Changelog

6.10.1

• mkfs: rework --rootdir traversal, skip hardlinks and create new inodes instead, also warn about them, this did not work as expected and will be fixed in the future
• receive: search in older trees for UUIDs when detecting clone sources
• libbtrfsutil: bindings available at https://pypi.org/project/btrfsutil
• libbtrfs:
  • patchlevel version update 0.1.4
  • cleanup in headers, removed unused definitions, no functional changes
  • don't ship list.h and rbtree.h
• other:
  • documentation updates

6.10

• 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

The cloud-init update fixes cloud-init btrfs resize to work with this version of btrfs-progs.