- Version 4.4 - 2019-08-29:
 * Reproducible builds, new compressors,
   CVE fixes, security hardening and new options
   for Mksquashfs/Unsquashfs.
- Overall improvements:
 * Mksquashfs now generates reproducible images by default.
 * Mkfs time and file timestamps can also be specified.
 * Support for the Zstandard (ZSTD) compression algorithm.
 * CVE-2015-4645 and CVE-2015-4646 have been fixed.
- Mksquashfs improvements and major bug fixes:
 * Pseudo files now support symbolic links.
 * New -mkfs-time option.
 * New -all-time option.
 * New -root-mode option.
 * New -quiet option.
 * New -noId option.
 * New -offset option.
 * Update lz4 wrapper to use new functions introduced
   in 1.7.0.
 * Bug fix, don't allow "/" pseudo filenames.
 * Bug fix, allow quoting of pseudo files, to
   better handle filenames with spaces.
 * Fix compilation with glibc 2.25+.
- Unsquashfs improvements and major bug fixes:
 * CVE-2015-4645 and CVE-2015-4646 have been fixed.
 * Unsquashfs has been further hardened against corrupted
   filestems.
 * Unsquashfs is now more strict about error handling.
 * New -ignore-errors option.
 * New -strict-errors option.
 * New -lln[umeric] option.
 * New -lc option.
 * New -llc option.
 * New -mkfs-time option.
 * New -UTC option.
 * New -offset option.
 * New -quiet option.
 * Update lz4 wrapper to use new functions introduced
   in 1.7.0.
 * Bug fix, fatal and non-fatal errors now set the exit
   code to 1.
 * Bug fix, fix time setting for symlinks.
 * Bug fix, try to set sticky-bit when running as a
   user process.
 * Fix compilation with glibc 2.25+.
- build changes:
* re-created patches to fit squashfs 4.4
* removed 0001-mksquashfs-fix-rare-race-in-fragment-waiting-in-file.patch
  (new version includes this change)
* removed 0002-Fix-2GB-limit-of-the-is_fragment-.-function.patch
  (new version includes this change)
* removed 0003-Add-offset-function-to-skip-n-bytes.patch
  (new version includes this change)
* removed sysmacros.patch
  (new version includes this change)

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