1 btrfs-progs-4.6.1 (2016-06-24)
2 * fi resize: negative resize argument accepted again (broken
3 * qgroup rescan: fix skipping when rescan is in progress
4 * mkfs: initialize stripesize to correct value
5 * testsuite updates, mostly convert tests
6 * documentation updates
7 * btrfs-device, btrfs-restore manual pages enhanced
10 btrfs-progs-4.6 (2016-06-10)
11 * convert - major rewrite:
12 * fix a long-standing bug that led to mixing data blocks into metadata block
14 * the workaround was to do full balance after conversion, which was
15 recommended practice anyway
16 * explicitly set the lowest supported version of e2fstools to 1.41
17 * provide and install udev rules file that addresses problems with device
18 mapper devices, renames after removal
19 * send: new option: quiet
20 * dev usage: report slack space (device size minus filesystem area on the dev)
22 * build: short options to enable debugging builds
26 * more tests and other enhancements
28 btrfs-progs-4.5.3 (2016-05-11)
29 * ioctl: fix unaligned access in buffer from TREE_SEARCH; might cause SIGBUS
30 on architectures that do not support unaligned access and do not performa
32 * improved validation checks of superblock and chunk-related structures
33 * subvolume sync: fix handling of -s option
34 * balance: adjust timing of safety delay countdown with --full-balance
35 * rescue super-recover: fix reversed condition check
36 * check: fix bytes_used accounting
37 * documentation updates: mount options, scrub, send, receive, select-super,
39 * testing: new fuzzed images, for superblock and chunks
41 btrfs-progs-4.5.2 (2016-05-02)
42 * new/moved command: btrfs-calc-stats -> btrfs inspect tree-stats
43 * check: fix false alert for metadata blocks crossing stripe boundary
44 * check: catch when qgroup numbers mismatch
45 * check: detect running quota rescan and report mismatches
46 * balance start: add safety delay before doing a full balance
47 * fi sync: is now silent
48 * fi show: don't miss filesystems with partially matching uuids
49 * dev ready: accept only one argument for device
50 * dev stats: print "devid:N" for a missing device instead of "(null)"
52 * lowest supported version of e2fsprogs is 1.41
53 * minor cleanups, test updates
55 btrfs-progs-4.5.1 (2016-03-31)
56 * mkfs: allow DUP on multi-device filesystems
57 * bugfixes: build fixes, assorted other fixes
59 btrfs-progs-4.5 (2016-03-20)
61 * btrfs-show-super -> btrfs inspect-internal dump-super
62 * btrfs-debug-tree -> btrfs inspect-internal dump-tree
65 * btrfs fi du - calculate disk usage, including shared extents
68 * device delete - delete by id (needs kernel support, not merged to
70 * check - new option to specify chunk root
71 * debug-tree/dump-tree - option -t understands human readable name of
72 the tree (along numerical ids)
73 * btrfs-debugfs - can dump block group information
76 * all commands should accept the option separator "--"
77 * several fixes in device scan
78 * restore works on filesystems with sectorsize > 4k
79 * debug-tree/dump-tree - print compression type as string
80 * subvol sync: fix crash, memory corruption
81 * argument parsing fixes: subvol get-default, qgroup create/destroy/
82 assign, inspect subvolid-resolve
83 * check for block device or regular file in several commands
86 * documentation updates
87 * manual pages for the moved tools now point to btrfs-filesystem
90 btrfs-progs-4.4.1 (2016-02-26)
91 * find-root: don't skip the first chunk
92 * free-space-tree compat bits fix
93 * build: target symlinks
94 * documentation updates
97 btrfs-progs-4.4 (2016-01-18)
99 * mkfs.btrfs --data dup
101 People asked about duplicating data on a single device for a long time. There
102 are no technical obstacles preventing that, so it got enabled with a warning
103 about potential dangers when the device will not do the duplicated copies. See
104 mkfs.btrfs section DUP PROFILES ON A SINGLE DEVICE.
106 * support balance filters added/enhanced in linux 4.4
107 * usage=min..max -- enhanced to take range
108 * stripes=min..max -- new, filter by stripes for raid0/10/5/6
109 * limit=min..max -- enhanced to take range
110 Note: due to backward compatibility, the range maximum for 'usage' is not
111 inclusive as for the others, to keep the same behaviour as usage=N .
113 * manual pages enhanced (btrfs, mkfs, mount, filesystem, balance)
114 * error messages updates, rewordings -- some fstests may break due to that
115 * added support for free-space-tree implementation of space cache -- this
116 requires kernel 4.5 and is not recommended for non-developers yet
117 * btrfs filesystem usage works with mixed blockgroups
120 * installation to /usr/local -- this has unintentionally changed during
121 conversion to autotools in 3.19
122 * check: fix a false alert where extent record has wrong metadata flag
123 * improved stability on fuzzed/crafted images when reading sys array in
125 * build: the 'ar' tool is properly detected during cross-compilation
126 * debug-tree: option -t understands ids for tree root and chunk tree
127 * preparatory work for btrfs-convert rewrite
128 * sparse, gcc warning fixes
129 * more memory allocation failure handling
134 * chunk recovery: fix floating point exception
135 * chunk recovery: endianity bugfix during rebuild
136 * mkfs with 64K pages and nodesize reported superblock checksum mismatch
137 * check: properly reset nlink of multi-linked file
139 btrfs-progs-4.3.1 (2015-11-16)
141 * device delete: recognize 'missing' again
142 * mkfs: long names are not trimmed when doing ssd check
143 * support partitioned loop devices
145 * replace several mallocs with on-stack variables
146 * more memory allocation failure handling
147 * add tests for bugs fixed
148 * cmd-device: switch to new message printing helpers
149 * minor code cleanups
151 btrfs-progs-4.3 (2015-11-06)
153 * mixed mode is not forced for filesystems smaller than 1GiB
154 * mixed mode broken with mismatching sectorsize and nodesize, fixed
155 * print version info earlier
156 * print devices sorted by id
157 * do not truncate target image with --rootsize
159 * don't print global block reserve
161 * minor output tuning
164 * div-by-zero fix on an empty filesystem
167 * more superblock sanity checks
168 * consistently round size of all devices down to sectorsize
170 * convert: don't try to rollback with a half-deleted ext2_saved
173 * check: add progress indicator
174 * scrub: enhanced error message
175 * show-super: read superblock from a given offset
177 * docs: update manual page for mkfs.btrfs, btrfstune, balance,
178 convert and inspect-internal
179 * build: optional build with more warnings (W=...)
180 * build: better support for static checkers
181 * build: html output of documentation
182 * pretty-print: last_snapshot for root_item
183 * pretty-print: stripe dev uuid
184 * error reporting wrappers, introduced and example use
185 * refactor open_file_or_dir
186 * other docs and help updates
188 * test for nodes crossing stripes
189 * test for broken 'subvolume sync'
190 * basic tests for mkfs, raid option combinations
191 * basic tests for fuzzed images (check)
192 * command intrumentation (eg valgrind)
193 * print commands if requested
194 * add README for tests
196 btrfs-progs-4.2.3 (2015-10-19)
197 * subvol sync: make it actually work again: it's been broken since 4.1.2,
198 due to a reversed condition it returned immediately instead of waiting
199 * scanning: do not scan already discovered filesystems (minor optimization)
200 * convert: better error message in case the filesystem is not finalized
201 * restore: off-by-one symlink path check fix
203 btrfs-progs-4.2.2 (2015-10-05)
204 * fi label: use fallback if the label ioctl is not available
205 * convert: check nodesize constraints against commandline features (-O)
206 * scrub: report status 'running' until all devices are finished
207 * device scanning might crash in some scenarios
208 * fi usage: print summary for non-root users
210 btrfs-progs-4.2.1 (2015-09-20)
211 * fix an off-by-one error in cross-stripe boundary check
212 * if nodesize was 64k, any metadata block was reported as crossing,
213 this leads to mkfs failure for example due to "no free blocks
215 * for other nodesizes, if the end of the metadata block was 64k
216 aligned, it was incorrectly reported by fsck
217 * convert: don't write uninitialized data to image
219 * don't loop with option -t0
220 * don't create threads if compression is not requested
221 * other: minor cleanups
223 btrfs-progs-4.2 (2015-09-03)
225 * mkfs: do not create extra single chunks on multiple devices
226 * resize: try to guess the minimal size, 'inspect min-dev-size'
227 * qgroup assign: add option to schedule rescan
228 * chunk-recover: be more verbose about the scanning process
231 * find stripes crossing stripe boundary -- created by convert
232 * print correct range for file hole when there are no extents
233 and learn how to fix it
234 * replace: more sanity checks
235 * convert: concurrency fixes related to reporting progress
236 * find-root: option -a will not skip the current root anymore
237 * subvol list: fix occasional crash
238 * do not create stripes crossing stripe boundary
240 * fixes for musl libc
241 * preliminary support for android (not working yet, more code changes
243 * new EXTRA_CFLAGS and EXTRA_LDFLAGS
246 * tests: lots of updates, new tests, framework improvements
247 * documentation updates
248 * debugging: print-tree shows stripe length
250 btrfs-progs-4.1.2 (2015-07-14)
251 * urgent bugfix: mkfs creates invalid filesystem, must be recreated
253 btrfs-progs-4.1.1 (2015-07-10) -- Do not use this version!
255 * defrag: threshold overflow fix
257 * check if items fit into the leaf space
260 * create only desired block groups for single device
261 * preparatory work for fix on multiple devices
263 * new alias for 'device delete': 'device remove'
265 * fix compilation on old gcc (4.3)
266 * documentation updates
267 * debug-tree: print nbytes
268 * test: image for corrupted nbytes
269 * corrupt-block: let it kill nbytes
271 btrfs-progs-4.1 (2015-06-22)
273 * fsck.btrfs: no bash-isms
274 * bugzilla 97171: invalid memory access (with tests)
276 * cloning works with --chroot
277 * capabilities not lost
278 * mkfs: do not try to register bare file images
279 * option --help accepted by the standalone utilities
282 * corrupt block: ability to remove csums
284 * warn if metadata redundancy is lower than for data
285 * options to make the output quiet (only errors)
286 * mixed case names of raid profiles accepted
288 * more comprehensive, 'key: value' format
291 * print received uuid
293 * new options to specify size units
294 * sync: grab all deleted ids and print them as they're removed,
295 previous implementation only checked if there are any to be
296 deleted - change in command semantics
297 * scrub: print timestamps in days HMS format
299 * can specify mount point, do not rely on /proc
300 * can work inside subvolumes
301 * send: new option to send stream without data (NO_FILE_DATA)
302 * convert: specify incompat features on the new fs
304 * show: distinguish no limits and 0 limit value
305 * limit: ability to clear the limit
306 * help for 'btrfs' is shorter, 1st level command overview
307 * debug tree: print key names according to their C name
312 * rewrite uuid on a filesystem image
313 * new option to turn on NO_HOLES incompat feature
316 * standalone btrfs-zero-log
319 * testing framework updates
321 * btrfstune feature setting test
323 * more testing image formats
324 * manual page updates
325 * ioctl.h synced with current kernel uapi version
326 * convert: preparatory works for more filesystems (reiserfs pending)
327 * use static buffers for path handling where possible
328 * add new helpers for send uilts that check memory allocations,
329 switch all users, deprecate old helpers
330 * Makefile: fix build dependency generation
331 * map-logical: make it work again
333 btrfs-progs-4.0.1 (2015-05-20)
335 * can restore symlinks, new option --symlinks
336 * long option variants added
337 * convert: dropped dependency on acl.h header and libacl is not required
339 * fix for 'check' crash
340 * device remove error message fix
341 * preparatory works for fsid change
343 btrfs-progs-4.0 (2015-04-29)
345 * don't accept file as an argument (it's confusing)
346 * print better error message in case of an error
347 * restore: optionally restore metadata (time, mode, uid/gid)
348 * receive: optionally enforce chroot
349 * new rescue subcommand 'zero-log', same as btrfs-zero-log, but now also
350 part of the main utility
352 * free space checks match kernel, fixes incorrect reports
353 * convert: fix setting of checksum bit if --no-datasum is used
354 * fsck.btrfs: don't print messages
355 * fix quota rescan on PPC64 (mangled ioctl number)
357 * documentation: files renamed to .asciidoc, misc fixups
359 btrfs-progs-3.19.1 (2015-03-25)
361 * new option to specify metadata block size
362 * --no-progress actually works
363 * restore: properly handle the page boundary corner case
365 * missing macro from public header, BTRFS_BUILD_VERSION
366 * wrong handling of --enable-convert
367 * fi usage: reports correct space for degraded mounts
369 * mkfs: help string updates
370 * completion: added 'usage' subcommands
371 * cleanups in qgroup code, preparatory work
373 btrfs-progs-3.19 (2015-03-11)
374 * build converted to autotools
376 * restore can now run in parallel threads
377 * fixed restore of multiple image from multiple devices onto a single
379 * introduced metadump v2
380 * check: make --init-csum-tree and --init-extent-tree work together
381 * find-new: option to search through all metadata even if a root was
383 * convert: show progress by default, can be turned off
384 * corrupt-block: option to work on a specific root
385 * bash completion script for all subcommands
387 btrfs-progs-3.18.2 (2015-01-27)
388 * qgroup show: print human readable sizes, options to say otherwise
389 * check: new option to explicitly say no to writes
390 * mkfs: message about trimming is not printed to stderr
391 * fi show: fixed return value
392 * tests: new infrastructure
393 * btrfstune: force flag can be used together with seeding option
394 * backtrace support is back
396 * doc and help updates
398 btrfs-progs-3.18.1 (2015-01-09)
400 * documentation updates
402 btrfs-progs-3.18 (2014-12-30)
403 * mkfs - skinny-metadata feature is now on by default, first introduced in
405 * filesystem usage - give an overview of fs usage in a way that's more
406 comprehensible than existing 'fi df'
407 * device usage - more detailed information about per-device allocations
409 * option to set a different tree root byte number
410 * ability to link lost files to lost+found, caused by a recent kernel
412 * repair of severely corrupted fs (use with care)
413 * convert - option to show progress
414 * subvol create - print the commit mode inline, print the global mode only
416 * other updates: musl-libc support, coverity bugfixes, new test images,
419 btrfs-progs-3.17.3 (2014-12-04)
420 * convert: fix conversion of sparse ext* filesystems
421 * show: resolve to the correct path
422 * fsck: more verbose error for root dir problems
424 btrfs-progs-3.17.2 (2014-11-19)
426 * add ability to replace missing dir item/dir indexes
427 * fix missing inode items
428 * create missing root dirid
429 * corrupt block: enhancements for testing fsck
430 * zero-log: able to reset a fs with bogus log tree pointer (bug_72151)
432 btrfs-progs-3.17.1 (2014-11-04)
433 * fi df: argument handling
434 * fix linking with libbtrfs
435 * replace: better error reporting
436 * fi show: fixed stall if run concurrently with balance
437 * check: fixed argument parsing for --subvol-extents
438 * fi df: SI prefixes corrected
440 btrfs-progs-3.17 (2014-10-17)
441 * check: --init-csum-tree actually does something useful, rebuilds the
443 * /dev scanning for btrfs devices is gone
444 * /proc/partitions scanning is gone, blkid is used exclusively
445 * new subcommand subvolume sync
446 * filesystem df: new options to set unit format
447 * convert: allow to copy label from the origin, or specify a new one
449 btrfs-progs-3.16.2 (2014-10-01)
450 * a few fixes in fsck and image tools
452 btrfs-progs-3.16.1 (2014-09-15)
453 * print GlobalReserve in fi df output
454 * new option -R in subvol list
455 * library version defines
456 * static build is fixed
457 * build without documentation is possible
459 btrfs-progs-3.16 (2014-08-26)
460 * mkfs: new option to specify UUID, drop experimental notice
461 * check: new option to verify quotas, reduced memory requirements, new
462 option to print extent sharing
463 * restore: check length before decompression, more error handling, option
464 to loop during restoring
465 * balance: new filter 'limit'
466 * recover: allow to read all sb copies
467 * btrfstune: new option to force dangerous changes
468 * receive: new option to limit number of errors
469 * show-super: skip unrecognized sb, add option to force
470 * debug-tree: print tree by id
471 * documentation updates
473 btrfs-progs-3.14.2 (2014-05-29)
474 * documentation is now written in asciidoc and there are manpages for each
478 btrfs-progs-3.14.1 (2014-04-18)
479 * properties: fix handling of option -t
480 * restore: fix reading of compressed extents
481 * minor code and doc updates
483 btrfs-progs-3.14 (2014-04-06)
484 * fsck: fixes and enhancements to --init-extent-tree mode
485 * fsck: chunk-recover updates
486 * scrub: add force option -f
487 * send: check if subvolumes are read-only
488 * subvol delete: add options to affect commit behaviour
489 * btrfs: add property command group
490 * restore: add dry-run option
491 * restore: fix restoring of compressed files
492 * mkfs: support for no-holes feature
493 * mkfs: option -r deals with hardlinks and relative paths
494 * mkfs: discard phase is interruptible
495 * documentation updates
497 btrfs-progs-3.12 (2013-11-25)
498 * announcement, tarballs
499 * first release after 0.19 (2009/06) with a lot of changes