gzip: fix some Y2038 etc. bugs

[debian/gzip] / NEWS

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@@ -2,6 +2,34 @@ GNU gzip NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
 
+** Bug fixes
+
+  gzip now warns about file time stamps out of gzip range, or out of
+  time_t range, instead of silently continuing, sometimes with
+  undefined behavior.  This affects time stamps before 1970 or after
+  2106, and time stamps after 2038 on 32-bit platforms.
+  [bug present since the beginning]
+
+  Support for VMS and Amiga has been removed.  It was not working anyway,
+  and it reportedly caused file name glitches on MS-Windowsish platforms.
+
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 1.8 (2016-04-26) [stable]
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+  gzip -l no longer falsely reports a write error when writing to a pipe.
+  [bug introduced in gzip-1.7]
+
+  Port to Oracle Solaris Studio 12 on x86-64.
+  [bug present since at least gzip-1.2.4]
+
+  When configuring gzip, ./configure DEFS='...-DNO_ASM...' now
+  suppresses assembler again.  [bug introduced in gzip-1.3.5]
+
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 1.7 (2016-03-27) [stable]
+
 ** Changes in behavior
 
   The GZIP environment variable is now obsolescent; gzip now warns if
@@ -35,6 +63,10 @@ GNU gzip NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   gzip -k -v no longer reports that files are replaced.
   [bug present since the beginning]
 
+  zgrep -f A B C no longer reads A more than once if A is not a regular file.
+  This better supports invocations like 'zgrep -f <(COMMAND) B C' in Bash.
+  [bug introduced in gzip-1.2]
+
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release 1.6 (2013-06-09) [stable]