| E2fsprogs 1.43.1 (June 8, 2016) |
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| Fixed e2fsck so that it would correctly update the project quota usage |
| when deleting a corrupted and inode, and fixed mke2fs so it wouldn't |
| dereference memory beyond the small inode structure (which was wrong, |
| but worked mostly by accident unless hardening or some security malloc |
| was in use). |
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| Fixed a large number of FreeBSD portability problems. (To build on |
| FreeBSD, however, we still need to use GNU Make and redirect dd to use |
| GNU dd.) |
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| The configure script now supports --enable-hardening, which enables |
| stack protection, fortify, read-only relocation tables, immediate |
| dynamic symbol binding, and text segment ASLR (if the kernel has |
| userspace ASLR support enabled) by enabling position independent |
| executable code. (Distributions who want to do their own special |
| thing can set CFLAGS, CFLAGS_SHLIB, CLFAGS_STLIB, LDFLAGS, |
| LDFLAGS_SHLIB and LDFLAGS_STATIC as appropriate.) |
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| The configure script now supports --disable-tdb since on 64-bit |
| systems, it's much faster to just enable additional swap space. The |
| scratch_files feature in e2fsck.conf is mostly only useful on 32-bit |
| systems. |
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| Fixed the Direct I/O fallback codepath in the Unix I/O manager so that |
| read/modify/write worked correctly. Fortunately in practice (with the |
| exception of the Undo handler when running on FreeBSD) used this buggy |
| codepath. so file systems weren't getting corrupted. |
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| Mke2fs will now warn if the user provides a label which is too long. |
| (Addresses Debian Bug: #791630) |
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| Debugfs's rdump command now works correctly when dumping the root |
| directory of a file system. (Addresses Debian Bug: #766125) |
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| Fixed a bug in debugfs so it would correctly calculate a block group's |
| checksum field field on 64-bit systems. |
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| E2fsck now has a much more understandable error message when the |
| journal superblock is corrupt and the user declines to fix it. |
| (Addresses Debian Bug: #768162) |
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| Fixed support of extended timestamps on 64-bit systems. |
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| Updated/fixed various man pages. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #766379, |
| #761144, #770750, #428361, #766127) |
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| Fixed various Debian Packaging Issues. (Addresses Debian Bug: #825868) |
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| Programming notes |
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| Fixed coverity, sparse, gcc -Wall, and clang warnings/nits. |
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| Fixed Android build makefiles (which was missing a newly added file in |
| lib/support). |
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| In general, checks on s_creator_os have been removed in favor of |
| feature flag specific checks; if there is something that can't be |
| checked via the presence of a feature flag, we will simply check |
| whether the creator OS is *not* EXT2_OS_HURD which is the one |
| operating system where there has been extensive abuse of the |
| s_creator_os flag. |
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| The libmagic library has been suppressed when running the regression |
| test suite to avoid false test failures caused by differences between |
| versions of libmagic (and/or the magic number database). |
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| The tests/test_script program now accepts the --failed option, which |
| will run those tests that had previously failed. |
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| Fixed tests build on those systems which require LDFLAGS to be set. |
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| Fixed the regression test suite so it will properly filter out version |
| numbers with two components (such as 1.43) from log files before |
| comparing them with the expected golden output. |
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