From: Theodore Ts'o The debugfs inode_dump command can now print a hex dump of the i_block
+array and the extra space in the inode, as a convenience to someone
+investigating a corrupted inode. The debugfs block_dump and inode_dump command can now print low-level
+dump of extended attribute data structures in the block or inode. The dumpe2fs command can now print out information in the Multi-Mount
+Protection (MMP) block. This is also available as e2mmpstatus command
+for compatibility with the Lustre utilities. The debugfs command can now operate on some file systems with
+corrupted superblocks so they can be fixed. This includes file
+systems with a corrupted inodes count field and file systems where not
+all of the allocation bitmaps have valid locations or are not
+readable. The inode's project ID is now properly byte-swapped on big-endian
+systems. E2fsprogs now ignores s_desc_size for file systems that do not have
+the 64-bit feature set. This makes it more consistent with the
+kernel, so it can now operate on file systems that the kernel is
+willing to mount. E2fsck now considers device inodes with the extents flag as corrupt
+and offer to clear them. E2fsck more properly handles cases where s_inodes_count is corrupted. E2fsck no longer spews large number of errors when the superblock
+badly corrupted (restoring its behavior pre-1.43). E2fsck will now offer to set the dir_nlink feature if it is not set
+and file system requires the dir_nlink feature because there are too
+many subdirectories in a directory. E2fsck will no longer loop infinitely due to a maliciously crafted
+file system which has a fully uninitialized inode table in the first
+block group. E2fsck will no longer hang if the last block in the file system is a
+fixed-metadata block. (Very rare, but could happen.) E2fsck no longer allows initialized blocks to exist past i_size. This
+is something the Linux implementation of ext4 has never done (and should
+never do). While replaying the journal in e2fsck, certain errors would previously
+cause e2fsck to print a non-sensical error message (e.g., "Unknown code
+____ 251 while recovering journal"). This has been fixed. In cases where more than 75% of the block group will be used for group
+descriptor table, mke2fs would previously create an invalid file
+system with both the meta_bg and resize_inode features enabled. It
+will now disable the resize_inode feature. The mke2fs program now properly creates a file system which is exactly
+1 << 32 blocks. Previously the s_inodes_count field would overflow,
+and the file system would be created with a minimal number of inodes. Recent kernels will report errors on a file or block device which
+occurred before the file or block device was opened via fsync() or
+close(). This will cause e2fsck to incorrectly report a failure. Work
+around this by calling fsync() immediately after the file or block
+device is opened in the unix_io layer, and throwing away the error. Filefrag will no longer ignore errors returned by fsync. Debugfs will no longer print spurious checksum errors when failing to
+open a file system for unrelated reasons. Updated/fixed various man pages. (Addresses Launchpad Bug: #1743553) Synchronized changes from Android's AOSP e2fsprogs tree. Debugfs's mknod command now works correctly on some 32-bit systems where
+previously it had a portability problem caused by some object files
+being compiled with LFS, and some without. This fixes some regression
+test failures on 32-bit MIPS (for example). Various clean ups, portability, and performance improvements to
+e2fsprogs's regression test framework. Fixed Coverity, sparse, gcc -Wall, and clang warnings/nits. Update Czech, Dutch, Spanish, French, Polish, Swedish, Ukrainian, and
+Vietnamese translations.Release notes for the e2fsprogs package
+
+E2fsprogs 1.44.3 (July 10, 2018)
+
+
UI and Features
+
+Fixes
+
+Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support, etc.
+
+E2fsprogs 1.44.2 (May 14, 2018)
Fixes
@@ -151,7 +251,7 @@ ext2fs_close_free() at the end of the file system creation process.
Improve chattr's man page.
-Demote e2fsprogs in debian packaging from Essential: yes to XB-Important: yes (Addresses Debian Bug #474540)
@@ -202,7 +302,7 @@ file systems. (Addresses Google Bug: #73795618) #890390) -Debugfs now reads allocation bitmaps much more efficiently when opening a file system.
diff --git a/htdocs/ext2.html b/htdocs/ext2.html index 60901c0de..e8a3050fe 100644 --- a/htdocs/ext2.html +++ b/htdocs/ext2.html @@ -28,9 +28,9 @@On May 14, 2018, version 1.44.2 of e2fsprogs was On July 10, 2018, version 1.44.3 of e2fsprogs was announced.
I am happy to announce a new release of the e2fsprogs distribution. - All users of e2fsprogs are urged to upgrade to the 1.44.2 version as + All users of e2fsprogs are urged to upgrade to the 1.44.3 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