ChangeLog file for zlib
-Changes in 1.2.8.1 (xx May 2013)
--
+Changes in 1.2.12 (27 Mar 2022)
+- Cygwin does not have _wopen(), so do not create gzopen_w() there
+- Permit a deflateParams() parameter change as soon as possible
+- Limit hash table inserts after switch from stored deflate
+- Fix bug when window full in deflate_stored()
+- Fix CLEAR_HASH macro to be usable as a single statement
+- Avoid a conversion error in gzseek when off_t type too small
+- Have Makefile return non-zero error code on test failure
+- Avoid some conversion warnings in gzread.c and gzwrite.c
+- Update use of errno for newer Windows CE versions
+- Small speedup to inflate [psumbera]
+- Return an error if the gzputs string length can't fit in an int
+- Add address checking in clang to -w option of configure
+- Don't compute check value for raw inflate if asked to validate
+- Handle case where inflateSync used when header never processed
+- Avoid the use of ptrdiff_t
+- Avoid an undefined behavior of memcpy() in gzappend()
+- Avoid undefined behaviors of memcpy() in gz*printf()
+- Avoid an undefined behavior of memcpy() in _tr_stored_block()
+- Make the names in functions declarations identical to definitions
+- Remove old assembler code in which bugs have manifested
+- Fix deflateEnd() to not report an error at start of raw deflate
+- Add legal disclaimer to README
+- Emphasize the need to continue decompressing gzip members
+- Correct the initialization requirements for deflateInit2()
+- Fix a bug that can crash deflate on some input when using Z_FIXED
+- Assure that the number of bits for deflatePrime() is valid
+- Use a structure to make globals in enough.c evident
+- Use a macro for the printf format of big_t in enough.c
+- Clean up code style in enough.c, update version
+- Use inline function instead of macro for index in enough.c
+- Clarify that prefix codes are counted in enough.c
+- Show all the codes for the maximum tables size in enough.c
+- Add gznorm.c example, which normalizes gzip files
+- Fix the zran.c example to work on a multiple-member gzip file
+- Add tables for crc32_combine(), to speed it up by a factor of 200
+- Add crc32_combine_gen() and crc32_combine_op() for fast combines
+- Speed up software CRC-32 computation by a factor of 1.5 to 3
+- Use atomic test and set, if available, for dynamic CRC tables
+- Don't bother computing check value after successful inflateSync()
+- Correct comment in crc32.c
+- Add use of the ARMv8 crc32 instructions when requested
+- Use ARM crc32 instructions if the ARM architecture has them
+- Explicitly note that the 32-bit check values are 32 bits
+- Avoid adding empty gzip member after gzflush with Z_FINISH
+- Fix memory leak on error in gzlog.c
+- Fix error in comment on the polynomial representation of a byte
+- Clarify gz* function interfaces, referring to parameter names
+- Change macro name in inflate.c to avoid collision in VxWorks
+- Correct typo in blast.c
+- Improve portability of contrib/minizip
+- Fix indentation in minizip's zip.c
+- Replace black/white with allow/block. (theresa-m)
+- minizip warning fix if MAXU32 already defined. (gvollant)
+- Fix unztell64() in minizip to work past 4GB. (Daniël Hörchner)
+- Clean up minizip to reduce warnings for testing
+- Add fallthrough comments for gcc
+- Eliminate use of ULL constants
+- Separate out address sanitizing from warnings in configure
+- Remove destructive aspects of make distclean
+- Check for cc masquerading as gcc or clang in configure
+- Fix crc32.c to compile local functions only if used
+
+Changes in 1.2.11 (15 Jan 2017)
+- Fix deflate stored bug when pulling last block from window
+- Permit immediate deflateParams changes before any deflate input
+
+Changes in 1.2.10 (2 Jan 2017)
+- Avoid warnings on snprintf() return value
+- Fix bug in deflate_stored() for zero-length input
+- Fix bug in gzwrite.c that produced corrupt gzip files
+- Remove files to be installed before copying them in Makefile.in
+- Add warnings when compiling with assembler code
+
+Changes in 1.2.9 (31 Dec 2016)
+- Fix contrib/minizip to permit unzipping with desktop API [Zouzou]
+- Improve contrib/blast to return unused bytes
+- Assure that gzoffset() is correct when appending
+- Improve compress() and uncompress() to support large lengths
+- Fix bug in test/example.c where error code not saved
+- Remedy Coverity warning [Randers-Pehrson]
+- Improve speed of gzprintf() in transparent mode
+- Fix inflateInit2() bug when windowBits is 16 or 32
+- Change DEBUG macro to ZLIB_DEBUG
+- Avoid uninitialized access by gzclose_w()
+- Allow building zlib outside of the source directory
+- Fix bug that accepted invalid zlib header when windowBits is zero
+- Fix gzseek() problem on MinGW due to buggy _lseeki64 there
+- Loop on write() calls in gzwrite.c in case of non-blocking I/O
+- Add --warn (-w) option to ./configure for more compiler warnings
+- Reject a window size of 256 bytes if not using the zlib wrapper
+- Fix bug when level 0 used with Z_HUFFMAN or Z_RLE
+- Add --debug (-d) option to ./configure to define ZLIB_DEBUG
+- Fix bugs in creating a very large gzip header
+- Add uncompress2() function, which returns the input size used
+- Assure that deflateParams() will not switch functions mid-block
+- Dramatically speed up deflation for level 0 (storing)
+- Add gzfread(), duplicating the interface of fread()
+- Add gzfwrite(), duplicating the interface of fwrite()
+- Add deflateGetDictionary() function
+- Use snprintf() for later versions of Microsoft C
+- Fix *Init macros to use z_ prefix when requested
+- Replace as400 with os400 for OS/400 support [Monnerat]
+- Add crc32_z() and adler32_z() functions with size_t lengths
+- Update Visual Studio project files [AraHaan]
Changes in 1.2.8 (28 Apr 2013)
- Update contrib/minizip/iowin32.c for Windows RT [Vollant]
- Do not force Z_CONST for C++
-- Clean up contrib/vstudio [Ro§]
+- Clean up contrib/vstudio [Roß]
- Correct spelling error in zlib.h
- Fix mixed line endings in contrib/vstudio
- Clean up the usage of z_const and respect const usage within zlib
- Clean up examples/gzlog.[ch] comparisons of different types
- Avoid shift equal to bits in type (caused endless loop)
-- Fix unintialized value bug in gzputc() introduced by const patches
+- Fix uninitialized value bug in gzputc() introduced by const patches
- Fix memory allocation error in examples/zran.c [Nor]
- Fix bug where gzopen(), gzclose() would write an empty file
- Fix bug in gzclose() when gzwrite() runs out of memory
- Add a transparent write mode to gzopen() when 'T' is in the mode
- Update python link in zlib man page
- Get inffixed.h and MAKEFIXED result to match
-- Add a ./config --solo option to make zlib subset with no libary use
+- Add a ./config --solo option to make zlib subset with no library use
- Add undocumented inflateResetKeep() function for CAB file decoding
- Add --cover option to ./configure for gcc coverage testing
- Add #define ZLIB_CONST option to use const in the z_stream interface
- Don't use _vsnprintf on later versions of MSVC [Lowman]
- Add CMake build script and input file [Lowman]
- Update contrib/minizip to 1.1 [Svensson, Vollant]
-- Moved nintendods directory from contrib to .
+- Moved nintendods directory from contrib to root
- Replace gzio.c with a new set of routines with the same functionality
- Add gzbuffer(), gzoffset(), gzclose_r(), gzclose_w() as part of above
- Update contrib/minizip to 1.1b
- Update make_vms.com [Zinser]
- Use -fPIC for shared build in configure [Teredesai, Nicholson]
- Use only major version number for libz.so on IRIX and OSF1 [Reinholdtsen]
-- Use fdopen() (not _fdopen()) for Interix in zutil.h [B\8ack]
+- Use fdopen() (not _fdopen()) for Interix in zutil.h [Bäck]
- Add some FAQ entries about the contrib directory
- Update the MVS question in the FAQ
- Avoid extraneous reads after EOF in gzio.c [Brown]
- Be more strict on incomplete code sets in inflate_table() and increase
ENOUGH and MAXD -- this repairs a possible security vulnerability for
invalid inflate input. Thanks to Tavis Ormandy and Markus Oberhumer for
- discovering the vulnerability and providing test cases.
+ discovering the vulnerability and providing test cases
- Add ia64 support to configure for HP-UX [Smith]
- Add error return to gzread() for format or i/o error [Levin]
- Use malloc.h for OS/2 [Necasek]
- Add Z_FIXED strategy option to deflateInit2() to force fixed trees
- Add updated make_vms.com [Coghlan], update README
- Create a new "examples" directory, move gzappend.c there, add zpipe.c,
- fitblk.c, gzlog.[ch], gzjoin.c, and zlib_how.html.
+ fitblk.c, gzlog.[ch], gzjoin.c, and zlib_how.html
- Add FAQ entry and comments in deflate.c on uninitialized memory access
- Add Solaris 9 make options in configure [Gilbert]
- Allow strerror() usage in gzio.c for STDC
- 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.
+- 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
- 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.
+- 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.
+ 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).
+ 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
- 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.
+ matches in deflate_slow
- added msdos/Makefile.w32 for WIN32 Microsoft Visual C++ (Bob Frazier)
Changes in 1.1.0 (24 Feb 98)
- 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".
+ 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
- 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 occurring only with compression level 0 (thanks to
- Andy Buckler for finding this one).
-- In minigzip, pass transparently also the first byte for .Z files.
+ 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.
+- 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)
- 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().
+ 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>
+ 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.
+ 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)
- 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.
+- 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
- 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).
+- 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)
- 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.
+- 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
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.
+ 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)
- 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.
+- fix deflateParams() which could generate 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),
- 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.
+ 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
- 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.
+- 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).
+- 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.
+- 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?).
+ (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).
+ 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).
+ (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).
+ typedefs and because voidnp was not near in large model)
Changes in 0.94 (13 Aug 95)
- support MSDOS medium model
- 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.
+- 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.
+- 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
- no memcpy on Pyramid
- suppressed inftest.c
- optimized fill_window, put longest_match inline for gcc
-- optimized inflate on stored blocks.
+- optimized inflate on stored blocks
- untabify all sources to simplify patches
Changes in 0.91 (2 May 95)
- 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.
+- 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++
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.
+ 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
Changes in 0.71 (14 April 95)
- Fixed more MSDOS compilation problems :( There is still a bug with
- TurboC large model.
+ TurboC large model
Changes in 0.7 (14 April 95)
-- Added full inflate support.
+- 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.
+ 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.
+- 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 transparent reading of non-gziped files in gzread.
+- added transparent 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).
+- 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.
+ not yet Z_FULL_FLUSH
- support decompression but only in a single step (forced Z_FINISH)
-- added opaque object for zalloc and zfree.
+- 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.
+- 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.
+- avoid "zip" everywhere, use zlib instead of ziplib
- suppress Z_BLOCK_FLUSH, interpret Z_PARTIAL_FLUSH as block flush
- if compression method == 8.
+ 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 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.
+ and inflateInit2
Changes in 0.3:
- prefix all macro names with Z_
-- use Z_FINISH instead of deflateEnd to finish compression.
+- use Z_FINISH instead of deflateEnd to finish compression
- added Z_HUFFMAN_ONLY
- added gzerror()
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