From d296515f4777d1e4b7d78e6aa8ea698162bfbc2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 12:52:38 +0100 Subject: Merging upstream version 1.18~pre1. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- NEWS | 26 ++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 70fd3fd..c46157d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,21 +1,11 @@ -Changes in version 1.17: +Changes in version 1.18: -Merging files now uses an algorithm similar to the ones used to solve -the "Master Mind" game, which makes it much faster. Up to 2 orders of -magnitude faster depending on number of files and number of errors. -Please, report as a bug any files correctly merged by lziprecover 1.16 -that this version can't merge. +"--repair" now tries to detect gross damage in the file before +attempting to repair it. -Repair time has been reduced by 15%. +"--repair" now tries bytes at member offsets 7 and 8 first because +errors in these bytes sometimes can't be detected until the end of the +member. -The new option "-y, --debug-delay", which finds the max error detection -delay in a given range of positions, has been added. - -The new option "-z, --debug-repair", which test repairs a one-byte error -at a given position, has been added. - -The targets "install-compress", "install-strip-compress", -"install-info-compress" and "install-man-compress" have been added to -the Makefile. - -The chapter "File names" has been added to the manual. +The new option "-x, --show-packets", which shows the LZMA packets +(coding sequences) coded in a given file, has been added. -- cgit v1.2.3