ChangeLog revision 17651
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2		ChangeLog file for zlib
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4Changes in 1.0.4 (24 Jul 96)
5- In very rare conditions, deflate(s, Z_FINISH) could fail to produce an EOF
6  bit, so the decompressor could decompress all the correct data but went
7  on to attempt decompressing extra garbage data. This affected minigzip too.
8- zlibVersion and gzerror return const char* (needed for DLL)
9- port to RISCOS (no fdopen, no multiple dots, no unlink, no fileno)
10- use z_error only for DEBUG (avoid problem with DLLs)
11
12Changes in 1.0.3 (2 Jul 96)
13- use z_streamp instead of z_stream *, which is now a far pointer in MSDOS
14  small and medium models; this makes the library incompatible with previous
15  versions for these models. (No effect in large model or on other systems.)
16- return OK instead of BUF_ERROR if previous deflate call returned with
17  avail_out as zero but there is nothing to do
18- added memcmp for non STDC compilers
19- define NO_DUMMY_DECL for more Mac compilers (.h files merged incorrectly)
20- define __32BIT__ if __386__ or i386 is defined (pb. with Watcom and SCO)
21- better check for 16-bit mode MSC (avoids problem with Symantec)
22
23Changes in 1.0.2 (23 May 96)
24- added Windows DLL support
25- added a function zlibVersion (for the DLL support)
26- fixed declarations using Bytef in infutil.c (pb with MSDOS medium model)
27- Bytef is define's instead of typedef'd only for Borland C
28- avoid reading uninitialized memory in example.c
29- mention in README that the zlib format is now RFC1950
30- updated Makefile.dj2
31- added algorithm.doc
32
33Changes in 1.0.1 (20 May 96) [1.0 skipped to avoid confusion]
34- fix array overlay in deflate.c which sometimes caused bad compressed data
35- fix inflate bug with empty stored block
36- fix MSDOS medium model which was broken in 0.99
37- fix deflateParams() which could generated bad compressed data.
38- Bytef is define'd instead of typedef'ed (work around Borland bug)
39- added an INDEX file
40- new makefiles for DJGPP (Makefile.dj2), 32-bit Borland (Makefile.b32),
41  Watcom (Makefile.wat), Amiga SAS/C (Makefile.sas)
42- speed up adler32 for modern machines without auto-increment
43- added -ansi for IRIX in configure
44- static_init_done in trees.c is an int
45- define unlink as delete for VMS
46- fix configure for QNX
47- add configure branch for SCO and HPUX
48- avoid many warnings (unused variables, dead assignments, etc...)
49- no fdopen for BeOS
50- fix the Watcom fix for 32 bit mode (define FAR as empty)
51- removed redefinition of Byte for MKWERKS
52- work around an MWKERKS bug (incorrect merge of all .h files)
53
54Changes in 0.99 (27 Jan 96)
55- allow preset dictionary shared between compressor and decompressor
56- allow compression level 0 (no compression)
57- add deflateParams in zlib.h: allow dynamic change of compression level
58  and compression strategy.
59- test large buffers and deflateParams in example.c
60- add optional "configure" to build zlib as a shared library
61- suppress Makefile.qnx, use configure instead
62- fixed deflate for 64-bit systems (detected on Cray)
63- fixed inflate_blocks for 64-bit systems (detected on Alpha)
64- declare Z_DEFLATED in zlib.h (possible parameter for deflateInit2)
65- always return Z_BUF_ERROR when deflate() has nothing to do
66- deflateInit and inflateInit are now macros to allow version checking
67- prefix all global functions and types with z_ with -DZ_PREFIX
68- make falloc completely reentrant (inftrees.c)
69- fixed very unlikely race condition in ct_static_init
70- free in reverse order of allocation to help memory manager
71- use zlib-1.0/* instead of zlib/* inside the tar.gz
72- make zlib warning-free with "gcc -O3 -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wpointer-arith
73  -Wconversion -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes"
74- allow gzread on concatenated .gz files
75- deflateEnd now returns Z_DATA_ERROR if it was premature
76- deflate is finally (?) fully deterministic (no matches beyond end of input)
77- Document Z_SYNC_FLUSH
78- add uninstall in Makefile
79- Check for __cpluplus in zlib.h
80- Better test in ct_align for partial flush
81- avoid harmless warnings for Borland C++
82- initialize hash_head in deflate.c
83- avoid warning on fdopen (gzio.c) for HP cc -Aa
84- include stdlib.h for STDC compilers
85- include errno.h for Cray
86- ignore error if ranlib doesn't exist
87- call ranlib twice for NeXTSTEP
88- use exec_prefix instead of prefix for libz.a
89- renamed ct_* as _tr_* to avoid conflict with applications
90- clear z->msg in inflateInit2 before any error return
91- initialize opaque in example.c, gzio.c, deflate.c and inflate.c
92- fixed typo in zconf.h (_GNUC__ => __GNUC__)
93- check for WIN32 in zconf.h and zutil.c (avoid farmalloc in 32-bit mode)
94- fix typo in Make_vms.com (f$trnlnm -> f$getsyi)
95- in fcalloc, normalize pointer if size > 65520 bytes
96- don't use special fcalloc for 32 bit Borland C++
97- use STDC instead of __GO32__ to avoid redeclaring exit, calloc, etc...
98- use Z_BINARY instead of BINARY
99- document that gzclose after gzdopen will close the file
100- allow "a" as mode in gzopen.
101- fix error checking in gzread
102- allow skipping .gz extra-field on pipes
103- added reference to Perl interface in README
104- put the crc table in FAR data (I dislike more and more the medium model :)
105- added get_crc_table
106- added a dimension to all arrays (Borland C can't count).
107- workaround Borland C bug in declaration of inflate_codes_new & inflate_fast
108- guard against multiple inclusion of *.h (for precompiled header on Mac)
109- Watcom C pretends to be Microsoft C small model even in 32 bit mode.
110- don't use unsized arrays to avoid silly warnings by Visual C++:
111     warning C4746: 'inflate_mask' : unsized array treated as  '__far'
112     (what's wrong with far data in far model?).
113- define enum out of inflate_blocks_state to allow compilation with C++
114
115Changes in 0.95 (16 Aug 95)
116- fix MSDOS small and medium model (now easier to adapt to any compiler)
117- inlined send_bits
118- fix the final (:-) bug for deflate with flush (output was correct but
119  not completely flushed in rare occasions).
120- default window size is same for compression and decompression
121  (it's now sufficient to set MAX_WBITS in zconf.h).
122- voidp -> voidpf and voidnp -> voidp (for consistency with other
123  typedefs and because voidnp was not near in large model).
124
125Changes in 0.94 (13 Aug 95)
126- support MSDOS medium model
127- fix deflate with flush (could sometimes generate bad output)
128- fix deflateReset (zlib header was incorrectly suppressed)
129- added support for VMS
130- allow a compression level in gzopen()
131- gzflush now calls fflush
132- For deflate with flush, flush even if no more input is provided.
133- rename libgz.a as libz.a
134- avoid complex expression in infcodes.c triggering Turbo C bug
135- work around a problem with gcc on Alpha (in INSERT_STRING)
136- don't use inline functions (problem with some gcc versions)
137- allow renaming of Byte, uInt, etc... with #define.
138- avoid warning about (unused) pointer before start of array in deflate.c
139- avoid various warnings in gzio.c, example.c, infblock.c, adler32.c, zutil.c
140- avoid reserved word 'new' in trees.c
141
142Changes in 0.93 (25 June 95)
143- temporarily disable inline functions
144- make deflate deterministic
145- give enough lookahead for PARTIAL_FLUSH
146- Set binary mode for stdin/stdout in minigzip.c for OS/2
147- don't even use signed char in inflate (not portable enough)
148- fix inflate memory leak for segmented architectures
149
150Changes in 0.92 (3 May 95)
151- don't assume that char is signed (problem on SGI)
152- Clear bit buffer when starting a stored block
153- no memcpy on Pyramid
154- suppressed inftest.c
155- optimized fill_window, put longest_match inline for gcc
156- optimized inflate on stored blocks.
157- untabify all sources to simplify patches
158
159Changes in 0.91 (2 May 95)
160- Default MEM_LEVEL is 8 (not 9 for Unix) as documented in zlib.h
161- Document the memory requirements in zconf.h
162- added "make install"
163- fix sync search logic in inflateSync
164- deflate(Z_FULL_FLUSH) now works even if output buffer too short
165- after inflateSync, don't scare people with just "lo world"
166- added support for DJGPP
167
168Changes in 0.9 (1 May 95)
169- don't assume that zalloc clears the allocated memory (the TurboC bug
170  was Mark's bug after all :)
171- let again gzread copy uncompressed data unchanged (was working in 0.71)
172- deflate(Z_FULL_FLUSH), inflateReset and inflateSync are now fully implemented
173- added a test of inflateSync in example.c
174- moved MAX_WBITS to zconf.h because users might want to change that.
175- document explicitly that zalloc(64K) on MSDOS must return a normalized
176  pointer (zero offset)
177- added Makefiles for Microsoft C, Turbo C, Borland C++
178- faster crc32()
179
180Changes in 0.8 (29 April 95)
181- added fast inflate (inffast.c)
182- deflate(Z_FINISH) now returns Z_STREAM_END when done. Warning: this
183  is incompatible with previous versions of zlib which returned Z_OK.
184- work around a TurboC compiler bug (bad code for b << 0, see infutil.h)
185  (actually that was not a compiler bug, see 0.81 above)
186- gzread no longer reads one extra byte in certain cases
187- In gzio destroy(), don't reference a freed structure
188- avoid many warnings for MSDOS
189- avoid the ERROR symbol which is used by MS Windows
190
191Changes in 0.71 (14 April 95)
192- Fixed more MSDOS compilation problems :( There is still a bug with
193  TurboC large model.
194
195Changes in 0.7 (14 April 95)
196- Added full inflate support.
197- Simplified the crc32() interface. The pre- and post-conditioning
198  (one's complement) is now done inside crc32(). WARNING: this is
199  incompatible with previous versions; see zlib.h for the new usage.
200
201Changes in 0.61 (12 April 95)
202- workaround for a bug in TurboC. example and minigzip now work on MSDOS.
203
204Changes in 0.6 (11 April 95)
205- added minigzip.c
206- added gzdopen to reopen a file descriptor as gzFile
207- added transparent reading of non-gziped files in gzread.
208- fixed bug in gzread (don't read crc as data)
209- fixed bug in destroy (gzio.c) (don't return Z_STREAM_END for gzclose).
210- don't allocate big arrays in the stack (for MSDOS)
211- fix some MSDOS compilation problems
212
213Changes in 0.5:
214- do real compression in deflate.c. Z_PARTIAL_FLUSH is supported but
215  not yet Z_FULL_FLUSH.
216- support decompression but only in a single step (forced Z_FINISH)
217- added opaque object for zalloc and zfree.
218- added deflateReset and inflateReset
219- added a variable zlib_version for consistency checking.
220- renamed the 'filter' parameter of deflateInit2 as 'strategy'.
221  Added Z_FILTERED and Z_HUFFMAN_ONLY constants.
222
223Changes in 0.4:
224- avoid "zip" everywhere, use zlib instead of ziplib.
225- suppress Z_BLOCK_FLUSH, interpret Z_PARTIAL_FLUSH as block flush
226  if compression method == 8.
227- added adler32 and crc32
228- renamed deflateOptions as deflateInit2, call one or the other but not both
229- added the method parameter for deflateInit2.
230- added inflateInit2
231- simplied considerably deflateInit and inflateInit by not supporting
232  user-provided history buffer. This is supported only in deflateInit2
233  and inflateInit2.
234
235Changes in 0.3:
236- prefix all macro names with Z_
237- use Z_FINISH instead of deflateEnd to finish compression.
238- added Z_HUFFMAN_ONLY
239- added gzerror()
240