| 1 | |
| 2 | ChangeLog file for zlib |
| 3 | |
| 4 | Changes in 1.2.3 (18 July 2005) |
| 5 | - Apply security vulnerability fixes to contrib/infback9 as well |
| 6 | - Clean up some text files (carriage returns, trailing space) |
| 7 | - Update testzlib, vstudio, masmx64, and masmx86 in contrib [Vollant] |
| 8 | |
| 9 | Changes in 1.2.2.4 (11 July 2005) |
| 10 | - Add inflatePrime() function for starting inflation at bit boundary |
| 11 | - Avoid some Visual C warnings in deflate.c |
| 12 | - Avoid more silly Visual C warnings in inflate.c and inftrees.c for 64-bit |
| 13 | compile |
| 14 | - Fix some spelling errors in comments [Betts] |
| 15 | - Correct inflateInit2() error return documentation in zlib.h |
| 16 | - Added zran.c example of compressed data random access to examples |
| 17 | directory, shows use of inflatePrime() |
| 18 | - Fix cast for assignments to strm->state in inflate.c and infback.c |
| 19 | - Fix zlibCompileFlags() in zutil.c to use 1L for long shifts [Oberhumer] |
| 20 | - Move declarations of gf2 functions to right place in crc32.c [Oberhumer] |
| 21 | - Add cast in trees.c t avoid a warning [Oberhumer] |
| 22 | - Avoid some warnings in fitblk.c, gun.c, gzjoin.c in examples [Oberhumer] |
| 23 | - Update make_vms.com [Zinser] |
| 24 | - Initialize state->write in inflateReset() since copied in inflate_fast() |
| 25 | - Be more strict on incomplete code sets in inflate_table() and increase |
| 26 | ENOUGH and MAXD -- this repairs a possible security vulnerability for |
| 27 | invalid inflate input. Thanks to Tavis Ormandy and Markus Oberhumer for |
| 28 | discovering the vulnerability and providing test cases. |
| 29 | - Add ia64 support to configure for HP-UX [Smith] |
| 30 | - Add error return to gzread() for format or i/o error [Levin] |
| 31 | - Use malloc.h for OS/2 [Necasek] |
| 32 | |
| 33 | Changes in 1.2.2.3 (27 May 2005) |
| 34 | - Replace 1U constants in inflate.c and inftrees.c for 64-bit compile |
| 35 | - Typecast fread() return values in gzio.c [Vollant] |
| 36 | - Remove trailing space in minigzip.c outmode (VC++ can't deal with it) |
| 37 | - Fix crc check bug in gzread() after gzungetc() [Heiner] |
| 38 | - Add the deflateTune() function to adjust internal compression parameters |
| 39 | - Add a fast gzip decompressor, gun.c, to examples (use of inflateBack) |
| 40 | - Remove an incorrect assertion in examples/zpipe.c |
| 41 | - Add C++ wrapper in infback9.h [Donais] |
| 42 | - Fix bug in inflateCopy() when decoding fixed codes |
| 43 | - Note in zlib.h how much deflateSetDictionary() actually uses |
| 44 | - Remove USE_DICT_HEAD in deflate.c (would mess up inflate if used) |
| 45 | - Add _WIN32_WCE to define WIN32 in zconf.in.h [Spencer] |
| 46 | - Don't include stderr.h or errno.h for _WIN32_WCE in zutil.h [Spencer] |
| 47 | - Add gzdirect() function to indicate transparent reads |
| 48 | - Update contrib/minizip [Vollant] |
| 49 | - Fix compilation of deflate.c when both ASMV and FASTEST [Oberhumer] |
| 50 | - Add casts in crc32.c to avoid warnings [Oberhumer] |
| 51 | - Add contrib/masmx64 [Vollant] |
| 52 | - Update contrib/asm586, asm686, masmx86, testzlib, vstudio [Vollant] |
| 53 | |
| 54 | Changes in 1.2.2.2 (30 December 2004) |
| 55 | - Replace structure assignments in deflate.c and inflate.c with zmemcpy to |
| 56 | avoid implicit memcpy calls (portability for no-library compilation) |
| 57 | - Increase sprintf() buffer size in gzdopen() to allow for large numbers |
| 58 | - Add INFLATE_STRICT to check distances against zlib header |
| 59 | - Improve WinCE errno handling and comments [Chang] |
| 60 | - Remove comment about no gzip header processing in FAQ |
| 61 | - Add Z_FIXED strategy option to deflateInit2() to force fixed trees |
| 62 | - Add updated make_vms.com [Coghlan], update README |
| 63 | - Create a new "examples" directory, move gzappend.c there, add zpipe.c, |
| 64 | fitblk.c, gzlog.[ch], gzjoin.c, and zlib_how.html. |
| 65 | - Add FAQ entry and comments in deflate.c on uninitialized memory access |
| 66 | - Add Solaris 9 make options in configure [Gilbert] |
| 67 | - Allow strerror() usage in gzio.c for STDC |
| 68 | - Fix DecompressBuf in contrib/delphi/ZLib.pas [ManChesTer] |
| 69 | - Update contrib/masmx86/inffas32.asm and gvmat32.asm [Vollant] |
| 70 | - Use z_off_t for adler32_combine() and crc32_combine() lengths |
| 71 | - Make adler32() much faster for small len |
| 72 | - Use OS_CODE in deflate() default gzip header |
| 73 | |
| 74 | Changes in 1.2.2.1 (31 October 2004) |
| 75 | - Allow inflateSetDictionary() call for raw inflate |
| 76 | - Fix inflate header crc check bug for file names and comments |
| 77 | - Add deflateSetHeader() and gz_header structure for custom gzip headers |
| 78 | - Add inflateGetheader() to retrieve gzip headers |
| 79 | - Add crc32_combine() and adler32_combine() functions |
| 80 | - Add alloc_func, free_func, in_func, out_func to Z_PREFIX list |
| 81 | - Use zstreamp consistently in zlib.h (inflate_back functions) |
| 82 | - Remove GUNZIP condition from definition of inflate_mode in inflate.h |
| 83 | and in contrib/inflate86/inffast.S [Truta, Anderson] |
| 84 | - Add support for AMD64 in contrib/inflate86/inffas86.c [Anderson] |
| 85 | - Update projects/README.projects and projects/visualc6 [Truta] |
| 86 | - Update win32/DLL_FAQ.txt [Truta] |
| 87 | - Avoid warning under NO_GZCOMPRESS in gzio.c; fix typo [Truta] |
| 88 | - Deprecate Z_ASCII; use Z_TEXT instead [Truta] |
| 89 | - Use a new algorithm for setting strm->data_type in trees.c [Truta] |
| 90 | - Do not define an exit() prototype in zutil.c unless DEBUG defined |
| 91 | - Remove prototype of exit() from zutil.c, example.c, minigzip.c [Truta] |
| 92 | - Add comment in zlib.h for Z_NO_FLUSH parameter to deflate() |
| 93 | - Fix Darwin build version identification [Peterson] |
| 94 | |
| 95 | Changes in 1.2.2 (3 October 2004) |
| 96 | - Update zlib.h comments on gzip in-memory processing |
| 97 | - Set adler to 1 in inflateReset() to support Java test suite [Walles] |
| 98 | - Add contrib/dotzlib [Ravn] |
| 99 | - Update win32/DLL_FAQ.txt [Truta] |
| 100 | - Update contrib/minizip [Vollant] |
| 101 | - Move contrib/visual-basic.txt to old/ [Truta] |
| 102 | - Fix assembler builds in projects/visualc6/ [Truta] |
| 103 | |
| 104 | Changes in 1.2.1.2 (9 September 2004) |
| 105 | - Update INDEX file |
| 106 | - Fix trees.c to update strm->data_type (no one ever noticed!) |
| 107 | - Fix bug in error case in inflate.c, infback.c, and infback9.c [Brown] |
| 108 | - Add "volatile" to crc table flag declaration (for DYNAMIC_CRC_TABLE) |
| 109 | - Add limited multitasking protection to DYNAMIC_CRC_TABLE |
| 110 | - Add NO_vsnprintf for VMS in zutil.h [Mozilla] |
| 111 | - Don't declare strerror() under VMS [Mozilla] |
| 112 | - Add comment to DYNAMIC_CRC_TABLE to use get_crc_table() to initialize |
| 113 | - Update contrib/ada [Anisimkov] |
| 114 | - Update contrib/minizip [Vollant] |
| 115 | - Fix configure to not hardcode directories for Darwin [Peterson] |
| 116 | - Fix gzio.c to not return error on empty files [Brown] |
| 117 | - Fix indentation; update version in contrib/delphi/ZLib.pas and |
| 118 | contrib/pascal/zlibpas.pas [Truta] |
| 119 | - Update mkasm.bat in contrib/masmx86 [Truta] |
| 120 | - Update contrib/untgz [Truta] |
| 121 | - Add projects/README.projects [Truta] |
| 122 | - Add project for MS Visual C++ 6.0 in projects/visualc6 [Cadieux, Truta] |
| 123 | - Update win32/DLL_FAQ.txt [Truta] |
| 124 | - Update list of Z_PREFIX symbols in zconf.h [Randers-Pehrson, Truta] |
| 125 | - Remove an unnecessary assignment to curr in inftrees.c [Truta] |
| 126 | - Add OS/2 to exe builds in configure [Poltorak] |
| 127 | - Remove err dummy parameter in zlib.h [Kientzle] |
| 128 | |
| 129 | Changes in 1.2.1.1 (9 January 2004) |
| 130 | - Update email address in README |
| 131 | - Several FAQ updates |
| 132 | - Fix a big fat bug in inftrees.c that prevented decoding valid |
| 133 | dynamic blocks with only literals and no distance codes -- |
| 134 | Thanks to "Hot Emu" for the bug report and sample file |
| 135 | - Add a note to puff.c on no distance codes case. |
| 136 | |
| 137 | Changes in 1.2.1 (17 November 2003) |
| 138 | - Remove a tab in contrib/gzappend/gzappend.c |
| 139 | - Update some interfaces in contrib for new zlib functions |
| 140 | - Update zlib version number in some contrib entries |
| 141 | - Add Windows CE definition for ptrdiff_t in zutil.h [Mai, Truta] |
| 142 | - Support shared libraries on Hurd and KFreeBSD [Brown] |
| 143 | - Fix error in NO_DIVIDE option of adler32.c |
| 144 | |
| 145 | Changes in 1.2.0.8 (4 November 2003) |
| 146 | - Update version in contrib/delphi/ZLib.pas and contrib/pascal/zlibpas.pas |
| 147 | - Add experimental NO_DIVIDE #define in adler32.c |
| 148 | - Possibly faster on some processors (let me know if it is) |
| 149 | - Correct Z_BLOCK to not return on first inflate call if no wrap |
| 150 | - Fix strm->data_type on inflate() return to correctly indicate EOB |
| 151 | - Add deflatePrime() function for appending in the middle of a byte |
| 152 | - Add contrib/gzappend for an example of appending to a stream |
| 153 | - Update win32/DLL_FAQ.txt [Truta] |
| 154 | - Delete Turbo C comment in README [Truta] |
| 155 | - Improve some indentation in zconf.h [Truta] |
| 156 | - Fix infinite loop on bad input in configure script [Church] |
| 157 | - Fix gzeof() for concatenated gzip files [Johnson] |
| 158 | - Add example to contrib/visual-basic.txt [Michael B.] |
| 159 | - Add -p to mkdir's in Makefile.in [vda] |
| 160 | - Fix configure to properly detect presence or lack of printf functions |
| 161 | - Add AS400 support [Monnerat] |
| 162 | - Add a little Cygwin support [Wilson] |
| 163 | |
| 164 | Changes in 1.2.0.7 (21 September 2003) |
| 165 | - Correct some debug formats in contrib/infback9 |
| 166 | - Cast a type in a debug statement in trees.c |
| 167 | - Change search and replace delimiter in configure from % to # [Beebe] |
| 168 | - Update contrib/untgz to 0.2 with various fixes [Truta] |
| 169 | - Add build support for Amiga [Nikl] |
| 170 | - Remove some directories in old that have been updated to 1.2 |
| 171 | - Add dylib building for Mac OS X in configure and Makefile.in |
| 172 | - Remove old distribution stuff from Makefile |
| 173 | - Update README to point to DLL_FAQ.txt, and add comment on Mac OS X |
| 174 | - Update links in README |
| 175 | |
| 176 | Changes in 1.2.0.6 (13 September 2003) |
| 177 | - Minor FAQ updates |
| 178 | - Update contrib/minizip to 1.00 [Vollant] |
| 179 | - Remove test of gz functions in example.c when GZ_COMPRESS defined [Truta] |
| 180 | - Update POSTINC comment for 68060 [Nikl] |
| 181 | - Add contrib/infback9 with deflate64 decoding (unsupported) |
| 182 | - For MVS define NO_vsnprintf and undefine FAR [van Burik] |
| 183 | - Add pragma for fdopen on MVS [van Burik] |
| 184 | |
| 185 | Changes in 1.2.0.5 (8 September 2003) |
| 186 | - Add OF to inflateBackEnd() declaration in zlib.h |
| 187 | - Remember start when using gzdopen in the middle of a file |
| 188 | - Use internal off_t counters in gz* functions to properly handle seeks |
| 189 | - Perform more rigorous check for distance-too-far in inffast.c |
| 190 | - Add Z_BLOCK flush option to return from inflate at block boundary |
| 191 | - Set strm->data_type on return from inflate |
| 192 | - Indicate bits unused, if at block boundary, and if in last block |
| 193 | - Replace size_t with ptrdiff_t in crc32.c, and check for correct size |
| 194 | - Add condition so old NO_DEFLATE define still works for compatibility |
| 195 | - FAQ update regarding the Windows DLL [Truta] |
| 196 | - INDEX update: add qnx entry, remove aix entry [Truta] |
| 197 | - Install zlib.3 into mandir [Wilson] |
| 198 | - Move contrib/zlib_dll_FAQ.txt to win32/DLL_FAQ.txt; update [Truta] |
| 199 | - Adapt the zlib interface to the new DLL convention guidelines [Truta] |
| 200 | - Introduce ZLIB_WINAPI macro to allow the export of functions using |
| 201 | the WINAPI calling convention, for Visual Basic [Vollant, Truta] |
| 202 | - Update msdos and win32 scripts and makefiles [Truta] |
| 203 | - Export symbols by name, not by ordinal, in win32/zlib.def [Truta] |
| 204 | - Add contrib/ada [Anisimkov] |
| 205 | - Move asm files from contrib/vstudio/vc70_32 to contrib/asm386 [Truta] |
| 206 | - Rename contrib/asm386 to contrib/masmx86 [Truta, Vollant] |
| 207 | - Add contrib/masm686 [Truta] |
| 208 | - Fix offsets in contrib/inflate86 and contrib/masmx86/inffas32.asm |
| 209 | [Truta, Vollant] |
| 210 | - Update contrib/delphi; rename to contrib/pascal; add example [Truta] |
| 211 | - Remove contrib/delphi2; add a new contrib/delphi [Truta] |
| 212 | - Avoid inclusion of the nonstandard <memory.h> in contrib/iostream, |
| 213 | and fix some method prototypes [Truta] |
| 214 | - Fix the ZCR_SEED2 constant to avoid warnings in contrib/minizip |
| 215 | [Truta] |
| 216 | - Avoid the use of backslash (\) in contrib/minizip [Vollant] |
| 217 | - Fix file time handling in contrib/untgz; update makefiles [Truta] |
| 218 | - Update contrib/vstudio/vc70_32 to comply with the new DLL guidelines |
| 219 | [Vollant] |
| 220 | - Remove contrib/vstudio/vc15_16 [Vollant] |
| 221 | - Rename contrib/vstudio/vc70_32 to contrib/vstudio/vc7 [Truta] |
| 222 | - Update README.contrib [Truta] |
| 223 | - Invert the assignment order of match_head and s->prev[...] in |
| 224 | INSERT_STRING [Truta] |
| 225 | - Compare TOO_FAR with 32767 instead of 32768, to avoid 16-bit warnings |
| 226 | [Truta] |
| 227 | - Compare function pointers with 0, not with NULL or Z_NULL [Truta] |
| 228 | - Fix prototype of syncsearch in inflate.c [Truta] |
| 229 | - Introduce ASMINF macro to be enabled when using an ASM implementation |
| 230 | of inflate_fast [Truta] |
| 231 | - Change NO_DEFLATE to NO_GZCOMPRESS [Truta] |
| 232 | - Modify test_gzio in example.c to take a single file name as a |
| 233 | parameter [Truta] |
| 234 | - Exit the example.c program if gzopen fails [Truta] |
| 235 | - Add type casts around strlen in example.c [Truta] |
| 236 | - Remove casting to sizeof in minigzip.c; give a proper type |
| 237 | to the variable compared with SUFFIX_LEN [Truta] |
| 238 | - Update definitions of STDC and STDC99 in zconf.h [Truta] |
| 239 | - Synchronize zconf.h with the new Windows DLL interface [Truta] |
| 240 | - Use SYS16BIT instead of __32BIT__ to distinguish between |
| 241 | 16- and 32-bit platforms [Truta] |
| 242 | - Use far memory allocators in small 16-bit memory models for |
| 243 | Turbo C [Truta] |
| 244 | - Add info about the use of ASMV, ASMINF and ZLIB_WINAPI in |
| 245 | zlibCompileFlags [Truta] |
| 246 | - Cygwin has vsnprintf [Wilson] |
| 247 | - In Windows16, OS_CODE is 0, as in MSDOS [Truta] |
| 248 | - In Cygwin, OS_CODE is 3 (Unix), not 11 (Windows32) [Wilson] |
| 249 | |
| 250 | Changes in 1.2.0.4 (10 August 2003) |
| 251 | - Minor FAQ updates |
| 252 | - Be more strict when checking inflateInit2's windowBits parameter |
| 253 | - Change NO_GUNZIP compile option to NO_GZIP to cover deflate as well |
| 254 | - Add gzip wrapper option to deflateInit2 using windowBits |
| 255 | - Add updated QNX rule in configure and qnx directory [Bonnefoy] |
| 256 | - Make inflate distance-too-far checks more rigorous |
| 257 | - Clean up FAR usage in inflate |
| 258 | - Add casting to sizeof() in gzio.c and minigzip.c |
| 259 | |
| 260 | Changes in 1.2.0.3 (19 July 2003) |
| 261 | - Fix silly error in gzungetc() implementation [Vollant] |
| 262 | - Update contrib/minizip and contrib/vstudio [Vollant] |
| 263 | - Fix printf format in example.c |
| 264 | - Correct cdecl support in zconf.in.h [Anisimkov] |
| 265 | - Minor FAQ updates |
| 266 | |
| 267 | Changes in 1.2.0.2 (13 July 2003) |
| 268 | - Add ZLIB_VERNUM in zlib.h for numerical preprocessor comparisons |
| 269 | - Attempt to avoid warnings in crc32.c for pointer-int conversion |
| 270 | - Add AIX to configure, remove aix directory [Bakker] |
| 271 | - Add some casts to minigzip.c |
| 272 | - Improve checking after insecure sprintf() or vsprintf() calls |
| 273 | - Remove #elif's from crc32.c |
| 274 | - Change leave label to inf_leave in inflate.c and infback.c to avoid |
| 275 | library conflicts |
| 276 | - Remove inflate gzip decoding by default--only enable gzip decoding by |
| 277 | special request for stricter backward compatibility |
| 278 | - Add zlibCompileFlags() function to return compilation information |
| 279 | - More typecasting in deflate.c to avoid warnings |
| 280 | - Remove leading underscore from _Capital #defines [Truta] |
| 281 | - Fix configure to link shared library when testing |
| 282 | - Add some Windows CE target adjustments [Mai] |
| 283 | - Remove #define ZLIB_DLL in zconf.h [Vollant] |
| 284 | - Add zlib.3 [Rodgers] |
| 285 | - Update RFC URL in deflate.c and algorithm.txt [Mai] |
| 286 | - Add zlib_dll_FAQ.txt to contrib [Truta] |
| 287 | - Add UL to some constants [Truta] |
| 288 | - Update minizip and vstudio [Vollant] |
| 289 | - Remove vestigial NEED_DUMMY_RETURN from zconf.in.h |
| 290 | - Expand use of NO_DUMMY_DECL to avoid all dummy structures |
| 291 | - Added iostream3 to contrib [Schwardt] |
| 292 | - Replace rewind() with fseek() for WinCE [Truta] |
| 293 | - Improve setting of zlib format compression level flags |
| 294 | - Report 0 for huffman and rle strategies and for level == 0 or 1 |
| 295 | - Report 2 only for level == 6 |
| 296 | - Only deal with 64K limit when necessary at compile time [Truta] |
| 297 | - Allow TOO_FAR check to be turned off at compile time [Truta] |
| 298 | - Add gzclearerr() function [Souza] |
| 299 | - Add gzungetc() function |
| 300 | |
| 301 | Changes in 1.2.0.1 (17 March 2003) |
| 302 | - Add Z_RLE strategy for run-length encoding [Truta] |
| 303 | - When Z_RLE requested, restrict matches to distance one |
| 304 | - Update zlib.h, minigzip.c, gzopen(), gzdopen() for Z_RLE |
| 305 | - Correct FASTEST compilation to allow level == 0 |
| 306 | - Clean up what gets compiled for FASTEST |
| 307 | - Incorporate changes to zconf.in.h [Vollant] |
| 308 | - Refine detection of Turbo C need for dummy returns |
| 309 | - Refine ZLIB_DLL compilation |
| 310 | - Include additional header file on VMS for off_t typedef |
| 311 | - Try to use _vsnprintf where it supplants vsprintf [Vollant] |
| 312 | - Add some casts in inffast.c |
| 313 | - Enchance comments in zlib.h on what happens if gzprintf() tries to |
| 314 | write more than 4095 bytes before compression |
| 315 | - Remove unused state from inflateBackEnd() |
| 316 | - Remove exit(0) from minigzip.c, example.c |
| 317 | - Get rid of all those darn tabs |
| 318 | - Add "check" target to Makefile.in that does the same thing as "test" |
| 319 | - Add "mostlyclean" and "maintainer-clean" targets to Makefile.in |
| 320 | - Update contrib/inflate86 [Anderson] |
| 321 | - Update contrib/testzlib, contrib/vstudio, contrib/minizip [Vollant] |
| 322 | - Add msdos and win32 directories with makefiles [Truta] |
| 323 | - More additions and improvements to the FAQ |
| 324 | |
| 325 | Changes in 1.2.0 (9 March 2003) |
| 326 | - New and improved inflate code |
| 327 | - About 20% faster |
| 328 | - Does not allocate 32K window unless and until needed |
| 329 | - Automatically detects and decompresses gzip streams |
| 330 | - Raw inflate no longer needs an extra dummy byte at end |
| 331 | - Added inflateBack functions using a callback interface--even faster |
| 332 | than inflate, useful for file utilities (gzip, zip) |
| 333 | - Added inflateCopy() function to record state for random access on |
| 334 | externally generated deflate streams (e.g. in gzip files) |
| 335 | - More readable code (I hope) |
| 336 | - New and improved crc32() |
| 337 | - About 50% faster, thanks to suggestions from Rodney Brown |
| 338 | - Add deflateBound() and compressBound() functions |
| 339 | - Fix memory leak in deflateInit2() |
| 340 | - Permit setting dictionary for raw deflate (for parallel deflate) |
| 341 | - Fix const declaration for gzwrite() |
| 342 | - Check for some malloc() failures in gzio.c |
| 343 | - Fix bug in gzopen() on single-byte file 0x1f |
| 344 | - Fix bug in gzread() on concatenated file with 0x1f at end of buffer |
| 345 | and next buffer doesn't start with 0x8b |
| 346 | - Fix uncompress() to return Z_DATA_ERROR on truncated input |
| 347 | - Free memory at end of example.c |
| 348 | - Remove MAX #define in trees.c (conflicted with some libraries) |
| 349 | - Fix static const's in deflate.c, gzio.c, and zutil.[ch] |
| 350 | - Declare malloc() and free() in gzio.c if STDC not defined |
| 351 | - Use malloc() instead of calloc() in zutil.c if int big enough |
| 352 | - Define STDC for AIX |
| 353 | - Add aix/ with approach for compiling shared library on AIX |
| 354 | - Add HP-UX support for shared libraries in configure |
| 355 | - Add OpenUNIX support for shared libraries in configure |
| 356 | - Use $cc instead of gcc to build shared library |
| 357 | - Make prefix directory if needed when installing |
| 358 | - Correct Macintosh avoidance of typedef Byte in zconf.h |
| 359 | - Correct Turbo C memory allocation when under Linux |
| 360 | - Use libz.a instead of -lz in Makefile (assure use of compiled library) |
| 361 | - Update configure to check for snprintf or vsnprintf functions and their |
| 362 | return value, warn during make if using an insecure function |
| 363 | - Fix configure problem with compile-time knowledge of HAVE_UNISTD_H that |
| 364 | is lost when library is used--resolution is to build new zconf.h |
| 365 | - Documentation improvements (in zlib.h): |
| 366 | - Document raw deflate and inflate |
| 367 | - Update RFCs URL |
| 368 | - Point out that zlib and gzip formats are different |
| 369 | - Note that Z_BUF_ERROR is not fatal |
| 370 | - Document string limit for gzprintf() and possible buffer overflow |
| 371 | - Note requirement on avail_out when flushing |
| 372 | - Note permitted values of flush parameter of inflate() |
| 373 | - Add some FAQs (and even answers) to the FAQ |
| 374 | - Add contrib/inflate86/ for x86 faster inflate |
| 375 | - Add contrib/blast/ for PKWare Data Compression Library decompression |
| 376 | - Add contrib/puff/ simple inflate for deflate format description |
| 377 | |
| 378 | Changes in 1.1.4 (11 March 2002) |
| 379 | - ZFREE was repeated on same allocation on some error conditions. |
| 380 | This creates a security problem described in |
| 381 | http://www.zlib.org/advisory-2002-03-11.txt |
| 382 | - Returned incorrect error (Z_MEM_ERROR) on some invalid data |
| 383 | - Avoid accesses before window for invalid distances with inflate window |
| 384 | less than 32K. |
| 385 | - force windowBits > 8 to avoid a bug in the encoder for a window size |
| 386 | of 256 bytes. (A complete fix will be available in 1.1.5). |
| 387 | |
| 388 | Changes in 1.1.3 (9 July 1998) |
| 389 | - fix "an inflate input buffer bug that shows up on rare but persistent |
| 390 | occasions" (Mark) |
| 391 | - fix gzread and gztell for concatenated .gz files (Didier Le Botlan) |
| 392 | - fix gzseek(..., SEEK_SET) in write mode |
| 393 | - fix crc check after a gzeek (Frank Faubert) |
| 394 | - fix miniunzip when the last entry in a zip file is itself a zip file |
| 395 | (J Lillge) |
| 396 | - add contrib/asm586 and contrib/asm686 (Brian Raiter) |
| 397 | See http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/assembly.html |
| 398 | - add support for Delphi 3 in contrib/delphi (Bob Dellaca) |
| 399 | - add support for C++Builder 3 and Delphi 3 in contrib/delphi2 (Davide Moretti) |
| 400 | - do not exit prematurely in untgz if 0 at start of block (Magnus Holmgren) |
| 401 | - use macro EXTERN instead of extern to support DLL for BeOS (Sander Stoks) |
| 402 | - added a FAQ file |
| 403 | |
| 404 | - Support gzdopen on Mac with Metrowerks (Jason Linhart) |
| 405 | - Do not redefine Byte on Mac (Brad Pettit & Jason Linhart) |
| 406 | - define SEEK_END too if SEEK_SET is not defined (Albert Chin-A-Young) |
| 407 | - avoid some warnings with Borland C (Tom Tanner) |
| 408 | - fix a problem in contrib/minizip/zip.c for 16-bit MSDOS (Gilles Vollant) |
| 409 | - emulate utime() for WIN32 in contrib/untgz (Gilles Vollant) |
| 410 | - allow several arguments to configure (Tim Mooney, Frodo Looijaard) |
| 411 | - use libdir and includedir in Makefile.in (Tim Mooney) |
| 412 | - support shared libraries on OSF1 V4 (Tim Mooney) |
| 413 | - remove so_locations in "make clean" (Tim Mooney) |
| 414 | - fix maketree.c compilation error (Glenn, Mark) |
| 415 | - Python interface to zlib now in Python 1.5 (Jeremy Hylton) |
| 416 | - new Makefile.riscos (Rich Walker) |
| 417 | - initialize static descriptors in trees.c for embedded targets (Nick Smith) |
| 418 | - use "foo-gz" in example.c for RISCOS and VMS (Nick Smith) |
| 419 | - add the OS/2 files in Makefile.in too (Andrew Zabolotny) |
| 420 | - fix fdopen and halloc macros for Microsoft C 6.0 (Tom Lane) |
| 421 | - fix maketree.c to allow clean compilation of inffixed.h (Mark) |
| 422 | - fix parameter check in deflateCopy (Gunther Nikl) |
| 423 | - cleanup trees.c, use compressed_len only in debug mode (Christian Spieler) |
| 424 | - Many portability patches by Christian Spieler: |
| 425 | . zutil.c, zutil.h: added "const" for zmem* |
| 426 | . Make_vms.com: fixed some typos |
| 427 | . Make_vms.com: msdos/Makefile.*: removed zutil.h from some dependency lists |
| 428 | . msdos/Makefile.msc: remove "default rtl link library" info from obj files |
| 429 | . msdos/Makefile.*: use model-dependent name for the built zlib library |
| 430 | . msdos/Makefile.emx, nt/Makefile.emx, nt/Makefile.gcc: |
| 431 | new makefiles, for emx (DOS/OS2), emx&rsxnt and mingw32 (Windows 9x / NT) |
| 432 | - use define instead of typedef for Bytef also for MSC small/medium (Tom Lane) |
| 433 | - replace __far with _far for better portability (Christian Spieler, Tom Lane) |
| 434 | - fix test for errno.h in configure (Tim Newsham) |
| 435 | |
| 436 | Changes in 1.1.2 (19 March 98) |
| 437 | - added contrib/minzip, mini zip and unzip based on zlib (Gilles Vollant) |
| 438 | See http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/unzip.html |
| 439 | - preinitialize the inflate tables for fixed codes, to make the code |
| 440 | completely thread safe (Mark) |
| 441 | - some simplifications and slight speed-up to the inflate code (Mark) |
| 442 | - fix gzeof on non-compressed files (Allan Schrum) |
| 443 | - add -std1 option in configure for OSF1 to fix gzprintf (Martin Mokrejs) |
| 444 | - use default value of 4K for Z_BUFSIZE for 16-bit MSDOS (Tim Wegner + Glenn) |
| 445 | - added os2/Makefile.def and os2/zlib.def (Andrew Zabolotny) |
| 446 | - add shared lib support for UNIX_SV4.2MP (MATSUURA Takanori) |
| 447 | - do not wrap extern "C" around system includes (Tom Lane) |
| 448 | - mention zlib binding for TCL in README (Andreas Kupries) |
| 449 | - added amiga/Makefile.pup for Amiga powerUP SAS/C PPC (Andreas Kleinert) |
| 450 | - allow "make install prefix=..." even after configure (Glenn Randers-Pehrson) |
| 451 | - allow "configure --prefix $HOME" (Tim Mooney) |
| 452 | - remove warnings in example.c and gzio.c (Glenn Randers-Pehrson) |
| 453 | - move Makefile.sas to amiga/Makefile.sas |
| 454 | |
| 455 | Changes in 1.1.1 (27 Feb 98) |
| 456 | - fix macros _tr_tally_* in deflate.h for debug mode (Glenn Randers-Pehrson) |
| 457 | - remove block truncation heuristic which had very marginal effect for zlib |
| 458 | (smaller lit_bufsize than in gzip 1.2.4) and degraded a little the |
| 459 | compression ratio on some files. This also allows inlining _tr_tally for |
| 460 | matches in deflate_slow. |
| 461 | - added msdos/Makefile.w32 for WIN32 Microsoft Visual C++ (Bob Frazier) |
| 462 | |
| 463 | Changes in 1.1.0 (24 Feb 98) |
| 464 | - do not return STREAM_END prematurely in inflate (John Bowler) |
| 465 | - revert to the zlib 1.0.8 inflate to avoid the gcc 2.8.0 bug (Jeremy Buhler) |
| 466 | - compile with -DFASTEST to get compression code optimized for speed only |
| 467 | - in minigzip, try mmap'ing the input file first (Miguel Albrecht) |
| 468 | - increase size of I/O buffers in minigzip.c and gzio.c (not a big gain |
| 469 | on Sun but significant on HP) |
| 470 | |
| 471 | - add a pointer to experimental unzip library in README (Gilles Vollant) |
| 472 | - initialize variable gcc in configure (Chris Herborth) |
| 473 | |
| 474 | Changes in 1.0.9 (17 Feb 1998) |
| 475 | - added gzputs and gzgets functions |
| 476 | - do not clear eof flag in gzseek (Mark Diekhans) |
| 477 | - fix gzseek for files in transparent mode (Mark Diekhans) |
| 478 | - do not assume that vsprintf returns the number of bytes written (Jens Krinke) |
| 479 | - replace EXPORT with ZEXPORT to avoid conflict with other programs |
| 480 | - added compress2 in zconf.h, zlib.def, zlib.dnt |
| 481 | - new asm code from Gilles Vollant in contrib/asm386 |
| 482 | - simplify the inflate code (Mark): |
| 483 | . Replace ZALLOC's in huft_build() with single ZALLOC in inflate_blocks_new() |
| 484 | . ZALLOC the length list in inflate_trees_fixed() instead of using stack |
| 485 | . ZALLOC the value area for huft_build() instead of using stack |
| 486 | . Simplify Z_FINISH check in inflate() |
| 487 | |
| 488 | - Avoid gcc 2.8.0 comparison bug a little differently than zlib 1.0.8 |
| 489 | - in inftrees.c, avoid cc -O bug on HP (Farshid Elahi) |
| 490 | - in zconf.h move the ZLIB_DLL stuff earlier to avoid problems with |
| 491 | the declaration of FAR (Gilles VOllant) |
| 492 | - install libz.so* with mode 755 (executable) instead of 644 (Marc Lehmann) |
| 493 | - read_buf buf parameter of type Bytef* instead of charf* |
| 494 | - zmemcpy parameters are of type Bytef*, not charf* (Joseph Strout) |
| 495 | - do not redeclare unlink in minigzip.c for WIN32 (John Bowler) |
| 496 | - fix check for presence of directories in "make install" (Ian Willis) |
| 497 | |
| 498 | Changes in 1.0.8 (27 Jan 1998) |
| 499 | - fixed offsets in contrib/asm386/gvmat32.asm (Gilles Vollant) |
| 500 | - fix gzgetc and gzputc for big endian systems (Markus Oberhumer) |
| 501 | - added compress2() to allow setting the compression level |
| 502 | - include sys/types.h to get off_t on some systems (Marc Lehmann & QingLong) |
| 503 | - use constant arrays for the static trees in trees.c instead of computing |
| 504 | them at run time (thanks to Ken Raeburn for this suggestion). To create |
| 505 | trees.h, compile with GEN_TREES_H and run "make test". |
| 506 | - check return code of example in "make test" and display result |
| 507 | - pass minigzip command line options to file_compress |
| 508 | - simplifying code of inflateSync to avoid gcc 2.8 bug |
| 509 | |
| 510 | - support CC="gcc -Wall" in configure -s (QingLong) |
| 511 | - avoid a flush caused by ftell in gzopen for write mode (Ken Raeburn) |
| 512 | - fix test for shared library support to avoid compiler warnings |
| 513 | - zlib.lib -> zlib.dll in msdos/zlib.rc (Gilles Vollant) |
| 514 | - check for TARGET_OS_MAC in addition to MACOS (Brad Pettit) |
| 515 | - do not use fdopen for Metrowerks on Mac (Brad Pettit)) |
| 516 | - add checks for gzputc and gzputc in example.c |
| 517 | - avoid warnings in gzio.c and deflate.c (Andreas Kleinert) |
| 518 | - use const for the CRC table (Ken Raeburn) |
| 519 | - fixed "make uninstall" for shared libraries |
| 520 | - use Tracev instead of Trace in infblock.c |
| 521 | - in example.c use correct compressed length for test_sync |
| 522 | - suppress +vnocompatwarnings in configure for HPUX (not always supported) |
| 523 | |
| 524 | Changes in 1.0.7 (20 Jan 1998) |
| 525 | - fix gzseek which was broken in write mode |
| 526 | - return error for gzseek to negative absolute position |
| 527 | - fix configure for Linux (Chun-Chung Chen) |
| 528 | - increase stack space for MSC (Tim Wegner) |
| 529 | - get_crc_table and inflateSyncPoint are EXPORTed (Gilles Vollant) |
| 530 | - define EXPORTVA for gzprintf (Gilles Vollant) |
| 531 | - added man page zlib.3 (Rick Rodgers) |
| 532 | - for contrib/untgz, fix makedir() and improve Makefile |
| 533 | |
| 534 | - check gzseek in write mode in example.c |
| 535 | - allocate extra buffer for seeks only if gzseek is actually called |
| 536 | - avoid signed/unsigned comparisons (Tim Wegner, Gilles Vollant) |
| 537 | - add inflateSyncPoint in zconf.h |
| 538 | - fix list of exported functions in nt/zlib.dnt and mdsos/zlib.def |
| 539 | |
| 540 | Changes in 1.0.6 (19 Jan 1998) |
| 541 | - add functions gzprintf, gzputc, gzgetc, gztell, gzeof, gzseek, gzrewind and |
| 542 | gzsetparams (thanks to Roland Giersig and Kevin Ruland for some of this code) |
| 543 | - Fix a deflate bug occurring only with compression level 0 (thanks to |
| 544 | Andy Buckler for finding this one). |
| 545 | - In minigzip, pass transparently also the first byte for .Z files. |
| 546 | - return Z_BUF_ERROR instead of Z_OK if output buffer full in uncompress() |
| 547 | - check Z_FINISH in inflate (thanks to Marc Schluper) |
| 548 | - Implement deflateCopy (thanks to Adam Costello) |
| 549 | - make static libraries by default in configure, add --shared option. |
| 550 | - move MSDOS or Windows specific files to directory msdos |
| 551 | - suppress the notion of partial flush to simplify the interface |
| 552 | (but the symbol Z_PARTIAL_FLUSH is kept for compatibility with 1.0.4) |
| 553 | - suppress history buffer provided by application to simplify the interface |
| 554 | (this feature was not implemented anyway in 1.0.4) |
| 555 | - next_in and avail_in must be initialized before calling inflateInit or |
| 556 | inflateInit2 |
| 557 | - add EXPORT in all exported functions (for Windows DLL) |
| 558 | - added Makefile.nt (thanks to Stephen Williams) |
| 559 | - added the unsupported "contrib" directory: |
| 560 | contrib/asm386/ by Gilles Vollant <info@winimage.com> |
| 561 | 386 asm code replacing longest_match(). |
| 562 | contrib/iostream/ by Kevin Ruland <kevin@rodin.wustl.edu> |
| 563 | A C++ I/O streams interface to the zlib gz* functions |
| 564 |