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exfatprogs 1.2.0 - released 2022-10-28
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CHANGES :
 * fsck.exfat: Keep traveling files even if there is a corrupted
directory entry set.
 * fsck.exfat: Introduce the option "b" to recover a boot sector even
if an exFAT filesystem is not found.
 * fsck.exfat: Introduce the option "s" to create files in
"/LOST+FOUND", which have clusters allocated but was not belonged to
any files.
 * fsck.exfat: Rename '.' and '..' entry name to the one user want.

NEW FEATURES :
 * fsck.exfat: Repair corruptions of an exFAT filesystem. Please refer
to fsck.exfat manpage to see what kind of corruptions can be repaired.
 * exfat2img: Dump metadata of an exFAT filesystem. Please refer to
exfat2img manpage to see how to use it.

BUG FIXES:
 * fsck.exfat: Fix an infinite loop while traveling files.
 * tune.exfat: Fix bitmap entry corruption when adding new volume lablel.

exfatprogs 1.1.3 - released 2021-11-11
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CHANGES :
 * mkfs.exfat: ensure that the cluster size is greater than or
   equal than the sector size.
 * mkfs.exfat: replace lseek() + write() with pwrite().

BUG FIXES :
 * mkfs.exfat: prevent an integer overflow when computing the FAT
   length.
 * fsck.exfat: fix a double free memory error.

exfatprogs 1.1.2 - released 2021-05-20
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CHANGES :
 * mkfs.exfat: set 0x80 to DriveSelect of the boot sector

BUG FIXES :
 * Fix issues on 4KB logical sector devices
 * Fix issues when the sector size of of a file system is different from
   that of a block device.

exfatprogs 1.1.1 - released 2021-04-21
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CHANGES :
 * mkfs.exfat: adjust the boundary alignment calculations to compensate
   for the volume offset.

NEW FEATURES :
 * mkfs.exfat: add the "--pack-bitmap" option to relocate the allocation
   bitmap to allow the FAT and the bitmap to share the same allocation
   unit on flash media.

BUG FIXES :
 * Fix wrong bit operations on 64-bit big.
 * Fix memory leaks in error paths.

exfatprogs 1.1.0 - released 2021-02-09
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CHANGES :
 * fsck.exfat: recover corrupted boot region.

NEW FEATURES :
 * exfatlabel: Print or Set volume label and serial.
 * dump.exfat: Show the on-disk metadata information and the statistics.

BUG FIXES :
 * set _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 for Android build.

exfatprogs 1.0.4 - released 2020-07-31
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CHANGES :
 * fsck.exfat: display sector, cluster, and volume sizes in the human
   readable format.
 * fsck.exfat: reduce the elapsed time using read-ahead.

NEW FEATURES :
 * mkfs.exfat: generate pseudo unique serials while creating filesystems.
 * mkfs.exfat: add the "-b" option to align the start offset of FAT and
   data clusters.
 * fsck.exfat: repair zero-byte files which have the NoFatChain attribute.

BUG FIXES :
 * Fix memory leaks on error handling paths.
 * fsck.exfat: fix the bug that cannot access space beyond 2TB.

exfatprogs 1.0.3 - released 2020-05-12
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CHANGES :
 * Rename label.exfat to tune.exfat.
 * tune.exfat: change argument style(-l option for print level,
   -L option for setting label)
 * mkfs.exfat: harmonize set volume label option with tune.exfat.

NEW FEATURES :
 * Add man page.

BUG FIXES :
 * Fix the reported build warnings/errors.
 * Add memset to clean garbage in allocation.
 * Fix wrong volume label array size.
 * Open a device using O_EXCL to avoid formatting it while it is mounted.
 * Fix incomplete "make dist" generated tarball.


exfatprogs 1.0.2 - released 2020-04-23
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CHANGES :
 * Rename project name to exfatprogs.
 * Replace iconv library by standard C functions mbstowcs() and wcrtomb().

NEW FEATURES :
 * Add support for Android build system.
 * label.exfat: Add support for label.exfat to set/get exfat volume label.

BUG FIXES :
 * Fix the build warnings/errors and add warning options.
 * Fix several bugs(memory leak, wrong endian conversion, zero out beyond
   end of file) and cleanup codes
 * Fix issues on big endian system and on 32bit system.


exfatprogs 1.0.1 - released 2020-04-09
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NEW FEATURES :
 * mkfs.exfat: quick/full format support
 * mkfs.exfat: specify cluster size
 * mkfs.exfat: set volume label
 * fsck.exfat: consistency check support