<H2>Release notes for the e2fsprogs package</H2>
<UL>
+<LI><A HREF="#1.42.3">E2fsprogs 1.42.3 (May 14, 2012)</A>
<LI><A HREF="#1.42.2">E2fsprogs 1.42.2 (March 27, 2012)</A>
<LI><A HREF="#1.42.1">E2fsprogs 1.42.1 (February 17, 2012)</A>
<LI><A HREF="#1.42">E2fsprogs 1.42 (November 29, 2011)</A>
<LI><A HREF="#1.02">E2fsprogs 1.02 (January 16, 1996)</A>
</UL>
+<H2><A NAME="1.42.3">E2fsprogs 1.42.3 (May 14, 2012)</A></H2>
+
+<P>Fix a bug in the Unix I/O manager which could cause corruption of file
+systems with more than 16TB when e2fsprogs is compiled in 32-bit mode
+(i.e., when unsigned long is 32-bits). Also fix a bug which caused
+dumpe2fs to incorrectly display block numbers > 32-bits.</P>
+
+<P>Improve the support for integrated quota files (where quota is a first
+class supported feature using hidden files in the ext4 file system).
+Previously the quota file was getting rewritten even when it was not
+necessary, and e2fsck would erroneously try to hide quota files which
+were already hidden.</P>
+
+<P>Quiet complaints in e2fsck when the total free blocks or inodes are
+incorrect in the superblock after an system crash, since we don't
+update nor depend on the superblock summaries at each commit boundary.</P>
+
+<P>Fixed a regression introduced in 1.42.2 which would cause applications
+outside of e2fsprogs which did not pass the EXT2_FLAG_64BIT (and so
+would were still using the legacy 32-bit bitmaps) to crash. This was
+due to missing 32-bit compat code in side the function
+ext2fs_find_first_zero_generic_bmap(). (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla:
+#808421)</P>
+
+<P>Fix a bug which would cause mke2fs to fail creating the journal if
+/etc/mtab and /proc/mounts are missing. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug:
+#3509398)</P>
+
+<P>Updated/fixed various man pages.</P>
+
+<P>Update Czech, Dutch, French, German, Polish, Sweedish, and Vietnamese
+translations</P>
+
+<P>Fixed various Debian Packaging issues.</P>
+
+
+<h3>Programmer's Notes</h3>
+
+<P>Change the nonsensically wrong types in the function signature of the
+inline function ext2fs_find_first_zero_block_bitmap2(). This was
+caused by a cut and paste error; fortunately no code in e2fsprogs used
+this inline function, and there are any users of this functions
+outside of e2fsprogs.</P>
+
+<P>Add support for systems which have valloc(), but which do have
+posix_memalign() nor memalign() (such as MacOS 10.5).</P>
+
+<P>Refactor and clean up the allocation of aligned buffers for Direct I/O
+support. Previously some allocations were requesting a greater
+alignment factor that what was strictly necessary. Also optimize
+reading and writing bitmaps using Direct I/O when the size of the
+bitmap did not fully cover the file system blocksize.</P>
+
+<P>Reserve the codepoints for the INCOMPAT features LARGEDATA and
+INLINEDATA.</P>
+
+<P>Improved the regression test suite by adding some new integration
+tests (f_jnl_32bit, f_jnl_64bit) which detect breakage of the on-disk
+jbd2 format, as well as f_eofblocks which tests the new handling of
+uninitialized and initialized blocks beyond i_size. Also add a new
+unit test which verifies 32-bit bitmaps support and the new
+find_first_zero primitives.</P>
+
+<P>Add a few dependencies to fix parallel (make -j) builds.</P>
+
+<P>Removed bash'isms which were breaking the regression test suite on
+systems where /bin/sh is not bash.</P>
+
+<P>The config.guess and config.sub have been updated to the 2012-02-10
+version.</P>
+
+<P>Fix a portability problem caused by assuming the present of mntent.h
+means that setmntent() exists. Instead, explicitly test for this in
+the configure script.</P>
+
+<P>If the sys/signal.h header file does not exist, don't try to include
+it, since it's not available on all systems.</P>
+
+<P>Add support for systems that do not support getpwuid_r()</P>
+
+<P>The configure script now supports a new option,
+--enable-relative-symlinks, which will install relative symlinks for
+the ELF shared library files. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #3520767).</P>
+
+<P>When building BSD shared libraries make sure the LDFLAGS variable is
+passed to the linker. Fixing this allows, for example, e2fsprogs to
+be built in 32-bit mode on Mac OS X Lion (Addresses Sourceforge Bug:
+#3517272)</P>
+
+<P>Fix gcc -Wall nitpicks</P>
+
<H2><A NAME="1.42.2">E2fsprogs 1.42.2 (March 27, 2012)</A></H2>
<P>The resize2fs program uses much less CPU and is much faster for very
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