Greetings, We are happy to announce the stable, merged release of ntfsprogs and NTFS-3G. The merged codebase will help to avoid duplicated maintenance of the large, complex NTFS codebase, so development can focus on enhanced functionality, reliability, and interoperability in the future. Several alternatives have been considered how to organize the code (library, tools, driver). The preferred solution is the simplest way which is one large package, like Samba. So, there will be need to install only one NTFS package (ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs), not two (ntfsprogs, ntfs-3g). The code and status is available at git clone git://ntfs-3g.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/ntfs-3g/ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs The package is a compatible, drop-in replacement for both ntfs-3g and ntfsprogs. The package contains the following improvements, changes and fixes: ntfs-3g: fixed possible wrong hole size when overwriting compressed data ntfs-3g: fixed listxattr() to environments with extended attributes ntfs-3g: fixed ENOSPC when making an index non-resident ntfs-3g: fixed partial mapping ahead of mapped runlist ntfs-3g: enabled forensic mounting (currently same as read-only) ntfs-3g: expand an attribute without creating a hole ntfs-3g: improved appending data to a long hole ntfs-3g: deny direct modifications to metadata files ntfs-3g: option 'acl' to request the use of Posix ACLs ntfsclone: fixed reading old big-endian ntfsclone images ntfsclone: avoided writing beyond allocated variable ntfsclone: close volume and cleanup when exiting ntfsclone: new option not to clear the timestamps ntfsclone: sync created image before remounting ntfsclone: use a stream to produce aligned writes during image creation ntfsinfo: display times in UTC mkntfs: don't store full bitmap and logfile in memory mkntfs: set a volume UUID if option -U mkntfs: fixed $MFT allocated size mkntfs: fixed allocated size of resident unnamed data ntfsfix: new option -n for no action ntfsfix: try alternate boot sector if cannot start up ntfsfix: check and fix the upcase table ntfsfix: try to fix file systems with incorrect size ntfsundelete: fixed a segfault ntfsresize: new option --info-mb-only ntfsresize: new option --check The release candidate is available at http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/ Many thanks to Jean-Pierre Andre and Erik Larsson to make this happen! Tuxera Open Source Team