[Linux-NTFS-Announce] ntfsprogs 1.8.5 released

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

ntfsprogs 1.8.5 has now been released.  This release is basically a
spring clean of the build process with lots of cleanups and a few bug
fixes thrown in for good measure.  Upgrade is not essential.

You can download rpms and source code from:

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

Or get the changes from bitkeeper:

        bk pull http://linux-ntfs.bkbits.net/ntfsprogs

ChangeLog from 1.8.4 release:
- Fixup ntfsinfo a little bit and give its manpage a small update to
  reflect reality a little better.
- Fix BLKGETSIZE usage; parameter is unsigned long not long. (Szaka)
- Use BLKGETSIZE64 when available which allows use of devices bigger
  than 2TiB.
- Enable GNU extensions if present.  This means that you need to
  include config.h before any other non-ntfs header files.
- Use AC_SYS_LARGEFILE in configure.ac instead of manually defining
  _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 in CFLAGS.  This means that you need to include
  config.h before any other non-ntfs header files.
- Update all source to include config.h before any other non-ntfs
  header files.
- Move include files from ntfsprogs/include to ntfsprogs/include/ntfs
  and adapt build system.  (Feature requested by Christophe Grenier.)
- Fix potential buffer overflow bug in ntfsprogs/mkntfs.c::stoucs().
  Thanks to Andras Erdei.
- Small cleanup of ./configure.ac to show better formatted option help
  text and other little bits.
- Add --disable-default-device-io-ops option to ./configure which makes
  for a smaller libntfs but results in ntfs_mount() always returning
  error with errno set to ENOTSUP.  You need to use ntfs_device_mount()
  instead.  This only makes sense with "make libs" and when an
  application linking statically against libntfs provides its own
  device io operations.  (Feature requested by Christophe Grenier.)
- Fix a duplicated free() in mkntfs. (Andras Erdei)
- Fix option display in mkntfs. (Andras Erdei)

Best regards,

	Anton
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Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
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