From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4399 invoked by alias); 31 Aug 2009 00:41:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 4258 invoked by uid 22791); 31 Aug 2009 00:41:56 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00,MISSING_MID,SARE_SUB_OBFU_Z X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from localhost (HELO localhost.localdomain) (127.0.0.1) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:41:49 +0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,MISSING_MID,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SARE_SUB_OBFU_Z,SPF_PASS From: Charles Wilson Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:41:00 -0000 Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {xz/liblzma-devel/liblzma1}-4.999.9beta-10 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2009-08/txt/msg00928.txt.bz2 Message-ID: <20090831004100.HXhBIKalgjm4Q5Mn3EjMT7cC3Oso5HoreapQVDNoERY@z> The xz package is the successor to lzma. Its command-line tools support both .lzma files and the new .xz format, and it ships with compatibility links so you don't even need to retrain your fingers: 'lzma', 'lzcat', etc, are all still present. However, you probably should: .xz files are already being used by some upstream source distribution sites, including GNU FSF, and the new format includes features (such as internal integrity checks) that the old .lzma format lacks. The xz package provides a new runtime library: liblzma supports encoding as well as decoding, both .lzma and .xz streams. The older liblzmadec library supported decoding .lzma streams only. Notes about stability: ====================== >From the package README: This is a beta version. The .xz file format is now stable though, which means that files created with the beta version will be uncompressible with all future XZ Utils versions too (assuming that there are no catastrophical bugs). liblzma API is pretty stable now, although minor tweaks may still be done if really needed. The ABI is not stable yet. The major soname will be bumped right before the first stable release. Probably it will be bumped to something like .so.5.0.0 because some distributions using the alpha versions already had to use other versions than .so.0.0.0. For cygwin, this means that the current DLL number "1" will be changed to "5" (or whatever major soname upstream decides on) when xz-5.0 is released. This gives us plenty of room (2-4) for other DLL number changes between now and that release for any issues that pop up (esp. related to the gcc4 switch?) The final 5.0 release is expected relatively soon. However, I wanted cygwin to begin supporting the new (now stable) .xz file format immediately -- and "relatively soon" sounds dangerously close to the (laughable and always wrong) "Real Soon Now". This is a bugfix update that corrects a possible data corruption error in earlier releases. It is claimed that 4.999.9beta is the last beta release before 5.0 final, and that no substantive changes are expected in the interim; that is, this is a "release candidate". [[ compiled using gcc-3.4.4-999 ]] This package differs from the simultaneously-released xz-4.999.9beta-1 package for cygwin-1.5 in only trivial ways: the README references cygport-0.9.9 and cygwin-1.7.0-60, and the /usr/share/doc/ layout is influenced by the cygport changes between 0.4.x and 0.9.x. CHANGES (since 4.999.8beta_20090714-10) ======================== o Update to latest upstream release o Use (new) upstream xz.1 in preference to cygwin-custom attempt at a man page. o Upstream: - Lots of documentation updates - Fixes data corruption error - C++ compatiblity fixes - New lzmainfo utility - Fixes to helper scripts (xzdiff, xzless, etc) - Other miscellaneous bug fixes and build improvements - Distribute a changelog derived from git log. -- Charles Wilson volunteer xz maintainer for cygwin ==================================================================== To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. 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