NTFS-3G 2017.3.28 is now available for download

Mar 30, 2017 13:07 GMT  ·  By

The NTFS-3G open-source driver that lets Linux, macOS, OpenSolaris, FreeBSD, QNX, and other UNIX-like operating systems access storage drives formatted with the NTFS file system was updated recently with many changes.

The NTFS-3G project gets a new stable update once a year, around the end of March, and this year's release adds a bunch of goodies, such as the ability to allow kernel caching by lowntfs-3g when Posix ACLs aren't used, as well as to enable read-only mount fallback when the drive enters hibernate state.

A full check is now made to determine if an extended attribute is allowed or not, the usermap and secaudit components were moved to ntfsprogs and are now known as ntfsusermap and ntfssecaudit, and the full library API (Application Programming Interface) is now used on operating systems that lack support for extended attributes.

DISABLE_PLUGINS variable can be used to disable use of plugins

Among other changes that landed in the new NTFS-3G stable release, we can mention the ability to approve processing of certain reparse points to external plugins, sys/mkdev is now selected instead of sys/sysmacros.h during automatic configure, and the release denies creating or removing files from the special $Extend file.

Other than that, NTFS-3G now returns the size of locale encoded target as the size of symlinks, corrects validation of multi-sector transfer protected records, fixes an issue with the DISABLE_PLUGINS environment variable if the user doesn't want to use plugins, and enables broken UTF-16 encoding into broken UTF-8.

NTFS-3G 2017.3.28 is now available for download for GNU/Linux operating systems right now from our website. You can also get it for other OSes from the official website. We recommend updating as soon as possible if you're using NTFS drives on a regular basis.