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+GNU gzip NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 1.4 (2010-01-20) [stable]
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+  gzip -d could segfault and/or clobber the stack, possibly leading to
+  arbitrary code execution.  This affects x86_64 but not 32-bit systems.
+  This fixes CVE-2010-0001.
+  For more details, see http://bugzilla.redhat.com/554418
+
+  gzip -d would fail with a CRC error for some valid inputs.
+  So far, the only valid input known to exhibit this failure was
+  compressed "from FAT filesystem (MS-DOS, OS/2, NT)".  In addition,
+  to trigger the failure, your memcpy implementation must copy in
+  the "reverse" order.
+
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 1.3.14 (2009-10-30) [beta]
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+  gzip no longer fails when there is exactly one trailing NUL byte
+  gzip has always accepted trailing NUL bytes.  Note the plural.
+
+  zdiff would exit with status 2 (indicating an error) rather than 1 to
+  indicate differences when both inputs were compressed and different.
+
+  zdiff would fail to print differences in two compressed inputs
+
+  zgrep -f - didn't work
+
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 1.3.13 (2009-09-30) [stable]
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+  gzip -d no longer fails with "-" as 2nd or subsequent argument
+
+  gzip no longer ignores a close-induced write failure, e.g., on NFS
+
+  gzip -d no longer segfaults on certain invalid inputs
+
+
+Major changes in Gzip 1.3.12 (2007-04-13)
+
+* znew now uses $TMPDIR (default /tmp) instead of always using /tmp.
+
+* 'gzip -f foo.gz' now creates a file foo.gz.gz instead of complaining.
+
+* It is now documented that gzip ignores case when examining file name
+  extensions; for example, 'gzip test.Gz' (without -f) fails because
+  the file name ends in '.Gz'.
+
+Major changes in Gzip 1.3.11 (2007-02-05)
+
+* As per the GNU coding standards, the behavior of gzip and its
+  companion executables no longer depend on the name used to invoke them.
+  For example, 'gzip' and 'gunzip' are no longer hard links;
+  instead, 'gunzip' is now a small program that invokes 'gzip -d'.
+
+* zdiff now checks for subsidiary gzip failures, and works around
+  bugs in IRIX 6 sh, Tru64 4.0F ksh, and Solaris 8 bash.
+
+Major changes in Gzip 1.3.10 (2006-12-30)
+
+* gzip -c and zcat now work on special files, files with special mode bits,
+  and files with multiple hard links.
+* gzip -q now exits with status 2 (not 1) when SIGPIPE is received.
+* zcmp and zdiff did not work in the usual case, due to a typo.
+* zgrep has many bugs fixed with argument handling, special characters,
+  and exit status.
+* zless no longer mishandles $%=~ in file names.
+
 Gzip 1.3.9 (2006-12-15)
 
 * No major changes; only porting fixes.
@@ -309,11 +383,12 @@ Major changes form 0.5 to 0.6:
 
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-Copyright (C) 1999, 2001, 2002, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1999, 2001-2002, 2006-2007, 2009-2010 Free Software Foundation,
+Inc.
 Copyright (C) 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly
 
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