1 btrfs-progs-4.8.5 (2016-11-30)
2 * receive: fix detection of end of stream (error reported even for valid
5 * added test for the receive bug
6 * fix linking of library-test
8 btrfs-progs-4.8.4 (2016-11-25)
9 * check: support for clearing space cache v2 (free-space-tree)
11 * more sanity checks (with tests), cleanups
12 * fix for fstests/btrfs/038 and btrfs/117 failures
14 * fix compilation of standalone ioctl.h, pull NULL definition
15 * fix library link errors introduced in 4.8.3
17 * add more fuzzed images from bugzilla
18 * add bogus send stream checks
19 * fixups and enhancements for CI environment builds
20 * misc refinements and updates of testing framework
22 * move sources for btrfs-image to own directory
23 * deprecated and not build by default: btrfs-calc-size, btrfs-show-super
26 btrfs-progs-4.8.3 (2016-11-11)
28 * support for clearing space cache (v1)
29 * size reduction of inode backref structure
31 * fix handling of multiple snapshots (-p and -c options)
32 * transfer buffer increased (should reduce number of context switches)
33 * reuse existing file for output (-f), eg. when root cannot create files (NFS)
35 * print missing items for various structures
36 * new: dev stats, balance status item
37 * sync key names with kernel (the persistent items)
38 * subvol show: now able to print the toplevel subvolume -- the creation time
41 * store the creation time of toplevel root inode
42 * print UUID in the summary
43 * build: travis CI for devel
45 * lots of cleanups and refactoring
46 * switched to on-stack path structure
47 * fixes from coverity, asan, ubsan
49 * updates in testing infrastructure
50 * fixed convert test 005
52 btrfs-progs-4.8.2 (2016-10-26)
53 * convert: also convert file attributes
54 * convert: fix wrong tree block alignment for unalianged block group
55 * check: quota verify fixes, handle reloc tree
56 * build: add stub for FIEMAP_EXTENT_SHARED, compiles on ancient kernels
57 * build: add stub for BUILD_ASSERT when ioctl.h is included
58 * dump-tree: don't crash on unrecognized tree id for -t
60 * add more ioctl tests
61 * convert: more symlink tests, attribute tests
62 * quota verify for reloc tree
65 btrfs-progs-4.8.1 (2016-10-12)
67 * build without backtrace support fixed
69 btrfs-progs-4.8 (2016-10-05)
70 * error handling improvements all over the place
71 * new fuzzed images, test updates
73 * minor cleanups and improvements
74 * kernel library helpers moved to own directory
75 * qgroup: fix regression leading to incorrect status after check,
78 btrfs-progs-4.7.3 (2016-09-21)
79 * fixed free space tree compat status
80 * check: low-mem mode: handle partially dropped snapshots
81 * dump-super: consolidate options for superblock copy
82 * tree-stats: check mount status
83 * subvol delete: handle verbosity option
84 * defrag: print correct error string
85 * mkfs: fix reading rotational status
88 * documentation updates
89 * enhanced tests: convert, fuzzed images, more tools to run on fuzzed
92 btrfs-progs-4.7.2 (2016-09-05)
94 * urgent fix: false report of backref mismatches; do not --repair
95 last unaffected version 4.6.1 (code reverted to that state)
97 * added more sanity checks for various structures
98 * testing images added
99 * build: udev compatibility: do not install .rules on version < 190
101 * dump-super: do not crash on garbage value in csum_type
102 * minor improvements in messages and help strings
104 * filesystem features
106 btrfs-progs-4.7.1 (2016-08-25)
108 * new optional mode: optimized for low memory usage (memory/io tradeoff)
109 * --mode=lowmem, not default, still considered experimental
110 * does not work with --repair yet
111 * convert: regression fix, ext2_subvol/image rw permissions
113 * two-staged creation, partially created filesystem will not be recognized
114 * improved error handling (fewer BUG_ONs)
115 * convert: preparation for more filesystems to convert from
116 * documentation updates: quota, qgroup
120 * more build options, enhanced debugging
122 btrfs-progs-4.7 (2016-07-29)
123 * convert: fix creating discontig extents
124 * check: speed up traversing heavily reflinked extents within a file
125 * check: verify qgroups of higher levels
126 * check: repair can now fix wrong qgroup numbers
127 * balance: new option to run in the background
128 * defrag: default extent target size changed to 32MiB
129 * du: silently skip non-btrfs dirs/files
130 * documentation updates: btrfs(5), btrfs(8), balance, subvolume, scrub,
133 * unaligned access (reported for sparc64) in raid56 parity calculations
135 * other stability fixes and cleanups
138 btrfs-progs-4.6.1 (2016-06-24)
139 * fi resize: negative resize argument accepted again
140 * qgroup rescan: fix skipping when rescan is in progress
141 * mkfs: initialize stripesize to correct value
142 * testsuite updates, mostly convert tests
143 * documentation updates
144 * btrfs-device, btrfs-restore manual pages enhanced
147 btrfs-progs-4.6 (2016-06-10)
148 * convert - major rewrite:
149 * fix a long-standing bug that led to mixing data blocks into metadata block
151 * the workaround was to do full balance after conversion, which was
152 recommended practice anyway
153 * explicitly set the lowest supported version of e2fstools to 1.41
154 * provide and install udev rules file that addresses problems with device
155 mapper devices, renames after removal
156 * send: new option: quiet
157 * dev usage: report slack space (device size minus filesystem area on the dev)
159 * build: short options to enable debugging builds
163 * more tests and other enhancements
165 btrfs-progs-4.5.3 (2016-05-11)
166 * ioctl: fix unaligned access in buffer from TREE_SEARCH; might cause SIGBUS
167 on architectures that do not support unaligned access and do not performa
169 * improved validation checks of superblock and chunk-related structures
170 * subvolume sync: fix handling of -s option
171 * balance: adjust timing of safety delay countdown with --full-balance
172 * rescue super-recover: fix reversed condition check
173 * check: fix bytes_used accounting
174 * documentation updates: mount options, scrub, send, receive, select-super,
176 * testing: new fuzzed images, for superblock and chunks
178 btrfs-progs-4.5.2 (2016-05-02)
179 * new/moved command: btrfs-calc-stats -> btrfs inspect tree-stats
180 * check: fix false alert for metadata blocks crossing stripe boundary
181 * check: catch when qgroup numbers mismatch
182 * check: detect running quota rescan and report mismatches
183 * balance start: add safety delay before doing a full balance
184 * fi sync: is now silent
185 * fi show: don't miss filesystems with partially matching uuids
186 * dev ready: accept only one argument for device
187 * dev stats: print "devid:N" for a missing device instead of "(null)"
189 * lowest supported version of e2fsprogs is 1.41
190 * minor cleanups, test updates
192 btrfs-progs-4.5.1 (2016-03-31)
193 * mkfs: allow DUP on multi-device filesystems
194 * bugfixes: build fixes, assorted other fixes
196 btrfs-progs-4.5 (2016-03-20)
198 * btrfs-show-super -> btrfs inspect-internal dump-super
199 * btrfs-debug-tree -> btrfs inspect-internal dump-tree
202 * btrfs fi du - calculate disk usage, including shared extents
205 * device delete - delete by id (needs kernel support, not merged to
207 * check - new option to specify chunk root
208 * debug-tree/dump-tree - option -t understands human readable name of
209 the tree (along numerical ids)
210 * btrfs-debugfs - can dump block group information
213 * all commands should accept the option separator "--"
214 * several fixes in device scan
215 * restore works on filesystems with sectorsize > 4k
216 * debug-tree/dump-tree - print compression type as string
217 * subvol sync: fix crash, memory corruption
218 * argument parsing fixes: subvol get-default, qgroup create/destroy/
219 assign, inspect subvolid-resolve
220 * check for block device or regular file in several commands
223 * documentation updates
224 * manual pages for the moved tools now point to btrfs-filesystem
227 btrfs-progs-4.4.1 (2016-02-26)
228 * find-root: don't skip the first chunk
229 * free-space-tree compat bits fix
230 * build: target symlinks
231 * documentation updates
234 btrfs-progs-4.4 (2016-01-18)
235 User visible changes:
236 * mkfs.btrfs --data dup
238 People asked about duplicating data on a single device for a long time. There
239 are no technical obstacles preventing that, so it got enabled with a warning
240 about potential dangers when the device will not do the duplicated copies. See
241 mkfs.btrfs section DUP PROFILES ON A SINGLE DEVICE.
243 * support balance filters added/enhanced in linux 4.4
244 * usage=min..max -- enhanced to take range
245 * stripes=min..max -- new, filter by stripes for raid0/10/5/6
246 * limit=min..max -- enhanced to take range
247 Note: due to backward compatibility, the range maximum for 'usage' is not
248 inclusive as for the others, to keep the same behaviour as usage=N .
250 * manual pages enhanced (btrfs, mkfs, mount, filesystem, balance)
251 * error messages updates, rewordings -- some fstests may break due to that
252 * added support for free-space-tree implementation of space cache -- this
253 requires kernel 4.5 and is not recommended for non-developers yet
254 * btrfs filesystem usage works with mixed blockgroups
257 * installation to /usr/local -- this has unintentionally changed during
258 conversion to autotools in 3.19
259 * check: fix a false alert where extent record has wrong metadata flag
260 * improved stability on fuzzed/crafted images when reading sys array in
262 * build: the 'ar' tool is properly detected during cross-compilation
263 * debug-tree: option -t understands ids for tree root and chunk tree
264 * preparatory work for btrfs-convert rewrite
265 * sparse, gcc warning fixes
266 * more memory allocation failure handling
271 * chunk recovery: fix floating point exception
272 * chunk recovery: endianity bugfix during rebuild
273 * mkfs with 64K pages and nodesize reported superblock checksum mismatch
274 * check: properly reset nlink of multi-linked file
276 btrfs-progs-4.3.1 (2015-11-16)
278 * device delete: recognize 'missing' again
279 * mkfs: long names are not trimmed when doing ssd check
280 * support partitioned loop devices
282 * replace several mallocs with on-stack variables
283 * more memory allocation failure handling
284 * add tests for bugs fixed
285 * cmd-device: switch to new message printing helpers
286 * minor code cleanups
288 btrfs-progs-4.3 (2015-11-06)
290 * mixed mode is not forced for filesystems smaller than 1GiB
291 * mixed mode broken with mismatching sectorsize and nodesize, fixed
292 * print version info earlier
293 * print devices sorted by id
294 * do not truncate target image with --rootsize
296 * don't print global block reserve
298 * minor output tuning
301 * div-by-zero fix on an empty filesystem
304 * more superblock sanity checks
305 * consistently round size of all devices down to sectorsize
307 * convert: don't try to rollback with a half-deleted ext2_saved
310 * check: add progress indicator
311 * scrub: enhanced error message
312 * show-super: read superblock from a given offset
314 * docs: update manual page for mkfs.btrfs, btrfstune, balance,
315 convert and inspect-internal
316 * build: optional build with more warnings (W=...)
317 * build: better support for static checkers
318 * build: html output of documentation
319 * pretty-print: last_snapshot for root_item
320 * pretty-print: stripe dev uuid
321 * error reporting wrappers, introduced and example use
322 * refactor open_file_or_dir
323 * other docs and help updates
325 * test for nodes crossing stripes
326 * test for broken 'subvolume sync'
327 * basic tests for mkfs, raid option combinations
328 * basic tests for fuzzed images (check)
329 * command intrumentation (eg valgrind)
330 * print commands if requested
331 * add README for tests
333 btrfs-progs-4.2.3 (2015-10-19)
334 * subvol sync: make it actually work again: it's been broken since 4.1.2,
335 due to a reversed condition it returned immediately instead of waiting
336 * scanning: do not scan already discovered filesystems (minor optimization)
337 * convert: better error message in case the filesystem is not finalized
338 * restore: off-by-one symlink path check fix
340 btrfs-progs-4.2.2 (2015-10-05)
341 * fi label: use fallback if the label ioctl is not available
342 * convert: check nodesize constraints against commandline features (-O)
343 * scrub: report status 'running' until all devices are finished
344 * device scanning might crash in some scenarios
345 * fi usage: print summary for non-root users
347 btrfs-progs-4.2.1 (2015-09-20)
348 * fix an off-by-one error in cross-stripe boundary check
349 * if nodesize was 64k, any metadata block was reported as crossing,
350 this leads to mkfs failure for example due to "no free blocks
352 * for other nodesizes, if the end of the metadata block was 64k
353 aligned, it was incorrectly reported by fsck
354 * convert: don't write uninitialized data to image
356 * don't loop with option -t0
357 * don't create threads if compression is not requested
358 * other: minor cleanups
360 btrfs-progs-4.2 (2015-09-03)
362 * mkfs: do not create extra single chunks on multiple devices
363 * resize: try to guess the minimal size, 'inspect min-dev-size'
364 * qgroup assign: add option to schedule rescan
365 * chunk-recover: be more verbose about the scanning process
368 * find stripes crossing stripe boundary -- created by convert
369 * print correct range for file hole when there are no extents
370 and learn how to fix it
371 * replace: more sanity checks
372 * convert: concurrency fixes related to reporting progress
373 * find-root: option -a will not skip the current root anymore
374 * subvol list: fix occasional crash
375 * do not create stripes crossing stripe boundary
377 * fixes for musl libc
378 * preliminary support for android (not working yet, more code changes
380 * new EXTRA_CFLAGS and EXTRA_LDFLAGS
383 * tests: lots of updates, new tests, framework improvements
384 * documentation updates
385 * debugging: print-tree shows stripe length
387 btrfs-progs-4.1.2 (2015-07-14)
388 * urgent bugfix: mkfs creates invalid filesystem, must be recreated
390 btrfs-progs-4.1.1 (2015-07-10) -- Do not use this version!
392 * defrag: threshold overflow fix
394 * check if items fit into the leaf space
397 * create only desired block groups for single device
398 * preparatory work for fix on multiple devices
400 * new alias for 'device delete': 'device remove'
402 * fix compilation on old gcc (4.3)
403 * documentation updates
404 * debug-tree: print nbytes
405 * test: image for corrupted nbytes
406 * corrupt-block: let it kill nbytes
408 btrfs-progs-4.1 (2015-06-22)
410 * fsck.btrfs: no bash-isms
411 * bugzilla 97171: invalid memory access (with tests)
413 * cloning works with --chroot
414 * capabilities not lost
415 * mkfs: do not try to register bare file images
416 * option --help accepted by the standalone utilities
419 * corrupt block: ability to remove csums
421 * warn if metadata redundancy is lower than for data
422 * options to make the output quiet (only errors)
423 * mixed case names of raid profiles accepted
425 * more comprehensive, 'key: value' format
428 * print received uuid
430 * new options to specify size units
431 * sync: grab all deleted ids and print them as they're removed,
432 previous implementation only checked if there are any to be
433 deleted - change in command semantics
434 * scrub: print timestamps in days HMS format
436 * can specify mount point, do not rely on /proc
437 * can work inside subvolumes
438 * send: new option to send stream without data (NO_FILE_DATA)
439 * convert: specify incompat features on the new fs
441 * show: distinguish no limits and 0 limit value
442 * limit: ability to clear the limit
443 * help for 'btrfs' is shorter, 1st level command overview
444 * debug tree: print key names according to their C name
449 * rewrite uuid on a filesystem image
450 * new option to turn on NO_HOLES incompat feature
453 * standalone btrfs-zero-log
456 * testing framework updates
458 * btrfstune feature setting test
460 * more testing image formats
461 * manual page updates
462 * ioctl.h synced with current kernel uapi version
463 * convert: preparatory works for more filesystems (reiserfs pending)
464 * use static buffers for path handling where possible
465 * add new helpers for send uilts that check memory allocations,
466 switch all users, deprecate old helpers
467 * Makefile: fix build dependency generation
468 * map-logical: make it work again
470 btrfs-progs-4.0.1 (2015-05-20)
472 * can restore symlinks, new option --symlinks
473 * long option variants added
474 * convert: dropped dependency on acl.h header and libacl is not required
476 * fix for 'check' crash
477 * device remove error message fix
478 * preparatory works for fsid change
480 btrfs-progs-4.0 (2015-04-29)
482 * don't accept file as an argument (it's confusing)
483 * print better error message in case of an error
484 * restore: optionally restore metadata (time, mode, uid/gid)
485 * receive: optionally enforce chroot
486 * new rescue subcommand 'zero-log', same as btrfs-zero-log, but now also
487 part of the main utility
489 * free space checks match kernel, fixes incorrect reports
490 * convert: fix setting of checksum bit if --no-datasum is used
491 * fsck.btrfs: don't print messages
492 * fix quota rescan on PPC64 (mangled ioctl number)
494 * documentation: files renamed to .asciidoc, misc fixups
496 btrfs-progs-3.19.1 (2015-03-25)
498 * new option to specify metadata block size
499 * --no-progress actually works
500 * restore: properly handle the page boundary corner case
502 * missing macro from public header, BTRFS_BUILD_VERSION
503 * wrong handling of --enable-convert
504 * fi usage: reports correct space for degraded mounts
506 * mkfs: help string updates
507 * completion: added 'usage' subcommands
508 * cleanups in qgroup code, preparatory work
510 btrfs-progs-3.19 (2015-03-11)
511 * build converted to autotools
513 * restore can now run in parallel threads
514 * fixed restore of multiple image from multiple devices onto a single
516 * introduced metadump v2
517 * check: make --init-csum-tree and --init-extent-tree work together
518 * find-new: option to search through all metadata even if a root was
520 * convert: show progress by default, can be turned off
521 * corrupt-block: option to work on a specific root
522 * bash completion script for all subcommands
524 btrfs-progs-3.18.2 (2015-01-27)
525 * qgroup show: print human readable sizes, options to say otherwise
526 * check: new option to explicitly say no to writes
527 * mkfs: message about trimming is not printed to stderr
528 * fi show: fixed return value
529 * tests: new infrastructure
530 * btrfstune: force flag can be used together with seeding option
531 * backtrace support is back
533 * doc and help updates
535 btrfs-progs-3.18.1 (2015-01-09)
537 * documentation updates
539 btrfs-progs-3.18 (2014-12-30)
540 * mkfs - skinny-metadata feature is now on by default, first introduced in
542 * filesystem usage - give an overview of fs usage in a way that's more
543 comprehensible than existing 'fi df'
544 * device usage - more detailed information about per-device allocations
546 * option to set a different tree root byte number
547 * ability to link lost files to lost+found, caused by a recent kernel
549 * repair of severely corrupted fs (use with care)
550 * convert - option to show progress
551 * subvol create - print the commit mode inline, print the global mode only
553 * other updates: musl-libc support, coverity bugfixes, new test images,
556 btrfs-progs-3.17.3 (2014-12-04)
557 * convert: fix conversion of sparse ext* filesystems
558 * show: resolve to the correct path
559 * fsck: more verbose error for root dir problems
561 btrfs-progs-3.17.2 (2014-11-19)
563 * add ability to replace missing dir item/dir indexes
564 * fix missing inode items
565 * create missing root dirid
566 * corrupt block: enhancements for testing fsck
567 * zero-log: able to reset a fs with bogus log tree pointer (bug_72151)
569 btrfs-progs-3.17.1 (2014-11-04)
570 * fi df: argument handling
571 * fix linking with libbtrfs
572 * replace: better error reporting
573 * fi show: fixed stall if run concurrently with balance
574 * check: fixed argument parsing for --subvol-extents
575 * fi df: SI prefixes corrected
577 btrfs-progs-3.17 (2014-10-17)
578 * check: --init-csum-tree actually does something useful, rebuilds the
580 * /dev scanning for btrfs devices is gone
581 * /proc/partitions scanning is gone, blkid is used exclusively
582 * new subcommand subvolume sync
583 * filesystem df: new options to set unit format
584 * convert: allow to copy label from the origin, or specify a new one
586 btrfs-progs-3.16.2 (2014-10-01)
587 * a few fixes in fsck and image tools
589 btrfs-progs-3.16.1 (2014-09-15)
590 * print GlobalReserve in fi df output
591 * new option -R in subvol list
592 * library version defines
593 * static build is fixed
594 * build without documentation is possible
596 btrfs-progs-3.16 (2014-08-26)
597 * mkfs: new option to specify UUID, drop experimental notice
598 * check: new option to verify quotas, reduced memory requirements, new
599 option to print extent sharing
600 * restore: check length before decompression, more error handling, option
601 to loop during restoring
602 * balance: new filter 'limit'
603 * recover: allow to read all sb copies
604 * btrfstune: new option to force dangerous changes
605 * receive: new option to limit number of errors
606 * show-super: skip unrecognized sb, add option to force
607 * debug-tree: print tree by id
608 * documentation updates
610 btrfs-progs-3.14.2 (2014-05-29)
611 * documentation is now written in asciidoc and there are manpages for each
615 btrfs-progs-3.14.1 (2014-04-18)
616 * properties: fix handling of option -t
617 * restore: fix reading of compressed extents
618 * minor code and doc updates
620 btrfs-progs-3.14 (2014-04-06)
621 * fsck: fixes and enhancements to --init-extent-tree mode
622 * fsck: chunk-recover updates
623 * scrub: add force option -f
624 * send: check if subvolumes are read-only
625 * subvol delete: add options to affect commit behaviour
626 * btrfs: add property command group
627 * restore: add dry-run option
628 * restore: fix restoring of compressed files
629 * mkfs: support for no-holes feature
630 * mkfs: option -r deals with hardlinks and relative paths
631 * mkfs: discard phase is interruptible
632 * documentation updates
634 btrfs-progs-3.12 (2013-11-25)
635 * announcement, tarballs
636 * first release after 0.19 (2009/06) with a lot of changes