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author | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2023-02-02 15:23:23 -0500 |
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committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2023-02-02 15:23:23 -0500 |
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Update for the 1.46.6 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 6ea0d5ce0..7a0c1cf96 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="#1.46.6">E2fsprogs 1.46.6 (February 1, 2023)</A> <LI><A HREF="#1.46.5">E2fsprogs 1.46.5 (December 30, 2021)</A> <LI><A HREF="#1.46.4">E2fsprogs 1.46.4 (August 18, 2021)</A> <LI><A HREF="#1.46.3">E2fsprogs 1.46.3 (July 27, 2021)</A> @@ -143,6 +144,164 @@ <LI><A HREF="#1.02">E2fsprogs 1.02 (January 16, 1996)</A> </UL> +<H2><A NAME="1.46.6">E2fsprogs 1.46.6 (February 1, 2023)</A></H2> + +<H3>UI and Features</H3> + +<P>Debugfs's ncheck command now allows the inode number to be surrounded by +angle brackets, to be consistent with other debugfs commands.</H3> + +<P>Debugfs no longer prints a scary message when debugfs -c (which enables +"catastrophic mode") is used. This was intended to allow debugfs to +operate on very badly corrupted file systems, but it is now sometimes +used to suppress reading the block and inode bitmaps when they are not +needed.</H3> + +<P>Resize2fs will round down the requested new file system size to the +nearest cluster boundary when resizing bigalloc file systems.</H3> + +<P>Improve error messages issued by badblocks.</H3> + +<P>Fuse2fs now supports an offset=<bytes> option which allows operating on +a file system image which is located starting at the specified offset +from the beginning of the image.</H3> + +<H3>Fixes</H3> + +<P>Pre-v6.2 Linux kernels had long-standing bug in how the extended +attribute hash was calculated when there were non-ASCII characters in +the xattr name, when the hash would be different depending on whether +the C 'char' type was signed or unsigned. To address this bug, starting +with e2fsprogs 1.46.6+ and Linux 6.2+, we will accept either the signed +or unsigned hash variant, but only set the unsigned hash variant. Since +extended attribute names are in practice composed of ASCII characters, +other than various tests (such as generic/454), most users will +hopefully not notice this change.</H3> + +<P>Avoid triggering udev in dumpe2fs and "resize2fs -P" for file systems +with MMP enabled by opening the device read-only when reading the MMP +block.</H3> + +<P>Fix MMP handling so it can notice when another writer has modify the MMP +block out from under it when stopping a MMP sessions.</H3> + +<P>Fix tune2fs so it will detect another device stealing the MMP sessions +while rewriting metadata checksums.</H3> + +<P>E2fsck will now check to make sure the journal inode does not have the +encrypt flag set.</H3> + +<P>Fix a deadlock bug in e2fsck's error handler when there are errors +trying to write to the file system.</H3> + +<P>Fix a bug where e2fsck could fail when specifying an undo file and an +explicit superblock number.</H3> + +<P>Fix e2image so it won't potentially loop forever for certain invalid +file systems.</H3> + +<P>Fix resize2fs to honor the E2FSPROGS_FAKE_TIME environment variable. +This allows embedded system builders who use resize2fs as part of their +image build process to create reproducible images.</H3> + +<P>Fix tune2fs to avoid a crash if the journal replay fails and to make +sure its exit status is non-zero if there is some failure.</H3> + +<P>Fix tune2fs, fuse2fs, and debugsfs to update j_tail_sequence when +replaying the journal.</H3> + +<P>Add additional bullet-proofing for very badly corrupted file systems. +Try avoid UBSAN warnings, null pointer derferences, and other memory +bugs. (Addresses CVE-2022-1304)</H3> + +<P>Don't fail when the source directory for mke2fs -d doesn't support +extended attributese.</H3> + +<P>Check for and handle malloc() failures when computing the log filename +in e2fsck and in the libss library.</H3> + +<P>Fix tune2fs and e2fsck to accept pathames which include '=' characters. +Previously arguments to tune2fs and e2fsck which included '=' characters +are presumed to be blkid specifiers such as UUID=xxx or LABEL=yyy. If a +specifier is both a valid pathname name and blkid tag name specifier, +priority is given to a blkid resolved pathname.</H3> + +<P>Improve tune2fs's error messages.</H3> + +<P>Fix a bug in tune2fs which could cause it to crash if device goes +off-line just as it being opened.</H3> + +<P>Fix the fsck driver so if it is interrupted while running fsck -N it +doesn't end up kllling all processes on the system.</H3> + +<P>Fix a crash in badblocks when the user specifies an overly large +number of blocks tested at a time in read/write or nondestructive +mode.</H3> + +<P>Update and clarify's chattr's man page and usage message. Fix spelling +typo's in a variety of different man pages and comments.</H3> + + +<H3>Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.</H3> + +<P>Update to autoconf 2.71.</H3> + +<P>Update flags used to create shared library on Darwin/MacOS.</H3> + +<P>Speed up e2fsck's clonning of multiply-claimed blocks so it is +substantially faster on very large file systems.</H3> + +<P>Add tests/fuzz directory with fuzzers from oss-fuzz.</H3> + +<P>Add a Github Actions configuration file so that Github will run CI tests +on Linux, Windows and MacOS on a push to the e2fsprogs github repo.</H3> + +<P>Make the mtab parsing in ext2fs_check_mount_point() more careful so it +won't get confused when a block device shows up in the mnt_name field +for a virtual file system.</H3> + +<P>Fix the libss's Makefile to create the man page directory before trying +to install its man page.</H3> + +<P>Fix various Coverity and compiler warnings.</H3> + +<P>Make tests more portable on various different OS's and system +configurations (e.g., with SELinux enabled, MacOS, and Windows)</H3> + +<P>Use mallinfo2() instead of mallinfo() where avilable, since mallinfo() +is deprecated on newer glibc versions.</H3> + +<P>E2fsck will no longer do a full scan of disconnected directory when +trying to print the parent directory, which is pointless and can slow +down e2fsck if there are a large number of disconnected directories.</H3> + +<P>Debugfs will now print the extended attribute's e_hash field.</H3> + +<P>Fix the setup-schroot script to work on non-Linux platforms.</H3> + +<P>Fix ext2fs_compare_generic_bmap() so it correctly compares all of the +bits in the bitmap, and so that it works correctly when comparing a +bitarray bitmap with a rbtree-based bitmap. (Fortunately, none of the +programs in e2fsprogs uses bitmap comparison functions.)</H3> + +<P>Fix memory leaks on error paths.</H3> + +<P>Add support for the configure option --enable-largefile so that +e2fsprogs can utilize largefile support for the MUSL C library.</H3> + +<P>Add an note that the dict library code has been modified, as required by +the Kazlib license.</H3> + +<P>Synchronized changes from Android's AOSP e2fsprogs tree.</H3> + +<P>Updated config.guess and config.sub with newer versions from the FSF.</H3> + +<P>Add Friulian translation.</H3> + +<P>Update Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Malay, Polish, Serbian, +Spanish, Swedish, and Ukrainian translations.</H3> + + <H2><A NAME="1.46.5">E2fsprogs 1.46.5 (December 30, 2021)</A></H2> <h3>UI and Features</h3> diff --git a/htdocs/ext2.html b/htdocs/ext2.html index d6461ee21..e9c794543 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 1.46.5 of e2fsprogs is available!</H2> +<H2>Release 1.46.6 of e2fsprogs is available!</H2> -<P>On December 30, 2021, version 1.46.5 of e2fsprogs was <A +<P>On February 1, 2023, version 1.46.6 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 392428003..a8808c8a9 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 1.46.5 of e2fsprogs is + <IMG SRC="images/new.gif" ALIGN=LEFT><H2>Release 1.46.6 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 1.46.5 version as + All users of e2fsprogs are urged to upgrade to the 1.46.6 version as soon as possible, which can be - downloaded from <A HREF="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.46.5.tar.gz">sourceforge</A> - or <A HREF="http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs/v1.46.5">kernel.org</A>.</P> + downloaded from <A HREF="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.46.6.tar.gz">sourceforge</A> + or <A HREF="http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs/v1.46.6">kernel.org</A>.</P> <P>This release contains a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous releases. For more details, see the - <A HREF="e2fsprogs-release.html#1.46.5">release notes.</A></P> + <A HREF="e2fsprogs-release.html#1.46.6">release notes.</A></P> <ADDRESS> |