1 btrfs-progs-4.10.2 (2017-03-31)
2 * check: lowmem mode fix for false alert about lost backrefs
3 * convert: minor bugfix
4 * library: fix build, misisng symbols, added tests
6 btrfs-progs-4.10.1 (2017-03-17)
7 * receive: handle subvolume in path clone
8 * convert: rollback fixed (rewrite was needed to address previous design issues)
9 * build: fix build of 3rd party tools, missing <linux/sizes.h>
10 * dump-tree: print log trees
12 * new and updated tests
14 btrfs-progs-4.10 (2017-03-08)
15 * send: dump output fixes: missing newlies
16 * check: several fixes for the lowmem mode, improved error reporting
18 * removed some library deps for binaries that not use them
20 * split Makefile to the autotool generated part and the rest, not needed
21 to autogen.sh after adding a file
22 * shared code: sync easy parts with kernel sources
25 * source file reorganization: convert, mkfs, utils
26 * lots of spelling fixes in docs, other updates
29 btrfs-progs-4.9.1 (2017-01-27)
31 * use correct inode number for lost+found files
32 * lowmem mode: fix false alert on dropped leaf
33 * size reports: negative numbers might appear in size reports during device
34 deletes (previously in EiB units)
35 * mkfs: print device being trimmed
36 * defrag: v1 ioctl support dropped
37 * quota: print message before starting to wait for rescan
38 * qgroup show: new option to sync before printing the stats
40 * corrupt-block enhancements
41 * backtrace and co. cleanups
44 btrfs-progs-4.9 (2016-12-23)
45 * check: many lowmem mode updates
46 * send: use splice syscall to copy buffer from kernel
47 * receive: new option to dump the stream in textual form
49 * move sources to own directory
50 * prevent accounting of blocks beyond end of the device
51 * make it work with 64k sectorsize
52 * mkfs: move sources to own directory
53 * defrag: warns if directory used without -r
55 * new option to check stats for non-zero values
56 * add long option for -z
57 * library: version bump to 0.1.2, added subvol_uuid_search2
62 btrfs-progs-4.8.5 (2016-11-30)
63 * receive: fix detection of end of stream (error reported even for valid
66 * added test for the receive bug
67 * fix linking of library-test
69 btrfs-progs-4.8.4 (2016-11-25)
70 * check: support for clearing space cache v2 (free-space-tree)
72 * more sanity checks (with tests), cleanups
73 * fix for fstests/btrfs/038 and btrfs/117 failures
75 * fix compilation of standalone ioctl.h, pull NULL definition
76 * fix library link errors introduced in 4.8.3
78 * add more fuzzed images from bugzilla
79 * add bogus send stream checks
80 * fixups and enhancements for CI environment builds
81 * misc refinements and updates of testing framework
83 * move sources for btrfs-image to own directory
84 * deprecated and not build by default: btrfs-calc-size, btrfs-show-super
87 btrfs-progs-4.8.3 (2016-11-11)
89 * support for clearing space cache (v1)
90 * size reduction of inode backref structure
92 * fix handling of multiple snapshots (-p and -c options)
93 * transfer buffer increased (should reduce number of context switches)
94 * reuse existing file for output (-f), eg. when root cannot create files (NFS)
96 * print missing items for various structures
97 * new: dev stats, balance status item
98 * sync key names with kernel (the persistent items)
99 * subvol show: now able to print the toplevel subvolume -- the creation time
100 might be wrong though
102 * store the creation time of toplevel root inode
103 * print UUID in the summary
104 * build: travis CI for devel
106 * lots of cleanups and refactoring
107 * switched to on-stack path structure
108 * fixes from coverity, asan, ubsan
110 * updates in testing infrastructure
111 * fixed convert test 005
113 btrfs-progs-4.8.2 (2016-10-26)
114 * convert: also convert file attributes
115 * convert: fix wrong tree block alignment for unalianged block group
116 * check: quota verify fixes, handle reloc tree
117 * build: add stub for FIEMAP_EXTENT_SHARED, compiles on ancient kernels
118 * build: add stub for BUILD_ASSERT when ioctl.h is included
119 * dump-tree: don't crash on unrecognized tree id for -t
121 * add more ioctl tests
122 * convert: more symlink tests, attribute tests
123 * quota verify for reloc tree
126 btrfs-progs-4.8.1 (2016-10-12)
128 * build without backtrace support fixed
130 btrfs-progs-4.8 (2016-10-05)
131 * error handling improvements all over the place
132 * new fuzzed images, test updates
134 * minor cleanups and improvements
135 * kernel library helpers moved to own directory
136 * qgroup: fix regression leading to incorrect status after check,
139 btrfs-progs-4.7.3 (2016-09-21)
140 * fixed free space tree compat status
141 * check: low-mem mode: handle partially dropped snapshots
142 * dump-super: consolidate options for superblock copy
143 * tree-stats: check mount status
144 * subvol delete: handle verbosity option
145 * defrag: print correct error string
146 * mkfs: fix reading rotational status
149 * documentation updates
150 * enhanced tests: convert, fuzzed images, more tools to run on fuzzed
153 btrfs-progs-4.7.2 (2016-09-05)
155 * urgent fix: false report of backref mismatches; do not --repair
156 last unaffected version 4.6.1 (code reverted to that state)
158 * added more sanity checks for various structures
159 * testing images added
160 * build: udev compatibility: do not install .rules on version < 190
162 * dump-super: do not crash on garbage value in csum_type
163 * minor improvements in messages and help strings
165 * filesystem features
167 btrfs-progs-4.7.1 (2016-08-25)
169 * new optional mode: optimized for low memory usage (memory/io tradeoff)
170 * --mode=lowmem, not default, still considered experimental
171 * does not work with --repair yet
172 * convert: regression fix, ext2_subvol/image rw permissions
174 * two-staged creation, partially created filesystem will not be recognized
175 * improved error handling (fewer BUG_ONs)
176 * convert: preparation for more filesystems to convert from
177 * documentation updates: quota, qgroup
181 * more build options, enhanced debugging
183 btrfs-progs-4.7 (2016-07-29)
184 * convert: fix creating discontig extents
185 * check: speed up traversing heavily reflinked extents within a file
186 * check: verify qgroups of higher levels
187 * check: repair can now fix wrong qgroup numbers
188 * balance: new option to run in the background
189 * defrag: default extent target size changed to 32MiB
190 * du: silently skip non-btrfs dirs/files
191 * documentation updates: btrfs(5), btrfs(8), balance, subvolume, scrub,
194 * unaligned access (reported for sparc64) in raid56 parity calculations
196 * other stability fixes and cleanups
199 btrfs-progs-4.6.1 (2016-06-24)
200 * fi resize: negative resize argument accepted again
201 * qgroup rescan: fix skipping when rescan is in progress
202 * mkfs: initialize stripesize to correct value
203 * testsuite updates, mostly convert tests
204 * documentation updates
205 * btrfs-device, btrfs-restore manual pages enhanced
208 btrfs-progs-4.6 (2016-06-10)
209 * convert - major rewrite:
210 * fix a long-standing bug that led to mixing data blocks into metadata block
212 * the workaround was to do full balance after conversion, which was
213 recommended practice anyway
214 * explicitly set the lowest supported version of e2fstools to 1.41
215 * provide and install udev rules file that addresses problems with device
216 mapper devices, renames after removal
217 * send: new option: quiet
218 * dev usage: report slack space (device size minus filesystem area on the dev)
220 * build: short options to enable debugging builds
224 * more tests and other enhancements
226 btrfs-progs-4.5.3 (2016-05-11)
227 * ioctl: fix unaligned access in buffer from TREE_SEARCH; might cause SIGBUS
228 on architectures that do not support unaligned access and do not performa
230 * improved validation checks of superblock and chunk-related structures
231 * subvolume sync: fix handling of -s option
232 * balance: adjust timing of safety delay countdown with --full-balance
233 * rescue super-recover: fix reversed condition check
234 * check: fix bytes_used accounting
235 * documentation updates: mount options, scrub, send, receive, select-super,
237 * testing: new fuzzed images, for superblock and chunks
239 btrfs-progs-4.5.2 (2016-05-02)
240 * new/moved command: btrfs-calc-stats -> btrfs inspect tree-stats
241 * check: fix false alert for metadata blocks crossing stripe boundary
242 * check: catch when qgroup numbers mismatch
243 * check: detect running quota rescan and report mismatches
244 * balance start: add safety delay before doing a full balance
245 * fi sync: is now silent
246 * fi show: don't miss filesystems with partially matching uuids
247 * dev ready: accept only one argument for device
248 * dev stats: print "devid:N" for a missing device instead of "(null)"
250 * lowest supported version of e2fsprogs is 1.41
251 * minor cleanups, test updates
253 btrfs-progs-4.5.1 (2016-03-31)
254 * mkfs: allow DUP on multi-device filesystems
255 * bugfixes: build fixes, assorted other fixes
257 btrfs-progs-4.5 (2016-03-20)
259 * btrfs-show-super -> btrfs inspect-internal dump-super
260 * btrfs-debug-tree -> btrfs inspect-internal dump-tree
263 * btrfs fi du - calculate disk usage, including shared extents
266 * device delete - delete by id (needs kernel support, not merged to
268 * check - new option to specify chunk root
269 * debug-tree/dump-tree - option -t understands human readable name of
270 the tree (along numerical ids)
271 * btrfs-debugfs - can dump block group information
274 * all commands should accept the option separator "--"
275 * several fixes in device scan
276 * restore works on filesystems with sectorsize > 4k
277 * debug-tree/dump-tree - print compression type as string
278 * subvol sync: fix crash, memory corruption
279 * argument parsing fixes: subvol get-default, qgroup create/destroy/
280 assign, inspect subvolid-resolve
281 * check for block device or regular file in several commands
284 * documentation updates
285 * manual pages for the moved tools now point to btrfs-filesystem
288 btrfs-progs-4.4.1 (2016-02-26)
289 * find-root: don't skip the first chunk
290 * free-space-tree compat bits fix
291 * build: target symlinks
292 * documentation updates
295 btrfs-progs-4.4 (2016-01-18)
296 User visible changes:
297 * mkfs.btrfs --data dup
299 People asked about duplicating data on a single device for a long time. There
300 are no technical obstacles preventing that, so it got enabled with a warning
301 about potential dangers when the device will not do the duplicated copies. See
302 mkfs.btrfs section DUP PROFILES ON A SINGLE DEVICE.
304 * support balance filters added/enhanced in linux 4.4
305 * usage=min..max -- enhanced to take range
306 * stripes=min..max -- new, filter by stripes for raid0/10/5/6
307 * limit=min..max -- enhanced to take range
308 Note: due to backward compatibility, the range maximum for 'usage' is not
309 inclusive as for the others, to keep the same behaviour as usage=N .
311 * manual pages enhanced (btrfs, mkfs, mount, filesystem, balance)
312 * error messages updates, rewordings -- some fstests may break due to that
313 * added support for free-space-tree implementation of space cache -- this
314 requires kernel 4.5 and is not recommended for non-developers yet
315 * btrfs filesystem usage works with mixed blockgroups
318 * installation to /usr/local -- this has unintentionally changed during
319 conversion to autotools in 3.19
320 * check: fix a false alert where extent record has wrong metadata flag
321 * improved stability on fuzzed/crafted images when reading sys array in
323 * build: the 'ar' tool is properly detected during cross-compilation
324 * debug-tree: option -t understands ids for tree root and chunk tree
325 * preparatory work for btrfs-convert rewrite
326 * sparse, gcc warning fixes
327 * more memory allocation failure handling
332 * chunk recovery: fix floating point exception
333 * chunk recovery: endianity bugfix during rebuild
334 * mkfs with 64K pages and nodesize reported superblock checksum mismatch
335 * check: properly reset nlink of multi-linked file
337 btrfs-progs-4.3.1 (2015-11-16)
339 * device delete: recognize 'missing' again
340 * mkfs: long names are not trimmed when doing ssd check
341 * support partitioned loop devices
343 * replace several mallocs with on-stack variables
344 * more memory allocation failure handling
345 * add tests for bugs fixed
346 * cmd-device: switch to new message printing helpers
347 * minor code cleanups
349 btrfs-progs-4.3 (2015-11-06)
351 * mixed mode is not forced for filesystems smaller than 1GiB
352 * mixed mode broken with mismatching sectorsize and nodesize, fixed
353 * print version info earlier
354 * print devices sorted by id
355 * do not truncate target image with --rootsize
357 * don't print global block reserve
359 * minor output tuning
362 * div-by-zero fix on an empty filesystem
365 * more superblock sanity checks
366 * consistently round size of all devices down to sectorsize
368 * convert: don't try to rollback with a half-deleted ext2_saved
371 * check: add progress indicator
372 * scrub: enhanced error message
373 * show-super: read superblock from a given offset
375 * docs: update manual page for mkfs.btrfs, btrfstune, balance,
376 convert and inspect-internal
377 * build: optional build with more warnings (W=...)
378 * build: better support for static checkers
379 * build: html output of documentation
380 * pretty-print: last_snapshot for root_item
381 * pretty-print: stripe dev uuid
382 * error reporting wrappers, introduced and example use
383 * refactor open_file_or_dir
384 * other docs and help updates
386 * test for nodes crossing stripes
387 * test for broken 'subvolume sync'
388 * basic tests for mkfs, raid option combinations
389 * basic tests for fuzzed images (check)
390 * command intrumentation (eg valgrind)
391 * print commands if requested
392 * add README for tests
394 btrfs-progs-4.2.3 (2015-10-19)
395 * subvol sync: make it actually work again: it's been broken since 4.1.2,
396 due to a reversed condition it returned immediately instead of waiting
397 * scanning: do not scan already discovered filesystems (minor optimization)
398 * convert: better error message in case the filesystem is not finalized
399 * restore: off-by-one symlink path check fix
401 btrfs-progs-4.2.2 (2015-10-05)
402 * fi label: use fallback if the label ioctl is not available
403 * convert: check nodesize constraints against commandline features (-O)
404 * scrub: report status 'running' until all devices are finished
405 * device scanning might crash in some scenarios
406 * fi usage: print summary for non-root users
408 btrfs-progs-4.2.1 (2015-09-20)
409 * fix an off-by-one error in cross-stripe boundary check
410 * if nodesize was 64k, any metadata block was reported as crossing,
411 this leads to mkfs failure for example due to "no free blocks
413 * for other nodesizes, if the end of the metadata block was 64k
414 aligned, it was incorrectly reported by fsck
415 * convert: don't write uninitialized data to image
417 * don't loop with option -t0
418 * don't create threads if compression is not requested
419 * other: minor cleanups
421 btrfs-progs-4.2 (2015-09-03)
423 * mkfs: do not create extra single chunks on multiple devices
424 * resize: try to guess the minimal size, 'inspect min-dev-size'
425 * qgroup assign: add option to schedule rescan
426 * chunk-recover: be more verbose about the scanning process
429 * find stripes crossing stripe boundary -- created by convert
430 * print correct range for file hole when there are no extents
431 and learn how to fix it
432 * replace: more sanity checks
433 * convert: concurrency fixes related to reporting progress
434 * find-root: option -a will not skip the current root anymore
435 * subvol list: fix occasional crash
436 * do not create stripes crossing stripe boundary
438 * fixes for musl libc
439 * preliminary support for android (not working yet, more code changes
441 * new EXTRA_CFLAGS and EXTRA_LDFLAGS
444 * tests: lots of updates, new tests, framework improvements
445 * documentation updates
446 * debugging: print-tree shows stripe length
448 btrfs-progs-4.1.2 (2015-07-14)
449 * urgent bugfix: mkfs creates invalid filesystem, must be recreated
451 btrfs-progs-4.1.1 (2015-07-10) -- Do not use this version!
453 * defrag: threshold overflow fix
455 * check if items fit into the leaf space
458 * create only desired block groups for single device
459 * preparatory work for fix on multiple devices
461 * new alias for 'device delete': 'device remove'
463 * fix compilation on old gcc (4.3)
464 * documentation updates
465 * debug-tree: print nbytes
466 * test: image for corrupted nbytes
467 * corrupt-block: let it kill nbytes
469 btrfs-progs-4.1 (2015-06-22)
471 * fsck.btrfs: no bash-isms
472 * bugzilla 97171: invalid memory access (with tests)
474 * cloning works with --chroot
475 * capabilities not lost
476 * mkfs: do not try to register bare file images
477 * option --help accepted by the standalone utilities
480 * corrupt block: ability to remove csums
482 * warn if metadata redundancy is lower than for data
483 * options to make the output quiet (only errors)
484 * mixed case names of raid profiles accepted
486 * more comprehensive, 'key: value' format
489 * print received uuid
491 * new options to specify size units
492 * sync: grab all deleted ids and print them as they're removed,
493 previous implementation only checked if there are any to be
494 deleted - change in command semantics
495 * scrub: print timestamps in days HMS format
497 * can specify mount point, do not rely on /proc
498 * can work inside subvolumes
499 * send: new option to send stream without data (NO_FILE_DATA)
500 * convert: specify incompat features on the new fs
502 * show: distinguish no limits and 0 limit value
503 * limit: ability to clear the limit
504 * help for 'btrfs' is shorter, 1st level command overview
505 * debug tree: print key names according to their C name
510 * rewrite uuid on a filesystem image
511 * new option to turn on NO_HOLES incompat feature
514 * standalone btrfs-zero-log
517 * testing framework updates
519 * btrfstune feature setting test
521 * more testing image formats
522 * manual page updates
523 * ioctl.h synced with current kernel uapi version
524 * convert: preparatory works for more filesystems (reiserfs pending)
525 * use static buffers for path handling where possible
526 * add new helpers for send uilts that check memory allocations,
527 switch all users, deprecate old helpers
528 * Makefile: fix build dependency generation
529 * map-logical: make it work again
531 btrfs-progs-4.0.1 (2015-05-20)
533 * can restore symlinks, new option --symlinks
534 * long option variants added
535 * convert: dropped dependency on acl.h header and libacl is not required
537 * fix for 'check' crash
538 * device remove error message fix
539 * preparatory works for fsid change
541 btrfs-progs-4.0 (2015-04-29)
543 * don't accept file as an argument (it's confusing)
544 * print better error message in case of an error
545 * restore: optionally restore metadata (time, mode, uid/gid)
546 * receive: optionally enforce chroot
547 * new rescue subcommand 'zero-log', same as btrfs-zero-log, but now also
548 part of the main utility
550 * free space checks match kernel, fixes incorrect reports
551 * convert: fix setting of checksum bit if --no-datasum is used
552 * fsck.btrfs: don't print messages
553 * fix quota rescan on PPC64 (mangled ioctl number)
555 * documentation: files renamed to .asciidoc, misc fixups
557 btrfs-progs-3.19.1 (2015-03-25)
559 * new option to specify metadata block size
560 * --no-progress actually works
561 * restore: properly handle the page boundary corner case
563 * missing macro from public header, BTRFS_BUILD_VERSION
564 * wrong handling of --enable-convert
565 * fi usage: reports correct space for degraded mounts
567 * mkfs: help string updates
568 * completion: added 'usage' subcommands
569 * cleanups in qgroup code, preparatory work
571 btrfs-progs-3.19 (2015-03-11)
572 * build converted to autotools
574 * restore can now run in parallel threads
575 * fixed restore of multiple image from multiple devices onto a single
577 * introduced metadump v2
578 * check: make --init-csum-tree and --init-extent-tree work together
579 * find-new: option to search through all metadata even if a root was
581 * convert: show progress by default, can be turned off
582 * corrupt-block: option to work on a specific root
583 * bash completion script for all subcommands
585 btrfs-progs-3.18.2 (2015-01-27)
586 * qgroup show: print human readable sizes, options to say otherwise
587 * check: new option to explicitly say no to writes
588 * mkfs: message about trimming is not printed to stderr
589 * fi show: fixed return value
590 * tests: new infrastructure
591 * btrfstune: force flag can be used together with seeding option
592 * backtrace support is back
594 * doc and help updates
596 btrfs-progs-3.18.1 (2015-01-09)
598 * documentation updates
600 btrfs-progs-3.18 (2014-12-30)
601 * mkfs - skinny-metadata feature is now on by default, first introduced in
603 * filesystem usage - give an overview of fs usage in a way that's more
604 comprehensible than existing 'fi df'
605 * device usage - more detailed information about per-device allocations
607 * option to set a different tree root byte number
608 * ability to link lost files to lost+found, caused by a recent kernel
610 * repair of severely corrupted fs (use with care)
611 * convert - option to show progress
612 * subvol create - print the commit mode inline, print the global mode only
614 * other updates: musl-libc support, coverity bugfixes, new test images,
617 btrfs-progs-3.17.3 (2014-12-04)
618 * convert: fix conversion of sparse ext* filesystems
619 * show: resolve to the correct path
620 * fsck: more verbose error for root dir problems
622 btrfs-progs-3.17.2 (2014-11-19)
624 * add ability to replace missing dir item/dir indexes
625 * fix missing inode items
626 * create missing root dirid
627 * corrupt block: enhancements for testing fsck
628 * zero-log: able to reset a fs with bogus log tree pointer (bug_72151)
630 btrfs-progs-3.17.1 (2014-11-04)
631 * fi df: argument handling
632 * fix linking with libbtrfs
633 * replace: better error reporting
634 * fi show: fixed stall if run concurrently with balance
635 * check: fixed argument parsing for --subvol-extents
636 * fi df: SI prefixes corrected
638 btrfs-progs-3.17 (2014-10-17)
639 * check: --init-csum-tree actually does something useful, rebuilds the
641 * /dev scanning for btrfs devices is gone
642 * /proc/partitions scanning is gone, blkid is used exclusively
643 * new subcommand subvolume sync
644 * filesystem df: new options to set unit format
645 * convert: allow to copy label from the origin, or specify a new one
647 btrfs-progs-3.16.2 (2014-10-01)
648 * a few fixes in fsck and image tools
650 btrfs-progs-3.16.1 (2014-09-15)
651 * print GlobalReserve in fi df output
652 * new option -R in subvol list
653 * library version defines
654 * static build is fixed
655 * build without documentation is possible
657 btrfs-progs-3.16 (2014-08-26)
658 * mkfs: new option to specify UUID, drop experimental notice
659 * check: new option to verify quotas, reduced memory requirements, new
660 option to print extent sharing
661 * restore: check length before decompression, more error handling, option
662 to loop during restoring
663 * balance: new filter 'limit'
664 * recover: allow to read all sb copies
665 * btrfstune: new option to force dangerous changes
666 * receive: new option to limit number of errors
667 * show-super: skip unrecognized sb, add option to force
668 * debug-tree: print tree by id
669 * documentation updates
671 btrfs-progs-3.14.2 (2014-05-29)
672 * documentation is now written in asciidoc and there are manpages for each
676 btrfs-progs-3.14.1 (2014-04-18)
677 * properties: fix handling of option -t
678 * restore: fix reading of compressed extents
679 * minor code and doc updates
681 btrfs-progs-3.14 (2014-04-06)
682 * fsck: fixes and enhancements to --init-extent-tree mode
683 * fsck: chunk-recover updates
684 * scrub: add force option -f
685 * send: check if subvolumes are read-only
686 * subvol delete: add options to affect commit behaviour
687 * btrfs: add property command group
688 * restore: add dry-run option
689 * restore: fix restoring of compressed files
690 * mkfs: support for no-holes feature
691 * mkfs: option -r deals with hardlinks and relative paths
692 * mkfs: discard phase is interruptible
693 * documentation updates
695 btrfs-progs-3.12 (2013-11-25)
696 * announcement, tarballs
697 * first release after 0.19 (2009/06) with a lot of changes