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@@ -1,13 +1,103 @@ ChangeLog file for zlib +Changes in 1.0.7 (20 Jan 1998) +- fix gzseek which was broken in write mode +- return error for gzseek to negative absolute position +- fix configure for Linux (Chun-Chung Chen) +- increase stack space for MSC (Tim Wegner) +- get_crc_table and inflateSyncPoint are EXPORTed (Gilles Vollant) +- define EXPORTVA for gzprintf (Gilles Vollant) +- added man page zlib.3 (Rick Rodgers) +- for contrib/untgz, fix makedir() and improve Makefile + +- check gzseek in write mode in example.c +- allocate extra buffer for seeks only if gzseek is actually called +- avoid signed/unsigned comparisons (Tim Wegner, Gilles Vollant) +- add inflateSyncPoint in zconf.h +- fix list of exported functions in nt/zlib.dnt and mdsos/zlib.def + +Changes in 1.0.6 (19 Jan 1998) +- add functions gzprintf, gzputc, gzgetc, gztell, gzeof, gzseek, gzrewind and + gzsetparams (thanks to Roland Giersig and Kevin Ruland for some of this code) +- Fix a deflate bug occuring only with compression level 0 (thanks to + Andy Buckler for finding this one). +- In minigzip, pass transparently also the first byte for .Z files. +- return Z_BUF_ERROR instead of Z_OK if output buffer full in uncompress() +- check Z_FINISH in inflate (thanks to Marc Schluper) +- Implement deflateCopy (thanks to Adam Costello) +- make static libraries by default in configure, add --shared option. +- move MSDOS or Windows specific files to directory msdos +- suppress the notion of partial flush to simplify the interface + (but the symbol Z_PARTIAL_FLUSH is kept for compatibility with 1.0.4) +- suppress history buffer provided by application to simplify the interface + (this feature was not implemented anyway in 1.0.4) +- next_in and avail_in must be initialized before calling inflateInit or + inflateInit2 +- add EXPORT in all exported functions (for Windows DLL) +- added Makefile.nt (thanks to Stephen Williams) +- added the unsupported "contrib" directory: + contrib/asm386/ by Gilles Vollant <info@winimage.com> + 386 asm code replacing longest_match(). + contrib/iostream/ by Kevin Ruland <kevin@rodin.wustl.edu> + A C++ I/O streams interface to the zlib gz* functions + contrib/iostream2/ by Tyge Løvset <Tyge.Lovset@cmr.no> + Another C++ I/O streams interface + contrib/untgz/ by "Pedro A. Aranda Guti\irrez" <paag@tid.es> + A very simple tar.gz file extractor using zlib + contrib/visual-basic.txt by Carlos Rios <c_rios@sonda.cl> + How to use compress(), uncompress() and the gz* functions from VB. +- pass params -f (filtered data), -h (huffman only), -1 to -9 (compression + level) in minigzip (thanks to Tom Lane) + +- use const for rommable constants in deflate +- added test for gzseek and gztell in example.c +- add undocumented function inflateSyncPoint() (hack for Paul Mackerras) +- add undocumented function zError to convert error code to string + (for Tim Smithers) +- Allow compilation of gzio with -DNO_DEFLATE to avoid the compression code. +- Use default memcpy for Symantec MSDOS compiler. +- Add EXPORT keyword for check_func (needed for Windows DLL) +- add current directory to LD_LIBRARY_PATH for "make test" +- create also a link for libz.so.1 +- added support for FUJITSU UXP/DS (thanks to Toshiaki Nomura) +- use $(SHAREDLIB) instead of libz.so in Makefile.in (for HPUX) +- added -soname for Linux in configure (Chun-Chung Chen, +- assign numbers to the exported functions in zlib.def (for Windows DLL) +- add advice in zlib.h for best usage of deflateSetDictionary +- work around compiler bug on Atari (cast Z_NULL in call of s->checkfn) +- allow compilation with ANSI keywords only enabled for TurboC in large model +- avoid "versionString"[0] (Borland bug) +- add NEED_DUMMY_RETURN for Borland +- use variable z_verbose for tracing in debug mode (Peter Deutsch). +- allow compilation with CC +- defined STDC for OS/2 (David Charlap) +- limit external names to 8 chars for MVS (Thomas Lund) +- in minigzip.c, use static buffers only for 16-bit systems +- fix suffix check for "minigzip -d foo.gz" +- do not return an error for the 2nd of two consecutive gzflush() (Felix Lee) +- use _fdopen instead of fdopen for MSC >= 6.0 (Thomas Fanslau) +- added makelcc.bat for lcc-win32 (Tom St Denis) +- in Makefile.dj2, use copy and del instead of install and rm (Frank Donahoe) +- Avoid expanded $Id$. Use "rcs -kb" or "cvs admin -kb" to avoid Id expansion. +- check for unistd.h in configure (for off_t) +- use Tracev instead of Trace in infblock.c +- remove useless check parameter in inflate_blocks_free +- avoid useless assignment of s->check to itself in inflate_blocks_new +- do not flush twice in gzclose (thanks to Ken Raeburn) +- rename FOPEN as F_OPEN to avoid clash with /usr/include/sys/file.h +- use NO_ERRNO_H instead of enumeration of operating systems with errno.h +- work around buggy fclose on pipes for HP/UX +- support zlib DLL with BORLAND C++ 5.0 (thanks to Glenn Randers-Pehrson) +- fix configure if CC is already equal to gcc + Changes in 1.0.5 (3 Jan 98) - Fix inflate to terminate gracefully when fed corrupted or invalid data - Use const for rommable constants in inflate - Eliminate memory leaks on error conditions in inflate - Removed some vestigial code in inflate - Update web address in README - + Changes in 1.0.4 (24 Jul 96) - In very rare conditions, deflate(s, Z_FINISH) could fail to produce an EOF bit, so the decompressor could decompress all the correct data but went |