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------------------------------------------------------------------
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This file is part of bzip2/libbzip2, a program and library for
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lossless, block-sorting data compression.
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bzip2/libbzip2 version 1.0.6 of 6 September 2010
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Copyright (C) 1996-2010 Julian Seward <jseward@acm.org>
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Please read the WARNING, DISCLAIMER and PATENTS sections in the
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README file.
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This program is released under the terms of the license contained
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in the file LICENSE.
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------------------------------------------------------------------
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0.9.0
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~~~~~
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First version after 0.1pl2.
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* Approx 10% faster compression, 30% faster decompression
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* -t (test mode) is a lot quicker
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* Can decompress concatenated compressed files
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* Programming interface, so programs can directly read/write .bz2 files
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* Less restrictive (BSD-style) licensing
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* Flag handling more compatible with GNU gzip
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* Much more documentation, i.e., a proper user manual
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* Hopefully, improved portability (at least of the library)
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0.9.0a
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~~~~~~
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Removed 'ranlib' from Makefile, since most modern Unix-es
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don't need it, or even know about it.
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0.9.0b
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~~~~~~
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Fixed a problem with error reporting in bzip2.c. This does not effect
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the library in any way. Problem is: versions 0.9.0 and 0.9.0a (of the
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program proper) compress and decompress correctly, but give misleading
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error messages (internal panics) when an I/O error occurs, instead of
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reporting the problem correctly. This shouldn't give any data loss
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(as far as I can see), but is confusing.
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Made the inline declarations disappear for non-GCC compilers.
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0.9.0c
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~~~~~~
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Fixed some problems in the library pertaining to some boundary cases.
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This makes the library behave more correctly in those situations. The
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fixes apply only to features (calls and parameters) not used by
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bzip2.c, so the non-fixedness of them in previous versions has no
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effect on reliability of bzip2.c.
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In bzlib.c:
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* made zero-length BZ_FLUSH work correctly in bzCompress().
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* fixed bzWrite/bzRead to ignore zero-length requests.
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* fixed bzread to correctly handle read requests after EOF.
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* wrong parameter order in call to bzDecompressInit in
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bzBuffToBuffDecompress. Fixed.
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In compress.c:
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* changed setting of nGroups in sendMTFValues() so as to
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do a bit better on small files. This _does_ effect
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bzip2.c.
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0.9.5a
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~~~~~~
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Major change: add a fallback sorting algorithm (blocksort.c)
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to give reasonable behaviour even for very repetitive inputs.
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Nuked --repetitive-best and --repetitive-fast since they are
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no longer useful.
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Minor changes: mostly a whole bunch of small changes/
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bugfixes in the driver (bzip2.c). Changes pertaining to the
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user interface are:
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allow decompression of symlink'd files to stdout
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decompress/test files even without .bz2 extension
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give more accurate error messages for I/O errors
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when compressing/decompressing to stdout, don't catch control-C
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read flags from BZIP2 and BZIP environment variables
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decline to break hard links to a file unless forced with -f
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allow -c flag even with no filenames
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preserve file ownerships as far as possible
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make -s -1 give the expected block size (100k)
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add a flag -q --quiet to suppress nonessential warnings
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stop decoding flags after --, so files beginning in - can be handled
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resolved inconsistent naming: bzcat or bz2cat ?
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bzip2 --help now returns 0
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Programming-level changes are:
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fixed syntax error in GET_LL4 for Borland C++ 5.02
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let bzBuffToBuffDecompress return BZ_DATA_ERROR{_MAGIC}
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fix overshoot of mode-string end in bzopen_or_bzdopen
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wrapped bzlib.h in #ifdef __cplusplus ... extern "C" { ... }
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close file handles under all error conditions
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added minor mods so it compiles with DJGPP out of the box
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fixed Makefile so it doesn't give problems with BSD make
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fix uninitialised memory reads in dlltest.c
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Summary:
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* Compression speed is much less sensitive to the input
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data than in previous versions. Specifically, the very
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slow performance caused by repetitive data is fixed.
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* Many small improvements in file and flag handling.
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* A Y2K statement.
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0.9.5b
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~~~~~~
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Open stdin/stdout in binary mode for DJGPP.
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0.9.5c
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~~~~~~
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Changed BZ_N_OVERSHOOT to be ... + 2 instead of ... + 1. The + 1
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version could cause the sorted order to be wrong in some extremely
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obscure cases. Also changed setting of quadrant in blocksort.c.
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0.9.5d
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~~~~~~
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The only functional change is to make bzlibVersion() in the library
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return the correct string. This has no effect whatsoever on the
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functioning of the bzip2 program or library. Added a couple of casts
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so the library compiles without warnings at level 3 in MS Visual
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Studio 6.0. Included a Y2K statement in the file Y2K_INFO. All other
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changes are minor documentation changes.
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1.0
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~~~
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Several minor bugfixes and enhancements:
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* Large file support. The library uses 64-bit counters to
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count the volume of data passing through it. bzip2.c
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is now compiled with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 to get large
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file support from the C library. -v correctly prints out
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file sizes greater than 4 gigabytes. All these changes have
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been made without assuming a 64-bit platform or a C compiler
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which supports 64-bit ints, so, except for the C library
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aspect, they are fully portable.
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* Decompression robustness. The library/program should be
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robust to any corruption of compressed data, detecting and
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handling _all_ corruption, instead of merely relying on
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the CRCs. What this means is that the program should
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never crash, given corrupted data, and the library should
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always return BZ_DATA_ERROR.
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* Fixed an obscure race-condition bug only ever observed on
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Solaris, in which, if you were very unlucky and issued
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control-C at exactly the wrong time, both input and output
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files would be deleted.
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* Don't run out of file handles on test/decompression when
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large numbers of files have invalid magic numbers.
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* Avoid library namespace pollution. Prefix all exported
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symbols with BZ2_.
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* Minor sorting enhancements from my DCC2000 paper.
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* Advance the version number to 1.0, so as to counteract the
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(false-in-this-case) impression some people have that programs
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with version numbers less than 1.0 are in some way, experimental,
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pre-release versions.
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* Create an initial Makefile-libbz2_so to build a shared library.
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Yes, I know I should really use libtool et al ...
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* Make the program exit with 2 instead of 0 when decompression
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fails due to a bad magic number (ie, an invalid bzip2 header).
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Also exit with 1 (as the manual claims :-) whenever a diagnostic
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message would have been printed AND the corresponding operation
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is aborted, for example
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bzip2: Output file xx already exists.
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When a diagnostic message is printed but the operation is not
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aborted, for example
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bzip2: Can't guess original name for wurble -- using wurble.out
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then the exit value 0 is returned, unless some other problem is
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also detected.
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I think it corresponds more closely to what the manual claims now.
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1.0.1
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* Modified dlltest.c so it uses the new BZ2_ naming scheme.
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* Modified makefile-msc to fix minor build probs on Win2k.
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* Updated README.COMPILATION.PROBLEMS.
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There are no functionality changes or bug fixes relative to version
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1.0.0. This is just a documentation update + a fix for minor Win32
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build problems. For almost everyone, upgrading from 1.0.0 to 1.0.1 is
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utterly pointless. Don't bother.
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1.0.2
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~~~~~
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A bug fix release, addressing various minor issues which have appeared
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in the 18 or so months since 1.0.1 was released. Most of the fixes
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are to do with file-handling or documentation bugs. To the best of my
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knowledge, there have been no data-loss-causing bugs reported in the
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compression/decompression engine of 1.0.0 or 1.0.1.
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Note that this release does not improve the rather crude build system
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for Unix platforms. The general plan here is to autoconfiscate/
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libtoolise 1.0.2 soon after release, and release the result as 1.1.0
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or perhaps 1.2.0. That, however, is still just a plan at this point.
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Here are the changes in 1.0.2. Bug-reporters and/or patch-senders in
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parentheses.
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* Fix an infinite segfault loop in 1.0.1 when a directory is
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encountered in -f (force) mode.
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(Trond Eivind Glomsrod, Nicholas Nethercote, Volker Schmidt)
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* Avoid double fclose() of output file on certain I/O error paths.
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(Solar Designer)
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* Don't fail with internal error 1007 when fed a long stream (> 48MB)
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of byte 251. Also print useful message suggesting that 1007s may be
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caused by bad memory.
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(noticed by Juan Pedro Vallejo, fixed by me)
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* Fix uninitialised variable silly bug in demo prog dlltest.c.
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(Jorj Bauer)
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* Remove 512-MB limitation on recovered file size for bzip2recover
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on selected platforms which support 64-bit ints. At the moment
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all GCC supported platforms, and Win32.
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(me, Alson van der Meulen)
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* Hard-code header byte values, to give correct operation on platforms
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using EBCDIC as their native character set (IBM's OS/390).
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(Leland Lucius)
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* Copy file access times correctly.
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(Marty Leisner)
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* Add distclean and check targets to Makefile.
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(Michael Carmack)
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* Parameterise use of ar and ranlib in Makefile. Also add $(LDFLAGS).
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(Rich Ireland, Bo Thorsen)
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* Pass -p (create parent dirs as needed) to mkdir during make install.
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(Jeremy Fusco)
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* Dereference symlinks when copying file permissions in -f mode.
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(Volker Schmidt)
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* Majorly simplify implementation of uInt64_qrm10.
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(Bo Lindbergh)
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* Check the input file still exists before deleting the output one,
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when aborting in cleanUpAndFail().
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(Joerg Prante, Robert Linden, Matthias Krings)
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Also a bunch of patches courtesy of Philippe Troin, the Debian maintainer
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of bzip2:
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* Wrapper scripts (with manpages): bzdiff, bzgrep, bzmore.
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* Spelling changes and minor enhancements in bzip2.1.
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* Avoid race condition between creating the output file and setting its
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interim permissions safely, by using fopen_output_safely().
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No changes to bzip2recover since there is no issue with file
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permissions there.
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* do not print senseless report with -v when compressing an empty
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file.
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* bzcat -f works on non-bzip2 files.
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* do not try to escape shell meta-characters on unix (the shell takes
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care of these).
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* added --fast and --best aliases for -1 -9 for gzip compatibility.
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1.0.3 (15 Feb 05)
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Fixes some minor bugs since the last version, 1.0.2.
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* Further robustification against corrupted compressed data.
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There are currently no known bitstreams which can cause the
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decompressor to crash, loop or access memory which does not
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belong to it. If you are using bzip2 or the library to
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decompress bitstreams from untrusted sources, an upgrade
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to 1.0.3 is recommended. This fixes CAN-2005-1260.
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* The documentation has been converted to XML, from which html
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and pdf can be derived.
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* Various minor bugs in the documentation have been fixed.
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* Fixes for various compilation warnings with newer versions of
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gcc, and on 64-bit platforms.
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* The BZ_NO_STDIO cpp symbol was not properly observed in 1.0.2.
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This has been fixed.
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1.0.4 (20 Dec 06)
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Fixes some minor bugs since the last version, 1.0.3.
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* Fix file permissions race problem (CAN-2005-0953).
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* Avoid possible segfault in BZ2_bzclose. From Coverity's NetBSD
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scan.
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* 'const'/prototype cleanups in the C code.
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* Change default install location to /usr/local, and handle multiple
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'make install's without error.
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* Sanitise file names more carefully in bzgrep. Fixes CAN-2005-0758
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to the extent that applies to bzgrep.
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* Use 'mktemp' rather than 'tempfile' in bzdiff.
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* Tighten up a couple of assertions in blocksort.c following automated
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analysis.
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* Fix minor doc/comment bugs.
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1.0.5 (10 Dec 07)
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Security fix only. Fixes CERT-FI 20469 as it applies to bzip2.
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1.0.6 (6 Sept 10)
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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* Security fix for CVE-2010-0405. This was reported by Mikolaj
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Izdebski.
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* Make the documentation build on Ubuntu 10.04
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