Update for 1.42.2 release

git-svn-id: https://e2fsprogs.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/e2fsprogs/web@40 46e75558-b442-0410-83ab-e6570fdeb8bf

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 <H2>Release notes for the e2fsprogs package</H2>
 <UL>
-<LI><A HREF="#1.42">E2fsprogs 1.42.1 (February 17, 2012)</A>
+<LI><A HREF="#1.42.2">E2fsprogs 1.42.2 (March 27, 2012)</A>
+<LI><A HREF="#1.42.1">E2fsprogs 1.42.1 (February 17, 2012)</A>
 <LI><A HREF="#1.42">E2fsprogs 1.42 (November 29, 2011)</A>
 <LI><A HREF="#1.41.14">E2fsprogs 1.41.14 (December 22, 2010)</A>
 <LI><A HREF="#1.41.13">E2fsprogs 1.41.13 (December 13, 2010)</A>
@@ -99,7 +100,124 @@
 <LI><A HREF="#1.02">E2fsprogs 1.02 (January 16, 1996)</A>
 </UL>
 
-<H2><A NAME="1.42">E2fsprogs 1.42.1 (February 17, 2011)</A></H2>
+<H2><A NAME="1.42.2">E2fsprogs 1.42.2 (March 27, 2012)</A></H2>
+
+<P>The resize2fs program uses much less CPU and is much faster for very
+large file systems.  (Addresses Debian Bug: #663237)</P>
+
+<P>The seti and freei commands in debugfs can now take an optional length
+argument to set and clear a contiguous range of inodes.</P>
+
+<P>E2fsck will now make explicit checks for the EOFBLOCKS_FL, since we
+plan to remove support for it from the kernel file system driver.  It
+really wasn't very useful and was causing more problems than it
+solves.  Since e2fsck will complain if inodes that should have
+EOFBLOCKS_FL do not have the flag set, we are going to remove this
+check from e2fsprogs first, and then only remove the flag from the
+kernel much later.</P>
+
+<P>The mke2fs program can now use direct I/O via "mke2fs -D".  This will
+slow down the mke2fs, but it makes it more polite on a loaded server
+by limiting the amount of memory that gets dirtied by mke2fs when it
+is using buffered I/O.</P>
+
+<P>E2fsck was needlessly closing and re-opening the file system as a side
+effect of adding Multiple Mount Protection (MMP).  This isn't
+necessary for non-MMP file systems, so drop it.</P>
+
+<P>Print errors returned by ext2fs_open2() and ext2fs_check_desc() so we
+can more easily diagnose memory allocation failures caused by
+insufficient memory.  E2fsck will now abort if there are memory
+allocation failures when the file system is initially opened and
+during the block group descriptor checks.  (Addresses Google Bug:
+#6208183)</P>
+
+<P>If there are incorrect block group checks, e2fsck will now report the
+incorrect and corrected checksum values.</P>
+
+<P>The e2fsck progam can now write log files containing the details of
+the problems that were found and fixed directly, via configuration
+parameters in /etc/e2fsck.conf.</P>
+
+<P>Added the ability to limit the number of messages reported by e2fsck
+for a given problem type.  This avoids a potential bottleneck if there
+is a serial console which can cause a boot sequence to take a long
+time if e2fsck needs to report many, many file system errors.</P>
+
+<P>The dumpe2fs, debugfs, and tune2fs now use rbtree bitmaps, which cause
+them to use much less memory for large file systems.</P>
+
+<P>The dumpe2fs program will now print the expected block group checksum
+if it is incorrect.  This helps to diagnose problems caused by
+incorrect block group checksums.</P>
+
+<P>E2fsck now checks for extents with a zero length, since the kernel
+will oops if it comes accross such a corrupted data structure.  (See
+https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42859)</P>
+
+<P>E2fsck has a number of bugs relating to discard that have been fixed.
+(1) Fixed a bug which could cause e2fsck to discard portions of the
+inode table which were actually in use.  (2) E2fsck will now avoid
+using discard if the block device doesn't zero data on discard, since
+otherwise this could cause problems if the file system gets corrupted
+in the future.  (3) E2fsck will now avoid using discard when it is run
+in read-only mode.  (4) Fixed a bug which caused e2fsck to not issue
+discards in the last block group.</P>
+
+<P>E2fsck's CPU utilization in pass 5 has been optimized, which will
+speed up e2fsck slightly.</P>
+
+<P>E2image will now skip copying uninitialized bitmap and inode table
+blocks.</P>
+
+<P>Fixed mke2fs -S so it does not corrupt the first block group's
+information.</P>
+
+<P>E2fsck will now check the new sysfs interface to determine if we are
+using the battery or AC mains.  (Addresses SourceForge Bug: #3439277)</P>
+
+<P>Updated/fixed various man pages.  (Addresses Debian Bug: #665427)</P>
+
+<P>Fixed various Debian Packaging issues.  (Addresses Debian Bug: #665885)</P>
+
+<H3>Programmer's Notes</H3>
+
+<P>Fixed various portability issues for non-Linux systems, particularly
+MacOS X, as well as Linux systems running with the just-released glibc
+2.15.</P>
+
+<P>Fix file descriptor leak in ext2fs_close() if the file system with
+uninit_bg is opened read/only with a backup superblock.  (Addresses
+SourceForge Bug: #3444351)</P>
+
+<P>Fixed an invalid return in a non-void function in the quota code.
+(Addresses SourceForge Bug: #3468423)</P>
+
+<P>Fixed the debian rules file so that the calls to dpkg-buildflags works
+when the shell is dash.</P>
+
+<P>The debian package build now uses V=1 so that there is more
+information about potential build failures in debian buildd logs.</P>
+
+<P>If the uninit flags get cleared by functions such as
+ext2fs_new_inode() or ext2fs_new_block2(), we now make sure the
+superblock is marked dirty and the block group descriptor checksum is
+updated if necessary.</P>
+
+<P>The debian rules file will now try to load debian/rules.custom of it
+exists.  This flie can skip various builds for speed reasons if there
+is no need for the e2fsck-static or udeb packages.  Available
+customizations in the rules file includes SKIP_STATIC=yes,
+SKIP_BF=yes, and SKIP_DIETLIBC=yes.</P>
+
+<P>In addition, if the file misc/mke2fs.conf.custom.in exists in the
+source tree, it will be used instead of the standard misc.conf file in
+the upstream sources.  This makes it easier for Debian-derived systems
+to distribute a custom mke2fs.conf file without having to worry about
+merge issues if future versions of e2fsprogs makes changes in the
+upstream default version of mke2fs.conf.</P>
+
+<H2><A NAME="1.42.1">E2fsprogs 1.42.1 (February 17, 2012)</A></H2>
 
 <P>The mke2fs and e2fsck now use significantly less memory when creating
 or checking very large file systems.  This was enabled by adding
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 <!-- Begin actual content -->
 
 <IMG SRC="../images/new.gif" ALIGN=LEFT>
-<H2>Release 1.42.1 of e2fsprogs is available!</H2>
+<H2>Release 1.42.2 of e2fsprogs is available!</H2>
 
-<P>On February 17, 2012, version 1.42.1 of e2fsprogs was <A
+<P>On March 27, 2012, version 1.42.1 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
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     <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 1.42.1 of e2fsprogs is
+    <IMG SRC="images/new.gif" ALIGN=LEFT><H2>Release 1.42.2 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 1.42.1 version as
-    soon as possible, which can be found <A HREF="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.42.1.tar.gz">here</A>.</P>
+    All users of e2fsprogs are urged to upgrade to the 1.42.2 version as
+    soon as possible, which can be found <A HREF="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.42.2.tar.gz">here</A>.</P>
 
     <P>This release contains a number of bug fixes and enhancements over
     the previous releases.  For more details, see the