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diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 77045e16..7d2993c8 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,3 +1,138 @@ +E2fsprogs 1.41.10 (February 7, 2010) +==================================== + +Fix resize2fs bug which causes it to access invalid memory. + +Add libss support for libreadline.so.6. + +Fix e2fsck's check for extent-mapped directory with an incorrect file +type. + +Add new e2fsck.conf configuration option, default/broken_system_clock +to support systems with broken CMOS hardware clocks. Also, since too +many distributions seem to have broken virtualization scripts now, +e2fsck will by default accept dates which are off by up to 24 hours by +default. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #559776, #557636) + +Fix a bug where mke2fs may not use the best placement of the inode +table when there is only room for a single block group in the last +flex_bg. + +E2fsck is now smarter when it needs to allocate blocks in the course +of fixing file system problems. This reduces the number of spurious +differences found in pass #5. + +E2fsck will no longer rehash directories which fit in a single +directory block. + +E2fsck now correctly handles holes in extent-mapped directories (i.e., +sparse directories which use extents). + +Fix big-endian problems with ext2fs_bmap() and ext2fs_bmap2(). + +Fix a bug in filefrag where on platforms which can allow file systems +with 8k blocks, that it doesn't core dump when it sees a file system +with 8k block sizes. (Thanks to Mikulas Patocka for pointing this +out.) + +E2fsck will correctly fix directories that are have an inaccurate +i_size as well as other problems in a single pass, instead of +requiring two e2fsck runs before the file system is fully fixed. + +Fix e2fsck so it will correctly find and detect duplicate directory +entries for non-indexed directories. ( Addresses Sourceforge Bug: +#2862551) + +Mke2fs will use BLKDISCARD to pre-discard all blocks on an SSD or +thinly-provisioned storage device. This can be disabled using the -K +option. + +Enhance libext2fs so it works around bug in Linux version 2.6.19 +and earlier where the /proc/swaps file was missing the header on +the first line. + +Fix bug in Linux version 2.6.19 and earlier where the /proc/swaps file +was missing the header on the first line. + +Fix some big-endian bugs in e2fsck and libext2fs. + +Fix resize2fs so it works correctly on file systems with external +journals instead of failing early with the error "Illegal inode +number". + +Fix libss so that it does not seg fault when using a readline library +which does not supply a readline_shutdown() function. + +Updated dumpe2fs's usage message so it correctly gives the right +arguments summary for "-o superblock=<num>" and "-o blocksize=<num>". +(Addresses Launchpad Bug: #448099) + +Teach libext2fs to ignore the high 32 bits of the i_blocks field +when huge_file file system feature is set, but the inode does not +have the HUGE_FILE_FL flag set. + +Fix e2fsck's handling of 64-bit i_blocks fields. + +E2fsck will now print "Illegal indirect block", "Illegal +double-indirect block", etc., instead of "Illegal block #-1" or +"Illegal block #-2", etc. This makes it easier for users to +understand what has gone wrong. (Addresses SourceForge Bug: #2871782) + +Mke2fs now will obtain get device topology information from blkid and +use it to populate the superblock stride and stripe sizes. It will +also warn if the block device is misaligned + +Fix file descriptor leaks in fsck and debugfs. (Addresses Novell Bug: +##524526) + +Fix the libext2fs library code to round up the bitmap size to a 4-byte +boundary, to prevent spurious seg faults caused by the x86 +architecture. This doesn't affect Linux systems, but was a major +problem on a number of *BSD systems. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: +#2328708) + +Fix resize2fs's minimum size required for a file system so it doesn't +fail when "resize2fs -M" is run. (Addresses RedHat Bugzilla: #519131) + +Dumpe2fs now prints summary information about the contents of the +journal. + +Avoid printing scary error messages when e2fsck starts running +problems on low-memory systems, as it tends to panic and mislead the +user. (Addresses Debian Bug: #509529) + +Fix blkid's modules.dep parser so it handles compressed (.ko.gz) +modules files. (Address Red Hat Bug: #518572) + +Fix tune2fs so it can add a journal when an extent-enabled file system +is mounted. (Addresses Launchpad bug: #416648) + +Update Czech, Indonesian, Polish and Vietnamese translations (from the +Translation Project). + +Update/clarify man pages. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #2822186) + +Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for +details. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #540111) + +Programmer's Notes +------------------ + +The configure script supports the --with-cc, --with-ccopts, and +--with-ldopts options. Instead, the more standard use of CC=, +CCFLAGS=, and LDFLAGS= in the configure command line is used instead. +Also, --with-ld, which never worked, was also removed. +(Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #2843248) + +The in-tree header files are only used if the in-tree uuid or blkid +libraries are used. Otherwise, use the system-provided uuid or blkid +header files if using the system-provided libraries. + +Fix some build failures caused by --disable-* configure options. + +Work around a bug in autoconf 2.64. + + E2fsprogs 1.41.9 (August 22, 2009) ================================== |