[Zutils-bug] Zutils 1.8-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Zutils 1.8-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/zutils/zutils-1.8-rc1.tar.lz

The sha256sum is:
f155a2652d46d8d1f92360f402a58441ae6ba12598f829c1ef048016ee81b1b4 
zutils-1.8-rc1.tar.lz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Zutils is a collection of utilities able to process any combination of 
compressed and uncompressed files transparently. If any given file, 
including standard input, is compressed, its decompressed content is 
used. Compressed files are decompressed on the fly; no temporary files 
are created.

These utilities are not wrapper scripts but safer and more efficient C++ 
programs. In particular the "--recursive" option is very efficient in 
those utilities supporting it.

The utilities provided are zcat, zcmp, zdiff, zgrep, ztest and zupdate.
The formats supported are bzip2, gzip, lzip and xz.
Zutils uses external compressors. The compressor to be used for each 
format is configurable at runtime.

zcat, zcmp, zdiff, and zgrep are improved replacements for the shell 
scripts provided by GNU gzip. ztest is unique to zutils. zupdate is 
similar to gzip's znew.

The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/zutils/zutils.html


Changes in this version:

  * A canary byte has been added to the output buffer of zcat to 
prevent the buffer overflow fixed in 1.8-pre2 from happening again.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, zutils author and maintainer.

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