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gzip-1.3.14 released [beta]
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
gzip-1.3.14 released [beta] |
Date: |
Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:15:28 +0100 |
This is to announce a beta release of gzip.
http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/
Actually I'm convinced that this is production quality software, but there
has been so little feedback, I'm going to err on the side of caution and
call it "beta". Besides, there were a few portability problems with the
last beta release, and this release will serve to ensure that they've
been fixed.
There have been a few bug fixes (nothing major, see NEWS below),
and we've inherited a few portability fixes from gnulib.
Distro maintainers: please send any pending patches to the bug-gzip
mailing list (if possible in git format-patch format, per instructions
in http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/plain/HACKING) and I'll try
to take them off your hands.
Here are the compressed sources:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.3.14.tar.gz (828KB)
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.3.14.tar.xz (556KB)
Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.3.14.tar.gz.sig
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.3.14.tar.xz.sig
[*] You can use either of the above signature files to verify that
the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First,
be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball.
Then, run a command like this:
gpg --verify gzip-1.3.14.tar.gz.sig
If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:
gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys B9AB9A16
and rerun the `gpg --verify' command.
This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.64.69-81c80
Automake 1.11a
Gnulib v0.0-2793-gb3602e8
NEWS
* Noteworthy changes in release 1.3.14 (2009-10-30) [beta]
** Bug fixes
gzip no longer fails when there is exactly one trailing NUL byte
gzip has always accepted trailing NUL bytes. Note the plural.
zdiff would exit with status 2 (indicating an error) rather than 1 to
indicate differences when both inputs were compressed and different.
zdiff would fail to print differences in two compressed inputs
zgrep -f - didn't work
pgpzLtX7XDtTO.pgp
Description: PGP signature
- gzip-1.3.14 released [beta],
Jim Meyering <=