[arch-dev-public] [signoff] xz 5.0.3-1
Jan Steffens
jan.steffens at gmail.com
Sat May 21 14:28:09 EDT 2011
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> here is a minor update for xz. Please sign off.
>
> Changelog:
>
> 5.0.3 (2011-05-21)
>
> * liblzma fixes:
>
> - A memory leak was fixed.
>
> - lzma_stream_buffer_encode() no longer creates an empty .xz
> Block if encoding an empty buffer. Such an empty Block with
> LZMA2 data would trigger a bug in 5.0.1 and older (see the
> first bullet point in 5.0.2 notes). When releasing 5.0.2,
> I thought that no encoder creates this kind of files but
> I was wrong.
>
> - Validate function arguments better in a few functions. Most
> importantly, specifying an unsupported integrity check to
> lzma_stream_buffer_encode() no longer creates a corrupt .xz
> file. Probably no application tries to do that, so this
> shouldn't be a big problem in practice.
>
> - Document that lzma_block_buffer_encode(),
> lzma_easy_buffer_encode(), lzma_stream_encoder(), and
> lzma_stream_buffer_encode() may return
> LZMA_UNSUPPORTED_CHECK.
>
> - The return values of the _memusage() functions are now
> documented better.
>
> * Fix command name detection in xzgrep. xzegrep and xzfgrep now
> correctly use egrep and fgrep instead of grep.
>
> * French translation was added.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Pierre
>
> --
> Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre
>
Signoff both.
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