GNU gzip NEWS -*- outline -*-
-* Noteworthy changes in release ?.?.? (????-??-??) [?]
+* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+ zgrep no longer malfunctions with a multi-digit context option like -15.
+ Now, it passes that option to grep (equivalent to -C15) just as it does
+ for single-digit options. [bug introduced in gzip-1.3.12]
+
+ zmore now acts more like 'more', and is more portable to POSIXish hosts.
+
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 1.5 (2012-06-17) [stable]
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+ gzip -d now decodes and checks header CRC16 checksums as specified by
+ the FHCRC section of Internet RFC 1952.
+
+ "gzip -d -S '' precious.gz" is now rejected immediately. Before,
+ that command would emulate "rm -i precious.gz", but with an easily-
+ misunderstood prompt. I.e., gzip would ask if it's ok to remove the
+ existing file, "precious.gz". If you made the mistake of saying "yes",
+ it would remove that input file before attempting to uncompress it.
+
+ gzip -cdf now properly handles input consisting of gzip'd data followed
+ by uncompressed data. Before it would output raw compressed input, too.
+ For example, now "(printf x|gzip; echo y)|gzip -dcf" prints "xy\n",
+ while before it would print "x<compressed data>y\n".
+
+ gzip -rf no longer compresses files more than once (e.g., replacing
+ FOO with FOO.gz.gz) on file systems such as ZFS where a readdir
+ loop that unlinks and creates files can revisit output files.
+
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 1.4 (2010-01-20) [stable]
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+ gzip -d could segfault and/or clobber the stack, possibly leading to
+ arbitrary code execution. This affects x86_64 but not 32-bit systems.
+ This fixes CVE-2010-0001.
+ For more details, see http://bugzilla.redhat.com/554418
+
+ gzip -d would fail with a CRC error for some valid inputs.
+ So far, the only valid input known to exhibit this failure was
+ compressed "from FAT filesystem (MS-DOS, OS/2, NT)". In addition,
+ to trigger the failure, your memcpy implementation must copy in
+ the "reverse" order.
+
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 1.3.14 (2009-10-30) [beta]
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+ gzip no longer fails when there is exactly one trailing NUL byte
+ gzip has always accepted trailing NUL bytes. Note the plural.
+
+ zdiff would exit with status 2 (indicating an error) rather than 1 to
+ indicate differences when both inputs were compressed and different.
+
+ zdiff would fail to print differences in two compressed inputs
+
+ zgrep -f - didn't work
+
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 1.3.13 (2009-09-30) [stable]
+
+** 'gzip -f foo.gz' now creates a file foo.gz.gz instead of complaining.
** Bug fixes
* znew now uses $TMPDIR (default /tmp) instead of always using /tmp.
-* 'gzip -f foo.gz' now creates a file foo.gz.gz instead of complaining.
-
* It is now documented that gzip ignores case when examining file name
extensions; for example, 'gzip test.Gz' (without -f) fails because
the file name ends in '.Gz'.
* With --force, let zcat pass non gzip'ed data unchanged (zcat == cat)
* Added the zgrep shell script.
* Made sub.c useful for 16 bit sound, 24 bit images, etc..
-* Supress warnings about suffix for gunzip -r, except with --verbose.
+* Suppress warnings about suffix for gunzip -r, except with --verbose.
* On MSDOS, use .gz extension when possible (files without extension)
* Moved the sample programs to a subdirectory sample.
* Added a "Special targets" section in INSTALL.
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-Copyright (C) 1999, 2001-2002, 2006-2007, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1999, 2001-2002, 2006-2007, 2009-2012 Free Software Foundation,
+Inc.
Copyright (C) 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly
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