X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;fp=NEWS;h=881c9d61abe33394ef9f896501567f27dedd839f;hb=0d5a754ba8f2cc33e98d48d559f0ad6cd18a43a3;hp=6fff8ac4efffb7a5105e41e257ff4867c582af00;hpb=ad96056bdcf62abd585cdb53768fbabdde75d1b5;p=debian%2Fgzip diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 6fff8ac..881c9d6 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,51 @@ -Current Version: 1.3.5. -See the file ChangeLog for the details of all changes. +Gzip 1.3.9 (2006-12-15) + +* No major changes; only porting fixes. + +Major changes in Gzip 1.3.8 (2006-12-08) + +* Fix some gzip problems: + - A security fix from Debian 1.3.5-5 was inadvertently omitted. + - The assembler is now invoked with --noexecstack if supported, + so that gzip can better resist stack-smashing attacks. + +Major changes in Gzip 1.3.7 (2006-12-06) + +* Fix some gzip problems: + - Refuse to compress setuid or setgid files, or files with the sticky bit. + - Fix more race conditions in setting file permissions and owner, + removing output files, following symbolic links, and dealing with + special files. + - Remove most of the code working around ENAMETOOLONG deficiencies. + Systems with those deficiencies are long-dead, and the workarounds + had race conditions on modern hosts. + - Catch CPU time and file size limit signals, too. + - Check for read errors when closing files. + - Fix a core dump caused by a stray abort mistakenly introduced in 1.3.6. +* Fix some gzexe problems: + - Improve resistance to denial-of-service attacks. + - Fix some quoting and escaping bugs. + - Do not assume /tmp is sticky (though it should be!). + - Do not assume the working directory can be written. + - Rely on PATH in the generated executable, as the man page says. + - Don't assume IFS is sane. + - Exit with signal's status, if signaled. + +Major changes in Gzip 1.3.6 (2006-11-20) + +* Fix some race conditions in setting file time stamps, permissions, and owner. +* Fix some race conditions in signal handling. +* When gzip exits due to a signal, it exits with the signal's status, not 1. +* gzip now restores file time stamps to the resolution supported by the + time-setting primitives of the operating system, typically 1 microsecond. + Formerly it restored them only to the nearest second. +* gzip -r no longer attempts to reset the last-access times of directories + it reads, as this messes up when other processes are reading the directories. +* The options --version and --help now work on all gzip-installed executables, + and now use a format similar to other GNU programs. +* The manual is now distributed under the terms of the GNU Free + Documentation License without invariant sections or cover texts. +* Port to current versions of Autoconf, Automake, and Gnulib. Major changes from 1.3.4 to 1.3.5 * gzip now removes any output symlink before writing output file. @@ -170,7 +216,7 @@ Major changes from 1.0.4 to 1.0.5. Major changes from 1.0.3 to 1.0.4. * Added optimized asm version for 68020. * Add support for DJGPP. - + * Add support for the Atari ST. * Added zforce to rename gzip'ed files with truncated names. * Do not install with name uncompress (some systems rely on the @@ -260,24 +306,15 @@ Major changes form 0.5 to 0.6: * Accept gzcat in addition to zcat for people having /usr/bin before /usr/local/bin in their path. - - -Copyright (C) 1999, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -Copyright (C) 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly - -This file is part of GNU tar. -GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify -it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by -the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) -any later version. +======================================================================== -GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, -but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of -MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the -GNU General Public License for more details. +Copyright (C) 1999, 2001, 2002, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly -You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License -along with tar; see the file COPYING. If not, write to -the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, -Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. +Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document +under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no +Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover +Texts. A copy of the license is included in the ``GNU Free +Documentation License'' file as part of this distribution.