While the new NTFS file-system driver merged for Linux 7.1 and has seen more improvements for Linux 7.2, for now at least the NTFS3 kernel driver continues to be maintained with new fixes and improvements. NTFS3 is the driver that was upstreamed to the Linux kernel a few years ago back during the pandemic by Paragon Software.

With no immediate plans to remove NTFS3 from the Linux kernel with the new NTFS driver still proving itself, Konstantin Komarov with Paragon Software continues maintaining this NTFS read/write driver for the Linux kernel. For Linux 7.2 it's predominantly minor bug fixes from out-of-bounds reads to compiler warning fixes to other mostly mundane changes.

Of the new additions is a safeguard for fending off a possible stack overflow, additional validations, zeroing the stale page cache beyond the valid data length, and other low-level changes.

The full list of NTFS3 kernel driver changes that were merged today for Linux 7.2 can be found via this pull.