[ANNOUNCE] xfsprogs v3.1.1

Alex Elder
2010-01-29T22:32:21Z

Version 3.1.1 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-3.1.1.tar.gz

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

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

Below is a summary (from the doc/CHANGES file) of changes
since release 3.0.3 (the last release for which an announcement
was posted, regrettably):

xfsprogs-3.1.1 (29 January 2010)
- Fix various blkid topology support problems in mkfs.xfs.
- Fix various build warnings.
- Add automatic build dependency calculations.
- Cleaner build system output.
- Add missing aclocal m4 file to the package generation.
- Arrange for release tags to be digitally signed.

xfsprogs-3.1.0 (13 January 2010)
- Reduce memory usage in xfs_repair by using better data
structures.
- Add additional checks in xfs_repair to detect freespace
btree corruption instead of only rebuilding the btrees.
Useful for the no-modify mode.
- Fix libhandle to use the right path to issue by-handle
ioctls for symbolic links and special files.
- Use lazy superblock counters by default. At least kernel
2.6.22 is needed for this feature.
- Use physical device sector size if available in mkfs.xfs,
so 4K sector devices are handed more gracefully.
- Add a German translation, thanks to Chris Leick.
- Enable the madvise and mincor commands in xfs_io.
- Fix unsafe temporary file creation in xfs_fsr.
- Add support for discarding unused space on SSDs or thin
provisioned arrays in mkfs.xfs.
- Allow linking against libblkid for topology information.
- Add symbol versioning for libhandle.
- Remove the included RPM and binary tarball built
infrastructure.
- Various build system improvements.
- Small fixes to xfs_db and xfs_io.

xfsprogs-3.0.4 (17 September 2009)
- Fix a memory leak in xfsprogs.
- Increase hash chain length in xfsprogs when running out of
memory.
- Fix dmsetup invocation in libdisk to avoid warnings during
mkfs on multipath devices.
- Fix the -V option to various installed tools.
- Small internal fixes to please the clang semantical
analysis tool.
- Debian packaging updates.
- Rework Makepkgs and Makefiles to improve deb generation.

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