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diff --git a/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html b/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html index 7a0c1cf96..a215e2a28 100644 --- a/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html +++ b/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html @@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ <H2>Release notes for the e2fsprogs package</H2> <UL> +<LI><A HREF="#1.47.1">E2fsprogs 1.47.1 (May 20, 2024)</A> +<LI><A HREF="#1.47.0">E2fsprogs 1.47.0 (February 5, 2023)</A> <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> @@ -144,6 +146,237 @@ <LI><A HREF="#1.02">E2fsprogs 1.02 (January 16, 1996)</A> </UL> +<H2><A NAME="1.47.1">E2fsprogs 1.47.1 (May 20, 2024)</A></H2> + +<H3>UI and Features</H3> + +<P>Add post-2038 handling when e2fsprogs is compiled on a system with a +64-bit time_t.</P> + +<P>Mke2fs -d can now support an input tar file if the libarchive library is +available.</P> + +<P>Add a udev rule which inhibits ext4 file systems from being automounted +by udisks. This avoid security issues from exposing potentially +maliciously fuzzed file systems from being mounted without being +inspected using fsck first. Distributions can of course override this +feature inhibition, but then they get to own the security vulnerability +liability. Upstream ext4 file system developers are putting +distributions on notice that blindly automounting file systems from +(potentially) USB thumb drives which clueless users may have picked up +in a parking lot is a ***bad*** idea, no matter what clueless enterprise +Linux product managers might think.</P> + +<P>The debugfs 'hash' command will use the hash seed and algorithm from the +superblock if debugfs has a file system open, instead of requiring the +user to specify those parameters explicitly as options to the hash +command. Also add a hash -v option which prints the hash parameters so +the user knows what parameters were used when calculating the hash for +the filename.</P> + +<P>Teach mke2fs a new extended options, root_perms, which overrides the +permissions for the root directory for the new file system.</P> + +<H3>Fixes</H3> + +<P>When various e2fsprogs are replaying the journal (tune2fs, fuse2fs, +e2fsck, etc.) save any error indicator in the superblock, so it can be +restored afterwards. Most of the time (at least with modern kernels) if +file system corruptions are discovered, the superblock update is +journalled. However, if the journal is aborted or the journal commit +fails, the error code might only be written in the superblock, so we +need to save it so that a subsequent fsck can repair the file system +after the journal replay.</P> + +<P>When mke2fs was creating a file system with the orphan file inode, it +tries to read and truncate the orphan inode before it has been +initialized. If there is an inode from a previous file system located +there (as opposed to a all zeroes inode table block caused by a discard +of the flash device or a newly created cloud block device or fille +image), it can fail with bad checksum error, aborting the mke2fs +operation. Fix this in ext2fs_create_orphan_file() not trying to +truncate the orphan file if it is newly allocated (which will always be +the case when mke2fs calls this library function).</P> + +<P>In the case where e2fsck comes across an orphan file which is empty but +the orphan_present feature is set, in preen mode, e2fsck will now clear +the orphan_present feature flag silently.</P> + +<P>E2fsck will now perform more consistency checks on EA (extended +attribute value) inodes.</P> + +<P>Fix a big where e2fsck could potentially leak an acl block when +releasing an orphan inode.</P> + +<P>Avoid a divide by zero crash in libext2fs if the container +infrastructure, such as lxcfs, reports that the system has zero CPU's +via sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF).</P> + +<P>When resize2fs is performing an online resize, it's possible for reading +the superblock can race with a kernel modifying the superblock with the +checksum being invalid and causing the resize to fail with an bad +superblock checksum in the buffer cache. Have resize2fs open the file +system using O_DIRECT to avoid the superblock with an invalid checksum.</P> + +<P>Fix a bug where a checksum failure in an htree directory can cause +e2fsck's preen mode to abort unnecessarily.</P> + +<P>Fix e2fsck's handling of an invalid symlink in an inline_data directory.</P> + +<P>Fix e4crypt from issuing a spurious "success" error message when trying +to set a policy on a non-directory.</P> + +<P>Fix a potential infinite loop in debugfs's logdump command in some edge +cases.</P> + +<P>Fix e2fsck to correctly update quota usage after optimizing directories +or deleting corrupted inodes.</P> + +<P>Fix fuse2fs so that directories are created with the correct permissions +instead of having the other and group write permissions masked off.</P> + +<P>Fix a potential e2fsck divide by zero crash caused by a maliciously +fuzzed file system.</P> + +<P>Fix dumpe2fs to report free block ranges correctly for bigalloc file +systems.</P> + +<P>Fix resize2fs where resizing a bigalloc file system can result in the +free cluster count in the last block group and the total free clusters +count to be incorrect.</P> + +<P>Avoid spurious e2scrub failures caused by trying to scrub file syustems +that do not have the journal enabled, and by aborting scrub runs while +upgrading the e2fsprogs package on Debian/Ubuntu.</P> + +<P>Teach tune2fs to detect a file system which is mounted but is not +mentioned in the mount namespace where tune2fs is run by treating a +block device which is busy as if it is mounted.</P> + +<P>If tune2fs can't find the mountpoint for a file system which is +apparently mounted (perhaps because it's not present in the current +mount namespace) when attempting to set the label or UUID in the +superblock, fall back to the old method of modifying block device and +silence printing any error messages.</P> + +<P>If both the primary superblock and first block group's backup superblock +are corrupted, e2fsck will now try additional backup superblocks if they +are available.</P> + +<P>Avoid mke2fs from creating an invalid file system with an insufficient +number of inodes when creating a file system which is very small (100k), +a block size of 1k, and an inode size of 256 bytes.</P> + +<P>Fix a potential deadlock caused by e2fsck being run in Direct I/O mode +with the threading optimization enabled.</P> + +<P>Fix e2scrub when the "systemctl" package is installed instead of +systemd. (Addresses Debian Bug #1070107)</P> + +<P>Fixed/improved various Debian packaging issues.</P> + +<P>Update and clarify various man pages. (Addresses Debian Bugs #1038286, +#1041115)</P> + + +<H3>Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.</H3> + +<P>Add support for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable per the +specification https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch</P> + +<P>Improve resize2fs's performance by eliminating extra cache flushes.</P> + +<P>Improve mke2fs's performance when zeroing a large number of inode table +blocks (when lazy inode table initialization is not enabled) by batching +calls to ext2fs_zero_blocks.</P> + +<P>Use a safe_getenv function for all calls to fetch the environment +variable in libext2fs.</P> + +<P>Fix a massive buffer overrun bug in ext2fs_image_super_read(). This +function isn't actually used by e2image, and it's unlikely that there +are any users of this function since the most common way the e2image +file is read is via ext2fs_openfs() with the EXT2_FLAG_IMAGE_FILE, which +doesn't actually use ext2fs_image_super_read().</P> + +<P>Add support for building fuse2fs using Fuse V3.</P> + +<P>Use FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 when hardening is enabled for more protection.</P> + +<P>Add support for continuous integration tests using Github Actions.</P> + +<P>Fix Windows-specific portability bugs to allow mke2fs to create a file +system in a file which doesn't yet exist and to support file systems +larger than 2GB.</P> + +<P>Fix a FreeBSD 14 build failure caused by changing the function signature +of qsort_r() to be aligned with the POSIX and glibc definition of +qsort_r().</P> + +<P>Fix various portability issues for the Linux 32-bit musl C library, +GNU/Hurd and Android. (Addresses Debian Bug: #1056145)</P> + +<P>Fix various portability problems in the regression test suite.</P> + +<P>Fix various sanitizer, static code analysis, and compiler warnings.</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>Add Romainian translation.</P> + +<P>Update Chinese, Czech, French, Malay, Polish, Swedish, and Ukrainian +translations.</P> + +<H2><A NAME="1.47.0">E2fsprogs 1.47.0 (February 5, 2023)</A></H2> + +<H3>UI and Features</H3> + +<P>Add support for the orphan_file feature, which speeds up workloads that +are deleting or truncating a large number files in parallel. This +compat feature was first supported in the v5.15 Linux kernel.</P> + +<P>The mke2fs program (via the mke2fs.conf file) now enables the +metadata_csum_seed and orphan_file features by default. The +metadata_csum_seed feature is an incompat feature which is first +supported in the Linux kernel starting in the 4.4 kernel and e2fsprogs +1.43.</P> + +<P>Mke2fs now supports the extended option "assume_storage_prezeroed" which +causes mke2fs to skip zeroing the journal and inode tables and to mark +the inode tables as zeroed.</P> + +<P>Add support to tune2fs and e2label to set the label and UUID for a +mounted file system using a ioctl, which is more reliable than modifying +the superblock via writing to the block device. The kernel support for +setting the label landed in v5.17, while the support for adding the UUID +landed in v6.0. If the ioctls are not supported, tune2fs and e2label +will fall back old strategy of directly modifying the superblock.</P> + +<P>Allow tune2fs to disable the casefold feature after scanning all of the +directories do not have the Casefold flag set.</P> + +<H3>Fixes</H3> + +<P>Fix a potential unbalanced mutex unlock when there is a short read while +using the bounce buffer when using direct I/O.</P> + + +<H3>Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.</H3> + +<P>Fix various Coverity and compiler warnings.</P> + +<P>Add the new function ext2fs_xattrs_read_inode() which takes an in-memory +inode to avoid needing to reread an inode that was already read into +memory.</P> + +<P>Teach debugfs logdump command the -n option which forces printing a +specified number of transactions, even when a block missing a magic +number would have stopped the logdump. (This is for debugging +journalling problems.)</P> + + <H2><A NAME="1.46.6">E2fsprogs 1.46.6 (February 1, 2023)</A></H2> <H3>UI and Features</H3> diff --git a/htdocs/ext2.html b/htdocs/ext2.html index e9c794543..4623cbe12 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 1.46.6 of e2fsprogs is available!</H2> +<H2>Release 1.47.1 of e2fsprogs is available!</H2> -<P>On February 1, 2023, version 1.46.6 of e2fsprogs was <A +<P>On May 20, 2024, version 1.47.1 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 index a8808c8a9..287e56263 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 1.46.6 of e2fsprogs is + <IMG SRC="images/new.gif" ALIGN=LEFT><H2>Release 1.47.1 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 1.46.6 version as + All users of e2fsprogs are urged to upgrade to the 1.47.1 version as soon as possible, which can be - 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> + downloaded from <A HREF="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.47.1.tar.gz">sourceforge</A> + or <A HREF="http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs/v1.47.1">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#1.46.6">release notes.</A></P> + <A HREF="e2fsprogs-release.html#1.47.1">release notes.</A></P> <ADDRESS> |