From 2a13c84b513aa094d1cda727e92d35a89dd777da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 12:20:53 -0400 Subject: Update release notes, etc., for the 1.43.5 release Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o --- RELEASE-NOTES | 101 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 97 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'RELEASE-NOTES') diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 58a8e23a..7ab5d636 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,8 +1,84 @@ -E2fsprogs 1.43.5-WIP (February 17, 2017) -- dea731316a249 -======================================== +E2fsprogs 1.43.5 (August 4, 2017) +================================= + +Fix a bug which could cause e2fsck to loop forever when rebuilding an +encrypted directory with entries with identical prefixes up to an +embedded NUL character. + +Fix build when configured with --disable-threads or --enable-profile. + +Fix ext2fs_sync_device() so it returns the proper error code if the +BLKFLSBUF ioctl fails for some reason. + +Fix a potential crash in tune2fs when enabling project quota when the +file system has no inodes by fixing error handling in the +quota_write_inode() in libsupport. + +Fix a bug in debugfs's "ls -p" handling which could cause it to print +garbage after a file name in a directory entry. + +Fix a number of bugs in debugfs, dumpe2fs, e2fsck, tune2fs, and +resize2fs where a carefully/maliciously corrupted file systems (found +by American Fuzzy Lop) could these programs to crash or hang. +(Addresses Debian Bug #868489) + +E2fsck no longer issues some harmless bitmap warnings caused by a +corrupted file system; since those corruptions will be fixed up by +e2fsck later, there's no point issuing these internal warnings. + +E2fsck will now notice invalid quota inode numbers, and offer to fix +them. + +Fix a regression introduced in e2fsprogs 1.43 which broke mke2fs's +hugefile creation so that they aren't contiguous. (Addresses Google +Bugs 62791459 and 638037607) + +Fix how backup superblocks are written in big endian systems so they +are all correctly byte swapped. + +Fixed tune2fs's support for enabling and disabling project quota. + +The badblock program now properly handles languages which have +multi-column wide character such as Chinese. (Addresses Debian Bug: +#860926) + +The mke2fs -U option now accepts "null", "clear", "random", or "time" +just as tune2fs's -U option. + +Fix e2fsck's -E bmap2extent feature (which converts a file to use +extents from indirect block maps) so that it handles sparse files correctly. + +Fix libext2fs to correctly handle accounting for an external xattr +block on bigalloc file systems. + +Fix e2fsck to correctly handle quota accounting when deleting files +that have mnultiply-claimed blocks pass 1b. + +Fix potential buffer overrun bug in e2fsck when using 128 byte inodes. +(Addresses Google Bug 37326362). + +E2fsck's extent tree optimization can now be disabled via an +command-line extended option or via an e2fsck.conf configuration +parameter. + +The e2fsck program now properly updates the quota accounting when +optimizing the extent tree. (Addresses Google Bug 36391645) + +Fix some error handling in e4crypt when operating on keyring ID's. + +Fix e2fsck's quota handling when the bigalloc feature is enabled. + +The libext2fs file system now uses readahead when opening file systems +to speed up opening very large file systems with the meta_bg option. + +If e2fsck logging is enabled, e2fsck will report the exit code in the +last line of the log file. + +Debugfs can now open file systems with a bad sueprblock checksum, and +the show_super_stats command will print the expected checksum. Fix a regression introduced in e2fsprogs 1.43.4 where tune2fs was not -able to correctly enable the quota feature. (Addresses Debian Bug: +able to correctly enable the quota feature. (Addresses Debian Bug #855417) E2fsck will only return an exit status code of 1 if it has fixed a @@ -25,14 +101,31 @@ cause it to print information about the journal superblock. Added a missing space in debugfs's ls -l output to separate the size and date fields. -Update various man pages. +Update the Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, Hungarian, Polish, Serbian, +Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese translations. + +Update various man pages. (Addresses Debian Bugs #867895 and #865584) + +Fix various compiler and UBSAN warnings. + +Fixed various Debian Packaging Issues. (Addresses Debian Bugs +#864144 and #866623) + Programming notes ----------------- +The blkid library can now recognize exfat file systems. + +Add new test, j_recover_csum3_64bit, which checks to make sure we +correctly recovering 64-bit journals using the v3 checksum format. + Fix portability assumption in tests; don't depend on the existence of /dev/stdin. +Fix portability with newer versions of glibc and with Cygwin builds on +Windows 8 and Windows 10. + Clean up the comments in problem.c match the message that will actually be printed. -- cgit v1.2.1