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1exfatprogs 1.2.1 - released 2023-05-17
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3
4CHANGES :
5 * fsck.exfat: Repair zero size directory.
6 * fsck.exfat: Four small clean-ups.
7
8exfatprogs 1.2.0 - released 2022-10-28
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10
11CHANGES :
12 * fsck.exfat: Keep traveling files even if there is a corrupted
13directory entry set.
14 * fsck.exfat: Introduce the option "b" to recover a boot sector even
15if an exFAT filesystem is not found.
16 * fsck.exfat: Introduce the option "s" to create files in
17"/LOST+FOUND", which have clusters allocated but was not belonged to
18any files.
19 * fsck.exfat: Rename '.' and '..' entry name to the one user want.
20
21NEW FEATURES :
22 * fsck.exfat: Repair corruptions of an exFAT filesystem. Please refer
23to fsck.exfat manpage to see what kind of corruptions can be repaired.
24 * exfat2img: Dump metadata of an exFAT filesystem. Please refer to
25exfat2img manpage to see how to use it.
26
27BUG FIXES:
28 * fsck.exfat: Fix an infinite loop while traveling files.
29 * tune.exfat: Fix bitmap entry corruption when adding new volume lablel.
30
31exfatprogs 1.1.3 - released 2021-11-11
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33
34CHANGES :
35 * mkfs.exfat: ensure that the cluster size is greater than or
36   equal than the sector size.
37 * mkfs.exfat: replace lseek() + write() with pwrite().
38
39BUG FIXES :
40 * mkfs.exfat: prevent an integer overflow when computing the FAT
41   length.
42 * fsck.exfat: fix a double free memory error.
43
44exfatprogs 1.1.2 - released 2021-05-20
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46
47CHANGES :
48 * mkfs.exfat: set 0x80 to DriveSelect of the boot sector
49
50BUG FIXES :
51 * Fix issues on 4KB logical sector devices
52 * Fix issues when the sector size of of a file system is different from
53   that of a block device.
54
55exfatprogs 1.1.1 - released 2021-04-21
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57
58CHANGES :
59 * mkfs.exfat: adjust the boundary alignment calculations to compensate
60   for the volume offset.
61
62NEW FEATURES :
63 * mkfs.exfat: add the "--pack-bitmap" option to relocate the allocation
64   bitmap to allow the FAT and the bitmap to share the same allocation
65   unit on flash media.
66
67BUG FIXES :
68 * Fix wrong bit operations on 64-bit big.
69 * Fix memory leaks in error paths.
70
71exfatprogs 1.1.0 - released 2021-02-09
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73
74CHANGES :
75 * fsck.exfat: recover corrupted boot region.
76
77NEW FEATURES :
78 * exfatlabel: Print or Set volume label and serial.
79 * dump.exfat: Show the on-disk metadata information and the statistics.
80
81BUG FIXES :
82 * set _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 for Android build.
83
84exfatprogs 1.0.4 - released 2020-07-31
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86
87CHANGES :
88 * fsck.exfat: display sector, cluster, and volume sizes in the human
89   readable format.
90 * fsck.exfat: reduce the elapsed time using read-ahead.
91
92NEW FEATURES :
93 * mkfs.exfat: generate pseudo unique serials while creating filesystems.
94 * mkfs.exfat: add the "-b" option to align the start offset of FAT and
95   data clusters.
96 * fsck.exfat: repair zero-byte files which have the NoFatChain attribute.
97
98BUG FIXES :
99 * Fix memory leaks on error handling paths.
100 * fsck.exfat: fix the bug that cannot access space beyond 2TB.
101
102exfatprogs 1.0.3 - released 2020-05-12
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104
105CHANGES :
106 * Rename label.exfat to tune.exfat.
107 * tune.exfat: change argument style(-l option for print level,
108   -L option for setting label)
109 * mkfs.exfat: harmonize set volume label option with tune.exfat.
110
111NEW FEATURES :
112 * Add man page.
113
114BUG FIXES :
115 * Fix the reported build warnings/errors.
116 * Add memset to clean garbage in allocation.
117 * Fix wrong volume label array size.
118 * Open a device using O_EXCL to avoid formatting it while it is mounted.
119 * Fix incomplete "make dist" generated tarball.
120
121
122exfatprogs 1.0.2 - released 2020-04-23
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124
125CHANGES :
126 * Rename project name to exfatprogs.
127 * Replace iconv library by standard C functions mbstowcs() and wcrtomb().
128
129NEW FEATURES :
130 * Add support for Android build system.
131 * label.exfat: Add support for label.exfat to set/get exfat volume label.
132
133BUG FIXES :
134 * Fix the build warnings/errors and add warning options.
135 * Fix several bugs(memory leak, wrong endian conversion, zero out beyond
136   end of file) and cleanup codes
137 * Fix issues on big endian system and on 32bit system.
138
139
140exfatprogs 1.0.1 - released 2020-04-09
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142
143NEW FEATURES :
144 * mkfs.exfat: quick/full format support
145 * mkfs.exfat: specify cluster size
146 * mkfs.exfat: set volume label
147 * fsck.exfat: consistency check support
148