Updated: gzip-1.3.5-2

Updated: gzip-1.3.5-2

[Christopher Faylor]

I've made a new version of 'gzip' available for installation.  This
version is a refresh build with a newer version of gcc.  It also
incorporates a number of patches from the Fedora release of gzip.

For a brief description of this package, and a listing of the files it
contains, see http://cygwin.com/packages/gzip .

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Updated: gzip-1.3.9-1

[Christopher Faylor]

This is a belated release announcement for gzip-1.3.9-1.  It was
uploaded to sourceware.org in December 2006.

This is the latest version of gzip available from ftp.gnu.org.  It
should fix the problem mentioned here:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-12/msg00288.html

The NEWS file from gzip is included after the cygwin-unsubscribe info.

For a brief description of this package, and a listing of the files it
contains, see http://cygwin.com/packages/gzip .

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Changes since last Cygwin release:

Gzip 1.3.9 (2006-12-15)

* No major changes; only porting fixes.

Major changes in Gzip 1.3.8 (2006-12-08)

* Fix some gzip problems:
  - A security fix from Debian 1.3.5-5 was inadvertently omitted.
  - The assembler is now invoked with --noexecstack if supported,
    so that gzip can better resist stack-smashing attacks.

Major changes in Gzip 1.3.7 (2006-12-06)

* Fix some gzip problems:
  - Refuse to compress setuid or setgid files, or files with the sticky bit.
  - Fix more race conditions in setting file permissions and owner,
    removing output files, following symbolic links, and dealing with
    special files.
  - Remove most of the code working around ENAMETOOLONG deficiencies.
    Systems with those deficiencies are long-dead, and the workarounds
    had race conditions on modern hosts.
  - Catch CPU time and file size limit signals, too.
  - Check for read errors when closing files.
  - Fix a core dump caused by a stray abort mistakenly introduced in 1.3.6.
* Fix some gzexe problems:
  - Improve resistance to denial-of-service attacks.
  - Fix some quoting and escaping bugs.
  - Do not assume /tmp is sticky (though it should be!).
  - Do not assume the working directory can be written.
  - Rely on PATH in the generated executable, as the man page says.
  - Don't assume IFS is sane.
  - Exit with signal's status, if signaled.

Major changes in Gzip 1.3.6 (2006-11-20)

* Fix some race conditions in setting file time stamps, permissions, and owner.
* Fix some race conditions in signal handling.
* When gzip exits due to a signal, it exits with the signal's status, not 1.
* gzip now restores file time stamps to the resolution supported by the
  time-setting primitives of the operating system, typically 1 microsecond.
  Formerly it restored them only to the nearest second.
* gzip -r no longer attempts to reset the last-access times of directories
  it reads, as this messes up when other processes are reading the directories.
* The options --version and --help now work on all gzip-installed executables,
  and now use a format similar to other GNU programs.
* The manual is now distributed under the terms of the GNU Free
  Documentation License without invariant sections or cover texts.
* Port to current versions of Autoconf, Automake, and Gnulib.

Updated: gzip-1.3.12-1

[Christopher Faylor]

The gzip package has been updated to version 1.3.12-1.

This is the latest version of gzip available from ftp.gnu.org.  It
should fix the issue mentioned here:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-04/msg00680.html

The NEWS file from gzip is included after the cygwin-unsubscribe info.

For a brief description of this package, and a listing of the files it
contains, see http://cygwin.com/packages/gzip .

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Major changes in Gzip 1.3.12 (2007-04-13)

* znew now uses $TMPDIR (default /tmp) instead of always using /tmp.

Major changes in Gzip 1.3.11 (2007-02-05)

* As per the GNU coding standards, the behavior of gzip and its
  companion executables no longer depend on the name used to invoke them.
  For example, 'gzip' and 'gunzip' are no longer hard links;
  instead, 'gunzip' is now a small program that invokes 'gzip -d'.

* zdiff now checks for subsidiary gzip failures, and works around
  bugs in IRIX 6 sh, Tru64 4.0F ksh, and Solaris 8 bash.

Major changes in Gzip 1.3.10 (2006-12-30)

* gzip -c and zcat now work on special files, files with special mode bits,
  and files with multiple hard links.
* gzip -q now exits with status 2 (not 1) when SIGPIPE is received.
* zcmp and zdiff did not work in the usual case, due to a typo.
* zgrep has many bugs fixed with argument handling, special characters,
  and exit status.
* zless no longer mishandles $%=~ in file names.

Updated: gzip-1.3.12-2

[Christopher Faylor]

The gzip package has been updated to version 1.3.12-2.

This is a patched version of the latest version of gzip available from
ftp.gnu.org.  It should fix the issue mentioned here:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-04/msg00680.html

For a brief description of this package, and a listing of the files it
contains, see http://cygwin.com/packages/gzip .

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Updated: gzip-1.4-1

[Christopher Faylor]

The gzip package has been updated to version 1.4-1.  This is just a
refresh of the sources from ftp.gnu.org.  I've had it sitting in my
"todo" queue for a long time; the recent discussion on the cygwin
mailing list reminded me to finally get this released.

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contains, see http://cygwin.com/packages/gzip .  The GNU project page
is located here: http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/ .

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