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ChangeLog file for zlib
Changes in 1.2.2 (3 October 2004)
- Update zlib.h comments on gzip in-memory processing
- Set adler to 1 in inflateReset() to support Java test suite [Walles]
- Add contrib/dotzlib [Ravn]
- Update win32/DLL_FAQ.txt [Truta]
- Update contrib/minizip [Vollant]
- Move contrib/visual-basic.txt to old/ [Truta]
- Fix assembler builds in projects/visualc6/ [Truta]
Changes in 1.2.1.2 (9 September 2004)
- Update INDEX file
- Fix trees.c to update strm->data_type (no one ever noticed!)
- Fix bug in error case in inflate.c, infback.c, and infback9.c [Brown]
- Add "volatile" to crc table flag declaration (for DYNAMIC_CRC_TABLE)
- Add limited multitasking protection to DYNAMIC_CRC_TABLE
- Add NO_vsnprintf for VMS in zutil.h [Mozilla]
- Don't declare strerror() under VMS [Mozilla]
- Add comment to DYNAMIC_CRC_TABLE to use get_crc_table() to initialize
- Update contrib/ada [Anisimkov]
- Update contrib/minizip [Vollant]
- Fix configure to not hardcode directories for Darwin [Peterson]
- Fix gzio.c to not return error on empty files [Brown]
- Fix indentation; update version in contrib/delphi/ZLib.pas and
contrib/pascal/zlibpas.pas [Truta]
- Update mkasm.bat in contrib/masmx86 [Truta]
- Update contrib/untgz [Truta]
- Add projects/README.projects [Truta]
- Add project for MS Visual C++ 6.0 in projects/visualc6 [Cadieux, Truta]
- Update win32/DLL_FAQ.txt [Truta]
- Update list of Z_PREFIX symbols in zconf.h [Randers-Pehrson, Truta]
- Remove an unnecessary assignment to curr in inftrees.c [Truta]
- Add OS/2 to exe builds in configure [Poltorak]
- Remove err dummy parameter in zlib.h [Kientzle]
Changes in 1.2.1.1 (9 January 2004)
- Update email address in README
- Several FAQ updates
- Fix a big fat bug in inftrees.c that prevented decoding valid
dynamic blocks with only literals and no distance codes --
Thanks to "Hot Emu" for the bug report and sample file
- Add a note to puff.c on no distance codes case.
Changes in 1.2.1 (17 November 2003)
- Remove a tab in contrib/gzappend/gzappend.c
- Update some interfaces in contrib for new zlib functions
- Update zlib version number in some contrib entries
- Add Windows CE definition for ptrdiff_t in zutil.h [Mai, Truta]
- Support shared libraries on Hurd and KFreeBSD [Brown]
- Fix error in NO_DIVIDE option of adler32.c
Changes in 1.2.0.8 (4 November 2003)
- Update version in contrib/delphi/ZLib.pas and contrib/pascal/zlibpas.pas
- Add experimental NO_DIVIDE #define in adler32.c
- Possibly faster on some processors (let me know if it is)
- Correct Z_BLOCK to not return on first inflate call if no wrap
- Fix strm->data_type on inflate() return to correctly indicate EOB
- Add deflatePrime() function for appending in the middle of a byte
- Add contrib/gzappend for an example of appending to a stream
- Update win32/DLL_FAQ.txt [Truta]
- Delete Turbo C comment in README [Truta]
- Improve some indentation in zconf.h [Truta]
- Fix infinite loop on bad input in configure script [Church]
- Fix gzeof() for concatenated gzip files [Johnson]
- Add example to contrib/visual-basic.txt [Michael B.]
- Add -p to mkdir's in Makefile.in [vda]
- Fix configure to properly detect presence or lack of printf functions
- Add AS400 support [Monnerat]
- Add a little Cygwin support [Wilson]
Changes in 1.2.0.7 (21 September 2003)
- Correct some debug formats in contrib/infback9
- Cast a type in a debug statement in trees.c
- Change search and replace delimiter in configure from % to # [Beebe]
- Update contrib/untgz to 0.2 with various fixes [Truta]
- Add build support for Amiga [Nikl]
- Remove some directories in old that have been updated to 1.2
- Add dylib building for Mac OS X in configure and Makefile.in
- Remove old distribution stuff from Makefile
- Update README to point to DLL_FAQ.txt, and add comment on Mac OS X
- Update links in README
Changes in 1.2.0.6 (13 September 2003)
- Minor FAQ updates
- Update contrib/minizip to 1.00 [Vollant]
- Remove test of gz functions in example.c when GZ_COMPRESS defined [Truta]
- Update POSTINC comment for 68060 [Nikl]
- Add contrib/infback9 with deflate64 decoding (unsupported)
- For MVS define NO_vsnprintf and undefine FAR [van Burik]
- Add pragma for fdopen on MVS [van Burik]
Changes in 1.2.0.5 (8 September 2003)
- Add OF to inflateBackEnd() declaration in zlib.h
- Remember start when using gzdopen in the middle of a file
- Use internal off_t counters in gz* functions to properly handle seeks
- Perform more rigorous check for distance-too-far in inffast.c
- Add Z_BLOCK flush option to return from inflate at block boundary
- Set strm->data_type on return from inflate
- Indicate bits unused, if at block boundary, and if in last block
- Replace size_t with ptrdiff_t in crc32.c, and check for correct size
- Add condition so old NO_DEFLATE define still works for compatibility
- FAQ update regarding the Windows DLL [Truta]
- INDEX update: add qnx entry, remove aix entry [Truta]
- Install zlib.3 into mandir [Wilson]
- Move contrib/zlib_dll_FAQ.txt to win32/DLL_FAQ.txt; update [Truta]
- Adapt the zlib interface to the new DLL convention guidelines [Truta]
- Introduce ZLIB_WINAPI macro to allow the export of functions using
the WINAPI calling convention, for Visual Basic [Vollant, Truta]
- Update msdos and win32 scripts and makefiles [Truta]
- Export symbols by name, not by ordinal, in win32/zlib.def [Truta]
- Add contrib/ada [Anisimkov]
- Move asm files from contrib/vstudio/vc70_32 to contrib/asm386 [Truta]
- Rename contrib/asm386 to contrib/masmx86 [Truta, Vollant]
- Add contrib/masm686 [Truta]
- Fix offsets in contrib/inflate86 and contrib/masmx86/inffas32.asm
[Truta, Vollant]
- Update contrib/delphi; rename to contrib/pascal; add example [Truta]
- Remove contrib/delphi2; add a new contrib/delphi [Truta]
- Avoid inclusion of the nonstandard <memory.h> in contrib/iostream,
and fix some method prototypes [Truta]
- Fix the ZCR_SEED2 constant to avoid warnings in contrib/minizip
[Truta]
- Avoid the use of backslash (\) in contrib/minizip [Vollant]
- Fix file time handling in contrib/untgz; update makefiles [Truta]
- Update contrib/vstudio/vc70_32 to comply with the new DLL guidelines
[Vollant]
- Remove contrib/vstudio/vc15_16 [Vollant]
- Rename contrib/vstudio/vc70_32 to contrib/vstudio/vc7 [Truta]
- Update README.contrib [Truta]
- Invert the assignment order of match_head and s->prev[...] in
INSERT_STRING [Truta]
- Compare TOO_FAR with 32767 instead of 32768, to avoid 16-bit warnings
[Truta]
- Compare function pointers with 0, not with NULL or Z_NULL [Truta]
- Fix prototype of syncsearch in inflate.c [Truta]
- Introduce ASMINF macro to be enabled when using an ASM implementation
of inflate_fast [Truta]
- Change NO_DEFLATE to NO_GZCOMPRESS [Truta]
- Modify test_gzio in example.c to take a single file name as a
parameter [Truta]
- Exit the example.c program if gzopen fails [Truta]
- Add type casts around strlen in example.c [Truta]
- Remove casting to sizeof in minigzip.c; give a proper type
to the variable compared with SUFFIX_LEN [Truta]
- Update definitions of STDC and STDC99 in zconf.h [Truta]
- Synchronize zconf.h with the new Windows DLL interface [Truta]
- Use SYS16BIT instead of __32BIT__ to distinguish between
16- and 32-bit platforms [Truta]
- Use far memory allocators in small 16-bit memory models for
Turbo C [Truta]
- Add info about the use of ASMV, ASMINF and ZLIB_WINAPI in
zlibCompileFlags [Truta]
- Cygwin has vsnprintf [Wilson]
- In Windows16, OS_CODE is 0, as in MSDOS [Truta]
- In Cygwin, OS_CODE is 3 (Unix), not 11 (Windows32) [Wilson]
Changes in 1.2.0.4 (10 August 2003)
- Minor FAQ updates
- Be more strict when checking inflateInit2's windowBits parameter
- Change NO_GUNZIP compile option to NO_GZIP to cover deflate as well
- Add gzip wrapper option to deflateInit2 using windowBits
- Add updated QNX rule in configure and qnx directory [Bonnefoy]
- Make inflate distance-too-far checks more rigorous
- Clean up FAR usage in inflate
- Add casting to sizeof() in gzio.c and minigzip.c
Changes in 1.2.0.3 (19 July 2003)
- Fix silly error in gzungetc() implementation [Vollant]
- Update contrib/minizip and contrib/vstudio [Vollant]
- Fix printf format in example.c
- Correct cdecl support in zconf.in.h [Anisimkov]
- Minor FAQ updates
Changes in 1.2.0.2 (13 July 2003)
- Add ZLIB_VERNUM in zlib.h for numerical preprocessor comparisons
- Attempt to avoid warnings in crc32.c for pointer-int conversion
- Add AIX to configure, remove aix directory [Bakker]
- Add some casts to minigzip.c
- Improve checking after insecure sprintf() or vsprintf() calls
- Remove #elif's from crc32.c
- Change leave label to inf_leave in inflate.c and infback.c to avoid
library conflicts
- Remove inflate gzip decoding by default--only enable gzip decoding by
special request for stricter backward compatibility
- Add zlibCompileFlags() function to return compilation information
- More typecasting in deflate.c to avoid warnings
- Remove leading underscore from _Capital #defines [Truta]
- Fix configure to link shared library when testing
- Add some Windows CE target adjustments [Mai]
- Remove #define ZLIB_DLL in zconf.h [Vollant]
- Add zlib.3 [Rodgers]
- Update RFC URL in deflate.c and algorithm.txt [Mai]
- Add zlib_dll_FAQ.txt to contrib [Truta]
- Add UL to some constants [Truta]
- Update minizip and vstudio [Vollant]
- Remove vestigial NEED_DUMMY_RETURN from zconf.in.h
- Expand use of NO_DUMMY_DECL to avoid all dummy structures
- Added iostream3 to contrib [Schwardt]
- Replace rewind() with fseek() for WinCE [Truta]
- Improve setting of zlib format compression level flags
- Report 0 for huffman and rle strategies and for level == 0 or 1
- Report 2 only for level == 6
- Only deal with 64K limit when necessary at compile time [Truta]
- Allow TOO_FAR check to be turned off at compile time [Truta]
- Add gzclearerr() function [Souza]
- Add gzungetc() function
Changes in 1.2.0.1 (17 March 2003)
- Add Z_RLE strategy for run-length encoding [Truta]
- When Z_RLE requested, restrict matches to distance one
- Update zlib.h, minigzip.c, gzopen(), gzdopen() for Z_RLE
- Correct FASTEST compilation to allow level == 0
- Clean up what gets compiled for FASTEST
- Incorporate changes to zconf.in.h [Vollant]
- Refine detection of Turbo C need for dummy returns
- Refine ZLIB_DLL compilation
- Include additional header file on VMS for off_t typedef
- Try to use _vsnprintf where it supplants vsprintf [Vollant]
- Add some casts in inffast.c
- Enchance comments in zlib.h on what happens if gzprintf() tries to
write more than 4095 bytes before compression
- Remove unused state from inflateBackEnd()
- Remove exit(0) from minigzip.c, example.c
- Get rid of all those darn tabs
- Add "check" target to Makefile.in that does the same thing as "test"
- Add "mostlyclean" and "maintainer-clean" targets to Makefile.in
- Update contrib/inflate86 [Anderson]
- Update contrib/testzlib, contrib/vstudio, contrib/minizip [Vollant]
- Add msdos and win32 directories with makefiles [Truta]
- More additions and improvements to the FAQ
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.
This creates a security problem described in
http://www.zlib.org/advisory-2002-03-11.txt
- Returned incorrect error (Z_MEM_ERROR) on some invalid data
- Avoid accesses before window for invalid distances with inflate window
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)
- fix gzread and gztell for concatenated .gz files (Didier Le Botlan)
- fix gzseek(..., SEEK_SET) in write mode
- fix crc check after a gzeek (Frank Faubert)
- fix miniunzip when the last entry in a zip file is itself a zip file
(J Lillge)
- add contrib/asm586 and contrib/asm686 (Brian Raiter)
See http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/assembly.html
- add support for Delphi 3 in contrib/delphi (Bob Dellaca)
- add support for C++Builder 3 and Delphi 3 in contrib/delphi2 (Davide Moretti)
- do not exit prematurely in untgz if 0 at start of block (Magnus Holmgren)
- use macro EXTERN instead of extern to support DLL for BeOS (Sander Stoks)
- added a FAQ file
- Support gzdopen on Mac with Metrowerks (Jason Linhart)
- Do not redefine Byte on Mac (Brad Pettit & Jason Linhart)
- define SEEK_END too if SEEK_SET is not defined (Albert Chin-A-Young)
- avoid some warnings with Borland C (Tom Tanner)
- fix a problem in contrib/minizip/zip.c for 16-bit MSDOS (Gilles Vollant)
- emulate utime() for WIN32 in contrib/untgz (Gilles Vollant)
- allow several arguments to configure (Tim Mooney, Frodo Looijaard)
- use libdir and includedir in Makefile.in (Tim Mooney)
- support shared libraries on OSF1 V4 (Tim Mooney)
- remove so_locations in "make clean" (Tim Mooney)
- fix maketree.c compilation error (Glenn, Mark)
- Python interface to zlib now in Python 1.5 (Jeremy Hylton)
- new Makefile.riscos (Rich Walker)
- initialize static descriptors in trees.c for embedded targets (Nick Smith)
- use "foo-gz" in example.c for RISCOS and VMS (Nick Smith)
- add the OS/2 files in Makefile.in too (Andrew Zabolotny)
- fix fdopen and halloc macros for Microsoft C 6.0 (Tom Lane)
- fix maketree.c to allow clean compilation of inffixed.h (Mark)
- fix parameter check in deflateCopy (Gunther Nikl)
- cleanup trees.c, use compressed_len only in debug mode (Christian Spieler)
- Many portability patches by Christian Spieler:
. zutil.c, zutil.h: added "const" for zmem*
. Make_vms.com: fixed some typos
. Make_vms.com: msdos/Makefile.*: removed zutil.h from some dependency lists
. msdos/Makefile.msc: remove "default rtl link library" info from obj files
. msdos/Makefile.*: use model-dependent name for the built zlib library
. msdos/Makefile.emx, nt/Makefile.emx, nt/Makefile.gcc:
new makefiles, for emx (DOS/OS2), emx&rsxnt and mingw32 (Windows 9x / NT)
- use define instead of typedef for Bytef also for MSC small/medium (Tom Lane)
- replace __far with _far for better portability (Christian Spieler, Tom Lane)
- fix test for errno.h in configure (Tim Newsham)
Changes in 1.1.2 (19 March 98)
- added contrib/minzip, mini zip and unzip based on zlib (Gilles Vollant)
See http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/unzip.html
- preinitialize the inflate tables for fixed codes, to make the code
completely thread safe (Mark)
- some simplifications and slight speed-up to the inflate code (Mark)
- fix gzeof on non-compressed files (Allan Schrum)
- add -std1 option in configure for OSF1 to fix gzprintf (Martin Mokrejs)
- use default value of 4K for Z_BUFSIZE for 16-bit MSDOS (Tim Wegner + Glenn)
- added os2/Makefile.def and os2/zlib.def (Andrew Zabolotny)
- add shared lib support for UNIX_SV4.2MP (MATSUURA Takanori)
- do not wrap extern "C" around system includes (Tom Lane)
- mention zlib binding for TCL in README (Andreas Kupries)
- added amiga/Makefile.pup for Amiga powerUP SAS/C PPC (Andreas Kleinert)
- allow "make install prefix=..." even after configure (Glenn Randers-Pehrson)
- allow "configure --prefix $HOME" (Tim Mooney)
- remove warnings in example.c and gzio.c (Glenn Randers-Pehrson)
- move Makefile.sas to amiga/Makefile.sas
Changes in 1.1.1 (27 Feb 98)
- fix macros _tr_tally_* in deflate.h for debug mode (Glenn Randers-Pehrson)
- remove block truncation heuristic which had very marginal effect for zlib
(smaller lit_bufsize than in gzip 1.2.4) and degraded a little the
compression ratio on some files. This also allows inlining _tr_tally for
matches in deflate_slow.
- added msdos/Makefile.w32 for WIN32 Microsoft Visual C++ (Bob Frazier)
Changes in 1.1.0 (24 Feb 98)
- do not return STREAM_END prematurely in inflate (John Bowler)
- revert to the zlib 1.0.8 inflate to avoid the gcc 2.8.0 bug (Jeremy Buhler)
- compile with -DFASTEST to get compression code optimized for speed only
- in minigzip, try mmap'ing the input file first (Miguel Albrecht)
- increase size of I/O buffers in minigzip.c and gzio.c (not a big gain
on Sun but significant on HP)
- add a pointer to experimental unzip library in README (Gilles Vollant)
- initialize variable gcc in configure (Chris Herborth)
Changes in 1.0.9 (17 Feb 1998)
- added gzputs and gzgets functions
- do not clear eof flag in gzseek (Mark Diekhans)
- fix gzseek for files in transtqparent mode (Mark Diekhans)
- do not assume that vsprintf returns the number of bytes written (Jens Krinke)
- replace EXPORT with ZEXPORT to avoid conflict with other programs
- added compress2 in zconf.h, zlib.def, zlib.dnt
- new asm code from Gilles Vollant in contrib/asm386
- simplify the inflate code (Mark):
. Replace ZALLOC's in huft_build() with single ZALLOC in inflate_blocks_new()
. ZALLOC the length list in inflate_trees_fixed() instead of using stack
. ZALLOC the value area for huft_build() instead of using stack
. Simplify Z_FINISH check in inflate()
- Avoid gcc 2.8.0 comparison bug a little differently than zlib 1.0.8
- in inftrees.c, avoid cc -O bug on HP (Farshid Elahi)
- in zconf.h move the ZLIB_DLL stuff earlier to avoid problems with
the declaration of FAR (Gilles VOllant)
- install libz.so* with mode 755 (executable) instead of 644 (Marc Lehmann)
- read_buf buf parameter of type Bytef* instead of charf*
- zmemcpy parameters are of type Bytef*, not charf* (Joseph Strout)
- do not redeclare unlink in minigzip.c for WIN32 (John Bowler)
- fix check for presence of directories in "make install" (Ian Willis)
Changes in 1.0.8 (27 Jan 1998)
- fixed offsets in contrib/asm386/gvmat32.asm (Gilles Vollant)
- fix gzgetc and gzputc for big endian systems (Markus Oberhumer)
- added compress2() to allow setting the compression level
- include sys/types.h to get off_t on some systems (Marc Lehmann & QingLong)
- use constant arrays for the static trees in trees.c instead of computing
them at run time (thanks to Ken Raeburn for this suggestion). To create
trees.h, compile with GEN_TREES_H and run "make test".
- check return code of example in "make test" and display result
- pass minigzip command line options to file_compress
- simplifying code of inflateSync to avoid gcc 2.8 bug
- support CC="gcc -Wall" in configure -s (QingLong)
- avoid a flush caused by ftell in gzopen for write mode (Ken Raeburn)
- fix test for shared library support to avoid compiler warnings
- zlib.lib -> zlib.dll in msdos/zlib.rc (Gilles Vollant)
- check for TARGET_OS_MAC in addition to MACOS (Brad Pettit)
- do not use fdopen for Metrowerks on Mac (Brad Pettit))
- add checks for gzputc and gzputc in example.c
- avoid warnings in gzio.c and deflate.c (Andreas Kleinert)
- use const for the CRC table (Ken Raeburn)
- fixed "make uninstall" for shared libraries
- use Tracev instead of Trace in infblock.c
- in example.c use correct compressed length for test_sync
- suppress +vnocompatwarnings in configure for HPUX (not always supported)
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 (L. 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)
- 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
on to attempt decompressing extra garbage data. This affected minigzip too.
- zlibVersion and gzerror return const char* (needed for DLL)
- port to RISCOS (no fdopen, no multiple dots, no unlink, no fileno)
- use z_error only for DEBUG (avoid problem with DLLs)
Changes in 1.0.3 (2 Jul 96)
- use z_streamp instead of z_stream *, which is now a far pointer in MSDOS
small and medium models; this makes the library incompatible with previous
versions for these models. (No effect in large model or on other systems.)
- return OK instead of BUF_ERROR if previous deflate call returned with
avail_out as zero but there is nothing to do
- added memcmp for non STDC compilers
- define NO_DUMMY_DECL for more Mac compilers (.h files merged incorrectly)
- define __32BIT__ if __386__ or i386 is defined (pb. with Watcom and SCO)
- better check for 16-bit mode MSC (avoids problem with Symantec)
Changes in 1.0.2 (23 May 96)
- added Windows DLL support
- added a function zlibVersion (for the DLL support)
- fixed declarations using Bytef in infutil.c (pb with MSDOS medium model)
- Bytef is define's instead of typedef'd only for Borland C
- avoid reading uninitialized memory in example.c
- mention in README that the zlib format is now RFC1950
- updated Makefile.dj2
- added algorithm.doc
Changes in 1.0.1 (20 May 96) [1.0 skipped to avoid confusion]
- fix array overlay in deflate.c which sometimes caused bad compressed data
- fix inflate bug with empty stored block
- fix MSDOS medium model which was broken in 0.99
- fix deflateParams() which could generated bad compressed data.
- Bytef is define'd instead of typedef'ed (work around Borland bug)
- added an INDEX file
- new makefiles for DJGPP (Makefile.dj2), 32-bit Borland (Makefile.b32),
Watcom (Makefile.wat), Amiga SAS/C (Makefile.sas)
- speed up adler32 for modern machines without auto-increment
- added -ansi for IRIX in configure
- static_init_done in trees.c is an int
- define unlink as delete for VMS
- fix configure for QNX
- add configure branch for SCO and HPUX
- avoid many warnings (unused variables, dead assignments, etc...)
- no fdopen for BeOS
- fix the Watcom fix for 32 bit mode (define FAR as empty)
- removed redefinition of Byte for MKWERKS
- work around an MWKERKS bug (incorrect merge of all .h files)
Changes in 0.99 (27 Jan 96)
- allow preset dictionary shared between compressor and decompressor
- allow compression level 0 (no compression)
- add deflateParams in zlib.h: allow dynamic change of compression level
and compression strategy.
- test large buffers and deflateParams in example.c
- add optional "configure" to build zlib as a shared library
- suppress Makefile.qnx, use configure instead
- fixed deflate for 64-bit systems (detected on Cray)
- fixed inflate_blocks for 64-bit systems (detected on Alpha)
- declare Z_DEFLATED in zlib.h (possible parameter for deflateInit2)
- always return Z_BUF_ERROR when deflate() has nothing to do
- deflateInit and inflateInit are now macros to allow version checking
- prefix all global functions and types with z_ with -DZ_PREFIX
- make falloc completely reentrant (inftrees.c)
- fixed very unlikely race condition in ct_static_init
- free in reverse order of allocation to help memory manager
- use zlib-1.0/* instead of zlib/* inside the tar.gz
- make zlib warning-free with "gcc -O3 -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wpointer-arith
-Wconversion -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes"
- allow gzread on concatenated .gz files
- deflateEnd now returns Z_DATA_ERROR if it was premature
- deflate is finally (?) fully deterministic (no matches beyond end of input)
- Document Z_SYNC_FLUSH
- add uninstall in Makefile
- Check for __cpluplus in zlib.h
- Better test in ct_align for partial flush
- avoid harmless warnings for Borland C++
- initialize hash_head in deflate.c
- avoid warning on fdopen (gzio.c) for HP cc -Aa
- include stdlib.h for STDC compilers
- include errno.h for Cray
- ignore error if ranlib doesn't exist
- call ranlib twice for NeXTSTEP
- use exec_prefix instead of prefix for libz.a
- renamed ct_* as _tr_* to avoid conflict with applications
- clear z->msg in inflateInit2 before any error return
- initialize opaque in example.c, gzio.c, deflate.c and inflate.c
- fixed typo in zconf.h (_GNUC__ => __GNUC__)
- check for WIN32 in zconf.h and zutil.c (avoid farmalloc in 32-bit mode)
- fix typo in Make_vms.com (f$trnlnm -> f$getsyi)
- in fcalloc, normalize pointer if size > 65520 bytes
- don't use special fcalloc for 32 bit Borland C++
- use STDC instead of __GO32__ to avoid redeclaring exit, calloc, etc...
- use Z_BINARY instead of BINARY
- document that gzclose after gzdopen will close the file
- allow "a" as mode in gzopen.
- fix error checking in gzread
- allow skipping .gz extra-field on pipes
- added reference to Perl interface in README
- put the crc table in FAR data (I dislike more and more the medium model :)
- added get_crc_table
- added a dimension to all arrays (Borland C can't count).
- workaround Borland C bug in declaration of inflate_codes_new & inflate_fast
- guard against multiple inclusion of *.h (for precompiled header on Mac)
- Watcom C pretends to be Microsoft C small model even in 32 bit mode.
- don't use unsized arrays to avoid silly warnings by Visual C++:
warning C4746: 'inflate_mask' : unsized array treated as '__far'
(what's wrong with far data in far model?).
- define enum out of inflate_blocks_state to allow compilation with C++
Changes in 0.95 (16 Aug 95)
- fix MSDOS small and medium model (now easier to adapt to any compiler)
- inlined send_bits
- fix the final (:-) bug for deflate with flush (output was correct but
not completely flushed in rare occasions).
- default window size is same for compression and decompression
(it's now sufficient to set MAX_WBITS in zconf.h).
- voidp -> voidpf and voidnp -> voidp (for consistency with other
typedefs and because voidnp was not near in large model).
Changes in 0.94 (13 Aug 95)
- support MSDOS medium model
- fix deflate with flush (could sometimes generate bad output)
- fix deflateReset (zlib header was incorrectly suppressed)
- added support for VMS
- allow a compression level in gzopen()
- gzflush now calls fflush
- For deflate with flush, flush even if no more input is provided.
- rename libgz.a as libz.a
- avoid complex expression in infcodes.c triggering Turbo C bug
- work around a problem with gcc on Alpha (in INSERT_STRING)
- don't use inline functions (problem with some gcc versions)
- allow renaming of Byte, uInt, etc... with #define.
- avoid warning about (unused) pointer before start of array in deflate.c
- avoid various warnings in gzio.c, example.c, infblock.c, adler32.c, zutil.c
- avoid reserved word 'new' in trees.c
Changes in 0.93 (25 June 95)
- temporarily disable inline functions
- make deflate deterministic
- give enough lookahead for PARTIAL_FLUSH
- Set binary mode for stdin/stdout in minigzip.c for OS/2
- don't even use signed char in inflate (not portable enough)
- fix inflate memory leak for segmented architectures
Changes in 0.92 (3 May 95)
- don't assume that char is signed (problem on SGI)
- Clear bit buffer when starting a stored block
- no memcpy on Pyramid
- suppressed inftest.c
- optimized fill_window, put longest_match inline for gcc
- optimized inflate on stored blocks.
- untabify all sources to simplify patches
Changes in 0.91 (2 May 95)
- Default MEM_LEVEL is 8 (not 9 for Unix) as documented in zlib.h
- Document the memory requirements in zconf.h
- added "make install"
- fix sync search logic in inflateSync
- deflate(Z_FULL_FLUSH) now works even if output buffer too short
- after inflateSync, don't scare people with just "lo world"
- added support for DJGPP
Changes in 0.9 (1 May 95)
- don't assume that zalloc clears the allocated memory (the TurboC bug
was Mark's bug after all :)
- let again gzread copy uncompressed data unchanged (was working in 0.71)
- deflate(Z_FULL_FLUSH), inflateReset and inflateSync are now fully implemented
- added a test of inflateSync in example.c
- moved MAX_WBITS to zconf.h because users might want to change that.
- document explicitly that zalloc(64K) on MSDOS must return a normalized
pointer (zero offset)
- added Makefiles for Microsoft C, Turbo C, Borland C++
- faster crc32()
Changes in 0.8 (29 April 95)
- added fast inflate (inffast.c)
- deflate(Z_FINISH) now returns Z_STREAM_END when done. Warning: this
is incompatible with previous versions of zlib which returned Z_OK.
- work around a TurboC compiler bug (bad code for b << 0, see infutil.h)
(actually that was not a compiler bug, see 0.81 above)
- gzread no longer reads one extra byte in certain cases
- In gzio destroy(), don't reference a freed structure
- avoid many warnings for MSDOS
- avoid the ERROR symbol which is used by MS Windows
Changes in 0.71 (14 April 95)
- Fixed more MSDOS compilation problems :( There is still a bug with
TurboC large model.
Changes in 0.7 (14 April 95)
- Added full inflate support.
- Simplified the crc32() interface. The pre- and post-conditioning
(one's complement) is now done inside crc32(). WARNING: this is
incompatible with previous versions; see zlib.h for the new usage.
Changes in 0.61 (12 April 95)
- workaround for a bug in TurboC. example and minigzip now work on MSDOS.
Changes in 0.6 (11 April 95)
- added minigzip.c
- added gzdopen to reopen a file descriptor as gzFile
- added transtqparent reading of non-gziped files in gzread.
- fixed bug in gzread (don't read crc as data)
- fixed bug in destroy (gzio.c) (don't return Z_STREAM_END for gzclose).
- don't allocate big arrays in the stack (for MSDOS)
- fix some MSDOS compilation problems
Changes in 0.5:
- do real compression in deflate.c. Z_PARTIAL_FLUSH is supported but
not yet Z_FULL_FLUSH.
- support decompression but only in a single step (forced Z_FINISH)
- added opaque object for zalloc and zfree.
- added deflateReset and inflateReset
- added a variable zlib_version for consistency checking.
- renamed the 'filter' parameter of deflateInit2 as 'strategy'.
Added Z_FILTERED and Z_HUFFMAN_ONLY constants.
Changes in 0.4:
- avoid "zip" everywhere, use zlib instead of ziplib.
- suppress Z_BLOCK_FLUSH, interpret Z_PARTIAL_FLUSH as block flush
if compression method == 8.
- added adler32 and crc32
- renamed deflateOptions as deflateInit2, call one or the other but not both
- added the method parameter for deflateInit2.
- added inflateInit2
- simplied considerably deflateInit and inflateInit by not supporting
user-provided history buffer. This is supported only in deflateInit2
and inflateInit2.
Changes in 0.3:
- prefix all macro names with Z_
- use Z_FINISH instead of deflateEnd to finish compression.
- added Z_HUFFMAN_ONLY
- added gzerror()
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