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author | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2017-01-31 21:39:23 -0500 |
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committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2017-01-31 21:39:23 -0500 |
commit | d61f81f4208b0bd4f3f79b78f117141fcb336272 (patch) | |
tree | 947f88d54ca0a4c70a1731f224d4876dc7c4e60f | |
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download | e2fsprogs-d61f81f4208b0bd4f3f79b78f117141fcb336272.tar.gz |
Update for 1.43.4 release
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diff --git a/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html b/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html index 516aaebba..11610a42c 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="#1.43.4">E2fsprogs 1.43.4 (January 31, 2017)</A> <LI><A HREF="#1.43.3">E2fsprogs 1.43.3 (September 4, 2016)</A> <LI><A HREF="#1.43.2">E2fsprogs 1.43.2 (September 1, 2016)</A> <LI><A HREF="#1.43.1">E2fsprogs 1.43.1 (June 8, 2016)</A> @@ -115,6 +116,76 @@ <LI><A HREF="#1.02">E2fsprogs 1.02 (January 16, 1996)</A> </UL> +<H2><A NAME="1.43.4">E2fsprogs 1.43.4 (January 31, 2017)</A></H2> + +<P>Fix e2fsck to require that the system.data extended attribute is +always present even for files smaller than 60 bytes, to be consistent +with the kernel.</P> + +<P>Fix a bug which was causing mke2fs -d and fuse2fs to improperly handle +Posix ACL's.</P> + +<P>Fix a bug which could cause mke2fs -d to fail if there is an +zero-length file in source directory tree.</P> + +<P>Clarify the default for the "proceed?" question printed by mke2fs and +tune2fs. (Addresses Debian Bug: #852727)</P> + +<P>Debugfs will now display project quota information.</P> + +<P>Debugfs's do_set_xattr now uses C strings to parse extended attribute +values, and will print the extended attributes using either C strings +or hex bytes when using debugfs's do_get_xattr command. It will now +allow developers to see the contents of the system.data extended +attribute.</P> + +<P>Fix a bug in mke2fs where I/O errors weren't getting properly reported +to the user.</P> + +<P>Fix multiblock writes in the unaligned Direct I/O fallback code. +(Which is rarely needed on Linux systems, but which is required on +Freebsd systems.)</P> + +<P>Make sure the default mke2fs.conf file includes the uninit_bg feature +flag. (Which was accidentally dropped in v1.43).</P> + +<P>Fix a bug in resize2fs when operating on very large file systems which +have a block size different from the VM page size.</P> + +<P>If the reported device size is absurdly large, mke2fs will now report +an error instead looping forever or crashing.</P> + +<P>Fix various Coverity warnings and other memory leaks in fuse2fs and +extended attribute manipulation functions.</P> + +<P>Replace a test file but which had a "non-commercial use-only" +copyright permission file with a newer version from the Cyrus imapd +package which now has a 4-clause BSD license, which was making some +lawyers nervous, even though the test file in question was only used +in lib/et's regression testing and was never included in any compiled +binary. (Addresses Debian Bug: #840733)</P> + +<P>Stop installing mkfs.ext4dev and fsck.ext4dev</P> + +<P>Update Chinese, Czech, Polish, Serbian, and Spanish translations and +add the Finnish and Malay translation. (Addresses-Debian-Bug: #774379)</P> + +<P>Update various man pages (Addresses-Debian-Bug: #852726)</P> + +<H3>Programming notes</H3> + +<P>Fix more FreeBSD-11 compatibility bugs, including some unmasked by +FreeBSD 11-rc2.</P> + +<P>Fix the Mac build.</P> + +<P>Fix build failure on RHEL 5.x systems caused by an old version of +libmagic.</P> + +<P>Fix a number of bugs reported by ASAN that can cause some (mostly +harmless) memory dereferences beyond allocated memory.</P> + + <H2><A NAME="1.43.3">E2fsprogs 1.43.3 (September 4, 2016)</A></H2> <P>Fix e2fsck's handling of timestamps on 32-bit systems.</P> diff --git a/htdocs/ext2.html b/htdocs/ext2.html index febef8902..e840d6fe6 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 1.43.3 of e2fsprogs is available!</H2> +<H2>Release 1.43.4 of e2fsprogs is available!</H2> -<P>On September 4, 2016, version 1.43.3 of e2fsprogs was <A +<P>On January 31, 2017, version 1.43.4 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 d38a7e952..4c4777614 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 1.43.3 of e2fsprogs is + <IMG SRC="images/new.gif" ALIGN=LEFT><H2>Release 1.43.4 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 1.43.3 version as + All users of e2fsprogs are urged to upgrade to the 1.43.4 version as soon as possible, which can be - downloaded from <A HREF="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.43.3.tar.gz">sourceforge</A> - or <A HREF="http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs/v1.43.3">kernel.org</A>.</P> + downloaded from <A HREF="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.43.4.tar.gz">sourceforge</A> + or <A HREF="http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs/v1.43.4">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#1.43.3">release notes.</A></P> + <A HREF="e2fsprogs-release.html#1.43.4">release notes.</A></P> <ADDRESS> |