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@@ -13,6 +13,111 @@ XZ Utils Release Notes
(FreeBSD >= 10).
+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.
+
+
5.2.4 (2018-04-29)
* liblzma: