Announced back in October was NTFS Plus as a new Linux driver for NTFS based on the former NTFS kernel driver prior to Paragon Software contributing the NTFS3 driver code. The intent with this new driver is for better performance. more features, public user-space utilities around it, and all-around a nice step forward for those reliant on this Microsoft file-system. Out this week is the sixth iteration of this remade NTFS driver.
This remade NTFS driver has continued picking up more features and as of yesterday is now up to its sixth round of revisions with various fixes, code improvements, and tacking on extra functionality. Namjae Jeon has been leading the work on this cleaner and more performant NTFS open-source driver. With supporting IOmap, no buffer head usage, public utilities like fsck / mkfs, idmapped mount handling, and more while performing better, it's looking destined to eventually be mainlined as the de facto NTFS Linux driver.