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1 E2fsprogs 1.44.4 (August 18, 2018)

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4 Updates/Fixes since v1.44.3:

6 UI and Features

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9 Add basic support for the ext4 verity feature (aka fsverity). It is a

10 read-only compatibility feature which uses Merkle trees to add

11 functionality much like dm-verity on a per-file basis. For this release

12 we simply allow e2fsck to accept file systems with the verity feature

13 enable (no special handling is needed) and mke2fs to create file systems

14 with the verity feature.

17 Fixes

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20 E2fsck will now properly repair a file system that has both the

21 resize_inode and meta_bg features enabled simultaneously (which is never

22 supposed to happen, but it could happen in versions of mke2fs before

23 1.44.3 when it was given parameters where more than 75% of the block

24 group was used for group descriptor tables).

26 Avoid a floating point exception crash when libblkid tries probing a

27 maliciously corrupted HFS+ superblock.

29 Debugfs's ncheck command now properly will handle inodes that have

30 multiple hard links.

32 On platforms that don't supply strdup, the replacement function for

33 strdup() had a bug which would cause it to crash if it was used.

34 (Fortunately this only happens if the [scratch_files] feature in e2fsck

35 is used.)

37 Fixed support for devices which have non-512 byte block sizes on Apple

38 Darwin.

40 E2fsprogs 1.44.3 would fail to compile on very old versions of gcc.

41 This is now fixed.

43 Update and clarify man pages. (Addresses Debian Bug: #757831)

46 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

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49 Synchronized changes from Android's AOSP e2fsprogs tree.

51 Instead of building the subset e2fsprogs-libs tar file, add a new

52 configure option, --enable-subset. This along with other changes (such

53 as dropping obsolete files that aren't shipped as part of

54 e2fsprogs-X.YY.tar.gz) allows us to be able to build the tarball using

55 the "git archive" command.

57 Fixed various debian packaging issues (Addresses Debian Bug: #905195)

59 Update Danish, Spanish, and Swedish translations.