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| author | Daniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch> | 2015-11-07 13:47:59 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch> | 2015-11-07 13:47:59 +0000 |
| commit | 8733f99d1f0fdac462fa423aeebc59e4dab26799 (patch) | |
| tree | 9d15998c612dfc0df838cdaad9a27a6f15863974 /NEWS | |
| parent | Adding debian version 1.3-4. (diff) | |
| download | lzlib-8733f99d1f0fdac462fa423aeebc59e4dab26799.tar.xz lzlib-8733f99d1f0fdac462fa423aeebc59e4dab26799.zip | |
Merging upstream version 1.4~rc2.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
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1 files changed, 18 insertions, 8 deletions
@@ -1,11 +1,21 @@ -Changes in version 1.3: +Changes in version 1.4: -Lzlib has been translated to C from the C++ source of lzlib 1.2. This -has been done to avoid the dependency on libstdc++, making lzlib useful -in more environments. +Multi-step trials have been implemented. -Quote characters in messages have been changed as advised by GNU Coding -Standards. +Compression ratio has been slightly increased. -Configure option "--datadir" has been renamed to "--datarootdir" to -follow GNU Standards. +Compression time has been reduced by 8%. + +Decompression time has been reduced by 7%. + +Arguments and return values of functions in lzlib.h have been changed +from 'long long' to 'unsigned long long'. + +The minimum size of the input compression buffer has been reduced to 64KiB. + +"LZ_decompress_read" now tells "LZ_header_error" from "LZ_unexpected_eof" +the same way as lzip does when the EOF happens at the header. + +The target "install-as-lzip" has been added to the Makefile. + +The target "install-bin" has been added to the Makefile. |