+E2fsprogs 1.18 (November 10, 1999)
+==================================
+
+Fix a core dumping bug in e2fsck if an imagic inode is present or
+(more rarely) if the filesystem is badly corrupted enough that e2fsck
+has to restart pass 1 processing. E2fsck now closes the filesystem
+before freeing a large number of its data structures, so in the case
+of future memory faults, at least the fixed filesystem will be fully
+written out.
+
+If a filesystem doesn't support imagic inodes, and e2fsck discovers an
+imagic inode, it will offer to clear the imagic flag.
+
+E2fsck will now offer to clear the immutable flag on special files
+(device/socket/fifos) when running it in non-preen mode.
+
+E2fsck will now set the filetype when creating /lost+found, and when
+connected orphaned inodes to /lost+found.
+
+Debugfs's ncheck and icheck commands now handles the case where there
+are bad blocks in the inode table without bombing out.
+
+The badblocks list processing code has been made more efficiently for
+appending a large number of (ordered) badblocks to the badblocks list.
+
+Some minor man page updates.
+
+Fsck now allows interactive e2fsck's when using fsck -As (not a common
+mode, but some people like to do this in boot scripts for silly reasons).
+
+Programmer's notes:
+-------------------
+
+The internal e2fsck problem code for PR_2_SPLIT_DOT was fixed to meet
+with the problem code convention.
+
+The badblocks list regression test program has been updated to work
+with previously made API name changes.
+
+The ext2fs_free() command now uses the new badblocks API to avoid
+using the compatibility layer.
+
+Added new regression test cases; the run_e2fsck test script now
+supports the ability for a test case to run a prepratory command
+before running e2fsck.
+
+E2fsprogs 1.17 (October 26, 1999)
+=================================
+
+Fixed nasty typo in fsck which caused parallelized fsck's to go into an
+infinite loop.
+
+Fixed a bug in fsck where it used strncmp to compare a binary UUID,
+thus potentially causing problems if a binary UUID contained a NULL
+character.
+
+E2fsck now uses stricter checks for directory entries in pass 2:
+zero-length filenames are not allowed; neither are 8 byte long
+directory entries.
+
+The debugfs "dirty" command now clears the filesystem valid bit.
+(Previously this just set the dirty-as-in-needs-writing-out-to-disk
+bit in the in-core superblock image. The new functionality is more
+what the user expects, and is more useful.)
+
+Added a debugging hook to test parallel fsck; if the environment
+variable FSCK_FORCE_ALL_PARALLEL, then filesystems on the same drive
+will be checked in parallel when they normally would not be.
+
+Programmer's notes:
+-------------------
+
+Fixed some #ifdef's for compilation under the Hurd OS.
+
+Fixed minor W2K compatibility problems.
+
+Fixed some miscellaneous GCC warnings.
+
+
+E2fsprogs 1.16 (October 22, 1999)
+=================================
+
+Fixed a race condition bug in fsck; when printing a progress bar, if
+checking multiple filesystems in parallel, it was possible for fsck to
+send e2fsck a SIGUSR1 signal before e2fsck had installed its signal
+handler, which would cause it to terminate with a signal 10.
+
+E2fsck now properly handles filesystems that have the
+INCOMPAT_FILETYPE feature turned on. It can be used to convert a
+filesystem into using or not using FILETYPE feature.
+
+E2fsck now properly handles filesystems that have the IMAGIC feature
+turned on (this is used on Linux AFS servers).
+
+The mke2fs program now creates filesystems that have the filetype and
+sparse_superblock features enabled by default, unless it is run on a
+pre-2.2 kernel. These features are not supported by a pre-2.2 kernel,
+so there is now a new flag -O which allows the user to specify with
+which features she would like to create the filesystem; "mke2fs -O
+none" will create a filesystsem compatible with 2.0 kernels.
+
+The tune2fs program now has a -O option which allows the user to set
+and reset "safe" filesystem features. Currently, the only ones which
+allows to be modified are the filetype and sparse_superblock features.
+Note setting or clearing either feature will require running e2fsck on
+the filesystem afterwards. (n.b. Clearing the sparse_superblock feature
+requires that there is enough free space on the filesystem for the
+extra superblocks which will be created by e2fsck.)
+
+Debugfs can now set and print filesystem features in the superblock
+using the "features" command. Dumpe2fs will print out the complete
+set of features when listing the superblock.
+
+Dumpe2fs has new options -f (force) and -h (header-only).
+
+Fixed a bug in e2fsck which could cause the PROGRAMMING ERROR/bonehead
+message to come up. This could happen when decrementing or
+incrementing a link count could result in an overflow.
+
+Fixed a bug in e2fsck where the block count on the lost+found
+directory would not be properly incremented when the directory was
+expanded to the point where an indirect block needed to be allocated.
+
+E2fsck now makes some additional sanity checks on the superblock to
+avoid crashing or giving a memory allocation error if some of the
+values in the superblock are unresonable (but the superblock otherwise
+looks valid).
+
+Fixed a bug in e2fsck where a very badly corrupted filesystem might
+require two passes to completely fix the filesystem. This happened if
+an inode claimed blocks that was part of the filesystem metadata
+(typically, when garbage was written into an inode table or indirect
+block, since this kind of filesystem corruption normally doesn't
+happen otherwise).
+
+On the Alpha, glibc declares st_flags although it isn't actually used;
+the configure script was improved to detect this case so that
+e2fsprogs can avoid using the non-functional stat field.
+
+The manual pages were updated to use a more consistent formatting
+style consistent with standard Unix man pages. Mke2fs's man page
+added documentation for a few previously undocumented options.
+
+Fixed minor display bugs in tune2fs and mke2fs.
+
+Programmer's notes:
+-------------------
+
+Improved portability of e2fsprogs to non-Unix systems (in particular, NT).
+
+Added features to parse and print feature strings into the e2p library.
+(e2p_feature2string, e2p_string2feature, e2p_edit_feature).
+
+ext2fs_mkdir() and ext2fs_new_dir_block() now creates directories
+whose directory entries contain proper filetype information if the
+filesystem supports it.
+
+ext2fs_link() now uses the low 3 bits of its flags parameter to pass
+the directory entry filetype information. This is used to set the
+directory entry filetype information if the filesystem supports it.
+
+Fixed a bug in ext2fs_expand_dir() where the block count in a
+directory's inode would not be properly incremented when the directory
+was expanded to the point where an indirect block needed to be
+allocated.
+
+
+E2fsprogs 1.15 (July 18, 1999)
+==============================
+
+Add configuration checks so that e2fsprogs will compile cleanly on
+Linux 2.3 kernels that have renamed i_version to i_generation.
+
+E2fsck now prints a progress/completion bar (and not just a simple
+spinner) if the -C0 option is requested or if it receives a SIGUSR1
+signal. Fsck will automatically manage the (potentially muliple)
+e2fsck processes to print completion bars if it is given a -C option,
+with the right thing happening if multiple filesystems are being
+checked in parallel.
+
+Mke2fs now has better automatic hueristics to determine the filesystem
+parameters to be used for a particular filesystem. Added a new option
+-T which allows the user to specify how the filesystem is to be used,
+which helps mke2fs do a better job selecting the filesystem parameters.
+
+Mke2fs now creates revision 1 filesystems by default, and with the
+sparse superblock feature enabled. The sparse superblock feature is
+not understood by Linux 2.0 kernels, so they will only allow read-only
+mounts of filesystems with this sparse superblocks.
+
+Fix bug where if /dev/null couldn't be opened (should never happen),
+e2fsck would hang in a tight loop.
+
+Make e2fsck handle the case where /lost+found isn't a directory.
+
+E2fsck now uses mallinfo if it exists to get accurate statistics about
+its memory usage.
+
+Fix bug in e2fsck where it wouldn't check to see if a disconnected
+inode had any problems before connecting it to /lost+found.
+
+Add check to e2fsck so it makes sure that total number of inodes in
+the filesystem is a sane number.
+
+Fix fencepost error when clearing an the end of the block bitmap which
+caused the last block in the bitmap not to get cleared.
+
+Cleaned up a number of messages in e2fsck:
+ * The message "Group's #'s copy of the group descriptor..."
+ was fixed so that the correct number would be displayed.
+ * Added missing space in the "disk write-protected" error messsage
+ * Cleaned up the error message printed when a non-interactive
+ e2fsck needs to abort a check because the filesystem
+ appears to be mounted.
+
+Added a new command-line utility, uuidgen, which will create and print
+a UUID.
+
+Make debugfs's icheck command more robust by checking to make sure an
+inode has valid blocks before interarting over the inode's blocks.
+
+UUID generation now uses a random-based scheme whenever possible to
+prevent potential privacy problems.
+
+Man pages for all of the UUID functions in the lirbary were added.
+
+Fixed bug in fsck so it won't coredump if a filesystem not in
+/etc/fstab is given to it.
+
+Fsck now understands the UUID=xxxx and LABEL=yyyy forms in /etc/fstab
+that most of the other mount utilities understands.
+
+Mke2fs will make a filesystem even if it appears mounted if the force
+option is given.
+
+Dumpe2fs has new command-line options which allow a filesystem expert
+to specify the superblock and blocksize when opening a filesystem.
+This is mainly useful when examining the remains of a toasted
+filesystem.
+
+The badblocks program has been updated to display correctly on disks
+with large block numbers.
+
+The badblocks program no longer gives spurious errors when errors
+occur on non-block boundaries, which is common if the blocksize is
+larger than 1k.
+
+Mke2fs will sync the disk device every MKE2FS_SYNC block groups if the
+MKE2FS_SYNC environment variable is set. This is to work around a VM
+bug in the 2.0 kernel. I've heard a report that a RAID user was able
+to trigger it even using a 2.2 kernel, but hopefully it will not be
+needed for most Linux 2.2 users.
+
+Fixed miscellaneous documentation and man pages.
+
+Programmer's notes:
+-------------------
+
+Cleaned up functions such as pass1_get_blocks, pass1_read_inode which
+in e2fsck's pass1.c really should have been static.
+
+The return value of the uuid_compare() function was changed to make it
+match with the convetions used by strcmp, memcmp, and Paul Leach's
+UUID sample document.
+
+The "make depend" process has now been made more automated; it now
+automatically word-wraps the dependencies, and only replaces source
+Makefile.in if there has been a change in the dependencies. Also, a
+top-level "make depend" now recurses through all the subdirectories
+automatically.
+
+The Makefile in .../util has been changed so that subst is built using
+the native C compiler during a cross-compilation, since the subst
+program is only used during the build process. Also add an explicit
+rule to build util/subst by cd'ing to the correct directory and
+running Makefile.
+
+The man directories are defined in terms mandir, so that the configure
+script can override the location of the manual pages.
+
+The config files have been updated to recognize new machine types for
+both the i386 and alpha families.
+
+Fsck has been modified so that it will accurately create an
+fsck_instance even when the noexecute flag is set. This allows for
+accurate debugging of the fsck pass structure. Also, when the verbose
+flag is given twice, fsck will print debugging information about when
+fsck is waiting for jobs to finish.
+
+
+E2fsprogs 1.14 (January 9, 1999)
+================================
+
+Fix the fstab parsing code so that it can handle blank lines and
+comment characters. Also, missing pass numbers need to be treated as
+zero.
+
+Fixed a bug in e2fsck where under some circumstances (when e2fsck
+needs to restart processing after fixing an egregious inconsistency)
+it would try to access already freed memory.
+
+E2fsck now prints non-printable characters in directory entries and
+pathnames using '^' and 'M-' notation.
+
+Fixed chattr so that it will ignore symbolic links when doing
+recursive descent traversals. For both chattr and lsattr, no longer
+print the version string unless the -V option is given.
+
+Allow the system administrator to directly specify the number of
+inodes desired in the filesystem, for some special cases where this is
+necessary.
+
+Fix portability problems so that e2fsprogs can be compiled under Linux
+1.2 systems and Solaris systems.
+
+Update the config.guess file with a more recent version that will
+identify newer Linux platforms.
+
+Programmer's notes
+------------------
+
+Ext2fs_read_inode and ext2fs_write_inode will now return an error if
+an inode number of zero is passed to them.
+
E2fsprogs 1.13 (December 15, 1998)
==================================
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