X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=72b41099737e6789511da63052a28807c7568953;hb=92249085071a973e2c0621b0415b93d2e48bb00d;hp=3fb3ac49941484b73730207d305a51d06ea6eb67;hpb=a8a88eddaa90432e6ec1b8d9d5c9842bc91afd1d;p=debian%2Fgzip diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3fb3ac4..72b4109 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,26 @@ GNU gzip NEWS -*- outline -*- +* Noteworthy changes in release 1.10 (2018-12-29) [stable] + +** Changes in behavior + + Compressed gzip output no longer contains the current time as a + timestamp when the input is not a regular file. Instead, the output + contains a null (zero) timestamp. This makes gzip's behavior more + reproducible when used as part of a pipeline. (As a reminder, even + regular files will use null timestamps after the year 2106, due to a + limitation in the gzip format.) + +** Bug fixes + + A use of uninitialized memory on some malformed inputs has been fixed. + [bug present since the beginning] + + A few theoretical race conditions in signal handers have been fixed. + These bugs most likely do not happen on practical platforms. + [bugs present since the beginning] + + * Noteworthy changes in release 1.9 (2018-01-07) [stable] ** Bug fixes