing of quota inconsistency messages on 32-bit platforms in +e2fsck. Also fix a bug which cause project quota problems to be +labelled as group quota problems.</P> + +<P>Fix UI problems caused by fuzzy translations such that some messages +are in English and some are in the foreign language, and it's not +obvious to user how to answer yes/no questions. (Addresses Debian +Bug: #856586).</P> + +<P>Fix some out-of-bounds memory accesses in e2fsck caused by (usually +maliciously) corrupted file systems. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #871539, +#871540)</P> + +<P>Optimize CPU usage in e2fsck for very large, very fragmented sparse +files.</P> + +<P>Add an optional mode in e2fsck which trades off additional memory for +CPU time when processing file systems that are heavily hard-linked. +(This can be a very large amount of memory, so this feature is +disabled for now. How to automatically determine when it would be +helpful to enable this optimization, and when it is _safe_ to enable +this optimization is still a bit of a research problem.)</P> + +<P>The mke2fs program will automatically upsize the inode size to 256 if +it is not explicitly specified on command-line and the default inode +size is not large enough to support the project quota feature +requested by the user. If the inode size is explicitly specified to +be 128 bytes, and the project quota is enabled mke2fs will fail since +with an error explaining that project id's can't be supported when the +inode size is < 256 bytes.</P> + +<P>The tune2fs program will not allow the project feature or project +quotas to be enabled in the inode size is 128 bytes.</P> + +<P>The tune2fs progam now prints a more understandable message explaining +that the file system needs to be checked using e2fsck -f before +running certain complex tune2fs operations. (Addresses Debian Bug: +#857336)</P> + +<P>If the proceed_delay option is enabled in /etc/e2fsck.conf, the message +indicating that user can wait N seconds to proceed was ambiguous. +That message has been made more clear. (Addresses Debian Bug: +#857336)</P> + +<P>Fix LFS bug which caused e2image to fail to create regular e2image +files which are larger than 2 GiB on 32-bit platforms. (Addresses +Debian Bug: #855246)</P> + +<P>Fix FreeBSD portability problem caused by the fact that they no longer +use block devices. (Disks are character mode devices.)</P> + +<P>Update the Czech, French, Polish, Swedish, and Vietnamese translations.</P> + +<P>Fixed various Debian Packaging Issues.</P> + +<h3>Programming notes</h3> + +<P>Avoid changing the blkid cache when running tests. (Normally the +blkid cache is not writable by the user running tests, but...)</P> + +<P>The tar file generation process will now create reproducible +artifacts.</P> + +<P>Removed legacy entries for ext4dev in the default mke2fs.conf file.</P> + + <H2><A NAME="1.43.5">E2fsprogs 1.43.5 (August 4, 2017)</A></H2> <P>Fix a bug which could cause e2fsck to loop forever when rebuilding an diff --git a/htdocs/ext2.html b/htdocs/ext2.html index 46f8b2e0d..ece0771bc 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 1.43.5 of e2fsprogs is available!</H2> +<H2>Release 1.43.9 of e2fsprogs is available!</H2> -<P>On August 4, 2017, version 1.43.5 of e2fsprogs was <A +<P>On August 29, 2017, version 1.43.6 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 98562f6fa..4cf258067 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 1.43.5 of e2fsprogs is + <IMG SRC="images/new.gif" ALIGN=LEFT><H2>Release 1.43.6 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 1.43.5 version as + All users of e2fsprogs are urged to upgrade to the 1.43.6 version as soon as possible, which can be - downloaded from <A HREF="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.43.5.tar.gz">sourceforge</A> - or <A HREF="http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs/v1.43.5">kernel.org</A>.</P> + downloaded from <A HREF="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.43.6.tar.gz">sourceforge</A> + or <A HREF="http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs/v1.43.6">kernel.org</A>.</P> <P>This release contains a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous releases. For more details, see the |