Description gaoxiang 2025-01-03 17:49:23 UTC

Description of problem:
Address several regressions around mkfs.erofs (tarerofs):

erofs-utils 1.8.4
   - (mkfs.erofs) Fix unusual PAX header handling for tarerofs;
   - (mkfs.erofs) Fix LIBARCHIVE.xattr decoding;
   - (mkfs.erofs) Speed up handling of incompressible data;
   - (mkfs.erofs) Add a `-E^fragdedupe` option to explicitly disable
                  fragment deduplication;
   - (mkfs.erofs) Fixes around `-Eall-fragments` and `-Ededupe`;
   - Use external xxhash library if possible.

 -- Gao Xiang <xiang@kernel.org>  Fri, 03 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0800

erofs-utils 1.8.3
   - (mkfs.erofs) Fix multi-threaded compression with `-Eall-fragments`;
   - (mkfs.erofs) Fix large chunk-based image generation;
   - (mkfs.erofs) Avoid large arrays on the stack (Jianan Huang);
   - (mkfs.erofs) Fix PAX format parsing in headerball mode (Mike Baynton);
   - (mkfs.erofs) Several fixes for incremental builds (Hongzhen Luo);
   - (mkfs.erofs) Fix reproducible builds due to `i_ino` (Jooyung Han);
   - Use pkg-config for liblz4 configuration;
   - Get rid of pthread_cancel() dependencies;
   - (mkfs.erofs) Add `-U <clear|random>` support;
   - (mkfs.erofs) Add `--hard-dereference` for NixOS reproducibility (Paul Meyer);
   - Several minor random fixes.

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