[ANNOUNCE] xfsprogs v3.1.11 PLEASE LOOK AT THIS

Rich Johnston rjohnston at sgi.com
Wed May 8 13:50:38 CDT 2013


I was about to send out the following:  Please note the deprecated 
statement, is it correct??????


Version 3.1.11 of xfsprogs has been released.

The source code can be accessed via git using this URL:

     git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/cmds/xfsprogs.git

A gzipped-tar archive of the source code is available here:

     ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/cmd_tars/xfsprogs-3.1.11.tar.gz

The development tree previously hosted on kernel.org for this code has 
been deprecated:

     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfsprogs-dev.git

Below is a summary (from the doc/CHANGES file) of changes
since release 3.1.10:

xfsprogs-3.1.11 (8 May 2013)
         - Support for relative paths in xfs_quota thanks to Satoru 
Takeuchi.
         - mkfs.xfs will always go into multidisk mode when filesystem
           geometry is specified on the command line.
         - Document all commands in xfs_io.
         - Remove setfl command from xfs_io.
         - xfs_metadump will obfuscate symlinks by path component.
         - mkfs.xfs no longer accepts geometry settings smaller than the
           physical sector size.
         - xfs_logprint now supports multiply-logged inode fields and
           handles continued inode transactions correctly.
         - kill XLOG_SET
         - Update release scripts to use git archive to address a
           missing source file reported by Arkadiusz Mi?kiewicz
         - Fix a build error with -Werror=format-security, reported
           by Arkadiusz Mi?kiewicz
         - mkfs.xfs no longer attempts to discard when -N option is used.
         - Update 'make deb' to use tarball
         - Sync up with log reservation changes in the kernel.
         - Fix possible unallocated memory access in fiemap.
         - Guard against string overflow in path_to_fspath.
         - Fix setup_cursor array allocation.
         - Fix free of unintialized pointer in xfs_acl_valid error path.
         - Guard against path string overflows.
         - Check strdup results properly in initallfs().
         - Fix attribute no_change_count logic.
         - Remove extraneous close() in fsrallfs().
         - xfs_repair now skips the freelist scan of a corrupt agf
           when in no-modify mode.
         - xfs_db now skips freelist scans of corrupt agfs.
         - Remove unconditional ASSERT(0) in xfs_repair.
         - Reduce bb_numrecs in bno/cnt btrees when log consumes all agf 
space.
         - Add depraction message for xfs_check.
         - xfs_quota allow user or group names beginning with digits 
reported by
           James Carter.
         - Fix manpages and usage() spelling, errors and omissions.
         - Validate the extent count is at least within the positive
           range of a signed 32 bit integer before using it.



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