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@@ -2,6 +2,71 @@ XZ Utils Release Notes ====================== +5.2.0 (2014-12-21) + + Since 5.1.4beta: + + * All fixes from 5.0.8 + + * liblzma: Fixed lzma_stream_encoder_mt_memusage() when a preset + was used. + + * xzdiff: If mktemp isn't installed, mkdir will be used as + a fallback to create a temporary directory. Installing mktemp + is still recommended. + + * Updated French, German, Italian, Polish, and Vietnamese + translations. + + Summary of fixes and new features added in the 5.1.x development + releases: + + * liblzma: + + - Added support for multi-threaded compression. See the + lzma_mt structure, lzma_stream_encoder_mt(), and + lzma_stream_encoder_mt_memusage() in <lzma/container.h>, + lzma_get_progress() in <lzma/base.h>, and lzma_cputhreads() + in <lzma/hardware.h> for details. + + - Made the uses of lzma_allocator const correct. + + - Added lzma_block_uncomp_encode() to create uncompressed + .xz Blocks using LZMA2 uncompressed chunks. + + - Added support for LZMA_IGNORE_CHECK. + + - A few speed optimizations were made. + + - Added support for symbol versioning. It is enabled by default + on GNU/Linux, other GNU-based systems, and FreeBSD. + + - liblzma (not the whole XZ Utils) should now be buildable + with MSVC 2013 update 2 or later using windows/config.h. + + * xz: + + - Fixed a race condition in the signal handling. It was + possible that e.g. the first SIGINT didn't make xz exit + if reading or writing blocked and one had bad luck. The fix + is non-trivial, so as of writing it is unknown if it will be + backported to the v5.0 branch. + + - Multi-threaded decompression can be enabled with the + --threads (-T) option. + + - New command line options in xz: --single-stream, + --block-size=SIZE, --block-list=SIZES, + --flush-timeout=TIMEOUT, and --ignore-check. + + - xz -lvv now shows the minimum xz version that is required to + decompress the file. Currently it is 5.0.0 for all supported + .xz files except files with empty LZMA2 streams require 5.0.2. + + * xzdiff and xzgrep now support .lzo files if lzop is installed. + The .tzo suffix is also recognized as a shorthand for .tar.lzo. + + 5.1.4beta (2014-09-14) * All fixes from 5.0.6 |