$Id: NEWS,v 1.90 2006/01/26 21:18:10 lace Exp $


NEWS for captive-1.1.7 (2006-01-26)
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* Fixed sandbox restarting looking like disconnected mounts (FUSE client only).
* Workarounded no FUSE/Linux-kernel charset support - fixes locale filenames.
* Fixed multiple issues of captive-install-acquire(1) to run at all again.
* Fixed general operations refusal on invalid errnos. (Frederic L. W. Meunier)
* Fixed invalid file timestamps (FUSE client only). (Frederic L. W. Meunier)
* Workarounded FUSE/Linux-kernel user mounts (FUSE only). (Steven N. Hirsch)
* Workarounded FUSE/Linux-kernel modprobe(8)ing (FUSE only). (John Pratt)
* (static .tar.gz build only) Debian now a bit more compatible. (John Pratt)


NEWS for captive-1.1.6.1 (2005-12-29)
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* New FUSE interface, deprecated LUFS - improve compatibility of Linux kernel
* Provided script for proper NTFS unmounts during GNU/Linux OS shutdown
* Updates for recent Microsoft installed binaries and files for download
* Hopefully survives reading of many small files like on XMMS scanning
* Improved recent GNU/Linux build environment compatibility


(captive-1.1.6 was never released)


NEWS for captive-1.1.5 (2004-01-18)
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* Fixed ignorance of the file truncate operation via LUFS (Matthias R.)
* Support for reading of HIDDEN SYSTEM NTFS files via LUFS
* Fixed refusal to mount some NT4.0 NTFSes (Nerijus Baliunas, Scott Chevalley)
* Support /dev/ataraid devices (Ivan Tonov)


NEWS for captive-1.1.4 (2003-12-13)
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* Unicode/UTF8 localized filenames conversion for GNU/Linux is now supported
* Various GNU/Linux distributions compatibility fixes
* Fixed omitted captive-install-acquire(1) --microsoft-com progress bar
* Fixed captive-install-acquire(1) --scan-disks* memory leaks (Steve Wampler)
* Fixed captive-install-acquire(1) --scan-disks* performance


NEWS for captive-1.1.3.2 (2003-12-07)
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* Proper unmount: no auto-chkdsk and no W2K BSOD (Geoff Talvola/Marek Koch)
* Prevent "mv dir dir/subdir" (Ulrich Mueller)
* Workaround Linux kernel bug wrt update of NTFS last sector superblock-backup
* Fixed directory listings of files with invalid timestamps (Graeme/Unit3)
* Fixed refusal of filesystem ops related to NTFS security (Tonda Nebuzelsky)
* Fixed refusal of mounting some NTFS drives
* Identify German W32 XP (No Service Pack) Free Build (Moritz Moeller-Herrmann)


(captive-1.1.3.1 was never released)
(captive-1.1.3 was never released)


NEWS for captive-1.1.2 (2003-12-01)
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* Fixed false identification of MS-Windows XP driver cabinets as drivers
* Extended the set of MS-Windows XP drivers identified as Captive compatible


NEWS for captive-1.1.1.2 (2003-11-30)
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* Mounted NTFS partitions are now public readable: rwx------ is now rwxr-xr-x
* Fixed refusal (crash) to mount some kind of NTFS disk drives (Nir Misgav)
* Fixed refusal to write >64MB files on some NTFS disk drives (Charles Duffy)
* Fixed crash (=>no disk changes) during unmount of some NTFSes (Nir Misgav)
* Extended the set of MS-Windows XP drivers identified as Captive compatible
* Compatibility with SMP MS-Windows XP kernel binaries


(captive-1.1.1.1 was never released)
(captive-1.1.1 was never released)


NEWS for captive-1.1 (2003-11-27)
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* Distributed as 'captive-static' fully independent single package
* Allow concurrent file access by multiple handles - fixes scp(1) copying
* Installer now features MS-Windows drivers download retries from microsoft.com
* Installer compatibility and UI lockup fixes
* Fixed SUSE-9.0 package installation compatibility (Christian Kristukat)


NEWS for captive-1.0.2 (2003-11-06)
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* Fixed sandbox chroot(2) compatibility bug (debugging by Christian Kristukat)
* Fixed serious sandbox-server spawn memory leak for big files copying to NTFS
* Improved performance - 1GHz CPU: read 1.5MB/s, write 500KB/s, 20MB of RAM
* Various GNU/Linux distributions compatibility fixes


NEWS for captive-1.0.1 (2003-10-28)
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* Fixed (harmless) crash/hang of lufsd during post-unmount cleanup
* Fixed captive-install-acquire Gnome UI responsiveness during network outage
* Support for LUFS options such as uid/gid/fmask/dmask (reqd by Javier Urien)
* New captive-cmdline(1) 'get'/'put' options -b|--buffer-size
* Improved performance


NEWS for captive-1.0 (2003-10-20)
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* First public release


NEWS for captive-0.9.7 (2003-10-15)
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* Fixed NTFS crash on journalling file (?) extension (bugreport by Martin Drab)


NEWS for captive-0.9.6 (2003-10-13)
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* Fixed /etc/fstab updating by 'install' package


NEWS for captive-0.9.5 (2003-10-11)
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* Retained ntfs.sys mounting back again (bugreport by Martin Drab)
* Avoid /tmp to solve crossdeviced /tmp and /var/... (bugreport by Martin Drab)


NEWS for captive-0.9.4 (2003-10-10)
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* Fixed FAT32 bootability after any file written (bugreport by Pavouk)
* Fixed mc(1) file copy to destination Captive filesystem (bugreport by Pavouk)


NEWS for captive-0.9.3 (2003-10-06)
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* Fixed deployment issues
* Fixed crash of parent on crash of slave during its shutdown
* Fixed Cache Manager flush-related crash affecting FAT32 by fastfat.sys
* Fixed memory consumption by non-journalled filesystems (fastfat.sys)


NEWS for captive-0.9.2 (2003-10-03)
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* Fixed read-only media mounting


NEWS for captive-0.9.1 (2003-09-29)
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* Package deployment nuances fixed; 'ntfs' disks are no longer auto-mounted
* Fixed ORBit chroot(2)ing permissions failure


NEWS for captive-0.9 (2003-09-23)
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* Multifilesystem capability by new CaptiveVfsObject
* Finished and deployed CORBA sandbox separation
* Implemented filesystem unmount to successfuly remount ntfs volume
* Generates --bug-pathname resources file for sandbox crash bugreport
* Implemented TraceFS W32 Cache Manager debug tracer
* Rewritten Cache Manager to better match its W32 original behaviour
* LUFS (Linux Userland File System) module to be Linux kernel filesystem
* Written fstab & W32 modules installer as package 'install'


NEWS for captive-0.8 (2003-05-02)
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* ntfs.sys working incl. readwrite mode (0.9 update: very buggy access)


NEWS for captive-0.2 (2003-04-17)
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* Implemented cdecl/stdcall/fastcall function calling types
* Implemented Gnome-VFS-2.0 module interface
* cdfs.sys working
* Implemented readwrite mode
* fastfat.sys working incl. readwrite mode
* W32 binary ntoskrnl.exe is now a mandatory requirement
* ext2fsd.sys working incl. readwrite mode
* Implemented real cmdline client
* Implemented non-fatal W32 Structured Exception Handlers (SEH)


NEWS for captive-0.1 (2002-10-31)
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* Project build framework done
* W32 binary module loading success
