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author | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2020-01-07 12:48:57 -0500 |
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committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2020-01-07 12:48:57 -0500 |
commit | 7ff614971a1fd0fe9eb4eda4e19bf3541442232b (patch) | |
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download | e2fsprogs-7ff614971a1fd0fe9eb4eda4e19bf3541442232b.tar.gz |
Update for the 1.45.5 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 1012bde81..5b31ccdbd 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="#1.45.5">E2fsprogs 1.45.5 (January 7, 2020)</A> <LI><A HREF="#1.45.4">E2fsprogs 1.45.4 (September 23, 2019)</A> <LI><A HREF="#1.45.3">E2fsprogs 1.45.3 (July 14, 2019)</A> <LI><A HREF="#1.45.2">E2fsprogs 1.45.2 (May 27, 2019)</A> @@ -134,6 +135,91 @@ <LI><A HREF="#1.02">E2fsprogs 1.02 (January 16, 1996)</A> </UL> +<H2><A NAME="1.45.5">E2fsprogs 1.45.5 (January 7, 2020)</A></H2> + +<H3>Fixes</H3> + +<P>E2fsck will no longer force a full file system check if time-based +forced checks are disabled and the last mount time or last write time in +the superblock are in the future.</P> + +<P>Fix a potential out of bounds write when checking a maliciously +corrupted file system. This is probably not exploitable on 64-bit +platforms, but may be exploitable on 32-bit binaries depending on how +the compiler lays out the stack variables. (Addresses CVE-2019-5188)</P> + +<P>Fixed spurious weekly e-mails when e2scrub_all is run via a cron job +on non-systemd systems. (Addresses Debian Bug: #944033)</P> + +<P>Remove an unnecessary sleep in e2scrub which could add up to an +additional two second delay during the boot up. Also, avoid trying +to reap aborted snapshots if it has been disabled via e2scrub.conf. +(Addresses Debian Bug: #948193)</P> + +<P>If a mischievous system administrator mounts a pseudo-file system such +as tmpfs with a device name that duplicates another mounted file system, +this could potentially confuse resize2fs when it needs to find the mount +point of a mounted file system. (Who would have guessed?) Add some +sanity checking so that we can make libext2fs more robust against such +insanity, at least on Linux. (GNU HURD doesn't support st_rdev.)</P> + +<P>Tune2fs now prohibits enabling or disabling uninit_bg if the file system +is mounted, since this could result in the file system getting +corrupted, and there is an unfortunate AskUbuntu article suggesting this +as a way to modify a file system's UUID on a live file system. (Ext4 +now has a way to do this safely, using the metadata_csum_seed feature, +which was added in the 4.4 Linux kernel.)</P> + +<P>Fix potential crash in e2fsck when rebuilding very large directories on +file systems which have the new large_dir feature enable.</P> + +<P>Fix support of 32-bit uid's and gid's in fuse2fs and in mke2fs -d.</P> + +<P>Fix mke2fs's setting bad blocks to bigalloc file systems.</P> + +<P>Fix a bug where fuse2fs would incorrectly report the i_blocks fields for +bigalloc file systems.</P> + +<P>Resize2fs's minimum size estimates (via resize2fs -M) estimates are now +more accurate when run on mounted file systems.</P> + +<P>Fixed potential memory leak in read_bitmap() in libext2fs.</P> + +<P>Fixed various UBsan failures found when fuzzing file system images. +(Addresses Google Bug: #128130353)</P> + +<P>Updated and clarified various man pages.</P> + + +<H3>Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.</H3> + +<P>Speed up e2fsck on file systems with a very large number of inodes +caused by repeated calls to gettext().</P> + +<P>The inode_io io_manager can now support files which are greater than +2GB.</P> + +<P>The ext2_off_t and ext2_off64_t are now signed types so that +ext2fs_file_lseek() and ext2fs_file_llseek() can work correctly.</P> + +<P>Reserve codepoint for the fast_commit feature.</P> + +<P>Fixed various Debian packaging issues.</P> + +<P>Fix portability problems for Illumous and on hurd/i386 (Addresses Debian +Bug: #944649)</P> + +<P>Always compile the ext2fs_swap_* functions even on little-endian +architectures, so that debian/libext2fs.symbols can be consistent across +architectures.</P> + +<P>Synchronized changes from Android's AOSP e2fsprogs tree.</P> + +<P>Updated config.guess and config.sub with newer versions from the FSF.</P> + +<P>Update the Chinese and Malay translations from the translation project.</P> + + <H2><A NAME="1.45.4">E2fsprogs 1.45.4 (September 23, 2019)</A></H2> <H3>Fixes</H3> diff --git a/htdocs/ext2.html b/htdocs/ext2.html index ef054e908..fcfcf088e 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 1.45.4 of e2fsprogs is available!</H2> +<H2>Release 1.45.5 of e2fsprogs is available!</H2> -<P>On September 23, 2019, version 1.45.4 of e2fsprogs was <A +<P>On January 7, 2020, version 1.45.5 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 1270421a0..04f842ce5 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 1.45.4 of e2fsprogs is + <IMG SRC="images/new.gif" ALIGN=LEFT><H2>Release 1.45.5 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 1.45.4 version as + All users of e2fsprogs are urged to upgrade to the 1.45.5 version as soon as possible, which can be - downloaded from <A HREF="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.45.4.tar.gz">sourceforge</A> - or <A HREF="http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs/v1.45.4">kernel.org</A>.</P> + downloaded from <A HREF="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.45.5.tar.gz">sourceforge</A> + or <A HREF="http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs/v1.45.5">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#1.45.4">release notes.</A></P> + <A HREF="e2fsprogs-release.html#1.45.5">release notes.</A></P> <ADDRESS> |