From 8733f99d1f0fdac462fa423aeebc59e4dab26799 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 14:47:59 +0100 Subject: Merging upstream version 1.4~rc2. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- NEWS | 26 ++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3f6de9d..0a90a66 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -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. -- cgit v1.2.3