X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=6532550b11710e20ed852b36f75419012b370048;hb=760dd35ab04dbacda739299f7ed781abe1b54352;hp=d60d5cc6c60c445d54048f23ff79f9fff08479cd;hpb=f0bda0b75a28f6fd2069600f19f7eafa569545e6;p=debian%2Fgzip diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index d60d5cc..6532550 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -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