* NEWS, configure.ac (AC_INIT):

Version 1.3.8 released.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c3c767b756530c9a5de89e663095c0d6f6c0026e..956ef5a2bbcce885df3412b65b0767c537591d2d 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2006-12-08  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
+       * NEWS, configure.ac (AC_INIT):
+       Version 1.3.8 released.
+
        * gzexe.in (mktemp_status): New var, used to see whether
        mktemp is a known command.  Use this instead of confounding
        mktemp's existence with its success.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 57603574efd01a864d0df8e44ce500948e77ca9e..d315a1f33e43b6d5134ef8c1829c42bc43a15afb 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+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:

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 955c7e1e79663abb437998c0cca83de0853f302b..a3267ab6a0ef69b26b698357c0e0442f81e836d1 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 # 02111-1307, USA.
 
 AC_PREREQ([2.60])
-AC_INIT([gzip], [1.3.7], [bug-gzip@gnu.org])
+AC_INIT([gzip], [1.3.8], [bug-gzip@gnu.org])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(gzip.c)
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(build-aux)
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([lib/config.h:lib/config.hin])