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