erofs-utils: release 1.9.4

Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <xiang@kernel.org>

ChangeLog

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+erofs-utils 1.9.4
+
+* A quick maintenance release includes the following fixes:
+
+ - (fsck.erofs, dump.erofs) Fix image extraction when `-Efragments` is
+                            enabled (Seula Lee);
+ - (mkfs.erofs) Fix multi-threaded compression crashes on macOS
+                (Isaiah DeRose-Wilson).
+
+ -- Gao Xiang <xiang@kernel.org>  Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:30:00 +0800
+
 erofs-utils 1.9.3
 
 * A quick maintenance release includes the following fixes:

VERSION

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-1.9.3
-2026-08-05
+1.9.4
+2026-08-19