[Linux-NTFS-Announce] ntfsprogs 1.11.0 released

[Anton A. <ai...@ca...>]

Following on the tail of the 1.10.0 release, this release fixes some
important bugs so upgrade is strongly recommended.  Also, a new utility
is introduced (ntfsmount) which is a FUSE 2.3.0 module which allows
mounting of ntfs volumes from userspace.  The volumes are then accessed
using functionality provided by the ntfs library (libntfs).  For
developers, there is also a new utility (ntfsdecrypt), built only with
"make extra", which decrypts encrypted ntfs files.  Note this only works
on Windows/Cygwin at present as it needs the Windows Crypto API to
obtain the users private key.

You can download rpms and source code of the 1.11.0 release:

        http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/downloads.html

Or get the changes from Sourceforge CVS, for details see:

        http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=13956

ChangeLog since 1.10.0 release:
- ntfscp: fix signal hanling: handle both SIGTERM and SIGINT, print
  correct message.  (Yura)
- Update manual pages for ntfsprogs, ntfsclone, ntfsresize and
  ntfsfix.  (Szaka)
- ntfsclone: detect and hint users if the destination fs does not
  support sparse files.  (Szaka)
- Fix memory managament error in ntfs_inode_close.  (Yura)
- Add new utility - ntfsmount.  It is a FUSE module that reles on
  libntfs.  (Yura)
- ntfsresize: support bad clusters list ($BadClus:$Bad), a.k.a. disks
  having bad sectors if the new --bad-sectors option is used.  (Szaka)
- ntfsinfo: Dump $EA_INFORMATION and $EA attributes.  (Yura)
- mkntfs: Fix backup bootsector creation.  Thanks to Timur Amirkhanov
  for pointing these stupidities out.  (We forgot to set the size
  before doing it and we wrote more bytes then there were in the buffer
  if sector size was above 8kiB and we only reserved one sector even
  when sector size was less than 512 bytes and then we wrote 512 bytes,
  i.e. beyond the end of the device.)  (Anton)
- Add new utility (make extra) - ntfsdecrypt.  (Yuval)
- Improve "already mounted" check.  (Yura)
- Remove AC_FUNC_MALLOC and AC_FUNC_REALLOC from configure.ac as we
  do not provide replacement functions for them and the checks break
  cross compilation.  (Christophe)

Best regards,

        Anton
-- 
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
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