Support for the MMP feature can now be disabled at compile time.
+E2fsprogs 1.42.12 (August 25, 2014)
+===================================
+
+Fix various e2fsck bugs when trying to repair bigalloc file systems.
+
+E2fsck can now repair a file system with an overly large
+s_first_meta_bg field, which had previously caused all e2fsprogs
+programs to crash when trying to open such a file system.
+
+Fix e2fsck so that it can correctly fix a number of rare file system
+corruptions that were discovered when using a file system fuzzer.
+
+Fix e2fsck so it does not try to write back block group descriptors if
+they have not been modified.
+
+Mke2fs program will now place metadata blocks in the last flex_bg so
+they are contiguous. This reduces free space fragmentation in a
+freshly created file system, as well as allowing mke2fs commands which
+request extremely large flex_bg size to succeed.
+
+Mke2fs now creates hugefiles more efficiently (with fewer extent tree
+blocks).
+
+Fix a 32/64-bit overflow bug that could cause resize2fs to loop
+forever. (Addresses-Launchpad-Bug: #1321958)
+
+The resize2fs program will now use much less memory when resizing very
+large file systems.
+
+Fix a bug which could cause resize2fs to get confused and produce a
+corrupted file system when shrinking a file system that had been
+previously expanded and converted to use the meta_bg file system
+format, but which no longer needs to use the meta_bg file system
+format any longer. This typically happened with large (> 16TB) file
+systems. (Addresses Debian Bug: #756922)
+
+The e4defrag program will now defrag backwards-allocated files.
+
+Fix tune2fs updating UUID's when manipulating file systems with
+external journals (both the file system and journal UUID).
+
+Fix tune2fs so it can remove an external journal for file systems with
+a 1k block size.
+
+Add a new debugfs command, "inode_dump", which prints the inode in hex
+and ASCII format.
+
+The debugfs's "set_inode_field" will now automatically allocate blocks
+for indirect blocks and extent tree blocks.
+
+Fix debugfs's "set_inode_field" so can properly handle
+"block[IND|DIND|TIND]".
+
+The debugfs "rdump" command will now take multiple source arguments.
+
+Fixed a double close(2) bug in "rdump" and "rdump -p".
+
+Fix debugfs's argument parsing for the freefrag command.
+
+Fix filefrag to properly handle using the FIBMAP ioctl (with -B).
+(Addresses Launchpad Bug: #1356496)
+
+Clarified messages that were confusing users in debugfs, e2fsck,
+mke2fs, and resize2fs (Addresses Debian Bugs: #758029, #757543,
+#757544)
+
+Dumpe2fs will now complain if extra arguments are given to it.
+(Addresses Debian Bug: #758074)
+
+Updated/fixed various man pages. (Addresses-Debian-Bug: #726760)
+
+Update Czech, Dutch, French, Polish, Spanish, Sweedish, Ukrainian, and
+Vietnamese translations.
+
+Programmer's Notes
+------------------
+
+The Unix I/O layer will now use pread[64]/pwrite[64] to reduce the
+number of system calls issued.
+
+Fixed profiled build.
+
+The libext2fs library will now more efficiently split an extent tree
+index block when appending to an end of a file.
+
+Fixed free block accounting for 64-bit file systems.
+
+Add a new function ext2s_inode_size_set() which takes care of all of
+the required feature flag modifications.
+
+The regression tests no longer require the presence of the md5sum
+program.
+
+Fix build failure on MIPS platforms on Debian (Addresses Debian Bug:
+#754605)
+
+Fix various Coverity warnings (#1225003, #1229243, #1252003)
+
+
+E2fsprogs 1.42.11 (July 9, 2014)
+================================
+
+Add support so that mke2fs can create hugefiles so that they are
+aligned relative to the beginning of the disk, instead of relative to
+the beginning of the partition, using the mke2fs.conf configuration
+parameter "hugefiles_align_disk".
+
+Fix a bug which causes e2fsck to abort a journal replay on a file
+system with bigalloc enabled. (Addresses Debian Bug: #744953)
+
+Add sanity checks so that mke2fs will refuse insanely large flex_bg
+counts specified by the -G option. Insanely large flex_bg sizes can
+result in a file system which can't be unmounted, or with extremely
+pessimal metadata layouts.
+
+The mke2fs program will provide a better metadata layout for
+moderately large (but believable) flex_bg counts, such as 133,072.
+
+The mke2fs progam will also check the kernel version number to
+determine whether the lazy_itable_init option is supported, so that
+lazy inode table initialization can be used even if the ext4 is
+compiled as a module which isn't loaded at the time that mke2fs is
+run.
+
+Add description of ext4's mount options to the ext4 section 5 man
+page.
+
+Improve the chattr man page and clean up the chattr usage message.
+
+E2fsck will now automatically fix a last mount time or last write time
+which is in the future in preen mode, instead of aborting the fsck
+check.
+
+Mke2fs will now check the file system revision number requested by the
+command line, and reject it if it is too large. A file system with an
+unsupported revision number will not be accepted by any of the other
+file system tools, and this command line option is rarely used, so
+let's try to help the user not shoot their own foot off.
+
+The debugfs progam can now set the error count and associated
+first_error and last_error fields in the superblock using the
+set_super_value command.
+
+Resize2fs will not try to calculate the minimum size of a file system
+if it contains errors. Otherwise a very badly corrupted file system
+image can cause the minimum size calculation to loop forwever. Since
+resize2fs will not allow a file system marked as containing errors to
+be resized. It's pointless to calculate the minimum size, so just
+skip it.
+
+Fixed a typo in one of mke2fs's error message.
+
+If filefrag runs into an error, it will continue processing the rest
+of the files specified on thec ommand line, but then exit with an
+error code.
+
+Filefrag now prints some additional new flags (such as
+FIEMAP_EXTENT_ENCODED), and print unknown flags as hex values.
+
+Fixed support in filefrag for files with > 2**32 blocks on 32-bit
+platforms.
+
+Fixed a file descriptor leak in debugfs when copying files.
+
+Fixed a regression introduced in 1.42.10 which caused mke2fs to fail
+to create file systems larger than 2GB on 32-bit platforms.
+(Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #1099892, Debian Bug: #752107)
+
+Add Esparanto and Ukrainian translations, and update Czech, Dutch,
+French, German, Italian, Polish, Sweedish, and Vietnamese
+translations.
+
+Fixed various compiler warnings.
+
+
+Programmer's Notes
+------------------
+
+The gcc "-checker" option has been long deprecated, so remove support
+from e2fsprogs. It was causing a few people to be confused when they
+tried enabling the configure option.
+
+Update to the latest version of the config.status and config.rpath
+files, as well as newer versions of the autoconf files in aclocal.m4.
+Also, move the e2fsprogs-specific macros to acinclude.m4, which allows
+people who want to use autoreconf to do so.
+
+Make the use of strptime() function in debugfs to be more portable to
+fix regression test failures for FreeBSD and MacOS.
+
+A few miscellaneous changes designed to make life easier for
+translators.
+
+Fix the f_quota test and some Makefile dependencies if quota support
+is not enabled.
+
+Fix cross-compilation support, which got broken in 1.42.10.
+(Addresses Debian Bug: #753375)
+
+Delete lib/ext2_types.h on a make clean, and build it as necessary.
+
+Add a debug program used for libext2fs unit tests.
+
+Clean up the tests so that it avoids using GNU-specific behaviour in
+mktemp. Make sure the temporary files are cleaned up if the tests are
+interrupted.
+
+Add a new ext2fs_close_free() helper function which automatically
+takes care of freeing the ext2_filsys structure even if ext2fs_close()
+returns an error.
+
E2fsprogs 1.42.10 (May 18, 2014)
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