NTFS-3G 2010.8.8

Stable Version 2010.8.8 (August 8, 2010)
Download: https://tuxera.com/opensource/obsolete/ntfs-3g-2010.8.8.tgz

Changelog:

• New: Full, transparent, read-write compression support.
• New: Two new mount options: compression and nocompression (default).
• New: Introduced windows_names mount option to enforce only Windows names.
• Change: Re-enabled compression in root directory.
• Change: Reversed default for showing/hiding hidden files.
• Change: Redefined default user mapping.
• Change: Marked files whose name has a dot initial as “hidden” if option hide_dot_files is used.
• Change: Renamed option default_permissions to permissions.
• Fixed use of utimensat() with external fuse older than 2.8.
• Fixed a hang when reading a corrupt compressed file.
• Fixed a possible crash when creating a stream.
• Fixed all reported and found compressed write related bugs.
• Fixed partially overwriting sparse clusters on highly fragmented volumes.
• Fixed checking write errors in setxattr().
• Fixed processing end of partial runlist for compressed files.
• Fixed updating file compressed sizes.
• Fixed checking the device mount state.
• Fixed processing of options silent and no_def_opts.
• Fixed excessive cluster allocation within big holes.
• Fixed creating empty encrypted extended attributes.
• Fixed too permissive sanity check before compressing.
• Fixed error returns when writing compressed data.
• Fixed sanity checked when closing a compressed file.
• Fixed zeroing the end of an ex-hole cluster of compressed files.
• Improved sanity checks on security descriptors.

NTFS-3G 2010.7.23-RC

TEST Version 2010.7.23-RC (July 23, 2010)
Download: https://tuxera.com/opensource/obsolete/ntfs-3g-2010.7.23-RC.tgz

Changelog:

• Fixed partially overwriting sparse clusters on highly fragmented volumes.
• Fixed checking write errors in setxattr().
• Fixed processing end of partial runlist for compressed files.
• Fixed updating file compressed sizes.
• Fixed checking the device mount state.
• Fixed processing of options silent and no_def_opts.
• Fixed excessive cluster allocation within big holes.
• Fixed creating empty encrypted extended attributes.
• Fixed too permissive sanity check before compressing.
• Fixed error returns when writing compressed data.
• Fixed sanity checked when closing a compressed file.
• Improved sanity checks on security descriptors.

NTFS-3G 2010.6.31-RC

TEST Version 2010.6.31-RC (June 30, 2010)
Download: https://tuxera.com/opensource/obsolete/ntfs-3g-2010.6.31-RC.tgz

Changelog:

• New: Full, transparent, read-write compression support.
• New: Two new mount options: compression and nocompression (default).
• New: Introduced windows_names mount option to enforce only Windows names.
• Change: Re-enabled compression in root directory.
• Change: Reversed default for showing/hiding hidden files.
• Change: Redefined default user mapping.
• Change: Marked files whose name has a dot initial as “hidden” if option hide_dot_files is used.
• Change: Renamed option default_permissions to permissions.
• Fixed use of utimensat() with external fuse older than 2.8.
• Fixed a hang when reading a corrupt compressed file.
• Fixed a possible crash when creating a stream.
• Fixed all reported and found compressed write related bugs.

NTFS-3G 2010.5.22

Stable Version 2010.5.22 (May 31, 2010)
Download: https://tuxera.com/opensource/obsolete/ntfs-3g-2010.5.22.tgz

Changelog:

• Fixed build to create missing usermap and secaudit.

NTFS-3G 2010.5.16

Stable Version 2010.5.16 (May 16, 2010)
Download: https://tuxera.com/opensource/obsolete/ntfs-3g-2010.5.16.tgz

Changelog:

• Fixed a compilation issue with uClibc.
• Fixed modifying the read-only flag on a directory.
• Fixed a bug in ACL inheritance.
• Fixed a bad condition for security descriptor upgrade.
• Fixed a possible index block with no key in $SII.
• Fixed the condition for executing utime() and utimensat().
• Fixed wrong flags when uid/gid are forced in mount options.
• Fixed a bad error checking when closing a compressed file.
• Fixed compiler warnings on OpenSolaris.
• Fixed conditional code for self-test in secaudit.

NTFS-3G 2010.3.6

Stable Version 2010.3.6 (March 7, 2010)
Download: https://tuxera.com/opensource/obsolete/ntfs-3g-2010.3.6.tgz

Changelog:

• New: Support Object Identifiers which are used by Windows for shortcuts and caused CHKDSK warnings when the target was deleted.
• New: Nanosecond resolution file timestamps support.
• New: Selective file timestamp modification by utimensat(2).
• New: Make non-resident TXF_DATA attribute of root directory resident so Vista and later won’t complain about RAW partition.
• New: Caching inodes.
• New: More efficient UTF8/UTF16 translations.
• Fixed setting archive bit on file and alternated data stream creation.
• Fixed setting reparse tags in parent directories.
• Fixed enabling permissions when no UserMapping file is found.
• Fixed an error return code in the main mount function.
• Fixed setting timestamp via extended attributes to be consistent between Windows and Linux view.
• Fixed option processing when uid, gid, fmask or dmask are present.

NTFS-3G 2010.2.6-RC

TEST Version 2010.2.6-RC (February 7, 2010)
Download: https://tuxera.com/opensource/obsolete/ntfs-3g-2010.2.6-RC.tgz

Changelog:

• New: Support Object Identifiers which are used by Windows for shortcuts and caused CHKDSK warnings when the target was deleted.
• New: Nanosecond resolution file timestamps support.
• New: Selective file timestamp modification by utimensat(2).
• New: Make non-resident TXF_DATA attribute of root directory resident so Vista and later won’t complain about RAW partition.
• New: Caching inodes.
• New: More efficient UTF8/UTF16 translations.
• Fix: Setting timestamp via extended attributes was not consistent between Windows and Linux view.

NTFS-3G 2010.1.16

Stable Version 2010.1.16 (January 16, 2010)
Download: https://tuxera.com/opensource/obsolete/ntfs-3g-2010.1.16.tgz

Changelog:

• Fix: Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 couldn’t access a volume, file or directory if it had a non-resident TXF_DATA attribute despite being allowed by the NTFS $AttrDef attribute specification file. Solution is also available from Microsoft, please see KB974729. Upgrade is recommended!
• Fix: NTFS-3G may crashed if a junction point referred to a non-ASCII filename.
• Fix: Compilation errors on Mac OS X, OpenSolaris and openSUSE.

NTFS-3G 2009.11.14

Stable Version 2009.11.14 (November 15, 2009)
Download: https://tuxera.com/opensource/obsolete/ntfs-3g-2009.11.14.tgz

Changelog:

• New: Full file ownership and permissions support. The ownership and permissions of files are interoperable with Windows and conforms to the POSIX rules.
• New: POSIX ACL support. The ACLs are an extension to ownership and permissions as defined in POSIX.
• New: Optional Windows-type inheritance of ACLs.
• New: Full extended attributes support for all namespaces: user, system, security and trusted.
• New: Junction points support. The junction points and symbolic links created by Windows are seen as symbolic links.
• New: Access is possible to NTFS internal data like Windows style archive bit and file attributes. They are mapped to extended attributes for easier access.
• New: Compression write support: sequential writing to compressed files is supported.
• New: Support copying and restoring encrypted files without decrypting them.
• New: Support getting and setting high-resolution file timestamps.
• New: Support to get, set and remove DOS filenames.
• New: Tools for managing ownership, permissions and ACLs: ntfs-3g.secaudit checks the integrity of ownership, permissions and ACL, ntfs-3g.usermap gives help to configure ownership.
• New: Implemented setchgtime() on Mac OS X.
• Fix: Improved Windows junction and symlink handling.
• Fix: Improved ACL handling.
• Fix: Unicode normalization on Mac OS X.
• Fix: Implemented true fsync() on Mac OS X
• Change: Performance optimizations. Frequently used data are cached to improve speed. Space allocation for fragmented and sparse files has been improved.

NTFS-3G 2009.10.5-RC

TEST Version 2009.10.5-RC (October 10, 2009)
Download: https://tuxera.com/opensource/obsolete/ntfs-3g-2009.10.5-RC.tgz

Changelog:

• New: Full file ownership and permissions support. The ownership and permissions of files are interoperable with Windows and conforms to the POSIX rules.
• New: POSIX ACL support. The ACLs are an extension to ownership and permissions as defined in POSIX.
• New: Optional Windows-type inheritance of ACLs.
• New: Full extended attributes support for all namespaces: user, system, security and trusted.
• New: Junction points support. The junction points and symbolic links created by Windows are seen as symbolic links.
• New: Access is possible to NTFS internal data like Windows style archive bit and file attributes. They are mapped to extended attributes for easier access.
• New: Compression write support: sequential writing to compressed files is supported.
• New: Support copying and restoring encrypted files without decrypting them.
• New: Support getting and setting high-resolution file timestamps.
• New: Support to get, set and remove DOS filenames.
• New: Tools for managing ownership, permissions and ACLs: secaudit checks the integrity of ownership, permissions and ACL, usermap gives help to configure ownership.
• Change: Performance optimizations. Frequently used data are cached to improve speed. Space allocation for fragmented and sparse files has been improved.