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@@ -1,5 +1,57 @@ ChangeLog file for zlib +Changes in 1.2.0 (9 March 2003) +- New and improved inflate code + - About 20% faster + - Does not allocate 32K window unless and until needed + - Automatically detects and decompresses gzip streams + - Raw inflate no longer needs an extra dummy byte at end + - Added inflateBack functions using a callback interface--even faster + than inflate, useful for file utilities (gzip, zip) + - Added inflateCopy() function to record state for random access on + externally generated deflate streams (e.g. in gzip files) + - More readable code (I hope) +- New and improved crc32() + - About 50% faster, thanks to suggestions from Rodney Brown +- Add deflateBound() and compressBound() functions +- Fix memory leak in deflateInit2() +- Permit setting dictionary for raw deflate (for parallel deflate) +- Fix const declaration for gzwrite() +- Check for some malloc() failures in gzio.c +- Fix bug in gzopen() on single-byte file 0x1f +- Fix bug in gzread() on concatenated file with 0x1f at end of buffer + and next buffer doesn't start with 0x8b +- Fix uncompress() to return Z_DATA_ERROR on truncated input +- Free memory at end of example.c +- Remove MAX #define in trees.c (conflicted with some libraries) +- Fix static const's in deflate.c, gzio.c, and zutil.[ch] +- Declare malloc() and free() in gzio.c if STDC not defined +- Use malloc() instead of calloc() in zutil.c if int big enough +- Define STDC for AIX +- Add aix/ with approach for compiling shared library on AIX +- Add HP-UX support for shared libraries in configure +- Add OpenUNIX support for shared libraries in configure +- Use $cc instead of gcc to build shared library +- Make prefix directory if needed when installing +- Correct Macintosh avoidance of typedef Byte in zconf.h +- Correct Turbo C memory allocation when under Linux +- Use libz.a instead of -lz in Makefile (assure use of compiled library) +- Update configure to check for snprintf or vsnprintf functions and their + return value, warn during make if using an insecure function +- Fix configure problem with compile-time knowledge of HAVE_UNISTD_H that + is lost when library is used--resolution is to build new zconf.h +- Documentation improvements (in zlib.h): + - Document raw deflate and inflate + - Update RFCs URL + - Point out that zlib and gzip formats are different + - Note that Z_BUF_ERROR is not fatal + - Document string limit for gzprintf() and possible buffer overflow + - Note requirement on avail_out when flushing + - Note permitted values of flush parameter of inflate() +- Add some FAQs (and even answers) to the FAQ +- Add contrib/inflate86/ for x86 faster inflate +- Add contrib/blast/ for PKWare Data Compression Library decompression +- Add contrib/puff/ simple inflate for deflate format description Changes in 1.1.4 (11 March 2002) - ZFREE was repeated on same allocation on some error conditions. @@ -10,7 +62,7 @@ Changes in 1.1.4 (11 March 2002) less than 32K. - force windowBits > 8 to avoid a bug in the encoder for a window size of 256 bytes. (A complete fix will be available in 1.1.5). - + Changes in 1.1.3 (9 July 1998) - fix "an inflate input buffer bug that shows up on rare but persistent occasions" (Mark) |