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1*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerE2fsprogs 1.43.4 (January 31, 2017)
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4*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerFix e2fsck to require that the system.data extended attribute is
5*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workeralways present even for files smaller than 60 bytes, to be consistent
6*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerwith the kernel.
7*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Worker
8*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerFix a bug which was causing mke2fs -d and fuse2fs to improperly handle
9*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerPosix ACL's.
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11*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerFix a bug which could cause mke2fs -d to fail if there is an
12*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerzero-length file in source directory tree.
13*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Worker
14*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerClarify the default for the "proceed?" question printed by mke2fs and
15*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workertune2fs.  (Addresses Debian Bug: #852727)
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17*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerDebugfs will now display project quota information.
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19*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerDebugfs's do_set_xattr now uses C strings to parse extended attribute
20*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workervalues, and will print the extended attributes using either C strings
21*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workeror hex bytes when using debugfs's do_get_xattr command.  It will now
22*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerallow developers to see the contents of the system.data extended
23*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerattribute.
24*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Worker
25*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerFix a bug in mke2fs where I/O errors weren't getting properly reported
26*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerto the user.
27*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Worker
28*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerFix multiblock writes in the unaligned Direct I/O fallback code.
29*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Worker(Which is rarely needed on Linux systems, but which is required on
30*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerFreebsd systems.)
31*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Worker
32*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerMake sure the default mke2fs.conf file includes the uninit_bg feature
33*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerflag.  (Which was accidentally dropped in v1.43).
34*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Worker
35*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerFix a bug in resize2fs when operating on very large file systems which
36*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerhave a block size different from the VM page size.
37*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Worker
38*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerIf the reported device size is absurdly large, mke2fs will now report
39*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workeran error instead looping forever or crashing.
40*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Worker
41*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerFix various Coverity warnings and other memory leaks in fuse2fs and
42*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerextended attribute manipulation functions.
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44*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerReplace a test file but which had a "non-commercial use-only"
45*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workercopyright permission file with a newer version from the Cyrus imapd
46*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerpackage which now has a 4-clause BSD license, which was making some
47*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerlawyers nervous, even though the test file in question was only used
48*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerin lib/et's regression testing and was never included in any compiled
49*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerbinary.  (Addresses Debian Bug: #840733)
50*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Worker
51*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerStop installing mkfs.ext4dev and fsck.ext4dev
52*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Worker
53*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerUpdate Chinese, Czech, Polish, Serbian, and Spanish translations and
54*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workeradd the Finnish and Malay translation.  (Addresses-Debian-Bug: #774379)
55*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Worker
56*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerUpdate various man pages (Addresses-Debian-Bug: #852726)
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58*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerProgramming notes
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61*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerFix more FreeBSD-11 compatibility bugs, including some unmasked by
62*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerFreeBSD 11-rc2.
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64*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerFix the Mac build.
65*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Worker
66*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerFix build failure on RHEL 5.x systems caused by an old version of
67*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerlibmagic.
68*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Worker
69*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerFix a number of bugs reported by ASAN that can cause some (mostly
70*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerharmless) memory dereferences beyond allocated memory.
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