To explain the e2fsprogs git branch naming scheme in terms of Debian
releases:

*  maint == stable (and currently has a few bug fixes beyond what is in 
1.42.12, although it's unlikely we will have a 1.42.13 release unless something 
really serious comes up)
* master == testing (and has the inline data and metadata csum feature support)
* next == unstable (and every few days to 1-2 weeks master will get moved up to 
the current unstable before I add new commits)
* pu == experimental (not currently active)

After 1.43 gets released, master will track 1.43 development for a
while, and then maint will get renamed oldmaint, maint will get reset to
master, and master and next will start tracking new development for the
eventual 1.44 release.

We have not decided yet whether mke2fs will create file systems with
metadata_csum and inline data by default in the 1.43 release series,
although the answer is "probably not", at least not at first.
Individual sysadmins can edit /etc/mke2fs.conf to change the defaults.

(File system developers tend to be *very* conservative, because while
users will tolerate kernel crashes, bugs that lead to data loss tend to
make end users very cranky indeed, and we try rather hard as a point of
pride not to avoid such eventualities.)

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