Miklos Szeredi | c43f941 | 2005-08-15 15:10:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 1 | What is new in 2.4 |
| 2 | |
| 3 | - Simplify device opening. Now '/dev/fuse' is a requirement |
| 4 | |
| 5 | - Allow module auto-loading if user has access to '/dev/fuse' |
| 6 | |
| 7 | - Allow mounting over a regular file for unprivileged users |
| 8 | |
| 9 | - Allow mounting of arbitrary FUSE filesystems from /etc/fstab |
| 10 | |
| 11 | - New mount options: 'umask=M', 'uid=N', 'gid=N' |
| 12 | |
| 13 | - Check for non-empty mountpoint, and refuse mount by default. New |
| 14 | mount option: 'nonempty' |
| 15 | |
| 16 | - Low level (inode based) API added |
| 17 | |
| 18 | - File locking primitives added to kernel and low level API |
| 19 | |
| 20 | - Add 'access' method to kernel, and library APIs |
| 21 | |
| 22 | - Allow 'direct_io' and 'keep_cache' options to be set on a |
| 23 | case-by-case basis on open. |
| 24 | |
| 25 | - Add 'attr_timeout' and 'entry_timeout' mount options to the |
| 26 | high-level library. Until now these timeouts were fixed at 1 sec. |
| 27 | |
| 28 | - Some bugfixes |
| 29 | |
Miklos Szeredi | 18fce98 | 2005-04-01 21:07:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 30 | What is new in 2.3 |
| 31 | |
| 32 | - Add new directory related operations: opendir(), readdir(), |
Miklos Szeredi | ede1f7a | 2005-04-01 21:08:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 33 | releasedir() and fsyncdir() |
| 34 | |
| 35 | - Add init() and destroy() operations which are called before the |
| 36 | event loop is started and after it has exited |
Miklos Szeredi | 18fce98 | 2005-04-01 21:07:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 37 | |
| 38 | - Update kernel ABI so that on dual architectures (e.g. AMD64) 32bit |
| 39 | binaries work under a 64bit kernel |
| 40 | |
| 41 | - Bugfixes |
| 42 | |
Miklos Szeredi | 67453ec | 2005-01-18 07:59:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 43 | What is new in 2.2 |
| 44 | |
| 45 | Userspace changes: |
| 46 | |
Miklos Szeredi | 966c8de | 2005-01-20 12:52:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 47 | - Add fuse_file_info structure to file operations, this allows the |
| 48 | filesystem to return a file handle in open() which is passed to |
| 49 | read(), write(), flush(), fsync() and release(). |
Miklos Szeredi | 67453ec | 2005-01-18 07:59:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 50 | |
| 51 | - Add source compatibility with 2.1 and 1.4 releases |
| 52 | |
| 53 | - Binary compatibility with 2.1 release is retained |
| 54 | |
| 55 | Kernel changes: |
| 56 | |
| 57 | - Make requests interruptible. This prevents the filesystem to go |
| 58 | into an unbreakable deadlock with itself. |
| 59 | |
| 60 | - Make readpages() synchronous. Asynchronous requests are deadlock |
| 61 | prone, since they cannot be interrupted (see above) |
| 62 | |
| 63 | - Remove shared-writeable mapping support, which could deadlock the |
| 64 | machine |
| 65 | |
| 66 | - Remove INVALIDATE userspace initiated request |
| 67 | |
| 68 | - Update ABI to be independent of sizeof(long), so dual-size archs |
| 69 | don't cause problems |
| 70 | |
| 71 | - Remove /sys/fs/fuse/version. Version checking is now done through |
| 72 | the fuse device |
| 73 | |
Miklos Szeredi | 966c8de | 2005-01-20 12:52:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 74 | - Replace directory reading method on the kernel interface. Instead |
| 75 | of passing an open file descriptor to the kernel, send data through |
| 76 | the FUSE device, like all other operations. |
| 77 | |
Miklos Szeredi | 67453ec | 2005-01-18 07:59:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 78 | ============================================================================ |
| 79 | |
Miklos Szeredi | 3a6ea06 | 2004-11-11 10:33:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 80 | What is new in 2.1 |
| 81 | |
| 82 | * Bug fixes |
| 83 | |
| 84 | * Improved support for filesystems implementing a custom event-loop |
| 85 | |
| 86 | * Add 'pkg-config' support |
| 87 | |
| 88 | * Kernel module can be compiled separately |
| 89 | |
| 90 | ============================================================================ |
| 91 | |
Miklos Szeredi | 127d49b | 2004-10-14 13:33:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 92 | What is new in 1.9 |
| 93 | |
| 94 | * Lots of bugs fixed |
| 95 | |
| 96 | * Minor modifications to the library API |
| 97 | |
| 98 | * Improvements to the kernel/userspace interface |
| 99 | |
| 100 | * Mounting by non-root made more secure |
| 101 | |
| 102 | * Build shared library in addition to the static one |
| 103 | |
| 104 | * Consolidated mount options |
| 105 | |
| 106 | * Optimized reading under 2.6 kernels |
| 107 | |
| 108 | * Direct I/O support |
| 109 | |
| 110 | * Support file I/O on deleted files |
| 111 | |
| 112 | * Extended attributes support |
| 113 | |
Miklos Szeredi | 3a6ea06 | 2004-11-11 10:33:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 114 | ============================================================================ |
| 115 | |
Miklos Szeredi | 127d49b | 2004-10-14 13:33:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 116 | What is new in 1.3 |
| 117 | |
| 118 | * Thanks to user bugreports and stress testing with LTP and sfx-linux |
| 119 | a number of bugs were fixed, some quite serious. |
| 120 | |
| 121 | * Fix compile problems with recent SuSE kernles |
| 122 | |
Miklos Szeredi | 35a0a60 | 2005-01-20 20:57:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 123 | ============================================================================ |
| 124 | |
Miklos Szeredi | 127d49b | 2004-10-14 13:33:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 125 | What is new in 1.2 |
| 126 | |
| 127 | * Fix mount problems on recent 2.6 kernels with SELinux enabled |
| 128 | |
| 129 | * Fixed writing files lager than 2GBytes |
| 130 | |
| 131 | * Other bugfixes |
| 132 | |
Miklos Szeredi | 3a6ea06 | 2004-11-11 10:33:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 133 | ============================================================================ |
| 134 | |
Miklos Szeredi | 8b4e096 | 2004-01-07 13:17:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 135 | What is new in 1.1 |
| 136 | |
| 137 | * Support for the 2.6 kernels |
| 138 | |
Miklos Szeredi | b115839 | 2004-01-26 14:43:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 139 | * Support for exporting filesystem over NFS in 2.6 kernels |
| 140 | |
Miklos Szeredi | 8b4e096 | 2004-01-07 13:17:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 141 | * Read efficiency improvements: read in 64k blocks instead of 4k |
Miklos Szeredi | b115839 | 2004-01-26 14:43:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 142 | (Michael Grigoriev). Can be turned on with '-l' option of fusermount |
Miklos Szeredi | 8b4e096 | 2004-01-07 13:17:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 143 | |
| 144 | * Lazy automatic unmount |
| 145 | |
| 146 | * Added 'fsync()' VFS call to the FUSE interface |
| 147 | |
| 148 | * Bugfixes |
| 149 | |
Miklos Szeredi | 3a6ea06 | 2004-11-11 10:33:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 150 | ============================================================================ |
Miklos Szeredi | 8b4e096 | 2004-01-07 13:17:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 151 | |
Miklos Szeredi | c0226bb | 2003-02-19 16:05:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 152 | What is new in 1.0 |
| 153 | |
| 154 | * Cleanups and bugfixes |
| 155 | |
| 156 | * Added 'release()' VFS call to the FUSE interface |
| 157 | |
| 158 | * 64 bit file offsets (handling of > 4 GByte files) |
Miklos Szeredi | 8b39a9f | 2002-10-25 12:41:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 159 | |
| 160 | * libfuse is now under LGPL |
| 161 | |
| 162 | * New 'statfs' call (Mark Glines) |
| 163 | |
| 164 | * Cleaned up mount procedure (mostly by Mark Glines) |
| 165 | |
| 166 | NOTE: Binaries linked with with a previous version of libavfs may |
| 167 | not work with the new version of the fusermount program. In such |
| 168 | case recompile the program after installing the new libavfs library. |
| 169 | |
| 170 | * Fix for problems under linux kernel 2.4.19 |
| 171 | |
| 172 | ============================================================================ |
| 173 | |
Miklos Szeredi | ddc862a | 2002-01-09 13:46:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 174 | What is new in 0.95 |
| 175 | |
| 176 | * Optimized read/write operations. Raw throughput has increased to |
| 177 | about 60Mbyte/s on a Celeron/360 |
| 178 | |
| 179 | * Python bindings by Jeff Epler |
| 180 | |
| 181 | * Perl bindings by Mark Glines |
| 182 | |
| 183 | * Improved multithreaded operation |
| 184 | |
| 185 | * Simplified library interface |
| 186 | |
| 187 | * Bugfixes |
| 188 | |
| 189 | ============================================================================ |
| 190 | |
Miklos Szeredi | 0a7077f | 2001-11-11 18:20:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 191 | What is new in 0.9: |
Miklos Szeredi | 8cffdb9 | 2001-11-09 14:49:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 192 | |
| 193 | * Everything |