From: tytso As a part of mke2fs's option parsing cleanup, the use of the -R option
+will give a warning that it is depreated (it has been so documented
+since 2005) and -E should be used instead. Mke2fs will not give warnings about the bigalloc and quota options in
+quiet mode. If an invalid journal size is given to mke2fs, it will now complain
+and exit sooner. Debugfs was erroneously giving spurious error messages for certain
+extent_inode subcommands which take arguments (split_node,
+replace_node, and insert_node). This has been fixed. Fix the parsing of the 's' (sectors) in parse_num_blocks2, which among
+other programs is used by mke2fs. Change mke2fs so that it does not set the root directory to the real
+uid/gid of the mke2fs process. Add the extended option root_owner to
+override this behavior. Fix resize2fs when shrinking file systems to make sure that bitmap
+blocks aren't left outside the bounds of the shrunken file system.
+This could happen with flex_bg file systems that were grown using
+the old online resizing algorithm. E2fsck will now detect and repair corrupted extent trees which contain
+invalid extents at the end of the extent tree leaf block. E2fsck will now longer complain about zero length extended attribute
+values. Fix a regression introduced in e2fsprogs v1.42 which caused e2image -s
+to crash. Add safety check so tune2fs will not attempt to set the inode size to
+be larger than the block size. Fix e2fsck so it can check a read-only root file system with an
+external journal. (Addresses Debian Bug: #707030 Fix off-line resizing of file systems with flex_bg && !resize_inode
+(Addresses Debian Bug: #696746) Fix e2image with large (> 32-bit) file systems (Addresses Debian Bug:
+#703067) Enhance chattr to allow clearing the extent flag if the kernel allows
+migrating extent based files to use indirect blocks. Update German translation. Updated/fixed various man pages. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #712429,
+#712430, #707609) Fixed various Debian Packaging Issues (Addresses Debian Bug #708307) Use secure_getenv() in preference to __secure_getenv(). Optimize CPU utilization of ext2fs_bg_has_super(). Fix ext2fs_llseek() on 32-bit i386 systems to work correctly when
+SEEK_CUR is used with large files. The ext2fs_read_inode_full() function will no longer use
+fs->read_inode() if the caller has requested more than the base 128
+byte inode structure and the inode size is greater than 128 bytes. Fix build failure with --enable-jbd-debug. Clean up filtering of outputs for the regression tests by using a
+common sed script. Fix gcc -Wall and clang nits. Add warnings to mke2fs, resize2fs, and tune2fs that the bigalloc and
diff --git a/htdocs/ext2.html b/htdocs/ext2.html
index 8f4018081..43506d01f 100644
--- a/htdocs/ext2.html
+++ b/htdocs/ext2.html
@@ -28,9 +28,9 @@
On January 21, 2013, version 1.42.7 of e2fsprogs was On June 20, 2013, version 1.42.8 of e2fsprogs was announced.Release notes for the e2fsprogs package
+
+E2fsprogs 1.42.8 (June 20, 2013)
+
+Programmer's Notes
+
+E2fsprogs 1.42.7 (January 21, 2013)
-
Release 1.42.7 of e2fsprogs is available!
+Release 1.42.8 of e2fsprogs is available!
-Ext2fs Utilities
diff --git a/htdocs/index.html b/htdocs/index.html
index 4c7aab012..aee987132 100644
--- a/htdocs/index.html
+++ b/htdocs/index.html
@@ -34,14 +34,14 @@
here.
I am happy to announce a new release of the e2fsprogs distribution. - All users of e2fsprogs are urged to upgrade to the 1.42.7 version as + All users of e2fsprogs are urged to upgrade to the 1.42.8 version as soon as possible, which can be - downloaded from sourceforge - or kernel.org.
+ downloaded from sourceforge + or kernel.org.This release contains a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous releases. For more details, see the