The new, stable NTFS-3G release contains the following major functionality improvements, changes and bug fixes:

• 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.

The latest release of the software is available at http://www.tuxera.com/

Enjoy!

Tuxera Open Source Team

This time Tuxera has record number of software releases! The topics:

• Stable NTFS-3G 2010.5.22
• NTFS-3G 2010.6.31-RC Release Candidate
• NTFS-3G for Mac 2010.5.22
• Tuxera NTFS for Mac 2010.6-RC Release Candidate

The stable NTFS-3G 2010.5.22 release is a minor update which addresses creating the missing usermap and secaudit utilities.

The software is available at

http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/

The new NTFS-3G 2010.6.31-RC release candidate contains exciting, major improvements, and the below changes and fixes:

• 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.

Download it from the below web page

http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/

The long awaited NTFS-3G for Mac 2010.5.22 is also here. Changes since the last release:

• Everything which is included in stable NTFS-3G 2010.5.22.
• Fix: NTFS-3G for Mac could “hijack” non-NTFS volumes in extremely rare cases, leaving them unmountable until NTFS-3g for Mac was disabled.
• Fix: The NTFS-3G for Mac preference pane will no longer leave zombie processes behind.

For more information please see

http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/2010/06/ntfs-3g-for-mac-os-x-2010522.html

The latest release candidate of Tuxera NTFS for Mac, our high-performance commercial NTFS driver is out as well.

Changes since Tuxera NTFS for Mac 2010.1:

• Extended attribute support. Tuxera NTFS for Mac now supports storing Mac streams such as Finder information and resource forks as extended attributes, translating to Alternate Data Streams in Windows terminology. This means that NTFS drives will no longer be littered with ‘._’ (AppleDouble) files. Services For Mac attributes are used for the special attributes ‘com.apple.FinderInfo’ and ‘com.apple.ResourceFork’.
• Support for storing the Mac OS backup timestamp.
• All new features, enhancements and fixes included in stable NTFS-3G for Mac 2010.5.22.

Please see more at

http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/

Enjoy!

Tuxera Open Source Team

The new, stable NTFS-3G release contains the following changes:

• 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.

The software is available at http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/

Enjoy!

Tuxera Open Source Team

The new, stable NTFS-3G release contains bug fixes and functionality improvements:

• 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.

The software is available at http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/

Enjoy!

Tuxera Open Source Team