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Btrfs-progs v6.10

The Hubble Space Telescope begins its separation from Discovery following its release. The photo was taken during Servicing Mission 2 in 1997. Credit: NASA/ESA

Btrfs-progs v6.10 has been released to match the new Linux 6.10 kernel.

Changelog

• Inspect:
  • list-chunks: new command to print information about chunks (i.e. the physical chunks as stored on devices), sortable; requires root as it's using SEARCH_TREE ioctl
  • tree-stats:
    • New option -t to print only the given tree
    • add long options for size units
• filesystem df: with increased verbosity print per-type information from sysfs
• version: print a line with built-in features or options (+FEATURE1 -FEATURE2)
• image: document option -s and its potential problems
• Fixes:
  • scrub status: user selected base for Rate values
  • receive: escape special characters in paths and xattrs
  • dump-tree: escape special characters in paths and xattrs
  • image: sanitizing filenames did not work properly in all cases
  • convert: fix displayed restored image path on rollback
  • tune change csum: do conversion in smaller batches
• Other:
  • CI workflows updates (sanitizers, code spelling, manual page preview)
  • Build fixes for uClibc
  • Build fix for python 3.13
  • Documentation updates

Static builds for aarch64, riscv64 and x86_64

As usual there are static builds for ARM64, x86_64 and RISC-V systems available.

You can find all the current builds at https://mirrors.tnonline.net/btrfs/btrfs-progs/.

For more information about static builds and why you would use them, check out the dedicate wiki page Btrfs/Statically_built_btrfs-progs