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@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +Changes in version 1.8: + +A buffer overflow has been fixed in zcat which happened sometimes when +the '-v, --show-nonprinting' option was used (or indirectly enabled). +A canary byte has been added to the output buffer to prevent the buffer +overflow from happening again. + +The option '-R, --dereference-recursive', which recursively follows +symbolic links, has been added to zcat, zgrep, ztest and zupdate. + +The option '-r, --recursive' now skips symlinks that are encountered +recursively. + +If no files are given to zcat, zgrep, ztest and zupdate, a recursive +search will now examine the current working directory. + +Recursive directory loops are now detected. + +zcat and zgrep now ignore directories given in the command line if +'--recursive' is not specified, instead of reporting an error. + +Extra trailing slashes are now removed from directories given in the +command line before recursing into them. + +zcat and zgrep now show the right error when they can't open an input +file instead of showing "No such file or directory". + +Killed decompressors are now waited for, preventing failure caused by +too many open pipes. + +Test and document that if a file fails to decompress, zcat, zgrep and +ztest continue processing the rest of the files. + +Test and document that if an error happens while recompressing a file, +zupdate exits immediately without recompressing the rest of the files. + +The configure script now accepts appending options to CXXFLAGS using the +syntax 'CXXFLAGS+=OPTIONS'. |