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@@ -1,9 +1,30 @@ -Changes in version 1.10: +Changes in version 1.11: -A portability issue with Solaris 10 has been fixed. +A race has been fixed in zcmp and zdiff that sometimes made them return 1 +(files differ) instead of 2 (trouble) when a compressor is not found or when +the wrong format is forced. -It has been documented in the manual that 'zgrep -L' fails with GNU grep -versions 3.2 to 3.4 inclusive because of a wrong change reverted in GNU grep -3.5. +In case of error in an argument to a command line option, all tools now show +the name of the option. -'make check' now tests empty input files with all tools except zupdate. +In case of error in a numerical argument to a command line option, zcmp +now shows the name of the option and the range of valid values. + +Support for the zstd format has been added to all tools. This allows, among +other things, zupdating zstd files to lzip format for long-term archiving, +and using zcmp along with the unzcrash tool (from the lziprecover package) +to test zstd files. + +'zdiff --verbose --version' now prints the version of the diff program used +if it supports the option '--version'. + +'zgrep --verbose --version' now prints the version of the grep program used +if it supports the option '--version'. + +It has been documented in the manual how to recompress files with zupdate +from a read-only file system to another place by first linking the files +from the destination directory and then compressing the links: +'ln -s /src/foo.gz . && zupdate foo.gz' + +The texinfo category of the manual has been changed from 'Data Compression' +to 'Compression' to match that of gzip. (Reported by Alfred M. Szmidt). |