From: Theodore Ts'o E2fsprogs now supports the large_dir (INCOMPAT_LARGEDIR) feature. This
+feature allows larger directories to be created, both with directory
+sizes over 2GB and and a maximum htree depth of 3 instead of the
+current limit of 2. These features are needed in order to exceed
+the currently limit of approximately 10M entries in a single
+directory for 4KB blocksize (~100k for 1KB). E2fsprogs now supports the ea_inode (INCOMPAT_EA_INODE) feature, which
+stores large extended attributes in an external inode instead of a
+single data block. This is backwards compatible with a Lustre file
+system feature, but it has been extended to support deduplicating
+extended attribute values which are used in multiple inodes. The metadata_csum feature (RO_COMPAT_METADATA_CSUM) is now enabled by
+default by mke2fs. The resize2fs program will no longer complain about resizing bigalloc
+file systems as being dangerous when doing an on-line resize (since this
+is purely a kernel feature). Debugfs's ls command will now print the high bits of the inode's mode
+bits. Fixed some potential buffer overrun bugs in the blkid library and in the
+fsck program. There were some corner cases which tune2fs wouldn't correctly handle
+when operating on a file system which was not cleanly mounted and thus
+required running the journal because it could be modified. Tune2fs will
+now run the journal before trying to change the superblock, and if the
+file system needs to be checked after the journal has been replayed, it
+will require it before proceeding. Also if the file system is busy (for
+example, because it is in use by Lustre), but is not present in the
+/proc/mounts or /etc/mtab, tune2fs will not try to replay the journal,
+since this could do real damage if it the file system is being actively
+modified by the kernel. The libss library (used by debugfs) now supports the version 7 of the
+libreadline shared library. The e2freefrag program will use the GETFSMAP ioctl if it is available
+and the file system is mounted, so that the free space statistics will
+be more accurate. The consistency checks for symlinks (especially for encrypted and inline
+data file sytems) in e2fsck are now much more careful/stringent. Also
+fixed a bug where creating a symlink using ext2fs_symlink() which was
+exactly 60 bytes long when inline data was enabled would result in a
+missing system.data xattr. Mke2fs now uses io_channel_flush() instead of sync() for the sync_kludge
+feature. E2fsprogs now uses i_size as the primary way of determining whether a
+symlink is a fast symlink. Fix various compiler and UBSAN warnings. Long running test are now skipped with "make check" and only run when
+"make fullcheck". The test runner will warn when potentially long
+running tests are being run via "make check". E2fsck is now much faster for bigalloc file systems when scanning
+extents for bigalloc file systems. (Addresses Google Bug #36886699) Update Czech, Spanish, French, Malay, and Ukrainian translations. Remove the huge file flag from libe2p (and hence from chattr/lsattr),
diff --git a/htdocs/ext2.html b/htdocs/ext2.html
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On February 8, 2018, version 1.43.9 of e2fsprogs was On March 7, 2018, version 1.44.0 of e2fsprogs was announced.Release notes for the e2fsprogs package
+
+E2fsprogs 1.44.0 (March 7, 2018)
+
+
UI and Features
+
+Fixes
+
+Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
+
+E2fsprogs 1.43.9 (February 8, 2018)
-
Release 1.43.9 of e2fsprogs is available!
+Release 1.44.0 of e2fsprogs is available!
-Ext2fs Utilities
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here.
I am happy to announce a new release of the e2fsprogs distribution. - All users of e2fsprogs are urged to upgrade to the 1.43.9 version as + All users of e2fsprogs are urged to upgrade to the 1.44.0 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 - release notes.
+ release notes.