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Revision history for Perl extension Convert::UUlib.

1.31 Wed Sep 16 09:04:30 CEST 2009
        - do not use system-replacements for case-insensitive string
          functions when found, as they are broken on too many systems
          (mostly bsds, as usual, but at least some versions of GNU/Linux
          disagree with themselves apparently). Analyzed by Anton Berezin.

1.3 Sat Aug 29 01:24:35 CEST 2009
        - major changes, new bugs and changes in decoding behaviour are
          expected (but not intended).
        - major scanning and decoding speed-up (by a factor of 4),
          by replacing ultra-slow _FP_gets and improving IsKnownHeader
          (but fgets is *still* responsible for >50% if the time).
        - new option OPT_AUTOCHECK to disable O(n) UUCheckGlobalList
          call after every loadfile, majorly speeds up large decodes
          (easily by a factor of 10..100).
        - allow "Smerge -1" to call UUCheckGlobalList.
        - majorly speed up part insertion (still O(n), but much faster).
        - allow for 1023 octet headers instead of the standard
          255 octet ones.
        - support strcasestr, strcasecmp, strncasecmp for added speed.

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:	1.49
Committed:	Wed Sep 16 07:05:22 2009 UTC (14 years, 8 months ago) by root
Branch:	MAIN
CVS Tags:	rel-1_31
Changes since 1.48:	+1 -1 lines
Log Message:	1.31
#	User	Rev	Content
1	root	1.1	Revision history for Perl extension Convert::UUlib.
2
3	root	1.49	1.31 Wed Sep 16 09:04:30 CEST 2009
4	root	1.48	- do not use system-replacements for case-insensitive string
5			functions when found, as they are broken on too many systems
6			(mostly bsds, as usual, but at least some versions of GNU/Linux
7			disagree with themselves apparently). Analyzed by Anton Berezin.
8
9	root	1.47	1.3 Sat Aug 29 01:24:35 CEST 2009
10	root	1.46	- major changes, new bugs and changes in decoding behaviour are
11			expected (but not intended).
12	root	1.47	- major scanning and decoding speed-up (by a factor of 4),
13	root	1.46	by replacing ultra-slow _FP_gets and improving IsKnownHeader
14			(but fgets is still responsible for >50% if the time).
15	root	1.44	- new option OPT_AUTOCHECK to disable O(n) UUCheckGlobalList
16	root	1.45	call after every loadfile, majorly speeds up large decodes
17			(easily by a factor of 10..100).
18			- allow "Smerge -1" to call UUCheckGlobalList.
19			- majorly speed up part insertion (still O(n), but much faster).
20			- allow for 1023 octet headers instead of the standard
21			255 octet ones.
22			- support strcasestr, strcasecmp, strncasecmp for added speed.
23	root	1.44
24	root	1.43	1.12 Mon Oct 13 14:11:01 CEST 2008
25	root	1.41	- use the yencode filesize as additional matching criterium
26			to avoid false matches.
27	root	1.42	- made the example decoder more verbose w.r.t. error handling.
28	root	1.43	- removed potentially confusing decide_temp calls from
29			example decoder.
30	root	1.41
31	root	1.39	1.11 Fri Jun 13 15:32:30 CEST 2008
32			- don't ask.
33
34	root	1.38	1.10 Fri Jun 13 14:22:42 CEST 2008
35			- fix an infinite-looping problem when scanning in freestyle
36	root	1.40	mode (testcase provided by Pieter Geens and Reinhard Pfau).
37	root	1.38
38	root	1.37	1.09 Fri May 25 19:38:11 CEST 2007
39			- create something sensible, trust a windows program to fuck
40			it up: work around literal "(null)" filenames in yenc-encoded
41			files.
42			- some minor cleanups.
43
44	root	1.33	1.08 Sat Dec 16 23:27:13 CET 2006
45	root	1.34	- URGENT update, the last release did not
46	root	1.33	decode files correctly, usually not at all.
47	root	1.38	- my last patch was, of course, completely bogus.
48	root	1.33	(sorry. looked simple...).
49
50	root	1.32	1.07 Sun Dec 10 17:41:46 CET 2006
51			- fixed an uninitialised variable based on analysis
52	root	1.33	and patch by Mark Martinec.
53	root	1.32
54	root	1.31	1.06 Tue Dec 6 00:56:05 CET 2005
55	root	1.29	- fix a number of int/long format errors in the encoding part and
56			fix some signed/unsigned char problems of unknown relevance,
57			reported by Jonas Smedegaard.
58	root	1.30	- new EXPERIMENTAL options OPT_RBUF and OPT_WBUF to set default
59			stdio buffer size for reading and writing files.
60	root	1.29
61	root	1.28	1.051 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
62			- change of contact address.
63			- updated perl parts to GPLv2.
64
65	root	1.27	1.05 Fri Feb 25 22:50:27 CET 2005
66			- fix a (likely exploitable) segfault problem, (tracked down
67			and/or reported by Mark Martinec and Robert Lewis).
68
69	root	1.26	1.04 Tue Dec 28 15:08:44 CET 2004
70			- slightly improved subject filename extraction.
71			Also see the filename callback in the example-decoder.
72
73	root	1.25	1.03 Sun Apr 18 22:05:43 CEST 2004
74			- upgrade to uudeview-0.5.20, which supposedly fixes a few buffer
75			overflows. However, judging from the patch these vulnerabilities
76			were not present in the Convert-UUlib version (I might err, though,
77			documentation on the actual exploits is scarce).
78			As every uudeview update usually brings more instability than stability
79			I advise against using this version until it has proven itself
80			to be stable, or 1.02 is proven to contain the same buffer overflows.
81
82	root	1.24	1.02 Sun Apr 18 16:47:26 CEST 2004
83			- renamed crc32 to uulib_crc32, to work around yet another
84			shortcoming in this oh-so-outdated macosx.
85
86	root	1.23	1.01 Sun Feb 1 19:49:51 CET 2004
87	root	1.22	- make it compile with 5.005_03 (reported by Anton Berezin).
88	root	1.23	- very short files might not be detected because the header
89			parsing code might skip them.
90	root	1.22
91	root	1.21	1.0 Thu Nov 6 14:32:08 CET 2003
92	root	1.20	- change bracket policy to give priority to (x/y) over (x),
93			and use the last bracket found otherwise.
94			- part numbers at the end of the subject are now recognized.
95	root	1.21	- updated to uulib-0.5.19. Differences and bugfixes kept.
96	root	1.20
97	root	1.19	0.31 Wed Oct 16 01:22:34 CEST 2002
98			- no internal code changes.
99	root	1.18	- much better documentation, now considered "useful".
100			- removed the procedural interface.
101	root	1.20	- fought the wish to perl-5.8'ify and thus simplify the code :().
102	root	1.19	- stress-tested version 0.3 against 70000 data postings since sunday.
103	root	1.18
104	root	1.15	0.3 Sun Oct 13 15:12:11 CEST 2002
105	root	1.17	- updated to uulib 0.5.18. As expected, some but not all of my bugfixes
106	root	1.20	have went into uulib, so the number of differences decreased a bit
107	root	1.17	again.
108			- I found out that the library is being sold commercially by Frank
109			Pilhofer, disregarding the GPL and ignoring the rights of the people
110			who sent in patches :(
111	root	1.14	- vastly more useful documentation in the .pm file.
112	root	1.16	- much smaller distribution filesize ;)
113	root	1.14
114	root	1.12	0.213 Sat Jul 27 21:16:30 CEST 2002
115			- fixed another buffer overflow, also added a santity check to fgets.
116
117	root	1.10	0.212 Sat Apr 6 03:52:13 CEST 2002
118			- fix yEnc decoding support.
119			- new option OPT_DOTDOT, that makes uulib unescape dot-escaping.
120	root	1.11	- increased linelength to 1195.
121	root	1.10
122	root	1.9	0.211 Fri Apr 5 23:56:46 CEST 2002
123	root	1.13	- sigh. new version of uulib, new braindamaged buffer overflows
124			fixed. Diffs like "line length 256 => 300" should have
125	root	1.9	alerted me...
126
127	root	1.7	0.21 Sun Mar 31 22:06:05 CEST 2002
128			- bumped uulib from 0.5.15 to 0.5.17 (adds some yEnc support, YENC_ENCODED).
129			- source-renamed FP_-symbols to _FP_ again, but still define them
130			to be FP_* in the object file.
131	root	1.8	- new callback: SetFileNameCallback (actually documented ;)
132	root	1.7
133	root	1.6	0.201 Sun Sep 16 03:43:38 CEST 2001
134	root	1.5	- fixed another segfault-bug in uulib, thanks to Lars Hecking who
135			provides all the test files ;)
136	root	1.2
137	root	1.5	0.2 Thu Jun 14 18:42:49 CEST 2001
138			- Frank Pilhofer is NOT dead! He is alive, kicking, and fixing
139	root	1.1	bugs in uulib now! Since his uulib and mine diverged quite
140			a bit I am still in the process of merging his bugfixes
141			into my version. So be aware that this might introduce new
142			instabilities...
143			- merged uulib-0.5.15
144	root	1.3	- optimize decode_file to not copy the file contents when a rename
145			succeeds (TMPDIR same disk as destination).
146	root	1.4	- updated documentation.
147	root	1.1
148			0.111 Fri May 4 22:29:09 CEST 2001
149			- heuristic to decode microsoft-rfc822-headers (microsoft uses
150			'\' as path seperator which is also the rfc822 quote character.
151			of course they could have quoted it, but it's microsoft, so
152			only the devil knows how they try to parse mime (they obviously
153			haven't read the standard AGAIN). in case you wonder, this fixes
154			the "c:my_documentssend.doc" "filename" problem.
155
156			0.11 Sun Jul 16 22:42:57 CEST 2000
157			- fixed a bug in the file callback.
158
159			0.10 Tue May 2 03:31:09 CEST 2000
160			- fixed one very longstanding bug that might have been the cause
161			for the many mysterious segmentation faults. Hopefully.
162			- improved documentation to the point that it slowly becomes useful
163			as a (very quick) reference.
164
165			0.07 Wed Nov 24 18:45:23 CET 1999
166			- removed END { CleanUp } from UUlib.pm, perl is too
167			buggy to rely on this in the face of popen etc..
168
169			0.06 Thu Jul 29 22:48:18 CEST 1999
170			- Thierry Bezecourt had the very reasonable idea to include
171			the example source in the manpage.
172
173			0.05 Mon May 24 11:37:25 CEST 1999
174			- LoadFile returns number of parts loaded.
175
176			0.04 Mon May 10 22:02:31 CEST 1999
177			- fixed a couple of portability problems.
178			- UUEncodeToStream had a wrong definition.
179			- added primitive testsuite.
180			- added README.
181
182			0.03 Sat May 8 22:40:01 CEST 1999
183			- renamed it to Convert::UUlib.
184
185			0.02 Fri May 7 01:26:19 CEST 1999
186			- function names exportable (use :all-tag).
187			- made uulist-related functions methods.
188			- the first fix from cpan-tester. sigh you people save the
189			world, continuously.
190
191			0.01 Thu May 6 14:30:44 1999
192			- original version; created by h2xs 1.19
193