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Revision history for Perl extension Convert::UUlib.

        - allow for 1023 octet headers instead of the standard
          255 octet ones.
        - major scanning and decoding speed-up (by a factor of 3),
          by replacing ultra-slow _FP_gets and improving IsKnownHeader.
        - new option OPT_AUTOCHECK to disable O(n) UUCheckGlobalList
          call after every loadfile, majorly speeds up large decodes.

1.12 Mon Oct 13 14:11:01 CEST 2008
        - use the yencode filesize as additional matching criterium
          to avoid false matches.
        - made the example decoder more verbose w.r.t. error handling.
        - removed potentially confusing decide_temp calls from
          example decoder.

1.11 Fri Jun 13 15:32:30 CEST 2008
        - don't ask.

1.10 Fri Jun 13 14:22:42 CEST 2008
        - fix an infinite-looping problem when scanning in freestyle
          mode (testcase provided by Pieter Geens and Reinhard Pfau).

1.09 Fri May 25 19:38:11 CEST 2007
        - create something sensible, trust a windows program to fuck
          it up: work around literal "(null)" filenames in yenc-encoded
          files.
        - some minor cleanups.

1.08 Sat Dec 16 23:27:13 CET 2006
        - URGENT update, the last release did not
          decode files correctly, usually not at all.
        - my last patch was, of course, completely bogus.
          (sorry. looked simple...).

1.07 Sun Dec 10 17:41:46 CET 2006
        - fixed an uninitialised variable based on analysis
          and patch by Mark Martinec.

1.06 Tue Dec  6 00:56:05 CET 2005
        - fix a number of int/long format errors in the encoding part and
          fix some signed/unsigned char problems of unknown relevance,
          reported by Jonas Smedegaard.
        - new EXPERIMENTAL options OPT_RBUF and OPT_WBUF to set default
          stdio buffer size for reading and writing files.

1.051 Thu Mar  3 18:00:52 CET 2005
        - change of contact address.
        - updated perl parts to GPLv2.

1.05 Fri Feb 25 22:50:27 CET 2005
        - fix a (likely exploitable) segfault problem, (tracked down
          and/or reported by Mark Martinec and Robert Lewis).

1.04 Tue Dec 28 15:08:44 CET 2004
        - slightly improved subject filename extraction.
          Also see the filename callback in the example-decoder.

1.03 Sun Apr 18 22:05:43 CEST 2004
        - upgrade to uudeview-0.5.20, which supposedly fixes a few buffer
          overflows. However, judging from the patch these vulnerabilities
          were not present in the Convert-UUlib version (I might err, though,
          documentation on the actual exploits is scarce).
          As every uudeview update usually brings more instability than stability
          I advise against using this version until it has proven itself
          to be stable, or 1.02 is proven to contain the same buffer overflows.

1.02 Sun Apr 18 16:47:26 CEST 2004
        - renamed crc32 to uulib_crc32, to work around yet another
          shortcoming in this oh-so-outdated macosx.

1.01 Sun Feb  1 19:49:51 CET 2004
        - make it compile with 5.005_03 (reported by Anton Berezin).
        - very short files might not be detected because the header
          parsing code might skip them.

1.0  Thu Nov  6 14:32:08 CET 2003
        - change bracket policy to give priority to (x/y) over (x),
          and use the last bracket found otherwise.
        - part numbers at the end of the subject are now recognized.
        - updated to uulib-0.5.19. Differences and bugfixes kept.

0.31 Wed Oct 16 01:22:34 CEST 2002
        - no internal code changes.
        - much better documentation, now considered "useful".
        - removed the procedural interface.
        - fought the wish to perl-5.8'ify and thus simplify the code :().
        - stress-tested version 0.3 against 70000 data postings since sunday.

0.3   Sun Oct 13 15:12:11 CEST 2002
        - updated to uulib 0.5.18. As expected, some but not all of my bugfixes
          have went into uulib, so the number of differences decreased a bit
          again.
        - I found out that the library is being sold commercially by Frank
          Pilhofer, disregarding the GPL and ignoring the rights of the people
          who sent in patches :(
        - vastly more useful documentation in the .pm file.
        - much smaller distribution filesize ;)

0.213 Sat Jul 27 21:16:30 CEST 2002
        - fixed another buffer overflow, also added a santity check to fgets.

0.212 Sat Apr  6 03:52:13 CEST 2002
        - fix yEnc decoding support.
        - new option OPT_DOTDOT, that makes uulib unescape dot-escaping.
        - increased linelength to 1195.

0.211 Fri Apr  5 23:56:46 CEST 2002
        - *sigh*. new version of uulib, new braindamaged buffer overflows
          fixed. Diffs like "line length 256 => 300" should have
          alerted me...

0.21  Sun Mar 31 22:06:05 CEST 2002
        - bumped uulib from 0.5.15 to 0.5.17 (adds some yEnc support, YENC_ENCODED).
        - source-renamed FP_*-symbols to _FP_* again, but still define them
          to be FP_* in the object file.
        - new callback: SetFileNameCallback (actually documented ;)

0.201 Sun Sep 16 03:43:38 CEST 2001
        - fixed another segfault-bug in uulib, thanks to Lars Hecking who
          provides all the test files ;)

0.2  Thu Jun 14 18:42:49 CEST 2001
        - Frank Pilhofer is NOT dead! He is alive, kicking, and fixing
          bugs in uulib now! Since his uulib and mine diverged quite
          a bit I am still in the process of merging his bugfixes
          into my version. So be aware that this might introduce new
          instabilities...
        - merged uulib-0.5.15
        - optimize decode_file to not copy the file contents when a rename
          succeeds (TMPDIR same disk as destination).
        - updated documentation.

0.111 Fri May  4 22:29:09 CEST 2001
        - heuristic to decode microsoft-rfc822-headers (microsoft uses
          '\' as path seperator which is also the rfc822 quote character.
          of course they could have quoted it, but it's microsoft, so
          only the devil knows how they try to parse mime (they obviously
          haven't read the standard AGAIN). in case you wonder, this fixes
          the "c:my_documentssend.doc" "filename" problem.

0.11  Sun Jul 16 22:42:57 CEST 2000
        - fixed a bug in the file callback.

0.10  Tue May  2 03:31:09 CEST 2000
        - fixed one very longstanding bug that might have been the cause
          for the many mysterious segmentation faults. Hopefully.
        - improved documentation to the point that it slowly becomes useful
          as a (very quick) reference.

0.07  Wed Nov 24 18:45:23 CET 1999
        - removed END { CleanUp } from UUlib.pm, perl is too
          buggy to rely on this in the face of popen etc..

0.06  Thu Jul 29 22:48:18 CEST 1999
        - Thierry Bezecourt had the very reasonable idea to include
          the example source in the manpage.

0.05  Mon May 24 11:37:25 CEST 1999
        - LoadFile returns number of parts loaded.

0.04  Mon May 10 22:02:31 CEST 1999
        - fixed a couple of portability problems.
        - UUEncodeToStream had a wrong definition.
        - added primitive testsuite.
        - added README.

0.03  Sat May  8 22:40:01 CEST 1999
        - renamed it to Convert::UUlib.

0.02  Fri May  7 01:26:19 CEST 1999
        - function names exportable (use :all-tag).
        - made uulist-related functions methods.
        - the first fix from cpan-tester. *sigh* you people save the
          world, continuously.

0.01  Thu May  6 14:30:44 1999
        - original version; created by h2xs 1.19

Revision:	1.44
Committed:	Mon Aug 24 04:38:23 2009 UTC (14 years, 8 months ago) by root
Branch:	MAIN
Changes since 1.43:	+7 -0 lines
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#	User	Rev	Content
1	root	1.1	Revision history for Perl extension Convert::UUlib.
2
3	root	1.44	- allow for 1023 octet headers instead of the standard
4			255 octet ones.
5			- major scanning and decoding speed-up (by a factor of 3),
6			by replacing ultra-slow _FP_gets and improving IsKnownHeader.
7			- new option OPT_AUTOCHECK to disable O(n) UUCheckGlobalList
8			call after every loadfile, majorly speeds up large decodes.
9
10	root	1.43	1.12 Mon Oct 13 14:11:01 CEST 2008
11	root	1.41	- use the yencode filesize as additional matching criterium
12			to avoid false matches.
13	root	1.42	- made the example decoder more verbose w.r.t. error handling.
14	root	1.43	- removed potentially confusing decide_temp calls from
15			example decoder.
16	root	1.41
17	root	1.39	1.11 Fri Jun 13 15:32:30 CEST 2008
18			- don't ask.
19
20	root	1.38	1.10 Fri Jun 13 14:22:42 CEST 2008
21			- fix an infinite-looping problem when scanning in freestyle
22	root	1.40	mode (testcase provided by Pieter Geens and Reinhard Pfau).
23	root	1.38
24	root	1.37	1.09 Fri May 25 19:38:11 CEST 2007
25			- create something sensible, trust a windows program to fuck
26			it up: work around literal "(null)" filenames in yenc-encoded
27			files.
28			- some minor cleanups.
29
30	root	1.33	1.08 Sat Dec 16 23:27:13 CET 2006
31	root	1.34	- URGENT update, the last release did not
32	root	1.33	decode files correctly, usually not at all.
33	root	1.38	- my last patch was, of course, completely bogus.
34	root	1.33	(sorry. looked simple...).
35
36	root	1.32	1.07 Sun Dec 10 17:41:46 CET 2006
37			- fixed an uninitialised variable based on analysis
38	root	1.33	and patch by Mark Martinec.
39	root	1.32
40	root	1.31	1.06 Tue Dec 6 00:56:05 CET 2005
41	root	1.29	- fix a number of int/long format errors in the encoding part and
42			fix some signed/unsigned char problems of unknown relevance,
43			reported by Jonas Smedegaard.
44	root	1.30	- new EXPERIMENTAL options OPT_RBUF and OPT_WBUF to set default
45			stdio buffer size for reading and writing files.
46	root	1.29
47	root	1.28	1.051 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
48			- change of contact address.
49			- updated perl parts to GPLv2.
50
51	root	1.27	1.05 Fri Feb 25 22:50:27 CET 2005
52			- fix a (likely exploitable) segfault problem, (tracked down
53			and/or reported by Mark Martinec and Robert Lewis).
54
55	root	1.26	1.04 Tue Dec 28 15:08:44 CET 2004
56			- slightly improved subject filename extraction.
57			Also see the filename callback in the example-decoder.
58
59	root	1.25	1.03 Sun Apr 18 22:05:43 CEST 2004
60			- upgrade to uudeview-0.5.20, which supposedly fixes a few buffer
61			overflows. However, judging from the patch these vulnerabilities
62			were not present in the Convert-UUlib version (I might err, though,
63			documentation on the actual exploits is scarce).
64			As every uudeview update usually brings more instability than stability
65			I advise against using this version until it has proven itself
66			to be stable, or 1.02 is proven to contain the same buffer overflows.
67
68	root	1.24	1.02 Sun Apr 18 16:47:26 CEST 2004
69			- renamed crc32 to uulib_crc32, to work around yet another
70			shortcoming in this oh-so-outdated macosx.
71
72	root	1.23	1.01 Sun Feb 1 19:49:51 CET 2004
73	root	1.22	- make it compile with 5.005_03 (reported by Anton Berezin).
74	root	1.23	- very short files might not be detected because the header
75			parsing code might skip them.
76	root	1.22
77	root	1.21	1.0 Thu Nov 6 14:32:08 CET 2003
78	root	1.20	- change bracket policy to give priority to (x/y) over (x),
79			and use the last bracket found otherwise.
80			- part numbers at the end of the subject are now recognized.
81	root	1.21	- updated to uulib-0.5.19. Differences and bugfixes kept.
82	root	1.20
83	root	1.19	0.31 Wed Oct 16 01:22:34 CEST 2002
84			- no internal code changes.
85	root	1.18	- much better documentation, now considered "useful".
86			- removed the procedural interface.
87	root	1.20	- fought the wish to perl-5.8'ify and thus simplify the code :().
88	root	1.19	- stress-tested version 0.3 against 70000 data postings since sunday.
89	root	1.18
90	root	1.15	0.3 Sun Oct 13 15:12:11 CEST 2002
91	root	1.17	- updated to uulib 0.5.18. As expected, some but not all of my bugfixes
92	root	1.20	have went into uulib, so the number of differences decreased a bit
93	root	1.17	again.
94			- I found out that the library is being sold commercially by Frank
95			Pilhofer, disregarding the GPL and ignoring the rights of the people
96			who sent in patches :(
97	root	1.14	- vastly more useful documentation in the .pm file.
98	root	1.16	- much smaller distribution filesize ;)
99	root	1.14
100	root	1.12	0.213 Sat Jul 27 21:16:30 CEST 2002
101			- fixed another buffer overflow, also added a santity check to fgets.
102
103	root	1.10	0.212 Sat Apr 6 03:52:13 CEST 2002
104			- fix yEnc decoding support.
105			- new option OPT_DOTDOT, that makes uulib unescape dot-escaping.
106	root	1.11	- increased linelength to 1195.
107	root	1.10
108	root	1.9	0.211 Fri Apr 5 23:56:46 CEST 2002
109	root	1.13	- sigh. new version of uulib, new braindamaged buffer overflows
110			fixed. Diffs like "line length 256 => 300" should have
111	root	1.9	alerted me...
112
113	root	1.7	0.21 Sun Mar 31 22:06:05 CEST 2002
114			- bumped uulib from 0.5.15 to 0.5.17 (adds some yEnc support, YENC_ENCODED).
115			- source-renamed FP_-symbols to _FP_ again, but still define them
116			to be FP_* in the object file.
117	root	1.8	- new callback: SetFileNameCallback (actually documented ;)
118	root	1.7
119	root	1.6	0.201 Sun Sep 16 03:43:38 CEST 2001
120	root	1.5	- fixed another segfault-bug in uulib, thanks to Lars Hecking who
121			provides all the test files ;)
122	root	1.2
123	root	1.5	0.2 Thu Jun 14 18:42:49 CEST 2001
124			- Frank Pilhofer is NOT dead! He is alive, kicking, and fixing
125	root	1.1	bugs in uulib now! Since his uulib and mine diverged quite
126			a bit I am still in the process of merging his bugfixes
127			into my version. So be aware that this might introduce new
128			instabilities...
129			- merged uulib-0.5.15
130	root	1.3	- optimize decode_file to not copy the file contents when a rename
131			succeeds (TMPDIR same disk as destination).
132	root	1.4	- updated documentation.
133	root	1.1
134			0.111 Fri May 4 22:29:09 CEST 2001
135			- heuristic to decode microsoft-rfc822-headers (microsoft uses
136			'\' as path seperator which is also the rfc822 quote character.
137			of course they could have quoted it, but it's microsoft, so
138			only the devil knows how they try to parse mime (they obviously
139			haven't read the standard AGAIN). in case you wonder, this fixes
140			the "c:my_documentssend.doc" "filename" problem.
141
142			0.11 Sun Jul 16 22:42:57 CEST 2000
143			- fixed a bug in the file callback.
144
145			0.10 Tue May 2 03:31:09 CEST 2000
146			- fixed one very longstanding bug that might have been the cause
147			for the many mysterious segmentation faults. Hopefully.
148			- improved documentation to the point that it slowly becomes useful
149			as a (very quick) reference.
150
151			0.07 Wed Nov 24 18:45:23 CET 1999
152			- removed END { CleanUp } from UUlib.pm, perl is too
153			buggy to rely on this in the face of popen etc..
154
155			0.06 Thu Jul 29 22:48:18 CEST 1999
156			- Thierry Bezecourt had the very reasonable idea to include
157			the example source in the manpage.
158
159			0.05 Mon May 24 11:37:25 CEST 1999
160			- LoadFile returns number of parts loaded.
161
162			0.04 Mon May 10 22:02:31 CEST 1999
163			- fixed a couple of portability problems.
164			- UUEncodeToStream had a wrong definition.
165			- added primitive testsuite.
166			- added README.
167
168			0.03 Sat May 8 22:40:01 CEST 1999
169			- renamed it to Convert::UUlib.
170
171			0.02 Fri May 7 01:26:19 CEST 1999
172			- function names exportable (use :all-tag).
173			- made uulist-related functions methods.
174			- the first fix from cpan-tester. sigh you people save the
175			world, continuously.
176
177			0.01 Thu May 6 14:30:44 1999
178			- original version; created by h2xs 1.19
179