Piece together a CHANGELOG file from the release announcments

The CHANGELOG tries to summarize the change history of the project
and currently contains changes from 2.0.0 onwards that could easily
be extracted from the release mails.

Signed-off-by: David Oberhollenzer <david.oberhollenzer@sigma-star.at>

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+# Changelog
+
+All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
+
+The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/).
+
+## [2.1.6] - 2023-08-30
+### Added
+ - flash_speed: Measure read while write latency
+ - Support `mtd:<num>` syntax for several tools
+
+### Fixed
+ - flashcp: check for lseek errors
+ - flashcp: fix buffer overflow
+ - flashcp: verify data in `--partition`
+ - flashcp: abort on `--partition` and `--erase-all`
+ - flashcp: correct casting for percent display
+ - mtdpart: document partition of size 0
+ - mkfs.ubifs: Non-terminated string related failure with option selinux
+ - nandtest: handle nand devices larger than 4G
+ - Fix printf format specifiers for 64 bit integer types
+
+### Changed
+ - flashcp: merge duplicate write code paths
+ - flashcp: merge duplicate MEMERASE code paths
+ - flashcp: simplify logging
+
+## [2.1.5] - 2022-10-07
+### Fixed
+ - mkfs.jffs2: spelling of `--compression-mode` parameter in help text
+ - ubinfo: `--vol_id` return code for absent volume id
+ - nandflipbits: fix corrupted oob
+ - libmtd: do not ignore non-zero eraseblock size when `MTD_NO_ERASE` is set
+ - jffs2reader: warning about unaligned pointer
+ - tests: Remove unused linux/fs.h header from includes
+ - fix test bashism
+ - nanddump: fix writing big images on 32bit machines
+ - nor-utils: fix memory leak
+
+### Changed
+ - flash_otp_dump: make offset optional
+ - nandwrite: warn about writing 0xff blocks
+
+## [2.1.4] - 2022-10-07
+### Added
+ - ubiscan debugging and statistics utility
+
+### Fixed
+ - Some mtd-tests erroneously using sub-pages instead of the full page size
+ - Buffer overrun in fectest
+ - Build failures due to missing jffs2 kernel header
+
+## [2.1.3] - 2021-07-25
+### Added
+ - flashcp: Add new function that copy only different blocks
+ - flash_erase: Add flash erase chip
+ - Add flash_otp_erase
+ - Add an ubifs mount helper
+ - Add nandflipbits tool
+
+### Fixed
+ - mkfs.ubifs: Fix runtime assertions when running without crypto
+ - Use AC_SYS_LARGEFILE
+ - Fix test binary installation
+ - libmtd: avoid divide by zero
+ - ubihealthd: fix UBIFS build dependency
+ - mkfs.ubifs: remove `OPENSSL_no_config()`
+ - misc-utils: Add fectest to build system
+ - mkfs.ubifs: Fix build with SELinux
+ - Fix typos found by Debian's lintian tool
+ - Fix jffs2 build if zlib or lzo headers are not in default paths
+
+## [2.1.2] - 2020-07-13
+### Added
+ - flashcp: Add option `-A`, `--erase-all`
+ - mtd-utils: add optional offset parameter to `flash_otp_dump`
+ - ubi-utils: Implement a ubihealthd
+ - mkfs.ubifs: Add authentication support
+
+### Fixed
+ - mtd-utils: Fix return value of ubiformat
+ - ubiupdatevol: Prevent null pointer dereference
+ - libubigen: remove unnecessary include
+ - libubi: remove private kernel header from includes
+ - mkfs.ubifs: fscrypt: bail from encrypt_block if gen_essiv_salt fails
+ - mkfs.ubifs: abort add_directory if readdir fails
+ - mkfs.ubifs: close file descriptor in add_file error path
+ - mkfs.ubifs: don't leak copied command line arguments
+ - mkfs.ubifs: free derived fscrypt context in add_directory error paths
+ - mkfs.ubifs: don't leak hastable iterators
+ - mkfs.ubifs: don't leak temporary buffers
+ - mkfs.ubifs: propperly cleanup in ALL interpret_table_entry error paths
+ - mkfs.jffs2: don't leak temporary buffer if readlink fails
+ - libmtd: don't leak temporary buffers
+ - ftl_check: don't leak temporary buffers
+ - ftl_format: don't leak temporary buffers
+ - ubiformat: don't leak file descriptors
+ - nanddump: don't leak copied command line arguments
+ - mtd_debug: cleanup error handling in flash_to_file
+ - jittertest: fix error check for open system call
+ - fs-tests: don't leak temporary buffers
+ - mtd-utils: Fix printf format specifiers with the wrong type
+ - mtd-utils: Fix potential negative arguments passed to close(2)
+ - mtd-utils: Fix various TOCTOU issues
+ - mtd-utils: Fix some simple cases of uninitialized value reads
+ - mtd-utils: Fix wrong argument to sizeof in nanddump
+ - mtd-utils: Fix "are we really at EOF" test logic in libubi read_data
+ - mtd-utils: Fix potentially unterminated strings
+ - mtd-utils: Add checks to code that copies strings into fixed sized buffers
+ - mkfs.ubifs: fix broken build if fscrtyp is disabled
+
+### Changed
+ - ubifs-media: Update to Linux-5.3-rc3
+
+## [2.1.1] - 2019-07-21
+### Added
+ - mkfs.ubifs: Add ZSTD compression
+
+### Fixed
+ - ubiformat: Dont ignore sequence number CLI option
+ - mkfs.ubifs: fix build without openssl
+ - mkfs.ubifs: fix regression when trying to store device special files
+ - mkfs.ubifs: fix description of favor_lzo
+ - unittests/test_lib: Include proper header for `_IOC_SIZE`
+ - unittests/libmtd_test: Include fcntl header
+ - unittests: Define the use of `_GNU_SOURCE`
+ - ubinize: Exit with non-zero exit code on error.
+ - mtd-tests: nandbiterrs: Fix issue that just insert error at bit 7
+ - ubi-tests: ubi_mkvol_request: Fully initialize `struct ubi_mkvol_request req`
+ - ubi-tests: io_read: Filter invalid offset before `lseek` in `io_read` test
+ - ubi-tests: mkvol test: Checks return value `ENOSPC` for `ubi_mkvol`
+ - ubi-tests: fm_param: Replace `fm_auto` with `fm_autoconvert`
+
+## [2.1.0] - 2019-03-19
+### Added
+ - mkfs.ubifs: Implement support for file system encryption
+ - mkfs.ubifs: Implement selinux labelling support
+ - ubinize: add support for skipping CRC check of a static volume when opening
+ - ubimkvol: add support for skipping CRC check of a static volume when opening
+ - Add lsmtd program
+
+### Fixed
+ - update various kernel headers
+ - Instead of doing preprocessor magic, just output off_t as long long
+ - fix verification percent display in flashcp
+ - mkfs.ubifs: fix double free
+ - mkfs.ubifs: Fix xattr nlink value
+ - ubinize: avoid to create two `UBI_LAYOUT_VOLUME_ID` volume
+ - common.h: fix prompt function
+ - libmtd: don't print an error message for devices without ecc support
+ - io_paral: Fix error handling of update_volume()
+ - ubimkvol: Initialize req to zero to make sure no flags are set by default
+ - libubi: add volume flags to `ubi_mkvol_request`
+ - mkfs.ubifs: add_xattr is not depending on host XATTR support
+ - Revert "Return correct error number in ubi_get_vol_info1" which
+   introduced a regression.
+ - make sure pkg-config is installed in configure script
+ - ubiformat: process command line arguments before handling file arguments
+
+### Changed
+ - ubiformat: remove no-volume-table option
+
+## [2.0.2] - 2018-04-16
+### Added
+ - libmtd: Add support to access OOB available size
+ - mkfs.ubifs: Allow root entry in device table
+
+### Fixed
+ - Fix unit-test header and file paths for out of tree builds
+ - Fix unit test mockup for oobavail sysfs file
+ - misc-utils: flash_erase: Fix Jffs2 type flash erase problem
+ - libmtd_legacy: Fix some function description mismatches
+ - mtd-utils: ubifs: fix typo in without_lzo definition
+ - mtd: tests: check erase block count in page test
+ - mtd: unittests: Stop testing stat() calls
+ - mtd: unittests: Decode arg size from ioctl request
+ - mtd: unittests: Use proper unsigned long type for ioctl requests
+ - mtd: tests: Fix check on ebcnt in nandpagetest
+ - ubi-utils: ubicrc32: process command line arguments first
+ - nandbiterrs: Fix erroneous counter increment in for loop body
+ - jittertest: Use the appropriate versions of abs()
+ - Mark or fix switch cases that fall through
+ - mkfs.ubifs: ignore EOPNOTSUPP when listing extended attributes
+ - misc-utils: initialize "ip" in docfdisk to NULL
+ - mkfs.ubifs: Apply squash-uids to the root node
+
+### Changed
+ - ubi-utils: ubiformat.c: convert to integer arithmetic
+ - mtd-utils: common.c: convert to integer arithmetic
+ - Run unit test programs through "make check"
+ - Enable more compiler warning flags, fix warnings
+ - Add no-return attribute to usage() style functions
+ - Remove self-assignments of unused paramters
+ - tests: checkfs: Remove unused source file from makefiles
+ - ubi-tests: io_update: fix missleading indentation
+ - Add ctags files to .gitignore
+ - libscan: fix a comment typo in libscan.h
+ - libmtd: fix a comment typo in dev_node2num
+
+## [2.0.1] - 2017-08-24
+### Added
+ - nandbiterrs: Add Erased Pages Bit Flip Test
+ - mkfs.ubifs: Add support for symlinks in device table
+ - nanddump: Add `--skip-bad-blocks-to-start` option
+ - nandwrite: Add `--skip-bad-blocks-to-start` option
+
+### Fixed
+ - common: Always terminate with failure status if command line options
+   are unknown or missing
+ - common: Fix format specifier definitions for `off_t` and `loff_t`
+ - common: More consistent exit codes
+ - libmtd: Fix error status if MTD is not present on the system
+ - libubi: Add klibc specific fixes for `ioctl`
+ - libubi: Fix error status in `ubi_get_vol_info1` for non-existing volumes
+ - misc-utils: Support jffs2 flash-erase for large OOB (>32b)
+ - mkfs.jffs2: Add missing header inclusions required for build with musl
+ - mkfs.ubifs: Fix alignment trap triggered by NEON instructions
+ - mkfs.ubifs: Fix uuid.h path
+ - mkfs.ubifs: Replace broken ubifs_assert with libc assert
+ - nandbiterrs: Actually get the new ECC bit flip count before comparing stats
+ - nandpagetest: Improved argument sanity checking
+ - nandwrite: Fix bad block skipping
+ - nandwrite: Improved argument sanity checking
+ - ubinfo: Improved argument sanity checking
+ - ubi-tests: Replace variable-length array with `malloc`
+ - ubi-tests: Support up to 64k NAND page size
+
+### Changed
+ - build-system: Enable compiler warnings
+ - build-system: Restructure autoconf dependency checking
+ - common: Add const modifier to read only strings and string constants
+ - common: Eliminate warnings about missing prototypes
+ - common: Get rid of rpmatch usage
+ - common: Remove README.udev from ubi-tests extra dist
+ - common: Remove unused variables and functions
+ - common: Silence warnings about unused arguments
+ - flashcp: Drop custom defines for `EXIT_FAILURE` and `EXIT_SUCCESS`
+ - libiniparser: remove unused function needing float
+ - libmissing: Use autoconf header detection directly
+ - libubi: Remove `UDEV_SETTLE_HACK`
+ - misc-utils: Move libfec to common public header & library directory
+ - nandwrite: replace erase loop with mtd_erase_multi
+ - serve_image: Use PRIdoff_t as format specifier.
+ - ubi-tests: Speedup io_paral by using rand_r()
+ - ubirename: Fix spelling
+
+## [2.0.0] - 2016-12-22
+### Added
+ - libmissing with stubs for functions not present in libraries like musl
+ - unittests for libmtd and libubi
+ - port most kernel space mtd test modules to userspace
+ - mkfs.ubifs: extended attribute support
+ - ubinize: Move lengthy help text to a man page
+ - nandwrite: Add skip-all-ff-pages option
+ - flash_{un,}lock: support for MEMISLOCKED
+ - nandtest: support hex/dec/oct for `--offset` and `--length`
+
+### Fixed
+ - common: Fix 'unchecked return code' warnings
+ - common: Fix PRI{x,d}off definitions for x86_64 platform
+ - common: include sys/sysmacros.h for major/minor/makedev
+ - common: fix wrong format specifiers on mips32
+ - libmtd: Fix uninitialized buffers
+ - libmtd: Eliminate warnings about implicit non-const casting
+ - libmtd: Fix return status in mtd_torture test function
+ - libmtd: mtd_read: Take the buffer offset into account when reading
+ - mkfs.ubifs: use gid from table instead 2x uid
+ - mkfs.ubifs: fix compiler warning for WITHOUT_LZO
+ - mkfs.ubifs: fix build when WITHOUT_LZO is set
+ - mkfs.ubifs: correct the size of nnode in memset
+ - mkfs.jffs2: initialize lzo decompression buffer size
+ - mkfs.jffs2: Fix scanf() formatstring for modern C version
+ - nanddump: check write function result for errors
+ - nanddump: write requested length only
+ - flash_{un,}lock: don't allow "last byte + 1"
+ - flash_{un,}lock: improve strtol() error handling
+ - ubinize: Always return error code (at least -1) in case of an error
+ - recv_image: fix build warnings w/newer glibc & _BSD_SOURCE
+ - serve_image: use proper POSIX_C_SOURCE value
+ - flashcp: Use %llu to print filestat.st_size
+ - mtd_debug: check amount of data read.
+ - fs-tests: integrity: don't include header <bits/stdio_lim.h>
+ - tests: Fix endian issue with CRC generation algorithm
+ - make_a_release.sh: fix MTD spelling
+ - Fix packaging of unit test files
+ - Correct casting for final status report in flashcp
+
+### Changed
+ - autotools based build system
+ - complete restructuring of the source tree
+ - cleanup of some utilities
+ - removal of some very old, unused or duplicated files from the source tree
+ - libmtd: removal of very old, completely unused and broken functions
+ - nandwrite: Factor out buffer checking code