1 btrfs-progs-4.10.1 (2017-03-17)
2 * receive: handle subvolume in path clone
3 * convert: rollback fixed (rewrite was needed to address previous design issues)
4 * build: fix build of 3rd party tools, missing <linux/sizes.h>
5 * dump-tree: print log trees
7 * new and updated tests
9 btrfs-progs-4.10 (2017-03-08)
10 * send: dump output fixes: missing newlies
11 * check: several fixes for the lowmem mode, improved error reporting
13 * removed some library deps for binaries that not use them
15 * split Makefile to the autotool generated part and the rest, not needed
16 to autogen.sh after adding a file
17 * shared code: sync easy parts with kernel sources
20 * source file reorganization: convert, mkfs, utils
21 * lots of spelling fixes in docs, other updates
24 btrfs-progs-4.9.1 (2017-01-27)
26 * use correct inode number for lost+found files
27 * lowmem mode: fix false alert on dropped leaf
28 * size reports: negative numbers might appear in size reports during device
29 deletes (previously in EiB units)
30 * mkfs: print device being trimmed
31 * defrag: v1 ioctl support dropped
32 * quota: print message before starting to wait for rescan
33 * qgroup show: new option to sync before printing the stats
35 * corrupt-block enhancements
36 * backtrace and co. cleanups
39 btrfs-progs-4.9 (2016-12-23)
40 * check: many lowmem mode updates
41 * send: use splice syscall to copy buffer from kernel
42 * receive: new option to dump the stream in textual form
44 * move sources to own directory
45 * prevent accounting of blocks beyond end of the device
46 * make it work with 64k sectorsize
47 * mkfs: move sources to own directory
48 * defrag: warns if directory used without -r
50 * new option to check stats for non-zero values
51 * add long option for -z
52 * library: version bump to 0.1.2, added subvol_uuid_search2
57 btrfs-progs-4.8.5 (2016-11-30)
58 * receive: fix detection of end of stream (error reported even for valid
61 * added test for the receive bug
62 * fix linking of library-test
64 btrfs-progs-4.8.4 (2016-11-25)
65 * check: support for clearing space cache v2 (free-space-tree)
67 * more sanity checks (with tests), cleanups
68 * fix for fstests/btrfs/038 and btrfs/117 failures
70 * fix compilation of standalone ioctl.h, pull NULL definition
71 * fix library link errors introduced in 4.8.3
73 * add more fuzzed images from bugzilla
74 * add bogus send stream checks
75 * fixups and enhancements for CI environment builds
76 * misc refinements and updates of testing framework
78 * move sources for btrfs-image to own directory
79 * deprecated and not build by default: btrfs-calc-size, btrfs-show-super
82 btrfs-progs-4.8.3 (2016-11-11)
84 * support for clearing space cache (v1)
85 * size reduction of inode backref structure
87 * fix handling of multiple snapshots (-p and -c options)
88 * transfer buffer increased (should reduce number of context switches)
89 * reuse existing file for output (-f), eg. when root cannot create files (NFS)
91 * print missing items for various structures
92 * new: dev stats, balance status item
93 * sync key names with kernel (the persistent items)
94 * subvol show: now able to print the toplevel subvolume -- the creation time
97 * store the creation time of toplevel root inode
98 * print UUID in the summary
99 * build: travis CI for devel
101 * lots of cleanups and refactoring
102 * switched to on-stack path structure
103 * fixes from coverity, asan, ubsan
105 * updates in testing infrastructure
106 * fixed convert test 005
108 btrfs-progs-4.8.2 (2016-10-26)
109 * convert: also convert file attributes
110 * convert: fix wrong tree block alignment for unalianged block group
111 * check: quota verify fixes, handle reloc tree
112 * build: add stub for FIEMAP_EXTENT_SHARED, compiles on ancient kernels
113 * build: add stub for BUILD_ASSERT when ioctl.h is included
114 * dump-tree: don't crash on unrecognized tree id for -t
116 * add more ioctl tests
117 * convert: more symlink tests, attribute tests
118 * quota verify for reloc tree
121 btrfs-progs-4.8.1 (2016-10-12)
123 * build without backtrace support fixed
125 btrfs-progs-4.8 (2016-10-05)
126 * error handling improvements all over the place
127 * new fuzzed images, test updates
129 * minor cleanups and improvements
130 * kernel library helpers moved to own directory
131 * qgroup: fix regression leading to incorrect status after check,
134 btrfs-progs-4.7.3 (2016-09-21)
135 * fixed free space tree compat status
136 * check: low-mem mode: handle partially dropped snapshots
137 * dump-super: consolidate options for superblock copy
138 * tree-stats: check mount status
139 * subvol delete: handle verbosity option
140 * defrag: print correct error string
141 * mkfs: fix reading rotational status
144 * documentation updates
145 * enhanced tests: convert, fuzzed images, more tools to run on fuzzed
148 btrfs-progs-4.7.2 (2016-09-05)
150 * urgent fix: false report of backref mismatches; do not --repair
151 last unaffected version 4.6.1 (code reverted to that state)
153 * added more sanity checks for various structures
154 * testing images added
155 * build: udev compatibility: do not install .rules on version < 190
157 * dump-super: do not crash on garbage value in csum_type
158 * minor improvements in messages and help strings
160 * filesystem features
162 btrfs-progs-4.7.1 (2016-08-25)
164 * new optional mode: optimized for low memory usage (memory/io tradeoff)
165 * --mode=lowmem, not default, still considered experimental
166 * does not work with --repair yet
167 * convert: regression fix, ext2_subvol/image rw permissions
169 * two-staged creation, partially created filesystem will not be recognized
170 * improved error handling (fewer BUG_ONs)
171 * convert: preparation for more filesystems to convert from
172 * documentation updates: quota, qgroup
176 * more build options, enhanced debugging
178 btrfs-progs-4.7 (2016-07-29)
179 * convert: fix creating discontig extents
180 * check: speed up traversing heavily reflinked extents within a file
181 * check: verify qgroups of higher levels
182 * check: repair can now fix wrong qgroup numbers
183 * balance: new option to run in the background
184 * defrag: default extent target size changed to 32MiB
185 * du: silently skip non-btrfs dirs/files
186 * documentation updates: btrfs(5), btrfs(8), balance, subvolume, scrub,
189 * unaligned access (reported for sparc64) in raid56 parity calculations
191 * other stability fixes and cleanups
194 btrfs-progs-4.6.1 (2016-06-24)
195 * fi resize: negative resize argument accepted again
196 * qgroup rescan: fix skipping when rescan is in progress
197 * mkfs: initialize stripesize to correct value
198 * testsuite updates, mostly convert tests
199 * documentation updates
200 * btrfs-device, btrfs-restore manual pages enhanced
203 btrfs-progs-4.6 (2016-06-10)
204 * convert - major rewrite:
205 * fix a long-standing bug that led to mixing data blocks into metadata block
207 * the workaround was to do full balance after conversion, which was
208 recommended practice anyway
209 * explicitly set the lowest supported version of e2fstools to 1.41
210 * provide and install udev rules file that addresses problems with device
211 mapper devices, renames after removal
212 * send: new option: quiet
213 * dev usage: report slack space (device size minus filesystem area on the dev)
215 * build: short options to enable debugging builds
219 * more tests and other enhancements
221 btrfs-progs-4.5.3 (2016-05-11)
222 * ioctl: fix unaligned access in buffer from TREE_SEARCH; might cause SIGBUS
223 on architectures that do not support unaligned access and do not performa
225 * improved validation checks of superblock and chunk-related structures
226 * subvolume sync: fix handling of -s option
227 * balance: adjust timing of safety delay countdown with --full-balance
228 * rescue super-recover: fix reversed condition check
229 * check: fix bytes_used accounting
230 * documentation updates: mount options, scrub, send, receive, select-super,
232 * testing: new fuzzed images, for superblock and chunks
234 btrfs-progs-4.5.2 (2016-05-02)
235 * new/moved command: btrfs-calc-stats -> btrfs inspect tree-stats
236 * check: fix false alert for metadata blocks crossing stripe boundary
237 * check: catch when qgroup numbers mismatch
238 * check: detect running quota rescan and report mismatches
239 * balance start: add safety delay before doing a full balance
240 * fi sync: is now silent
241 * fi show: don't miss filesystems with partially matching uuids
242 * dev ready: accept only one argument for device
243 * dev stats: print "devid:N" for a missing device instead of "(null)"
245 * lowest supported version of e2fsprogs is 1.41
246 * minor cleanups, test updates
248 btrfs-progs-4.5.1 (2016-03-31)
249 * mkfs: allow DUP on multi-device filesystems
250 * bugfixes: build fixes, assorted other fixes
252 btrfs-progs-4.5 (2016-03-20)
254 * btrfs-show-super -> btrfs inspect-internal dump-super
255 * btrfs-debug-tree -> btrfs inspect-internal dump-tree
258 * btrfs fi du - calculate disk usage, including shared extents
261 * device delete - delete by id (needs kernel support, not merged to
263 * check - new option to specify chunk root
264 * debug-tree/dump-tree - option -t understands human readable name of
265 the tree (along numerical ids)
266 * btrfs-debugfs - can dump block group information
269 * all commands should accept the option separator "--"
270 * several fixes in device scan
271 * restore works on filesystems with sectorsize > 4k
272 * debug-tree/dump-tree - print compression type as string
273 * subvol sync: fix crash, memory corruption
274 * argument parsing fixes: subvol get-default, qgroup create/destroy/
275 assign, inspect subvolid-resolve
276 * check for block device or regular file in several commands
279 * documentation updates
280 * manual pages for the moved tools now point to btrfs-filesystem
283 btrfs-progs-4.4.1 (2016-02-26)
284 * find-root: don't skip the first chunk
285 * free-space-tree compat bits fix
286 * build: target symlinks
287 * documentation updates
290 btrfs-progs-4.4 (2016-01-18)
291 User visible changes:
292 * mkfs.btrfs --data dup
294 People asked about duplicating data on a single device for a long time. There
295 are no technical obstacles preventing that, so it got enabled with a warning
296 about potential dangers when the device will not do the duplicated copies. See
297 mkfs.btrfs section DUP PROFILES ON A SINGLE DEVICE.
299 * support balance filters added/enhanced in linux 4.4
300 * usage=min..max -- enhanced to take range
301 * stripes=min..max -- new, filter by stripes for raid0/10/5/6
302 * limit=min..max -- enhanced to take range
303 Note: due to backward compatibility, the range maximum for 'usage' is not
304 inclusive as for the others, to keep the same behaviour as usage=N .
306 * manual pages enhanced (btrfs, mkfs, mount, filesystem, balance)
307 * error messages updates, rewordings -- some fstests may break due to that
308 * added support for free-space-tree implementation of space cache -- this
309 requires kernel 4.5 and is not recommended for non-developers yet
310 * btrfs filesystem usage works with mixed blockgroups
313 * installation to /usr/local -- this has unintentionally changed during
314 conversion to autotools in 3.19
315 * check: fix a false alert where extent record has wrong metadata flag
316 * improved stability on fuzzed/crafted images when reading sys array in
318 * build: the 'ar' tool is properly detected during cross-compilation
319 * debug-tree: option -t understands ids for tree root and chunk tree
320 * preparatory work for btrfs-convert rewrite
321 * sparse, gcc warning fixes
322 * more memory allocation failure handling
327 * chunk recovery: fix floating point exception
328 * chunk recovery: endianity bugfix during rebuild
329 * mkfs with 64K pages and nodesize reported superblock checksum mismatch
330 * check: properly reset nlink of multi-linked file
332 btrfs-progs-4.3.1 (2015-11-16)
334 * device delete: recognize 'missing' again
335 * mkfs: long names are not trimmed when doing ssd check
336 * support partitioned loop devices
338 * replace several mallocs with on-stack variables
339 * more memory allocation failure handling
340 * add tests for bugs fixed
341 * cmd-device: switch to new message printing helpers
342 * minor code cleanups
344 btrfs-progs-4.3 (2015-11-06)
346 * mixed mode is not forced for filesystems smaller than 1GiB
347 * mixed mode broken with mismatching sectorsize and nodesize, fixed
348 * print version info earlier
349 * print devices sorted by id
350 * do not truncate target image with --rootsize
352 * don't print global block reserve
354 * minor output tuning
357 * div-by-zero fix on an empty filesystem
360 * more superblock sanity checks
361 * consistently round size of all devices down to sectorsize
363 * convert: don't try to rollback with a half-deleted ext2_saved
366 * check: add progress indicator
367 * scrub: enhanced error message
368 * show-super: read superblock from a given offset
370 * docs: update manual page for mkfs.btrfs, btrfstune, balance,
371 convert and inspect-internal
372 * build: optional build with more warnings (W=...)
373 * build: better support for static checkers
374 * build: html output of documentation
375 * pretty-print: last_snapshot for root_item
376 * pretty-print: stripe dev uuid
377 * error reporting wrappers, introduced and example use
378 * refactor open_file_or_dir
379 * other docs and help updates
381 * test for nodes crossing stripes
382 * test for broken 'subvolume sync'
383 * basic tests for mkfs, raid option combinations
384 * basic tests for fuzzed images (check)
385 * command intrumentation (eg valgrind)
386 * print commands if requested
387 * add README for tests
389 btrfs-progs-4.2.3 (2015-10-19)
390 * subvol sync: make it actually work again: it's been broken since 4.1.2,
391 due to a reversed condition it returned immediately instead of waiting
392 * scanning: do not scan already discovered filesystems (minor optimization)
393 * convert: better error message in case the filesystem is not finalized
394 * restore: off-by-one symlink path check fix
396 btrfs-progs-4.2.2 (2015-10-05)
397 * fi label: use fallback if the label ioctl is not available
398 * convert: check nodesize constraints against commandline features (-O)
399 * scrub: report status 'running' until all devices are finished
400 * device scanning might crash in some scenarios
401 * fi usage: print summary for non-root users
403 btrfs-progs-4.2.1 (2015-09-20)
404 * fix an off-by-one error in cross-stripe boundary check
405 * if nodesize was 64k, any metadata block was reported as crossing,
406 this leads to mkfs failure for example due to "no free blocks
408 * for other nodesizes, if the end of the metadata block was 64k
409 aligned, it was incorrectly reported by fsck
410 * convert: don't write uninitialized data to image
412 * don't loop with option -t0
413 * don't create threads if compression is not requested
414 * other: minor cleanups
416 btrfs-progs-4.2 (2015-09-03)
418 * mkfs: do not create extra single chunks on multiple devices
419 * resize: try to guess the minimal size, 'inspect min-dev-size'
420 * qgroup assign: add option to schedule rescan
421 * chunk-recover: be more verbose about the scanning process
424 * find stripes crossing stripe boundary -- created by convert
425 * print correct range for file hole when there are no extents
426 and learn how to fix it
427 * replace: more sanity checks
428 * convert: concurrency fixes related to reporting progress
429 * find-root: option -a will not skip the current root anymore
430 * subvol list: fix occasional crash
431 * do not create stripes crossing stripe boundary
433 * fixes for musl libc
434 * preliminary support for android (not working yet, more code changes
436 * new EXTRA_CFLAGS and EXTRA_LDFLAGS
439 * tests: lots of updates, new tests, framework improvements
440 * documentation updates
441 * debugging: print-tree shows stripe length
443 btrfs-progs-4.1.2 (2015-07-14)
444 * urgent bugfix: mkfs creates invalid filesystem, must be recreated
446 btrfs-progs-4.1.1 (2015-07-10) -- Do not use this version!
448 * defrag: threshold overflow fix
450 * check if items fit into the leaf space
453 * create only desired block groups for single device
454 * preparatory work for fix on multiple devices
456 * new alias for 'device delete': 'device remove'
458 * fix compilation on old gcc (4.3)
459 * documentation updates
460 * debug-tree: print nbytes
461 * test: image for corrupted nbytes
462 * corrupt-block: let it kill nbytes
464 btrfs-progs-4.1 (2015-06-22)
466 * fsck.btrfs: no bash-isms
467 * bugzilla 97171: invalid memory access (with tests)
469 * cloning works with --chroot
470 * capabilities not lost
471 * mkfs: do not try to register bare file images
472 * option --help accepted by the standalone utilities
475 * corrupt block: ability to remove csums
477 * warn if metadata redundancy is lower than for data
478 * options to make the output quiet (only errors)
479 * mixed case names of raid profiles accepted
481 * more comprehensive, 'key: value' format
484 * print received uuid
486 * new options to specify size units
487 * sync: grab all deleted ids and print them as they're removed,
488 previous implementation only checked if there are any to be
489 deleted - change in command semantics
490 * scrub: print timestamps in days HMS format
492 * can specify mount point, do not rely on /proc
493 * can work inside subvolumes
494 * send: new option to send stream without data (NO_FILE_DATA)
495 * convert: specify incompat features on the new fs
497 * show: distinguish no limits and 0 limit value
498 * limit: ability to clear the limit
499 * help for 'btrfs' is shorter, 1st level command overview
500 * debug tree: print key names according to their C name
505 * rewrite uuid on a filesystem image
506 * new option to turn on NO_HOLES incompat feature
509 * standalone btrfs-zero-log
512 * testing framework updates
514 * btrfstune feature setting test
516 * more testing image formats
517 * manual page updates
518 * ioctl.h synced with current kernel uapi version
519 * convert: preparatory works for more filesystems (reiserfs pending)
520 * use static buffers for path handling where possible
521 * add new helpers for send uilts that check memory allocations,
522 switch all users, deprecate old helpers
523 * Makefile: fix build dependency generation
524 * map-logical: make it work again
526 btrfs-progs-4.0.1 (2015-05-20)
528 * can restore symlinks, new option --symlinks
529 * long option variants added
530 * convert: dropped dependency on acl.h header and libacl is not required
532 * fix for 'check' crash
533 * device remove error message fix
534 * preparatory works for fsid change
536 btrfs-progs-4.0 (2015-04-29)
538 * don't accept file as an argument (it's confusing)
539 * print better error message in case of an error
540 * restore: optionally restore metadata (time, mode, uid/gid)
541 * receive: optionally enforce chroot
542 * new rescue subcommand 'zero-log', same as btrfs-zero-log, but now also
543 part of the main utility
545 * free space checks match kernel, fixes incorrect reports
546 * convert: fix setting of checksum bit if --no-datasum is used
547 * fsck.btrfs: don't print messages
548 * fix quota rescan on PPC64 (mangled ioctl number)
550 * documentation: files renamed to .asciidoc, misc fixups
552 btrfs-progs-3.19.1 (2015-03-25)
554 * new option to specify metadata block size
555 * --no-progress actually works
556 * restore: properly handle the page boundary corner case
558 * missing macro from public header, BTRFS_BUILD_VERSION
559 * wrong handling of --enable-convert
560 * fi usage: reports correct space for degraded mounts
562 * mkfs: help string updates
563 * completion: added 'usage' subcommands
564 * cleanups in qgroup code, preparatory work
566 btrfs-progs-3.19 (2015-03-11)
567 * build converted to autotools
569 * restore can now run in parallel threads
570 * fixed restore of multiple image from multiple devices onto a single
572 * introduced metadump v2
573 * check: make --init-csum-tree and --init-extent-tree work together
574 * find-new: option to search through all metadata even if a root was
576 * convert: show progress by default, can be turned off
577 * corrupt-block: option to work on a specific root
578 * bash completion script for all subcommands
580 btrfs-progs-3.18.2 (2015-01-27)
581 * qgroup show: print human readable sizes, options to say otherwise
582 * check: new option to explicitly say no to writes
583 * mkfs: message about trimming is not printed to stderr
584 * fi show: fixed return value
585 * tests: new infrastructure
586 * btrfstune: force flag can be used together with seeding option
587 * backtrace support is back
589 * doc and help updates
591 btrfs-progs-3.18.1 (2015-01-09)
593 * documentation updates
595 btrfs-progs-3.18 (2014-12-30)
596 * mkfs - skinny-metadata feature is now on by default, first introduced in
598 * filesystem usage - give an overview of fs usage in a way that's more
599 comprehensible than existing 'fi df'
600 * device usage - more detailed information about per-device allocations
602 * option to set a different tree root byte number
603 * ability to link lost files to lost+found, caused by a recent kernel
605 * repair of severely corrupted fs (use with care)
606 * convert - option to show progress
607 * subvol create - print the commit mode inline, print the global mode only
609 * other updates: musl-libc support, coverity bugfixes, new test images,
612 btrfs-progs-3.17.3 (2014-12-04)
613 * convert: fix conversion of sparse ext* filesystems
614 * show: resolve to the correct path
615 * fsck: more verbose error for root dir problems
617 btrfs-progs-3.17.2 (2014-11-19)
619 * add ability to replace missing dir item/dir indexes
620 * fix missing inode items
621 * create missing root dirid
622 * corrupt block: enhancements for testing fsck
623 * zero-log: able to reset a fs with bogus log tree pointer (bug_72151)
625 btrfs-progs-3.17.1 (2014-11-04)
626 * fi df: argument handling
627 * fix linking with libbtrfs
628 * replace: better error reporting
629 * fi show: fixed stall if run concurrently with balance
630 * check: fixed argument parsing for --subvol-extents
631 * fi df: SI prefixes corrected
633 btrfs-progs-3.17 (2014-10-17)
634 * check: --init-csum-tree actually does something useful, rebuilds the
636 * /dev scanning for btrfs devices is gone
637 * /proc/partitions scanning is gone, blkid is used exclusively
638 * new subcommand subvolume sync
639 * filesystem df: new options to set unit format
640 * convert: allow to copy label from the origin, or specify a new one
642 btrfs-progs-3.16.2 (2014-10-01)
643 * a few fixes in fsck and image tools
645 btrfs-progs-3.16.1 (2014-09-15)
646 * print GlobalReserve in fi df output
647 * new option -R in subvol list
648 * library version defines
649 * static build is fixed
650 * build without documentation is possible
652 btrfs-progs-3.16 (2014-08-26)
653 * mkfs: new option to specify UUID, drop experimental notice
654 * check: new option to verify quotas, reduced memory requirements, new
655 option to print extent sharing
656 * restore: check length before decompression, more error handling, option
657 to loop during restoring
658 * balance: new filter 'limit'
659 * recover: allow to read all sb copies
660 * btrfstune: new option to force dangerous changes
661 * receive: new option to limit number of errors
662 * show-super: skip unrecognized sb, add option to force
663 * debug-tree: print tree by id
664 * documentation updates
666 btrfs-progs-3.14.2 (2014-05-29)
667 * documentation is now written in asciidoc and there are manpages for each
671 btrfs-progs-3.14.1 (2014-04-18)
672 * properties: fix handling of option -t
673 * restore: fix reading of compressed extents
674 * minor code and doc updates
676 btrfs-progs-3.14 (2014-04-06)
677 * fsck: fixes and enhancements to --init-extent-tree mode
678 * fsck: chunk-recover updates
679 * scrub: add force option -f
680 * send: check if subvolumes are read-only
681 * subvol delete: add options to affect commit behaviour
682 * btrfs: add property command group
683 * restore: add dry-run option
684 * restore: fix restoring of compressed files
685 * mkfs: support for no-holes feature
686 * mkfs: option -r deals with hardlinks and relative paths
687 * mkfs: discard phase is interruptible
688 * documentation updates
690 btrfs-progs-3.12 (2013-11-25)
691 * announcement, tarballs
692 * first release after 0.19 (2009/06) with a lot of changes