[ntfs-3g-devel] Stable NTFS-3G + NTFSPROGS 2015.3.14 Released

[Szabolcs S. <sz...@tu...>]

Greetings,

We are happy to announce the next release of NTFS-3G and ntfsprogs.

Changes to NTFS-3G:

    - Fixed inserting a new ACL after wiping out by chkdsk
    - Fixed Windows-type inheritance
    - Fixed ignoring the umask mount option when permissions are used
    - Fixed checking permissions when Posix ACLs are compiled in but not enabled
    - Disabled option remove_hiberfile on read-only mounts
    - Implemented an extended attribute to get/set EAs
    - Avoid full runlist updating in more situations
    - Update ctime after setting an ACL
    - Use MFT record 15 for the first extent to MFT:DATA
    - Ignore the sloppy mount option (-s)
    - Implemented FITRIM (fstrim) ioctl
    - Reengineered the compression algorithm

Changes to ntfsprogs:

    - Return success from ntfsprogs utilities with options –version and the like
    - Implemented configure option –enable-quarantined for non functional utilities
    - Added manuals for ntfsdecrypt, ntfswipe, ntfstruncate and ntfsfallocate

The stable release is available at

   http://www.tuxera.com/community/open-source-ntfs-3g/

Many thanks to Jean-Pierre Andre, Erik Larsson, Richard W.M. Jones, Eric Biggers 
and numerous contributors who sent us bug reports and suggestions for improvements.

Best regards,

   Tuxera Open Source Team