Release 2022.10.3

Security release 2022.10.3 (Oct 3, 2022)
Download: https://tuxera.com/opensource/ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs-2022.10.3.tgz

Changes:

• Rejected zero-sized runs
• Avoided merging runlists with no runs

NTFS-3G 2022.5.17

Security release 2022.5.17 (May 26, 2022)
Download: https://tuxera.com/opensource/ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs-2022.5.17.tgz

Changelog:

• Improved defence against maliciously tampered NTFS partitions
• Improved defence against improper use of options
• Updated the documentation

NTFS-3G 2021.8.22

Stable Version 2021.8.22 (August 30, 2021)
Download: https://tuxera.com/opensource/ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs-2021.8.22.tgz

Changelog:

• Fixed compile error when building with libfuse < 2.8.0
• Fixed obsolete macros in configure.ac
• Signalled support of UTIME_OMIT to external libfuse2
• Fixed an improper macro usage in ntfscp.c
• Updated the repository change in the README
• Fixed vulnerability threats caused by maliciously tampered NTFS partitions

NTFS-3G 2017.3.23AR.6

Stable Version 2017.3.23AR.6 (February 1, 2021)
Download: https://tuxera.com/opensource/ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs-2017.3.23AR.6.tgz

Changelog:

• Used kernel cacheing on read-only mounts or with lowntfs-3g
• Avoided information leak when processing garbled compressed data
• Defined option posix_nlink to compute a Posix compliant st_nlink
• Recovered space when an index root is shortened
• Replaced ENODATA with ENOATTR in xattrs functions for macOS
• Added support for 'position' argument in macOS xattr functions
• Changed default xattr access method to 'openxattr' for macOS builds
• Allowed redefining the target location of the ntfsprogs tools
• Fixed updating the allocated size when attribute lies in an extent
• Enabled actions on directories in reparse plugins
• Inserted the reparse tag in the bad reparse symlink
• Supported use of WSL special files
• Dropped rejecting having both EA and reparse data
• Enabled Creating special files the same way as WSL
• Checked the locations of MFT and MFTMirr at startup

NTFS-3G 2017.3.23AR.5

Stable Version 2017.3.23AR.5 (April 1, 2020)

Changelog:

• Processed the request argument of ioctl() as unsigned
• Accepted alternative recording of cluster size
• Fixed a poorly sized string in ntfsinfo
• Fixed ntfsfallocate on a void file
• Decoded execlink reparse points
• Fixed object type returned in readdir() for reparse points
• Exported the translations of Windows paths to current ones

NTFS-3G 2017.3.23AR.4

Stable Version 2017.3.23AR.4 (March 1, 2019)

Changelog:

• Fixed reporting an error when failed to build the mountpoint
• Reverted accessing reparse directory through internal plugins
• Cleaned object ids beyond the updated part
• Fixed reacting to missing plugin
• Returned a low level error when an ioctl fails
• Truncated SSD trimming zones to granularity supported by the device

NTFS-3G 2017.3.23AR.3

Stable Version 2017.3.23AR.3 (September 1, 2018)

Changelog:

• Made sure log file buffers are properly aligned
• Made reparse directories visible through internal plugins
• Added an option to ntfscp to copy the modification time
• Renamed undeleted files to avoid overwriting existing ones
• Extended the allowed cluster size to 2MB
• Allocated full clusters for reading and rescuing in ntfsclone
• Prevented locally defined headers from interfering with ntfs-3g ones
• Attempted mounting read-only after failed permission to read-write
• Fixed collecting the label argument in mkntfs

NTFS-3G 2017.3.23AR.2

Stable Version 2017.3.23AR.2 (March 1, 2018)

Changelog:

• Made sure log file buffers are properly aligned
• Checked log file blocks more recent than temporary ones
• Processed redo log actions associated to undoing a CompensationlogRecord
• Allowed setting a file object id without defining its birth ids
• Documented read-only mount when Windows is hibernated
• Stopped checking matches of MFTMirr against MFT at record 16
• Filtered out reparse flags for selecting plugins
• Delayed updating the MFT runlist when resizing in read-only mode
• Double-checked whether record 15 is an extent of MFT
• Checked whether the device to mount was forced read-only

NTFS-3G 2017.3.23AR.1

Stable Version 2017.3.23AR.1 (October 1, 2017)

Changelog:

• Bypassed cluster allocation errors using --ignore-fs-check in ntfsclone
• Upgraded ntfsrecover to support log files for Windows 10
• Fixed the computation of highest_vcn when applying a runlist fixup
• Fixed updating the vcn of subtree in ntfsrecover
• Relaxed checks on security descriptors
• Enabled directory operations in plugins
• Decoded more reparse tags in ntfsinfo
• Logged falling back to mounting read-only
• Fixed compiling on MacOSX (Erik Larsson)

NTFS-3G 2017.3.23

Stable Version 2017.3.23 (March 28, 2017)
Download: https://tuxera.com/opensource/ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs-2017.3.23.tgz

Changelog:

• Delegated processing of special reparse points to external plugins
• Allowed kernel cacheing by lowntfs-3g when not using Posix ACLs
• Enabled fallback to read-only mount when the volume is hibernated
• Made a full check for whether an extended attribute is allowed
• Moved secaudit and usermap to ntfsprogs (now ntfssecaudit and ntfsusermap)
• Enabled encoding broken UTF-16 into broken UTF-8
• Autoconfigured selecting <sys/sysmacros.h> vs <sys/mkdev>
• Allowed using the full library API on systems without extended attributes support
• Fixed DISABLE_PLUGINS as the condition for not using plugins
• Corrected validation of multi sector transfer protected records
• Denied creating/removing files from $Extend
• Returned the size of locale encoded target as the size of symlinks