Date:	Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:22:31 +0100
From:	Nikola Ciprich <extmaillist@...uxbox.cz>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, nikola.ciprich@...uxbox.cz
Subject: Re: E2fsprogs 1.41.10 has been released

Hi Theo,
just one small note, I don't see it tagged in the git... ?
n.

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 06:26:27PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> Since Sourceforge has changed its File Release System, and no longer has
> a way of making announcements when a new release has gone out (and I
> don't know how many people were using it), I'll just make a quick
> announcement here.
> 
> E2fsprogs 1.41.10 has been released.  It can be found in the usual
> places (ftp.kernel.org, sourceforge), and of course in the e2fsprogs git
> repositories.
> 
> 						- Ted
> 
> 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.
> 
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