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@@ -2,6 +2,47 @@ XZ Utils Release Notes ====================== +5.1.2alpha (2012-07-04) + + * All fixes from 5.0.3 and 5.0.4 + + * liblzma: + + - Fixed a deadlock and an invalid free() in the threaded encoder. + + - Added support for symbol versioning. It is enabled by default + on GNU/Linux, other GNU-based systems, and FreeBSD. + + - Use SHA-256 implementation from the operating system if one is + available in libc, libmd, or libutil. liblzma won't use e.g. + OpenSSL or libgcrypt to avoid introducing new dependencies. + + - Fixed liblzma.pc for static linking. + + - Fixed a few portability bugs. + + * xz --decompress --single-stream now fixes the input position after + successful decompression. Now the following works: + + echo foo | xz > foo.xz + echo bar | xz >> foo.xz + ( xz -dc --single-stream ; xz -dc --single-stream ) < foo.xz + + Note that it doesn't work if the input is not seekable + or if there is Stream Padding between the concatenated + .xz Streams. + + * 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. + + * Added an *incomplete* implementation of --block-list=SIZES to xz. + It only works correctly in single-threaded mode and when + --block-size isn't used at the same time. --block-list allows + specifying the sizes of Blocks which can be useful e.g. when + creating files for random-access reading. + + 5.1.1alpha (2011-04-12) * All fixes from 5.0.2 |