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author | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2008-07-07 15:10:16 -0400 |
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committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2008-07-07 16:34:34 -0400 |
commit | a41d5ac81fefd363f5cbffb7ebe088e6b075f2f8 (patch) | |
tree | 3d1c82d2976af30ca449b9b982b5337ffafa616b | |
parent | e9790718da40dad552ad4134f8c8c012c6e32bb0 (diff) | |
download | e2fsprogs-a41d5ac81fefd363f5cbffb7ebe088e6b075f2f8.tar.gz |
Update release notes for e2fsprogs 1.41-WIP-0707 release.v1.41-WIP-0707
-rw-r--r-- | README | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | RELEASE-NOTES | 44 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | debian/changelog | 23 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | version.h | 2 |
4 files changed, 62 insertions, 9 deletions
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ - This is the new version (1.41-WIP-0617) of the second extended + This is the new version (1.41-WIP-0707) of the second extended file system management programs. From time to time, I release new versions of e2fsprogs, to fix diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index cef72c0e..dfcd45da 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,9 +1,5 @@ -E2fsprogs 1.41-WIP-0617 (June 17, 2008) git ID: f1420977 -======================================================== - -Add support to badblocks to limit how quickly it reads from the disk -drive (so it can be used for background scrubbing), and so it will -abort after finding a given number of errors. +E2fsprogs 1.41-WIP-0707 (July 7, 2008) git ID: c03d9924 +======================================================= Add support for ext4 filesystem features, in particular extents, uninit_bg, flex_bg, huge_file, and dir_nlink features. Also add @@ -25,9 +21,26 @@ E2fsck will display a more understandable message when the last check field in the superblock is in the future. (Addresses Debian Bug: #446005). +Enhance mke2fs to print a more explanatory error message when +ext2fs_get_device_size() returns EFBIG. (Addresses Debian Bug: +#488663) + +Fix mke2fs to use a default block size of 4k when formatting an +external journal device. This is done by using a fixed filesystem +type list that consists only of the single filesystem type "journal" +when looking up configuration keys in /etc/mke2fs.conf. (Addresses +Debian Bug: #488663) + Speed up how mke2fs writes the journal data blocks by writing the disk blocks in larger chunks. +Fix blkid handling of stale devices. Fix a bug which could cause a +core dump while garbage collecting the blkid cache, and assure that +blkid_find_dev_with_tag() never returns a non-existent device. Also, +if a filesystem is found at a new /dev location, eliminate any +duplicate stale entries which can not be verified. +(Addresses-Debian-Bugs: #487758, #487783) + Add more paranoid checks for LVM volumes and swap partitions in blkid's probe function, to reduce the chances of false positives. @@ -64,8 +77,16 @@ e2image file. The chattr program will return a non-zero exit code in case of failures, and error messages can be suppressed with the -f option. -(Addresses-Red-Hat-Bugzilla: #180596) +(Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #180596) + +Fix a bug in badblocks which caused it to overrun an array and likely +crash if more than 8 test patterns are specified using the -t option. +(Addresses Debian Bug: #487298) +Add support to badblocks to limit how quickly it reads from the disk +drive (so it can be used for background scrubbing), and so it will +abort after finding a given number of errors. + Remove support for the legacy big-endian filesystem format which only existed on extremely long-dead PowerPC kernels almost a decade ago. @@ -73,6 +94,15 @@ Remove MASIX support from e2fsprogs. Add I/O statistics reporting to e2fsck. +Update Vietnamese, Polish, French, Spanish, German, Catalan, Dutch, +Czech translations. + +Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for +details. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #487443, #487675) + +Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages. +(Addresses Debian Bug: #393313) + Programmer's Notes ------------------ diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index c20d6446..dd2fe4f8 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,26 @@ +e2fsprogs (1.41~WIP-2008-07-07-1) experimental; urgency=low + + * New upstream version (pre-release for e2sprogs 1.41) + * Update to indicate compliance with debian policy version 3.8.0.0. + * Fix e2fsck to not truncate valid extent files that are larger than + what is supported by indirect files. + * Add -dbg packages which contain the debugging information. + * mke2fs: Print a better error message when a device is too big. + (Closes: #488663) + * Create external journal devices with a default blocksize of 4k + * Fix bug in badblocks which caused crash when lots of -t patterns are + given. (Closes: #487298) + * Fix blkid handling of stale entries. (Closes: #487758, #487783) + * Update Vietnamese, Polish, French, Spanish, German, Catalan, + Dutch, Czech translations from the translation project. + * Fix FTBFS problem on MIPS (Closes: #487675) + * Fix bug in libuuid1.postinst which would cause it to blow up if + there were spaces around the equals sign in /etc/adduser.conf. + (Closes: #487443) + * Update/clarified man pages. (Closes: #393313) + + -- Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:30:43 -0400 + e2fsprogs (1.41~WIP-2008-06-17-1) experimental; urgency=low * New upstream version (pre-release for e2fsprogs 1.41) @@ -8,4 +8,4 @@ */ #define E2FSPROGS_VERSION "1.41-WIP" -#define E2FSPROGS_DATE "17-Jun-2008" +#define E2FSPROGS_DATE "07-Jul-2008" |