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1 2022-01-23 Antonio Diaz Diaz <antonio@gnu.org> 2 3 * Version 1.13 released. 4 * Set variables AR and ARFLAGS from configure. 5 (Reported by Hoël Bézier). 6 * main.c: Rename to minilzip.c. 7 * minilzip.c (getnum): Show option name and valid range if error. 8 (check_lib): Check that LZ_API_VERSION and LZ_version_string match. 9 * Improve several descriptions in manual, '--help', and man page. 10 * lzlib.texi: Change GNU Texinfo category to 'Compression'. 11 (Reported by Alfred M. Szmidt). 12 13 2021-01-02 Antonio Diaz Diaz <antonio@gnu.org> 14 15 * Version 1.12 released. 16 * lzlib.h: Define LZ_API_VERSION as 1000 * major + minor. 1.12 = 1012. 17 This change does not affect the soversion. 18 * lzlib.h, lzlib.c: New function LZ_api_version. 19 * LZd_try_verify_trailer: Return 2 if EOF at trailer or EOS marker. 20 * Decompression speed has been slightly increased. 21 * decoder.h: Increase 'rd_min_available_bytes' from 8 to 10. 22 * encoder_base.c (LZeb_try_sync_flush): 23 Compensate for the increase in 'rd_min_available_bytes'. 24 * main.c (do_decompress): Fix false report about library stall. 25 * main.c: New option '--check-lib'. 26 * main.c (main): Report an error if a file name is empty. 27 Make '-o' behave like '-c', but writing to file instead of stdout. 28 Make '-c' and '-o' check whether the output is a terminal only once. 29 Do not open output if input is a terminal. 30 Replace 'decompressed', 'compressed' with 'out', 'in' in output. 31 Set a valid invocation_name even if argc == 0. 32 * lzlib.texi: Document the new way of verifying the library version. 33 Document that 'LZ_(de)compress_close' and 'LZ_(de)compress_errno' 34 can be called with a null argument. 35 Document that sync flush marker is not allowed in lzip files. 36 Document the consequences of not calling 'LZ_decompress_finish'. 37 Document that 'LZ_decompress_read' returns at least once per member. 38 Document that 'LZ_(de)compress_read' can be called with a null 39 buffer pointer argument. 40 Real code examples for common uses have been added to the tutorial. 41 * bbexample.c: Don't use 'LZ_(de)compress_write_size'. 42 * lzcheck.c: New options '-s' (sync) and '-m' (member by member). 43 Test member by member without 'LZ_decompress_finish'. 44 * ffexample.c: New file containing example functions for file-to-file 45 compression/decompression. 46 * Document extraction from tar.lz in '--help' output and man page. 47 * Makefile.in: 'install-bin' no longer installs the man page. 48 New targets 'install-bin-compress' and 'install-bin-strip-compress'. 49 * testsuite: Add 9 new test files. 50 51 2019-01-02 Antonio Diaz Diaz <antonio@gnu.org> 52 53 * Version 1.11 released. 54 * Rename File_* to Lzip_*. 55 * LZ_decompress_read: Don't return error until all data is read. 56 * decoder.c (LZd_decode_member): Decode truncated data until EOF. 57 * cbuffer.c (Cb_read_data): Allow a null buffer pointer. 58 * main.c: Don't allow mixing different operations (-d and -t). 59 * main.c: Check return value of close( infd ). 60 * main.c: Compile on DOS with DJGPP. 61 * lzlib.texi: Improve descriptions of '-0..-9', '-m', and '-s'. 62 Document that 'LZ_(de)compress_finish' can be called repeatedly. 63 * configure: Accept appending to CFLAGS; 'CFLAGS+=OPTIONS'. 64 * Makefile.in: Rename targets 'install-bin*' to 'install-lib*'. 65 * Makefile.in: Targets 'install-bin*' now install minilzip. 66 * INSTALL: Document use of CFLAGS+='-D __USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO'. 67 68 2018-02-07 Antonio Diaz Diaz <antonio@gnu.org> 69 70 * Version 1.10 released. 71 * LZ_compress_finish now adjusts dictionary size for each member. 72 (Older versions can adjust dictionary size only once). 73 * lzlib.c (LZ_decompress_read): Detect corrupt header with HD=3. 74 * main.c: New option '--loose-trailing'. 75 * main.c (main): Option '-S, --volume-size' now keeps input files. 76 * main.c: Replace 'bits/byte' with inverse compression ratio. 77 * main.c: Show final diagnostic when testing multiple files. 78 * main.c: Do not add a second .lz extension to the arg of -o. 79 * main.c: Show dictionary size at verbosity level 4 (-vvvv). 80 * lzlib.texi: New chapter 'Invoking minilzip'. 81 82 2017-04-11 Antonio Diaz Diaz <antonio@gnu.org> 83 84 * Version 1.9 released. 85 * Compression time of option '-0' has been reduced by 3%. 86 * Compression time of options -1 to -9 has been reduced by 1%. 87 * Decompression time has been reduced by 3%. 88 * main.c: Continue testing if any input file is a terminal. 89 * Change the license of the library to "2-clause BSD". 90 91 2016-05-17 Antonio Diaz Diaz <antonio@gnu.org> 92 93 * Version 1.8 released. 94 * lzlib.h: Define LZ_API_VERSION to 1. 95 * lzlib.c (LZ_decompress_sync_to_member): Add skipped size to in_size. 96 * decoder.c (LZd_verify_trailer): Remove test of final code. 97 * main.c: New option '-a, --trailing-error'. 98 * main.c (main): Delete '--output' file if infd is a terminal. 99 * main.c (main): Don't use stdin more than once. 100 * configure: Avoid warning on some shells when testing for gcc. 101 * Makefile.in: Detect the existence of install-info. 102 * check.sh: A POSIX shell is required to run the tests. 103 * check.sh: Don't check error messages. 104 105 2015-07-08 Antonio Diaz Diaz <antonio@gnu.org> 106 107 * Version 1.7 released. 108 * Port fast encoder and option '-0' from lzip. 109 * If open-->write-->finish, produce same dictionary size as lzip. 110 * Makefile.in: New targets 'install*-compress'. 111 112 2014-08-27 Antonio Diaz Diaz <antonio@gnu.org> 113 114 * Version 1.6 released. 115 * Compression ratio of option '-9' has been slightly increased. 116 * configure: New options '--disable-static' and '--disable-ldconfig'. 117 * Makefile.in: Ignore errors from ldconfig. 118 * Makefile.in: Use 'CFLAGS' in every invocation of 'CC'. 119 * main.c (close_and_set_permissions): Behave like 'cp -p'. 120 * lzlib.texinfo: Rename to lzlib.texi. 121 * Change license to "GPL version 2 or later with link exception". 122 123 2013-09-15 Antonio Diaz Diaz <antonio@gnu.org> 124 125 * Version 1.5 released. 126 * Remove decompression support for version 0 files. 127 * The LZ_compress_sync_flush mechanism has been fixed (again). 128 * Minor fixes. 129 130 2013-05-28 Antonio Diaz Diaz <antonio@gnu.org> 131 132 * Version 1.4 released. 133 * Multi-step trials have been implemented. 134 * Compression ratio has been slightly increased. 135 * Compression time has been reduced by 8%. 136 * Decompression time has been reduced by 7%. 137 * lzlib.h: Change 'long long' values to 'unsigned long long'. 138 * encoder.c (Mf_init): Reduce minimum buffer size to 64KiB. 139 * lzlib.c (LZ_decompress_read): Tell LZ_header_error from 140 LZ_unexpected_eof the same way as lzip does. 141 * Makefile.in: New targets 'install-as-lzip' and 'install-bin'. 142 * main.c: Use 'setmode' instead of '_setmode' on Windows and OS/2. 143 * main.c: Define 'strtoull' to 'strtoul' on Windows. 144 145 2012-02-29 Antonio Diaz Diaz <ant_diaz@teleline.es> 146 147 * Version 1.3 released. 148 * Translated to C from the C++ source of lzlib 1.2. 149 * configure: Rename 'datadir' to 'datarootdir'. 150 151 2011-10-25 Antonio Diaz Diaz <ant_diaz@teleline.es> 152 153 * Version 1.2 released. 154 * encoder.h (Lee_update_prices): Update high length symbol prices 155 independently of the value of 'pos_state'. This gives better 156 compression for large values of '--match-length' without being 157 slower. 158 * encoder.h, encoder.cc: Optimize pair price calculations, reducing 159 compression time for large values of '--match-length' by up to 6%. 160 * main.cc: New option '-F, --recompress'. 161 * Makefile.in: 'make install' no longer tries to run 162 '/sbin/ldconfig' on systems lacking it. 163 164 2011-01-03 Antonio Diaz Diaz <ant_diaz@teleline.es> 165 166 * Version 1.1 released. 167 * Compression time has been reduced by 2%. 168 * All declarations not belonging to the API have been 169 encapsulated in the namespace 'Lzlib'. 170 * testsuite: Rename 'test1' to 'test.txt'. New tests. 171 * Match length limits set by options -1 to -9 of minilzip have 172 been changed to match those of lzip 1.11. 173 * main.cc: Set stdin/stdout in binary mode on OS2. 174 * bbexample.cc: New file containing example functions for 175 buffer-to-buffer compression/decompression. 176 177 2010-05-08 Antonio Diaz Diaz <ant_diaz@teleline.es> 178 179 * Version 1.0 released. 180 * New functions LZ_decompress_member_version, LZ_decompress_data_crc, 181 LZ_decompress_member_finished, and LZ_decompress_dictionary_size. 182 * Variables declared 'extern' have been encapsulated in a namespace. 183 * main.cc: Fix warning about fchown's return value being ignored. 184 * decoder.h: Integrate Input_buffer in Range_decoder. 185 186 2010-02-10 Antonio Diaz Diaz <ant_diaz@teleline.es> 187 188 * Version 0.9 released. 189 * Compression time has been reduced by 8%. 190 * main.cc: New constant 'o_binary'. 191 192 2010-01-17 Antonio Diaz Diaz <ant_diaz@teleline.es> 193 194 * Version 0.8 released. 195 * New functions LZ_decompress_reset, LZ_decompress_sync_to_member, 196 LZ_decompress_write_size, and LZ_strerror. 197 * lzlib.h: API change. Replace 'enum' with functions for values of 198 dictionary size limits to make interface names consistent. 199 * lzlib.h: API change. Rename 'LZ_errno' to 'LZ_Errno'. 200 * lzlib.h: API change. Replace 'void *' with 'struct LZ_Encoder *' 201 and 'struct LZ_Decoder *' to make interface type safe. 202 * decoder.cc: A truncated member trailer is now correctly detected. 203 * encoder.cc: Matchfinder::reset now also clears at_stream_end_, 204 allowing LZ_compress_restart_member to restart a finished stream. 205 * lzlib.cc: Accept only query or close operations after a fatal 206 error has occurred. 207 * The shared version of lzlib is no longer built by default. 208 * check.sh: Use 'test1' instead of 'COPYING' for testing. 209 210 2009-10-20 Antonio Diaz Diaz <ant_diaz@teleline.es> 211 212 * Version 0.7 released. 213 * Compression time has been reduced by 4%. 214 * check.sh: Remove -9 to run in less than 256MiB of RAM. 215 * lzcheck.cc: Read files of any size up to 2^63 bytes. 216 217 2009-09-02 Antonio Diaz Diaz <ant_diaz@teleline.es> 218 219 * Version 0.6 released. 220 * The LZ_compress_sync_flush mechanism has been fixed. 221 222 2009-07-03 Antonio Diaz Diaz <ant_diaz@teleline.es> 223 224 * Version 0.5 released. 225 * Decompression speed has been improved. 226 * main.cc (signal_handler): Declare as 'extern "C"'. 227 228 2009-06-03 Antonio Diaz Diaz <ant_diaz@teleline.es> 229 230 * Version 0.4 released. 231 * New functions LZ_compress_sync_flush and LZ_compress_write_size. 232 * Decompression speed has been improved. 233 * lzlib.texinfo: New chapter 'Buffering'. 234 235 2009-05-03 Antonio Diaz Diaz <ant_diaz@teleline.es> 236 237 * Version 0.3 released. 238 * Lzlib is now built as a shared library (in addition to static). 239 240 2009-04-26 Antonio Diaz Diaz <ant_diaz@teleline.es> 241 242 * Version 0.2 released. 243 * Fix a segfault when decompressing trailing garbage. 244 * Fix a false positive in LZ_(de)compress_finished. 245 246 2009-04-21 Antonio Diaz Diaz <ant_diaz@teleline.es> 247 248 * Version 0.1 released. 249 250 251 Copyright (C) 2009-2022 Antonio Diaz Diaz. 252 253 This file is a collection of facts, and thus it is not copyrightable, 254 but just in case, you have unlimited permission to copy, distribute, and 255 modify it.