[ANNOUNCE] xfsprogs 3.1.8

[ANNOUNCE] xfsprogs 3.1.8

[Ben Myers]

Version 3.1.8 of xfsprogs has been released.

A gzipped tar archive of the source code is available here:

ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/cmd_tars/xfsprogs-3.1.8.tar.gz

The source code can be accessed via git using this URL:

git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/cmds/xfsprogs

Below is a summary (from the doc/CHANGES file) of changes since release
3.1.7.

xfsprogs-3.1.8 (20 March 2012)
	- Fix xfs_repair segfault on a corrupted filesystem by validating the
	  acl count before reading it.
	- Avoid xfs_repair deadlocks on prefetched buffers.
	- Fix various incorrect printf formats, thanks to Jakub Bogusz for
	  reporting.
	- Polish translation update, thanks to Jakub Bogusz.
	- Refuse mkfs.xfs on misaligned devices when using 4k sectors, unless
	  the -f option is specified, and then force 512b sector size,
	  thanks to Carlos Maiolino.
	- Avoid a possible loop on the unlinked inode list in phase 3 of
	  xfs_repair, thanks to Stefan Pfetzing for reporting.
	- Allocate inode and free extent records individually in xfs_repair.
	- Fix a possible deadlock btree nodes in xfs_repair by using recursive
	  locking, thanks to Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz for reporting and testing.
	- Fix possible xfs_repair deadlocks in inode prefetching, thanks to
	  Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz for reporting and testing.
	- Make xfs_repair handle filesystems with the log in ag 0, thanks to
	  Sindre Skogen for reporting.
	- Deprecate the -F foreign flag to xfs_io.
	- Add debian linux-libc-dev build dependancy.
	- Add an extended fiemap configure check.
	- Various cleanups in xfs_repair.
	- Update xfs_check man page to recommend xfs_repair over xfs_check,
	  thanks to Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz.
	- Update the on-disk extent count as part of inode repair when moving
	  inodes to lost+found to avoid to avoid tripping over a check in
	  xfs_iformat, thanks to Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz for reporting and
	  testing.
	- Check for size parsing errors in xfs_quota, thanks to James Lawrie
	  for reporting.
	- Fix fiemap loop continuation in xfs_io.
	- Make mkfs.xfs properly handle physical sector size.
	- Fix /proc/mounts parsing in xfs_fsr.
	- Fix xfs_repair when ag_stride options with attributes and dirv1 code,
	  thanks to Tom Crane for reporting and testing.
	- Fix message formats in process_dinode_int.
	- Fix xfs_repair handling of link counts when the on-disk count
	  overflows 8 bits.
	- Fix messages from set_nlinks in xfs_repair.

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