<H2>Release notes for the e2fsprogs package</H2>
<UL>
+<LI><A HREF="#1.41.5">E2fsprogs 1.41.5 (April 23, 2009)</A>
<LI><A HREF="#1.41.4">E2fsprogs 1.41.4 (January 27, 2009)</A>
<LI><A HREF="#1.41.3">E2fsprogs 1.41.3 (October 12, 2008)</A>
<LI><A HREF="#1.41.2">E2fsprogs 1.41.2 (October 2, 2008)</A>
<LI><A HREF="#1.02">E2fsprogs 1.02 (January 16, 1996)</A>
</UL>
+<H2><A NAME="1.41.5">E2fsprogs 1.41.5 (April 23, 2009)</A></H2>
+
+<P>Fix a number of filesystem corruption bugs in resize2fs when growing
+or shrinking ext4 filesystems off-line (i.e., when the ext4 filesystem
+is not mounted).</P>
+
+<P>Debugfs can now set i_file_acl_high via the set_inodes_field command,
+and print a 64-bit file acl. This is useful for debugging filesystem
+corruptions where the high bits of i_file_acl_high are set. E2fsck
+will detect and fix non-zero i_file_acl_high on 32-bit filesystems
+since some Linux kernel versions pay attention to this field even when
+they shouldn't.</P>
+
+<P>Speed up e2fsck when checking clean filesystems by avoiding
+unnecessary block reads, and coalescing the block group descriptor
+blocks so they are read using a single read operation.</P>
+
+<P>The libuuid library will now close all file descriptors before running
+uuidd. This avoids problems when the calling program has open sockets
+which then never get closed because uuidd is a long-running helper
+daeomn. (Addresses Launchpad bug: #305057)</P>
+
+<P>In order to avoid unnecessary full filesystem checks by e2fsck after
+an on-line resize, e2fsck will ignore the NEEDS_RECOVERY flag set on
+the backup superblocks. (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #471925)</P>
+
+<P>Mke2fs will avoid trying to create the journal when run in
+superblock-only mode (mke2fs -S), since the left-over journal in the
+inode table will cause mke2fs to fail.</P>
+
+<P>Fix a bug in libext2fs functions that check to see if a particular
+device or filesystem image is mounted, which would cause these
+functions to report that a file identical to the (relative) pathname
+used by a pseudo-filesystem was mounted when in fact it was not.</P>
+
+<P>Update Czech translation from the Translation Project.</P>
+
+<P>Add Chinese (simplified) translation from the Translation Project.</P>
+
+<P>Fix support for external journals (which was broken in e2fsprogs
+1.41.4).</P>
+
+<P>Fix a regression in debugfs where the "stat" command when no
+filesystem was open would cause debugfs to crash with a segmentation
+violation.</P>
+
+<P>Starting in the 2.6.29 linux kernel, the ext4 filesystem driver can be
+used to support filesystems without a journal. Update the blkid
+library so it understands this.</P>
+
+<P>The blkid library will remove an entry from the blkid cache
+representing the entire disk if partitions are found, since presuambly
+the device previously had no partition table, but has now transitioned
+to using a partition table.</P>
+
+<P>Add a check to mke2fs and tune2fs that the argument to the -m option
+(which specifies the reserved ratio) must be greater than zero.
+(Addresses Debian Bug: #517015)</P>
+
+<P>Add support for tracking the number kilobytes written to the
+filesystem via the superblock field s_kbytes_written. It will be
+updated by the kernel as well as by e2fsprogs programs which write to
+the filesystem. This is useful for tracking the wear to filesystems
+on Solid Sstate Drives.</P>
+
+<P>Fix compatibility issue in the libext2fs info file and makeinfo
+version 4.12. (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #481620)</P>
+
+<P>Update/clarify man pages. (Addresses Debian Bug: #515693, #365619)</P>
+
+<P>Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for
+details. (Addresses Debian Bug: #506279)</P>
+
+<H3>Programmer's Notes</H3>
+
+<P>Fix Hurd compilation problem in e2fsck and tune2fs (Addresses Debian
+Bug: #521602)</P>
+
+<P>Fix various gcc compilation warnings and other programming cleanups.
+(Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #486997)</P>
+
+<P>Add support for building the blkid command statically.</P>
+
+<P>Add support for disabling the built-in blkid library in favor of a
+system-installed blkid implementation via the configure option
+--disable-libblkid.</P>
+
+
<H2><A NAME="1.41.4">E2fsprogs 1.41.4 (January 27, 2009)</A></H2>
<P>Fixed a bug which could sometimes cause blkid to return an exit value
<P>This is the home page for the e2fsprogs package. It provides the
filesystem utilities for use with the <A HREF="ext2.html">ext2
- filesystem.</A> It also supports the ext3 filesystem with journaling
- support.</P>
+ filesystem.</A> It also supports the ext3 and ext4 filesystems.</P>
<P>The e2fsprogs <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/e2fsprogs">
Sourceforge summary page</A> can be found here. For more information
<A HREF="http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/tutorial.html">here</A>.</P>
- <IMG SRC="images/new.gif" ALIGN=LEFT><H2>Release 1.41.4 of e2fsprogs is
+ <IMG SRC="images/new.gif" ALIGN=LEFT><H2>Release 1.41.5 of e2fsprogs is
available!</H2>
<P>I am happy to announce a new release of the e2fsprogs distribution.
- All users of e2fsprogs are urged to upgrade to the 1.41.4 version as
- soon as possible, which can be found <A HREF="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.41.4.tar.gz">here</A>.</P>
+ All users of e2fsprogs are urged to upgrade to the 1.41.5 version as
+ soon as possible, which can be found <A HREF="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.41.5.tar.gz">here</A>.</P>
<P>This release contains a number of bug fixes and enhancements over
the previous releases. For more details, see the
projects / thirdparty / e2fsprogs.git / commitdiff
