ChangeLog file for zlib

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