What's Changed

• Improve flushing pagecache on darwin by @Developer-Ecosystem-Engineering in #1883
• fixing missing dependencies by @Meiye-lj in #1974
• tests: add sprandom test cases by @tomas-winkler-sndk in #1983
• sprandom: fix warning: comparison will always evaluate as true by @tomas-winkler-sndk in #1987
• Fixing mingw out of tree builds. by @kaimeyer-arcserve in #1989
• engines/io_uring: validate PI on read by @stanleyzhang9 in #1992
• doc: add documentation for uncached buffered I/O by @Panky-codes in #1995
• test, memcpy: reorder #includes to use platform-specific code by @betonmischer86 in #1998
• memory: add cuda 13 support by @maxime-peim in #2000
• options: Add range validation for log_hist_coarseness by @tachyonwill in #2004
• configure: support --extra-ldflags by @pirDOL in #2005
• Remove leftover code for platforms lacking clock_gettime and clockid_t by @betonmischer86 in #1999
• backend.c: fix async ioengine prep/queue direction mismatch in experimental_verify by @yehormalikov in #2007
• backend: get io_u from requeue if exists by @JeongJonghwi in #1980
• backend: fix zero-numberio in dry-run by @minwooim in #2015
• Mmap engine fixes by @geertj in #2017
• backend: fix OOB access in usec_for_io() with DDIR_SYNC by @fmayer in #2028
• fix musl builds by @baloo in #2029
• io_uring: don't segfault if pi_chk isn't specified by @calebsander in #2030
• 20251023 steady state add latency by @mcgrof in #2003
• write_hist_log: do not require ZLIB for non-server instances by @alex310110 in #2033
• windows: fix a Y2038 bug by replacing Int32x32To64 with multiplication by @CookiePLMonster in #2034
• Sync for file operations by @struschev in #2018
• Add ZBD support for SMR drives to io_uring engine by @mannanal in #2035
• RBD Encryption Support by @Greenpepper15 in #2039
• stat: Avoid printing "issued rwts" when "verify_only" is supplied by @gautammenghani in #2037
• Add option to specify job process comm by @robertbaldyga in #2045
• backend: set td->eo to NULL after freeing eo by @malikoyv in #2050
• fio: sprandom: append newline to error message by @tomas-winkler-sndk in #2051
• workqueue: fix threads stall when running with io_submit_mode offload by @tomas-winkler-sndk in #2053
• SPRandom Cache Size Behavior Implementation by @cachyyyk in #2044
• fio: fixes for io_submit_mode=offload stability by @tomas-winkler-sndk in #2058
• Fix use-after-free of idle_prof_common variable by @jsemric in #2066
• options: fix heap-use-after-free in ioengine_so_path by @msuozzo in #2070
• options: add support more POSIX errnos by @minwooim in #2071
• backend: guard prctl(PR_SET_NAME) against NULL thread name by @Criticayon in #2073
• Fix stat_sem/rusage_sem deadlock during stats collection by @RyanTedrick in #2076
• iolog: free io_piece log on thread cleanup by @minwooim in #2077

New Contributors

• @Developer-Ecosystem-Engineering made their first contribution in #1883
• @Meiye-lj made their first contribution in #1974
• @kaimeyer-arcserve made their first contribution in #1989
• @stanleyzhang9 made their first contribution in #1992
• @Panky-codes made their first contribution in #1995
• @betonmischer86 made their first contribution in #1998
• @maxime-peim made their first contribution in #2000
• @tachyonwill made their first contribution in #2004
• @pirDOL made their first contribution in #2005
• @yehormalikov made their first contribution in #2007
• @geertj made their first contribution in #2017
• @fmayer made their first contribution in #2028
• @baloo made their first contribution in #2029
• @alex310110 made their first contribution in #2033
• @CookiePLMonster made their first contribution in #2034
• @mannanal made their first contribution in #2035
• @Greenpepper15 made their first contribution in #2039
• @gautammenghani made their first contribution in #2037
• @robertbaldyga made their first contribution in #2045
• @malikoyv made their first contribution in #2050
• @cachyyyk made their first contribution in #2044
• @jsemric made their first contribution in #2066
• @msuozzo made their first contribution in #2070
• @Criticayon made their first contribution in #2073
• @RyanTedrick made their first contribution in #2076

Full Changelog: fio-3.41...fio-3.42