Changelog

v1.6.5 (March, 12th, 2023)

• refactored character conversion and fixed bugs related to multi-byte characters
• added checks for overly long filenames
• added test cases for long file names

v1.6.4 (September 20th, 2021)

• fixed randomization for fatXX. Thanks go to Zoltán Döme for reporting the bug!
• added test cases for randomization option

v1.6.3 (August 8th, 2020)

• fatsort release file now includes precompiled makefile
• fixed support for macOS (thanks to Max for the fix)
• declared OPT_LOCALE as extern
• fixed uninitialized variable
• avoided some string truncation compiler warnings
• implemented platform independent transliteration for invalid multi-byte characters during conversion
• test makefile now returns error code

v1.6.2 (November 29, 2019)

• FIX: multiple endianness issues with exFAT
• now using /proc/self/mounts instead of /etc/mtab to check whether filesystem is mounted

v1.6.1 (November 17, 2019)

• FIX: missing check if directory entries are of type file
• option -l now considers options -d, -D, -x, -X, -e and -E
• added check for dirty volumes
• added new test cases

v1.6.0 (November 16, 2019)

• exFAT is now supported!
• directory entries are now only written back if reordering happened
• FIX: memory leak with regular expression lists
• code rewrite to make additional platforms possible in future

v1.5.0 (September 19, 2018)

• added options -e and -E to select directories with regular expressions
• FIX: possible memory leak for OPT_LOCALE
• FIX: bug affecting case sensitive sorting with locales

v1.4.2 (August 06, 2017)

• FIX: sorting with option -m on big endian architectures is now working as intended
• reproducible docker tests added for i386, amd64, ppc64le
• added clean target for manpage
• updated tests

v1.4.1 (July 29, 2017)

• fixed memory leak when providing multiple locales
• fixed test tc_check_consistent_version
• added //TRANSLIT to iconv_open so iconv will no longer fail when a character cannot be converted
• added missing test cases

v1.4 (July 28, 2017)

• added option -L to specify an alternate locale to be used
• added warning if C locale is used
• added valgrind tests
• fixed possible memory leak found with valgrind

v1.3.1 (July 19, 2017)

• increased maximum cluster size to 64kb
• fixed descriptions for options -I, -o, -d, -D, -x and -X in manpage
• replaced some fclose with fs_close
• changed iconv error to warning
• fixed a test case

v1.3 (February 28, 2014)

• added option -a for ASCIIbetical sorting
• added test cases for option -a

v1.2 (July 12, 2013)

• fatsort now sychronizes filesystems after sorting each directory
• added long options –version and –help
• updated version and help output for help2man
• added Makefile for manpage
• minor changes

v1.1.1 (June 09, 2013)

• fixed character conversion for non-UTF-8 systems

v1.1 (May 23, 2013)

• New option -t to sort by last modification date time. Thanks to Charles Anthony for the patch.
• More and updated tests
• Minor changes

v1.0.1 (May 17, 2013)

• FIX: big endian issue for FAT12/16 in function getFATEntry
• FIX: big endian issue for BS_SecPerClus
• FIX: Stack overflow in cmpentries
• FIX: checkLongDirEntries now ignores deleted entries
• added check for maximum clusters according to MS Q184006
• considered -Wextra warnings
• make fatsort detect cluster chain loops
• implemented regression tests
• updated fatsort help information
• Option combination -l and -m now also print long AND short file names
• changed DE_FREE to u_char
• additional cluster size check
• Optimized calculation of file system information
• Minor changes and code cleaning

v1.0 (March 11, 2013)

• FIX: exit critical sections on error
• FIX: Natural order sorting works again (without collation ordering though)
• ENHANCEMENT: Added support for FAT12
• Added checks for broken clusterchains
• Added cluster usage information for option -i
• Checksums for LongDirEntries are now verified
• Added integrity check that verifies whether all FATs are the same

v0.9.17 (April 4, 2012)

• Collation ordering for the current locale is now considered during sorting
• Fixed some random bugs found with a static code analysis tools

v0.9.16 (December July, 2011)

• Updated address in GPL license

v0.9.15 (August 15, 2011)

• Multiple directories can now be included and excluded for sorting using options -d, -D, -x, and -X. Thanks to Renaud Métrich for the idea.
• Added option -I which allows to ignore filename prefixes during sorting. Thanks to Matthew Altus for the idea.
• Added support for memory leak detection in debug modes 2-4
• Fixed a bug in function randomizeDirEntryList. Thanks to Renaud Métrich for reporting the bug.
• Updated Makefiles for better Max OS X support. Thanks to Tom Freiberger for the Makefiles.
• Minor change to remove a compiler warning in FAT_fs.c.
• Minor change to remove a redundant option check.

v0.9.14.1 (June 11, 2010)

• Check for last directory entry in FAT_fs.c was fixed. thanks to Peter De Wachter for the hint.

v0.9.14 (May 14, 2010)

• Included a patch for an iconv issue under Mac and FreeBSD. Thanks to Max Campos.

v0.9.13.1 (December 12, 2009)

• Fixed a pointer initialization in insertLongDirEntryList

v0.9.13 (December 23, 2009)

• Added random order sorting (option -R)
• Updated manpage
• manpage is now installed via make install

v0.9.12 (September 29, 2009)

• locale is now set to locale of environment

v0.9.11 (September 27, 2009)

• segmentation fault in parseClusterChain fixed
• LFNs are now correctly converted from UTF-16 to UTF-8

v0.9.10 (May 12, 2008)

• Options -d and -D added
• natural order comparison algorithm reimplemented

v0.9.9.1 (February 12, 2008)

• Small Makefile update

v0.9.9 (November 28, 2008)

• Martin Pool’s natural order comparison algorithm is now included into FATSort
• Makefile patches

v0.9.8.3 (July 08, 2008)

• bug in check_mounted fixed

v0.9.8.2 (June 11, 2008)

• minor fixes in header files and make files
• modified README

v0.9.8.1 (June 10, 2008)

• some minor fixes. Thanks to Till Maas.

v0.9.8 (Septembe 25, 2007)

• splitted fatsort into several source files
• implemented exclusive file lock (not mandatory)
• signals are blocked while writing to file (implemented critial sections)
• sorting of special directory entries (“.”, “..” and volume label) is now prevented
• enhanced mount check feature
• -f option to force sorting introduced
• small updates
• thanks to Joe Forster/STA for some fixes

v0.9.7.1 (April 30, 2007)

• support for files >4GB
• thanks to Sebastian Biallas for the patch

v0.9.7 (February 01, 2007)

• fatsort now checks if device is mounted (only BSD and linux)
• thanks to Sebastian Dröge for the patch

v0.9.6.2 (August 01, 2006)

• added option for sorting in reverse order
• fixed some memory leaks
• thanks to Giorgio Moscardi for both patches

v0.9.6.1 (July 01, 2006)

• removed unused variables, minor changes

v0.9.6 (June 26, 2006)

• big-endian support added
• getopt fix for PPC
• cluster chains are dynamic structures now
• small fixes
• error handling in FSInfo

v0.9.5 (May 27, 2006)

• fixed volume label bug
• tidied up some code
• added function assertions
• added error handlings
• changed error messages

v0.9.4 (September 09, 2005)

• fixed integer issues, included stdlib.h

v0.9.3 (January 13, 2005)

• fixed some data types because of bugs on opteron systems

v0.9.2 (January 13, 2005)

• fixed some bugs
• FATSort is now put under GPL

v0.9.1 (February 06, 2004)

• major bug concerning FAT specification fixed