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@@ -1,92 +1,15 @@ -Changes in version 1.12: +Changes in version 1.13: -The value of the version test macro 'LZ_API_VERSION' is now defined as -1000 * major + minor. For version 1.12 it is 1012. -This change does not affect the soversion. +The variables AR and ARFLAGS can now be set from configure. (Before you +needed to run 'make AR=<ar_command>'. (Reported by Hoël Bézier). -The new function 'LZ_api_version', which returns the LZ_API_VERSION of the -library object code being used, has been added to lzlib. +In case of error in a numerical argument to a command line option, minilzip +now shows the name of the option and the range of valid values. -If end of file is found at member trailer or EOS marker, -'LZ_decompress_errno' now returns 'LZ_unexpected_eof' instead of -'LZ_data_error'. +'minilzip --check-lib' now checks that LZ_API_VERSION and LZ_version_string +match. -Decompression speed has been slightly increased. +Several descriptions have been improved in manual, '--help', and man page. -A bug has been fixed in minilzip that falsely reported a library stall when -decompressing a file with empty members. - -The new option '--check-lib', which compares the version of lzlib used to -compile minilzip with the version actually being used, has been added to -minilzip. - -Minilzip now reports an error if a file name is empty (minilzip -t ""). - -Option '-o, --output' now behaves like '-c, --stdout', but sending the -output unconditionally to a file instead of to standard output. See the new -description of '-o' in the manual. This change is not backwards compatible. -Therefore commands like: - minilzip -o foo.lz - bar < foo -must now be split into: - minilzip -o foo.lz - < foo - minilzip bar -or rewritten as: - minilzip - bar < foo > foo.lz - -When using '-c' or '-o', minilzip now checks whether the output is a -terminal only once. - -Minilzip now does not even open the output file if the input file is a terminal. - -The words 'decompressed' and 'compressed' have been replaced with the -shorter 'out' and 'in' in the verbose output of minilzip when decompressing -or testing. - -It has been documented in the manual that 'LZ_(de)compress_close' and -'LZ_(de)compress_errno' can be called with a null argument. - -It has been documented in the manual that the LZMA marker '3' ("Sync Flush" -marker) is not allowed in lzip files. Marker '3' is a device for interactive -communication between applications using lzlib, but is useless and wasteful -in a file, and is excluded from the media type 'application/lzip'. The LZMA -marker '2' ("End Of Stream" marker) is the only marker allowed in lzip -files. - -It has been documented in the manual that not calling 'LZ_decompress_finish' -prevents lzlib from detecting a truncated member. - -It has been documented in the manual that 'LZ_decompress_read' returns at -least once per member so that 'LZ_decompress_member_finished' can be called -(and trailer data retrieved) for each member, even for empty members. -Therefore, 'LZ_decompress_read' returning 0 does not mean that the end of -the stream has been reached. - -It has been documented in the manual that 'LZ_(de)compress_read' can be -called with a null buffer pointer argument. - -Real code examples for the most common uses of the library have been added -to the tutorial. - -'bbexample.c' has been simplified to not use 'LZ_(de)compress_write_size'. - -'lzcheck' now accepts options '-s' (to check LZ_compress_sync_flush) and -'-m' (to check member by member decompression). - -'lzcheck.c' now also tests member by member decompression without -intermediate calls to 'LZ_decompress_finish'. - -The new file 'ffexample.c', containing example functions for file-to-file -compression/decompression, has been added to the distribution. - -The commands needed to extract files from a tar.lz archive have been -documented in the output of 'minilzip --help' and in the man page. - -'make install-bin' no longer installs the minilzip man page. This is to -prevent 'make install-bin install-man-compress' from installing the man page -twice before compressing it. - -The new targets 'install-bin-compress' and 'install-bin-strip-compress', -which install a (stripped) minilzip and a compressed man page, have been -added to the Makefile. - -9 new test files have been added to the testsuite. +The texinfo category of the manual has been changed from 'Data Compression' +to 'Compression' to match that of gzip. (Reported by Alfred M. Szmidt). |