- 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)