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@@ -2,6 +2,49 @@ XZ Utils Release Notes ====================== +5.1.4beta (2014-09-14) + + * All fixes from 5.0.6 + + * liblzma: Fixed the use of presets in threaded encoder + initialization. + + * xz --block-list and --block-size can now be used together + in single-threaded mode. Previously the combination only + worked in multi-threaded mode. + + * Added support for LZMA_IGNORE_CHECK to liblzma and made it + available in xz as --ignore-check. + + * liblzma speed optimizations: + + - Initialization of a new LZMA1 or LZMA2 encoder has been + optimized. (The speed of reinitializing an already-allocated + encoder isn't affected.) This helps when compressing many + small buffers with lzma_stream_buffer_encode() and other + similar situations where an already-allocated encoder state + isn't reused. This speed-up is visible in xz too if one + compresses many small files one at a time instead running xz + once and giving all files as command-line arguments. + + - Buffer comparisons are now much faster when unaligned access + is allowed (configured with --enable-unaligned-access). This + speeds up encoding significantly. There is arch-specific code + for 32-bit and 64-bit x86 (32-bit needs SSE2 for the best + results and there's no run-time CPU detection for now). + For other archs there is only generic code which probably + isn't as optimal as arch-specific solutions could be. + + - A few speed optimizations were made to the SHA-256 code. + (Note that the builtin SHA-256 code isn't used on all + operating systems.) + + * liblzma can now be built with MSVC 2013 update 2 or later + using windows/config.h. + + * Vietnamese translation was added. + + 5.1.3alpha (2013-10-26) * All fixes from 5.0.5 @@ -121,6 +164,13 @@ XZ Utils Release Notes experimental and may change before it gets into a stable release. +5.0.6 (2014-09-14) + + * xzgrep now exits with status 0 if at least one file matched. + + * A few minor portability and build system fixes + + 5.0.5 (2013-06-30) * lzmadec and liblzma's lzma_alone_decoder(): Support decompressing |