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 XZ Utils Release Notes
 ======================
 
+5.2.6 (2022-08-12)
+
+    * xz:
+
+        - The --keep option now accepts symlinks, hardlinks, and
+          setuid, setgid, and sticky files. Previously this required
+          using --force.
+
+        - When copying metadata from the source file to the destination
+          file, don't try to set the group (GID) if it is already set
+          correctly. This avoids a failure on OpenBSD (and possibly on
+          a few other OSes) where files may get created so that their
+          group doesn't belong to the user, and fchown(2) can fail even
+          if it needs to do nothing.
+
+        - Cap --memlimit-compress to 2000 MiB instead of 4020 MiB on
+          MIPS32 because on MIPS32 userspace processes are limited
+          to 2 GiB of address space.
+
+    * liblzma:
+
+        - Fixed a missing error-check in the threaded encoder. If a
+          small memory allocation fails, a .xz file with an invalid
+          Index field would be created. Decompressing such a file would
+          produce the correct output but result in an error at the end.
+          Thus this is a "mild" data corruption bug. Note that while
+          a failed memory allocation can trigger the bug, it cannot
+          cause invalid memory access.
+
+        - The decoder for .lzma files now supports files that have
+          uncompressed size stored in the header and still use the
+          end of payload marker (end of stream marker) at the end
+          of the LZMA stream. Such files are rare but, according to
+          the documentation in LZMA SDK, they are valid.
+          doc/lzma-file-format.txt was updated too.
+
+        - Improved 32-bit x86 assembly files:
+            * Support Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET)
+            * Use non-executable stack on FreeBSD.
+
+        - Visual Studio: Use non-standard _MSVC_LANG to detect C++
+          standard version in the lzma.h API header. It's used to
+          detect when "noexcept" can be used.
+
+    * xzgrep:
+
+        - Fixed arbitrary command injection via a malicious filename
+          (CVE-2022-1271, ZDI-CAN-16587). A standalone patch for
+          this was released to the public on 2022-04-07. A slight
+          robustness improvement has been made since then and, if
+          using GNU or *BSD grep, a new faster method is now used
+          that doesn't use the old sed-based construct at all. This
+          also fixes bad output with GNU grep >= 3.5 (2020-09-27)
+          when xzgrepping binary files.
+
+          This vulnerability was discovered by:
+          cleemy desu wayo working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative
+
+        - Fixed detection of corrupt .bz2 files.
+
+        - Improved error handling to fix exit status in some situations
+          and to fix handling of signals: in some situations a signal
+          didn't make xzgrep exit when it clearly should have. It's
+          possible that the signal handling still isn't quite perfect
+          but hopefully it's good enough.
+
+        - Documented exit statuses on the man page.
+
+        - xzegrep and xzfgrep now use "grep -E" and "grep -F" instead
+          of the deprecated egrep and fgrep commands.
+
+        - Fixed parsing of the options -E, -F, -G, -P, and -X. The
+          problem occurred when multiple options were specied in
+          a single argument, for example,
+
+              echo foo | xzgrep -Fe foo
+
+          treated foo as a filename because -Fe wasn't correctly
+          split into -F -e.
+
+        - Added zstd support.
+
+    * xzdiff/xzcmp:
+
+        - Fixed wrong exit status. Exit status could be 2 when the
+          correct value is 1.
+
+        - Documented on the man page that exit status of 2 is used
+          for decompression errors.
+
+        - Added zstd support.
+
+    * xzless:
+
+        - Fix less(1) version detection. It failed if the version number
+          from "less -V" contained a dot.
+
+    * Translations:
+
+        - Added new translations: Catalan, Croatian, Esperanto,
+          Korean, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish,
+          and Ukrainian
+
+        - Updated the Brazilian Portuguese translation.
+
+        - Added French man page translation. This and the existing
+          German translation aren't complete anymore because the
+          English man pages got a few updates and the translators
+          weren't reached so that they could update their work.
+
+    * Build systems:
+
+        - Windows: Fix building of resource files when config.h isn't
+          used. CMake + Visual Studio can now build liblzma.dll.
+
+        - Various fixes to the CMake support. Building static or shared
+          liblzma should work fine in most cases. In contrast, building
+          the command line tools with CMake is still clearly incomplete
+          and experimental and should be used for testing only.
+
+
+5.2.5 (2020-03-17)
+
+    * liblzma:
+
+        - Fixed several C99/C11 conformance bugs. Now the code is clean
+          under gcc/clang -fsanitize=undefined. Some of these changes
+          might have a negative effect on performance with old GCC
+          versions or compilers other than GCC and Clang. The configure
+          option --enable-unsafe-type-punning can be used to (mostly)
+          restore the old behavior but it shouldn't normally be used.
+
+        - Improved API documentation of lzma_properties_decode().
+
+        - Added a very minor encoder speed optimization.
+
+    * xz:
+
+        - Fixed a crash in "xz -dcfv not_an_xz_file". All four options
+          were required to trigger it. The crash occurred in the
+          progress indicator code when xz was in passthru mode where
+          xz works like "cat".
+
+        - Fixed an integer overflow with 32-bit off_t. It could happen
+          when decompressing a file that has a long run of zero bytes
+          which xz would try to write as a sparse file. Since the build
+          system enables large file support by default, off_t is
+          normally 64-bit even on 32-bit systems.
+
+        - Fixes for --flush-timeout:
+            * Fix semi-busy-waiting.
+            * Avoid unneeded flushes when no new input has arrived
+              since the previous flush was completed.
+
+        - Added a special case for 32-bit xz: If --memlimit-compress is
+          used to specify a limit that exceeds 4020 MiB, the limit will
+          be set to 4020 MiB. The values "0" and "max" aren't affected
+          by this and neither is decompression. This hack can be
+          helpful when a 32-bit xz has access to 4 GiB address space
+          but the specified memlimit exceeds 4 GiB. This can happen
+          e.g. with some scripts.
+
+        - Capsicum sandbox is now enabled by default where available
+          (FreeBSD >= 10). The sandbox debug messages (xz -vv) were
+          removed since they seemed to be more annoying than useful.
+
+        - DOS build now requires DJGPP 2.05 instead of 2.04beta.
+          A workaround for a locale problem with DJGPP 2.05 was added.
+
+    * xzgrep and other scripts:
+
+        - Added a configure option --enable-path-for-scripts=PREFIX.
+          It is disabled by default except on Solaris where the default
+          is /usr/xpg4/bin. See INSTALL for details.
+
+        - Added a workaround for a POSIX shell detection problem on
+          Solaris.
+
+    * Build systems:
+
+        - Added preliminary build instructions for z/OS. See INSTALL
+          section 1.2.9.
+
+        - Experimental CMake support was added. It should work to build
+          static liblzma on a few operating systems. It may or may not
+          work to build shared liblzma. On some platforms it can build
+          xz and xzdec too but those are only for testing. See the
+          comment in the beginning of CMakeLists.txt for details.
+
+        - Visual Studio project files were updated.
+          WindowsTargetPlatformVersion was removed from VS2017 files
+          and set to "10.0" in the added VS2019 files. In the future
+          the VS project files will be removed when CMake support is
+          good enough.
+
+        - New #defines in config.h: HAVE___BUILTIN_ASSUME_ALIGNED,
+          HAVE___BUILTIN_BSWAPXX, and TUKLIB_USE_UNSAFE_TYPE_PUNNING.
+
+        - autogen.sh has a new optional dependency on po4a and a new
+          option --no-po4a to skip that step. This matters only if one
+          wants to remake the build files. po4a is used to update the
+          translated man pages but as long as the man pages haven't
+          been modified, there's nothing to update and one can use
+          --no-po4a to avoid the dependency on po4a.
+
+    * Translations:
+
+        - XZ Utils translations are now handled by the Translation
+          Project: https://translationproject.org/domain/xz.html
+
+        - All man pages are now included in German too.
+
+        - New xz translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Finnish,
+          Hungarian, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional),
+          and Danish (partial translation)
+
+        - Updated xz translations: French, German, Italian, and Polish
+
+        - Unfortunately a few new xz translations weren't included due
+          to technical problems like too long lines in --help output or
+          misaligned column headings in tables. In the future, many of
+          these strings will be split and e.g. the table column
+          alignment will be handled in software. This should make the
+          strings easier to translate.
+
+
 5.2.5 (2020-03-17)
 
     * liblzma: