5 5.1.1alpha (2011-04-12)
9 * liblzma fixes that will also be included in 5.0.3:
11 - A memory leak was fixed.
13 - lzma_stream_buffer_encode() no longer creates an empty .xz
14 Block if encoding an empty buffer. Such an empty Block with
15 LZMA2 data would trigger a bug in 5.0.1 and older (see the
16 first bullet point in 5.0.2 notes). When releasing 5.0.2,
17 I thought that no encoder creates this kind of files but
20 - Validate function arguments better in a few functions. Most
21 importantly, specifying an unsupported integrity check to
22 lzma_stream_buffer_encode() no longer creates a corrupt .xz
23 file. Probably no application tries to do that, so this
24 shouldn't be a big problem in practice.
26 - Document that lzma_block_buffer_encode(),
27 lzma_easy_buffer_encode(), lzma_stream_encoder(), and
28 lzma_stream_buffer_encode() may return LZMA_UNSUPPORTED_CHECK.
30 - The return values of the _memusage() functions are now
33 * Support for multithreaded compression was added using the simplest
34 method, which splits the input data into blocks and compresses
35 them independently. Other methods will be added in the future.
36 The current method has room for improvement, e.g. it is possible
37 to reduce the memory usage.
39 * Added the options --single-stream and --block-size=SIZE to xz.
41 * xzdiff and xzgrep now support .lzo files if lzop is installed.
42 The .tzo suffix is also recognized as a shorthand for .tar.lzo.
44 * Support for short 8.3 filenames under DOS was added to xz. It is
45 experimental and may change before it gets into a stable release.
52 - A memory leak was fixed.
54 - lzma_stream_buffer_encode() no longer creates an empty .xz
55 Block if encoding an empty buffer. Such an empty Block with
56 LZMA2 data would trigger a bug in 5.0.1 and older (see the
57 first bullet point in 5.0.2 notes). When releasing 5.0.2,
58 I thought that no encoder creates this kind of files but
61 - Validate function arguments better in a few functions. Most
62 importantly, specifying an unsupported integrity check to
63 lzma_stream_buffer_encode() no longer creates a corrupt .xz
64 file. Probably no application tries to do that, so this
65 shouldn't be a big problem in practice.
67 - Document that lzma_block_buffer_encode(),
68 lzma_easy_buffer_encode(), lzma_stream_encoder(), and
69 lzma_stream_buffer_encode() may return LZMA_UNSUPPORTED_CHECK.
71 - The return values of the _memusage() functions are now
74 * Fix command name detection in xzgrep. xzegrep and xzfgrep now
75 correctly use egrep and fgrep instead of grep.
77 * French translation was added.
82 * LZMA2 decompressor now correctly accepts LZMA2 streams with no
83 uncompressed data. Previously it considered them corrupt. The
84 bug can affect applications that use raw LZMA2 streams. It is
85 very unlikely to affect .xz files because no compressor creates
86 .xz files with empty LZMA2 streams. (Empty .xz files are a
87 different thing than empty LZMA2 streams.)
89 * "xz --suffix=.foo filename.foo" now refuses to compress the
90 file due to it already having the suffix .foo. It was already
91 documented on the man page, but the code lacked the test.
93 * "xzgrep -l foo bar.xz" works now.
95 * Polish translation was added.
100 * xz --force now (de)compresses files that have setuid, setgid,
101 or sticky bit set and files that have multiple hard links.
102 The man page had it documented this way already, but the code
105 * gzip and bzip2 support in xzdiff was fixed.
109 * Minor fix to Czech translation
114 Only the most important changes compared to 4.999.9beta are listed
115 here. One change is especially important:
117 * The memory usage limit is now disabled by default. Some scripts
118 written before this change may have used --memory=max on xz command
119 line or in XZ_OPT. THESE USES OF --memory=max SHOULD BE REMOVED
120 NOW, because they interfere with user's ability to set the memory
121 usage limit himself. If user-specified limit causes problems to
122 your script, blame the user.
124 Other significant changes:
126 * Added support for XZ_DEFAULTS environment variable. This variable
127 allows users to set default options for xz, e.g. default memory
128 usage limit or default compression level. Scripts that use xz
129 must never set or unset XZ_DEFAULTS. Scripts should use XZ_OPT
130 instead if they need a way to pass options to xz via an
131 environment variable.
133 * The compression settings associated with the preset levels
134 -0 ... -9 have been changed. --extreme was changed a little too.
135 It is now less likely to make compression worse, but with some
136 files the new --extreme may compress slightly worse than the old
139 * If a preset level (-0 ... -9) is specified after a custom filter
140 chain options have been used (e.g. --lzma2), the custom filter
141 chain will be forgotten. Earlier the preset options were
142 completely ignored after custom filter chain options had been
145 * xz will create sparse files when decompressing if the uncompressed
146 data contains long sequences of binary zeros. This is done even
147 when writing to standard output that is connected to a regular
148 file and certain additional conditions are met to make it safe.
150 * Support for "xz --list" was added. Combine with --verbose or
151 --verbose --verbose (-vv) for detailed output.
153 * I had hoped that liblzma API would have been stable after
154 4.999.9beta, but there have been a couple of changes in the
155 advanced features, which don't affect most applications:
157 - Index handling code was revised. If you were using the old
158 API, you will get a compiler error (so it's easy to notice).
160 - A subtle but important change was made to the Block handling
161 API. lzma_block.version has to be initialized even for
162 lzma_block_header_decode(). Code that doesn't do it will work
163 for now, but might break in the future, which makes this API
166 * The major soname has been bumped to 5.0.0. liblzma API and ABI
167 are now stable, so the need to recompile programs linking against
168 liblzma shouldn't arise soon.