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NTFS-3G FUSE Driver Sees First New Release In Four Years

Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Storage on 21 April 2026 at 11:41 AM EDT. 14 Comments
Coming today as a big surprise -- one week after the new NTFS file-system driver was merged for Linux 7.1 and separately the existing NTFS3 kernel driver seeing some fixes -- is a new release of the NTFS-3G driver providing a FUSE-based user-space driver for NTFS on Linux and other platforms.

Besides coming just days after the "NTFS resurrection" in Linux 7.1 as Linus Torvalds called it, making this new NTFS-3G release all the more notable is that it's the first new release since 2022. NTFS-3G 2022.10.3 is the prior release and out today is the NTFS-3G 2026.2.25 release.

👁 NTFS-3G new release on GitHub


Since 2022, the NTFS-3G driver has seen a number of fixes land, mkntfs now supports microsecond-level volume creation time, ntfsinfo and ntfsclone saw a number of improvements. For the most part this is a bug-fix release. There is also one security fix to address a heap buffer overflow when POSIX ACLs are enabled.

Downloads and more details on the new NTFS-3G FUSE driver release via GitHub.

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