Release of e2fsprogs 1.43.8

I've released e2fsprogs 1.43.8 in all of the usual places; it's tagged in the git trees on git.kernel.org, github, and sourceforge, and available for download at:

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs/v1.43.8

and

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.43.8.tar.gz

n.b. There is a known bug which causes a build failure on big endian systems. Unfortunately it was only noticed after the release was tagged, uploaded, and sent off to the Debian autobuilders:

https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=e2fsprogs

A patch for this will be showing up in the maint branch very shortly:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=886119

The release notes for 1.43.8 can be found below.

- Ted

E2fsprogs 1.43.8 (January 1, 2018)
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Fix a bug where updated bitmap checks might not be written to disk. (Addresses Debian Bug: #883869)

Some newly added fields in the superblocks were not getting byte swapped (which were not noticed since big endian systems are amazingly unpopular). Fix them and compile-time checks to avoid this class of bugs from happening in the future. (Lustre Bug #9309)

Fix a potential use after free bug in e2fsck when fixing a corrupted root node in directory hash tree.

Fix a bug in e2fsck where a badly/maliciously corrupted superblock (which is not fixed due to the -n option, for example) can cause a floating point exception when printing the summary statistics. (Addresses Debian Bug: #879220)

Fix debugfs's ncheck command so that it correctly prints the inode number when printing an error message.

Fix a bug in e2freefrag where it could print an incorrect free blocks count on a file system with the 64-bit block number feature.

Update the German, Serbian, Spanish, and Ukrainian translations.

Fix a bug where resize2fs's free blocks sanity check could fail with a false positive and refuse to check a file system with the 64-bit block number feature.

Fix and clarify various man pages and documentations. Also fixed up some random usage texts that were incorrect. (Addresses Debian Bugs:
#880483)

Fixed various Debian Packaging Issues. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #880207, #881408, #881590, #881591)

Programming notes
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Fix various compiler warnings.

Clean up Makefile output.

Fix compatibility problems with glibc 2.27 casued by a collision with copy_file_range().

Ted, this link no longer works because ftp is discontinued for kernel.org infrastructure...

Honza

Jan Kara <[email protected]>
SUSE Labs, CR

Yeah, sorry, I need to update my templates. The link of course should be:

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs/v1.43.8

- Ted