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 GNU gzip NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
+* 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
+  it is used, and rejects attempts to use dangerous options or operands.
+  You can use an alias or script instead.
+
+  Installed programs like 'zgrep' now use the PATH environment variable
+  as usual to find subsidiary programs like 'gzip' and 'grep'.
+  Previously they prepended the installation directory to the PATH,
+  which sometimes caused 'make check' to test the wrong gzip executable.
+  [bug introduced in gzip-1.3.13]
+
+** New features
+
+  gzip now accepts the --synchronous option, which causes it to use
+  fsync and similar primitives to transfer output data to the output
+  file's storage device when the file system supports this.  Although
+  this option makes gzip safer in the presence of system crashes, it
+  can make gzip considerably slower.
+
+  gzip now accepts the --rsyncable option. This option is accepted in
+  all modes, but has effect only when compressing: it makes the resulting
+  output more amenable to efficient use of rsync.  For example, when a
+  large input file gets a small change, a gzip --rsyncable image of
+  that file will remain largely unchanged, too.  Without --rsyncable,
+  even a tiny change in the input could result in a totally different
+  gzip-compressed output file.
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+  gzip -k -v no longer reports that files are replaced.
+  [bug present since the beginning]
+
+  zgrep -f A B C no longer reads A more than once if A is not a regular file.
+  This better supports invocations like 'zgrep -f <(COMMAND) B C' in Bash.
+  [bug introduced in gzip-1.2]
+
+
 * Noteworthy changes in release 1.6 (2013-06-09) [stable]
 
 ** New features
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