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+Current news
+============
+
+Added new utility ntfslabel by Matthew Fanto. See man 8 ntfslabel for details.
+
+Added new utility ntfsundelete by Richard Russon.  See man 8 ntfsundelete for
+more details.
+
+
+Older news
+==========
+
+linux-ntfs should now compile and work on all architectures.
+
+Added two options to mkntfs. One to enable compression on the volume and one
+to disable content indexing. See man 8 mkntfs for details.
+
+Changed version numbers of mkntfs and ntfsfix to match linux-ntfs release.
+
+ntfsfix had two minor bugs fixed. This also should remove the compilation
+warnings in ntfsfix.c on 64-bit-pointer-size architectures.
+
+mkntfs now should be truly bug free.
+
+ntfs_mount syntax changed to accept a read-only flag.
+
+mkntfs now allows creation of small NTFS volumes (current minimum size is one
+mega byte). This allows placing NTFS on a floppy disk for example.
+
+mkntfs now correctly handles directories on volumes with large clusters.
+
+ntfsfix now works on Windows XP NTFS volumes (NTFS 3.1).
+
+Reenabled shared library generation and use.
+
+ntfsfix now has a man page, too. Donated by David Martínez Moreno.
+
+mkntfs now uses correct defaults for small partitions on devices with
+non-standard sector sizes.
+
+mkntfs now in sbin not bin and it got some bugs fixed.
+
+Gcc 2.96 or above is required to compile.
+
+Dropped ldm, ntfsdump_logfile and dumplog from linux-ntfs distribution. ldm will
+reappear in a different package as ldminfo (probably linux-ldm) while the dump
+tools are only useful to us developers to play with they don't actually do
+anything useful (and these remain in CVS for developer (ab)use).
+
+We now have mkntfs. Yey! And it even has a man page. So go read it. (-8
+
+Disable shared library building by default as it breaks on some systems. (No
+idea why. If any one can figure it out and tell me what the problem/fix is I
+would be thankful.)
+
+libntfs and hence ntfsfix still don't support attribute lists.
+
+Updated ntfsdump_logfile to really dump the whole logfile with all the current
+knowledge about the structures. Also added dumplog which does the same but
+operates on a file rather than a partition, i.e. it can operate on a live
+mounted NTFS partition under linux when the -o show_sys_files was used on mount.
+(Note this mount option first appeared in Linux kernel 2.4.4-ac18.)
+