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Issue 7109015: Update XZ Utils to 5.0.3 (in deps) (Closed) Base URL: svn://svn.chromium.org/chrome/trunk/deps/third_party/xz/
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+XZ Utils Release Notes
+======================
+
+5.0.3 (2011-05-21)
+
+ * liblzma fixes:
+
+ - A memory leak was fixed.
+
+ - lzma_stream_buffer_encode() no longer creates an empty .xz
+ Block if encoding an empty buffer. Such an empty Block with
+ LZMA2 data would trigger a bug in 5.0.1 and older (see the
+ first bullet point in 5.0.2 notes). When releasing 5.0.2,
+ I thought that no encoder creates this kind of files but
+ I was wrong.
+
+ - Validate function arguments better in a few functions. Most
+ importantly, specifying an unsupported integrity check to
+ lzma_stream_buffer_encode() no longer creates a corrupt .xz
+ file. Probably no application tries to do that, so this
+ shouldn't be a big problem in practice.
+
+ - Document that lzma_block_buffer_encode(),
+ lzma_easy_buffer_encode(), lzma_stream_encoder(), and
+ lzma_stream_buffer_encode() may return LZMA_UNSUPPORTED_CHECK.
+
+ - The return values of the _memusage() functions are now
+ documented better.
+
+ * Fix command name detection in xzgrep. xzegrep and xzfgrep now
+ correctly use egrep and fgrep instead of grep.
+
+ * French translation was added.
+
+
+5.0.2 (2011-04-01)
+
+ * LZMA2 decompressor now correctly accepts LZMA2 streams with no
+ uncompressed data. Previously it considered them corrupt. The
+ bug can affect applications that use raw LZMA2 streams. It is
+ very unlikely to affect .xz files because no compressor creates
+ .xz files with empty LZMA2 streams. (Empty .xz files are a
+ different thing than empty LZMA2 streams.)
+
+ * "xz --suffix=.foo filename.foo" now refuses to compress the
+ file due to it already having the suffix .foo. It was already
+ documented on the man page, but the code lacked the test.
+
+ * "xzgrep -l foo bar.xz" works now.
+
+ * Polish translation was added.
+
+
+5.0.1 (2011-01-29)
+
+ * xz --force now (de)compresses files that have setuid, setgid,
+ or sticky bit set and files that have multiple hard links.
+ The man page had it documented this way already, but the code
+ had a bug.
+
+ * gzip and bzip2 support in xzdiff was fixed.
+
+ * Portability fixes
+
+ * Minor fix to Czech translation
+
+
+5.0.0 (2010-10-23)
+
+ Only the most important changes compared to 4.999.9beta are listed
+ here. One change is especially important:
+
+ * The memory usage limit is now disabled by default. Some scripts
+ written before this change may have used --memory=max on xz command
+ line or in XZ_OPT. THESE USES OF --memory=max SHOULD BE REMOVED
+ NOW, because they interfere with user's ability to set the memory
+ usage limit himself. If user-specified limit causes problems to
+ your script, blame the user.
+
+ Other significant changes:
+
+ * Added support for XZ_DEFAULTS environment variable. This variable
+ allows users to set default options for xz, e.g. default memory
+ usage limit or default compression level. Scripts that use xz
+ must never set or unset XZ_DEFAULTS. Scripts should use XZ_OPT
+ instead if they need a way to pass options to xz via an
+ environment variable.
+
+ * The compression settings associated with the preset levels
+ -0 ... -9 have been changed. --extreme was changed a little too.
+ It is now less likely to make compression worse, but with some
+ files the new --extreme may compress slightly worse than the old
+ --extreme.
+
+ * If a preset level (-0 ... -9) is specified after a custom filter
+ chain options have been used (e.g. --lzma2), the custom filter
+ chain will be forgotten. Earlier the preset options were
+ completely ignored after custom filter chain options had been
+ seen.
+
+ * xz will create sparse files when decompressing if the uncompressed
+ data contains long sequences of binary zeros. This is done even
+ when writing to standard output that is connected to a regular
+ file and certain additional conditions are met to make it safe.
+
+ * Support for "xz --list" was added. Combine with --verbose or
+ --verbose --verbose (-vv) for detailed output.
+
+ * I had hoped that liblzma API would have been stable after
+ 4.999.9beta, but there have been a couple of changes in the
+ advanced features, which don't affect most applications:
+
+ - Index handling code was revised. If you were using the old
+ API, you will get a compiler error (so it's easy to notice).
+
+ - A subtle but important change was made to the Block handling
+ API. lzma_block.version has to be initialized even for
+ lzma_block_header_decode(). Code that doesn't do it will work
+ for now, but might break in the future, which makes this API
+ change easy to miss.
+
+ * The major soname has been bumped to 5.0.0. liblzma API and ABI
+ are now stable, so the need to recompile programs linking against
+ liblzma shouldn't arise soon.
+
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