Upstream released a new version of ntfs-3g on March 28 STABLE Version 2017.3.23 (March 28, 2017)Here are the release notes - hanges to NTFS-3G: Delegated processing of special reparse points to external plugins Allowed kernel cacheing by lowntfs-3g when not using Posix ACLs Enabled fallback to read-only mount when the volume is hibernated Made a full check for whether an extended attribute is allowed Moved secaudit and usermap to ntfsprogs (now ntfssecaudit and ntfsusermap) Enabled encoding broken UTF-16 into broken UTF-8 Autoconfigured selecting <sys/sysmacros.h> vs <sys/mkdev> Allowed using the full library API on systems without extended attributes support Fixed DISABLE_PLUGINS as the condition for not using plugins Corrected validation of multi sector transfer protected records Denied creating/removing files from $Extend Returned the size of locale encoded target as the size of symlinks
Please note that all these changes are included into 2016.2.22AR.2
