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authorLasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>2022-11-15 10:54:08 +0200
committerLasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>2022-11-15 10:54:08 +0200
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@@ -218,6 +218,85 @@ XZ Utils Release Notes
(FreeBSD >= 10).
+5.2.8 (2022-11-13)
+
+ * xz:
+
+ - If xz cannot remove an input file when it should, this
+ is now treated as a warning (exit status 2) instead of
+ an error (exit status 1). This matches GNU gzip and it
+ is more logical as at that point the output file has
+ already been successfully closed.
+
+ - Fix handling of .xz files with an unsupported check type.
+ Previously such printed a warning message but then xz
+ behaved as if an error had occurred (didn't decompress,
+ exit status 1). Now a warning is printed, decompression
+ is done anyway, and exit status is 2. This used to work
+ slightly before 5.0.0. In practice this bug matters only
+ if xz has been built with some check types disabled. As
+ instructed in PACKAGERS, such builds should be done in
+ special situations only.
+
+ - Fix "xz -dc --single-stream tests/files/good-0-empty.xz"
+ which failed with "Internal error (bug)". That is,
+ --single-stream was broken if the first .xz stream in
+ the input file didn't contain any uncompressed data.
+
+ - Fix displaying file sizes in the progress indicator when
+ working in passthru mode and there are multiple input files.
+ Just like "gzip -cdf", "xz -cdf" works like "cat" when the
+ input file isn't a supported compressed file format. In
+ this case the file size counters weren't reset between
+ files so with multiple input files the progress indicator
+ displayed an incorrect (too large) value.
+
+ * liblzma:
+
+ - API docs in lzma/container.h:
+ * Update the list of decoder flags in the decoder
+ function docs.
+ * Explain LZMA_CONCATENATED behavior with .lzma files
+ in lzma_auto_decoder() docs.
+
+ - OpenBSD: Use HW_NCPUONLINE to detect the number of
+ available hardware threads in lzma_physmem().
+
+ - Fix use of wrong macro to detect x86 SSE2 support.
+ __SSE2_MATH__ was used with GCC/Clang but the correct
+ one is __SSE2__. The first one means that SSE2 is used
+ for floating point math which is irrelevant here.
+ The affected SSE2 code isn't used on x86-64 so this affects
+ only 32-bit x86 builds that use -msse2 without -mfpmath=sse
+ (there is no runtime detection for SSE2). It improves LZMA
+ compression speed (not decompression).
+
+ - Fix the build with Intel C compiler 2021 (ICC, not ICX)
+ on Linux. It defines __GNUC__ to 10 but doesn't support
+ the __symver__ attribute introduced in GCC 10.
+
+ * Scripts: Ignore warnings from xz by using --quiet --no-warn.
+ This is needed if the input .xz files use an unsupported
+ check type.
+
+ * Translations:
+
+ - Updated Croatian and Turkish translations.
+
+ - One new translations wasn't included because it needed
+ technical fixes. It will be in upcoming 5.4.0. No new
+ translations will be added to the 5.2.x branch anymore.
+
+ - Renamed the French man page translation file from
+ fr_FR.po to fr.po and thus also its install directory
+ (like /usr/share/man/fr_FR -> .../fr).
+
+ - Man page translations for upcoming 5.4.0 are now handled
+ in the Translation Project.
+
+ * Update doc/faq.txt a little so it's less out-of-date.
+
+
5.2.7 (2022-09-30)
* liblzma: