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Revision: 1.84
Committed: Thu Dec 17 01:24:59 2020 UTC (3 years, 5 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rel-1_8
Changes since 1.83: +2 -1 lines
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1 root 1.1 Revision history for Perl extension Convert::UUlib.
2    
3 root 1.79 TODO: biggest timesinks: FP_fgets/getc_unlocked overall, UUInsertPartToList dominates large loads due to O(n**2) search
4    
5 root 1.84 1.8 Thu Dec 17 02:23:53 CET 2020
6 root 1.83 - no bugfixes in this release due to lack of known bugs, but the major changes
7     in this release might have introduced new bugs, so watch out.
8 root 1.84 - update large decoder example to disable OPT_AUTOCHK and use Smerge -1.
9 root 1.82 - some micro-optimisations.
10 root 1.81 - avoid costly string comparisons by comparing hashes when isnerting items,
11     which speeds up insertion by a constant factor.
12 root 1.82 - improve uulist (and other) structure layout and size.
13 root 1.79 - reverse the order of file list items, which heuristically improves
14     match speed with large usenet file lists.
15 root 1.82 - use getc instead of fgetc, which makes no difference on gnu/linux.
16     - clean up _FP symbol names toi not start with an underscore.
17 root 1.77 - use feof_unlocked and ferror_unlocked.
18 root 1.78 - implement a faster ascii-only strnicmp.
19 root 1.79 - misc very minor code improvements.
20 root 1.80 - remove quite a bit of pre-posix/dos/etc. cruft.
21 root 1.82 - use flockfile, if available, for a potential but small
22 root 1.80 speed gain.
23 root 1.82 - speed up inner yenc decoder loop.
24 root 1.83 - kentnl said that this module should no longer claim to be a simple
25     interface to uulib, as the bunndled copy is now better maintained
26     than the original upstream library.
27 root 1.76
28 root 1.75 1.71 Tue Mar 17 00:54:06 CET 2020
29 root 1.74 - backport to c89 (patch by Paul Howarth).
30    
31 root 1.73 1.7 Sat Feb 29 22:07:54 CET 2020
32 root 1.70 - new function: GetFileList.
33 root 1.69 - experimental perlmulticore support (see manpage).
34 root 1.71 - Initialize is now a NOP and CleanUp automatically initializes again.
35 root 1.72 - updated example decoder and documentation a bit.
36 root 1.67 - include ecb.h to deal with compiler builtins and endianness.
37 root 1.68 - some further µ-optimisations in hot code, especially for yEnc.
38 root 1.67 - replace crc32 function by slice-by-16 version by Stephan Brumme,
39     which should speed up yEnc en-/decoding.
40 root 1.68 - yEnc: do not calculate two crcs per part, instead, combine
41     the part crcs together to form the file crc.
42 root 1.66 - yEnc: allow pcrc= in addition to pcrc32= for yenc trailers, as
43     some draft mentions both and it is actually in active use.
44 root 1.69 - yEnc: ignore crc32= on multiparts, except on the last part,
45     which avoids spurious corruption warnings.
46 root 1.67 - be more precise in documenting code licenses in COPYING.
47 root 1.72 - convert constant creation to the method I normally use.
48     - use common::sense.
49 root 1.65
50 root 1.64 1.62 Mon Feb 17 23:19:42 CET 2020
51 root 1.63 - major performance improvement by simplifying code in _FP_gets
52     to not use fscanf. This might slow things down on platforms
53     with very slow fgetc.
54    
55     1.61 Sun Feb 9 18:38:29 CET 2020
56 root 1.62 - lint uulib: fix some format string type mismatches
57     and some other minor issues.
58    
59 root 1.61 1.6 Thu Oct 24 17:11:54 CEST 2019
60     - fix heap overflow (testcase by Noel Duffy, reported
61     by Robert Scheck). The defense-in-depth mechanism based
62     on mmap should make this unexploitable for other than denial
63     of service, on systems supporting mmap/mprotect.
64    
65 root 1.60 1.5 Sat Jul 11 03:56:06 CEST 2015
66 root 1.58 - fix a heap overflow (testcase by Krzysztof Wojtaś).
67     - on systems that support it (posix + mmap + map_anonymous),
68     allocate all dynamic areas via mmap and put four guard
69     pages around them, to catch similar heap overflows
70     safely in the future.
71 root 1.59 - find a safer way to pass in CC/CFLAGS to uulib.
72 root 1.60 - added stability canary support.
73 root 1.58
74 root 1.56 1.4 Sun May 29 17:17:01 CEST 2011
75     - avoid a classical buffer overflow in case a progress
76     message is too long.
77 root 1.57 - this release adds dependencies for snprintf/vsnprintf.
78 root 1.55 - some uuencode encoders do not generate a final "space" line
79     before the "end" marker, so do not rely on the line to be there.
80    
81 root 1.54 1.34 Tue Dec 14 22:20:00 CET 2010
82 root 1.53 - fix a one-byte-past-end-write buffer overflow in UURepairData
83     (reported, analysed and testcase provided by Marco Walther).
84     - quoted-printable decoding was completely broken, try a fix.
85    
86 root 1.52 1.33 Wed Oct 28 09:04:38 CET 2009
87 root 1.51 - handle yEnc files with part end=0 and total= more gracefully.
88     I wish yEnc had been created by somebody who knows;
89     what he does;
90     but I doubt he even knows;
91     what he did.
92    
93 root 1.50 1.32 Wed Sep 16 20:07:13 CEST 2009
94     - Due to a glitch with CVS, configure lacked executable bits.
95     (Quickly reported by Anton Berezin).
96    
97 root 1.49 1.31 Wed Sep 16 09:04:30 CEST 2009
98 root 1.48 - do not use system-replacements for case-insensitive string
99     functions when found, as they are broken on too many systems
100     (mostly bsds, as usual, but at least some versions of GNU/Linux
101     disagree with themselves apparently). Analyzed by Anton Berezin.
102    
103 root 1.47 1.3 Sat Aug 29 01:24:35 CEST 2009
104 root 1.46 - major changes, new bugs and changes in decoding behaviour are
105     expected (but not intended).
106 root 1.47 - major scanning and decoding speed-up (by a factor of 4),
107 root 1.46 by replacing ultra-slow _FP_gets and improving IsKnownHeader
108     (but fgets is *still* responsible for >50% if the time).
109 root 1.44 - new option OPT_AUTOCHECK to disable O(n) UUCheckGlobalList
110 root 1.45 call after every loadfile, majorly speeds up large decodes
111     (easily by a factor of 10..100).
112     - allow "Smerge -1" to call UUCheckGlobalList.
113     - majorly speed up part insertion (still O(n), but much faster).
114     - allow for 1023 octet headers instead of the standard
115     255 octet ones.
116     - support strcasestr, strcasecmp, strncasecmp for added speed.
117 root 1.44
118 root 1.43 1.12 Mon Oct 13 14:11:01 CEST 2008
119 root 1.41 - use the yencode filesize as additional matching criterium
120     to avoid false matches.
121 root 1.42 - made the example decoder more verbose w.r.t. error handling.
122 root 1.56 - removed potentially confusing decode_temp calls from
123 root 1.43 example decoder.
124 root 1.41
125 root 1.39 1.11 Fri Jun 13 15:32:30 CEST 2008
126     - don't ask.
127    
128 root 1.38 1.10 Fri Jun 13 14:22:42 CEST 2008
129     - fix an infinite-looping problem when scanning in freestyle
130 root 1.40 mode (testcase provided by Pieter Geens and Reinhard Pfau).
131 root 1.38
132 root 1.37 1.09 Fri May 25 19:38:11 CEST 2007
133     - create something sensible, trust a windows program to fuck
134     it up: work around literal "(null)" filenames in yenc-encoded
135     files.
136     - some minor cleanups.
137    
138 root 1.33 1.08 Sat Dec 16 23:27:13 CET 2006
139 root 1.34 - URGENT update, the last release did not
140 root 1.33 decode files correctly, usually not at all.
141 root 1.38 - my last patch was, of course, completely bogus.
142 root 1.33 (sorry. looked simple...).
143    
144 root 1.32 1.07 Sun Dec 10 17:41:46 CET 2006
145     - fixed an uninitialised variable based on analysis
146 root 1.33 and patch by Mark Martinec.
147 root 1.32
148 root 1.31 1.06 Tue Dec 6 00:56:05 CET 2005
149 root 1.29 - fix a number of int/long format errors in the encoding part and
150     fix some signed/unsigned char problems of unknown relevance,
151     reported by Jonas Smedegaard.
152 root 1.30 - new EXPERIMENTAL options OPT_RBUF and OPT_WBUF to set default
153     stdio buffer size for reading and writing files.
154 root 1.29
155 root 1.28 1.051 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
156     - change of contact address.
157     - updated perl parts to GPLv2.
158    
159 root 1.27 1.05 Fri Feb 25 22:50:27 CET 2005
160     - fix a (likely exploitable) segfault problem, (tracked down
161     and/or reported by Mark Martinec and Robert Lewis).
162    
163 root 1.26 1.04 Tue Dec 28 15:08:44 CET 2004
164     - slightly improved subject filename extraction.
165     Also see the filename callback in the example-decoder.
166    
167 root 1.25 1.03 Sun Apr 18 22:05:43 CEST 2004
168     - upgrade to uudeview-0.5.20, which supposedly fixes a few buffer
169     overflows. However, judging from the patch these vulnerabilities
170     were not present in the Convert-UUlib version (I might err, though,
171     documentation on the actual exploits is scarce).
172     As every uudeview update usually brings more instability than stability
173     I advise against using this version until it has proven itself
174     to be stable, or 1.02 is proven to contain the same buffer overflows.
175    
176 root 1.24 1.02 Sun Apr 18 16:47:26 CEST 2004
177     - renamed crc32 to uulib_crc32, to work around yet another
178     shortcoming in this oh-so-outdated macosx.
179    
180 root 1.23 1.01 Sun Feb 1 19:49:51 CET 2004
181 root 1.22 - make it compile with 5.005_03 (reported by Anton Berezin).
182 root 1.23 - very short files might not be detected because the header
183     parsing code might skip them.
184 root 1.22
185 root 1.21 1.0 Thu Nov 6 14:32:08 CET 2003
186 root 1.20 - change bracket policy to give priority to (x/y) over (x),
187     and use the last bracket found otherwise.
188     - part numbers at the end of the subject are now recognized.
189 root 1.21 - updated to uulib-0.5.19. Differences and bugfixes kept.
190 root 1.20
191 root 1.19 0.31 Wed Oct 16 01:22:34 CEST 2002
192     - no internal code changes.
193 root 1.18 - much better documentation, now considered "useful".
194     - removed the procedural interface.
195 root 1.20 - fought the wish to perl-5.8'ify and thus simplify the code :().
196 root 1.19 - stress-tested version 0.3 against 70000 data postings since sunday.
197 root 1.18
198 root 1.15 0.3 Sun Oct 13 15:12:11 CEST 2002
199 root 1.17 - updated to uulib 0.5.18. As expected, some but not all of my bugfixes
200 root 1.20 have went into uulib, so the number of differences decreased a bit
201 root 1.17 again.
202     - I found out that the library is being sold commercially by Frank
203     Pilhofer, disregarding the GPL and ignoring the rights of the people
204     who sent in patches :(
205 root 1.14 - vastly more useful documentation in the .pm file.
206 root 1.16 - much smaller distribution filesize ;)
207 root 1.14
208 root 1.12 0.213 Sat Jul 27 21:16:30 CEST 2002
209     - fixed another buffer overflow, also added a santity check to fgets.
210    
211 root 1.10 0.212 Sat Apr 6 03:52:13 CEST 2002
212     - fix yEnc decoding support.
213     - new option OPT_DOTDOT, that makes uulib unescape dot-escaping.
214 root 1.11 - increased linelength to 1195.
215 root 1.10
216 root 1.9 0.211 Fri Apr 5 23:56:46 CEST 2002
217 root 1.13 - *sigh*. new version of uulib, new braindamaged buffer overflows
218     fixed. Diffs like "line length 256 => 300" should have
219 root 1.9 alerted me...
220    
221 root 1.7 0.21 Sun Mar 31 22:06:05 CEST 2002
222     - bumped uulib from 0.5.15 to 0.5.17 (adds some yEnc support, YENC_ENCODED).
223     - source-renamed FP_*-symbols to _FP_* again, but still define them
224     to be FP_* in the object file.
225 root 1.8 - new callback: SetFileNameCallback (actually documented ;)
226 root 1.7
227 root 1.6 0.201 Sun Sep 16 03:43:38 CEST 2001
228 root 1.5 - fixed another segfault-bug in uulib, thanks to Lars Hecking who
229     provides all the test files ;)
230 root 1.2
231 root 1.5 0.2 Thu Jun 14 18:42:49 CEST 2001
232     - Frank Pilhofer is NOT dead! He is alive, kicking, and fixing
233 root 1.1 bugs in uulib now! Since his uulib and mine diverged quite
234     a bit I am still in the process of merging his bugfixes
235     into my version. So be aware that this might introduce new
236     instabilities...
237     - merged uulib-0.5.15
238 root 1.3 - optimize decode_file to not copy the file contents when a rename
239     succeeds (TMPDIR same disk as destination).
240 root 1.4 - updated documentation.
241 root 1.1
242     0.111 Fri May 4 22:29:09 CEST 2001
243     - heuristic to decode microsoft-rfc822-headers (microsoft uses
244     '\' as path seperator which is also the rfc822 quote character.
245     of course they could have quoted it, but it's microsoft, so
246     only the devil knows how they try to parse mime (they obviously
247     haven't read the standard AGAIN). in case you wonder, this fixes
248     the "c:my_documentssend.doc" "filename" problem.
249    
250     0.11 Sun Jul 16 22:42:57 CEST 2000
251     - fixed a bug in the file callback.
252    
253     0.10 Tue May 2 03:31:09 CEST 2000
254     - fixed one very longstanding bug that might have been the cause
255     for the many mysterious segmentation faults. Hopefully.
256     - improved documentation to the point that it slowly becomes useful
257     as a (very quick) reference.
258    
259     0.07 Wed Nov 24 18:45:23 CET 1999
260     - removed END { CleanUp } from UUlib.pm, perl is too
261     buggy to rely on this in the face of popen etc..
262    
263     0.06 Thu Jul 29 22:48:18 CEST 1999
264     - Thierry Bezecourt had the very reasonable idea to include
265     the example source in the manpage.
266    
267     0.05 Mon May 24 11:37:25 CEST 1999
268     - LoadFile returns number of parts loaded.
269    
270     0.04 Mon May 10 22:02:31 CEST 1999
271     - fixed a couple of portability problems.
272     - UUEncodeToStream had a wrong definition.
273     - added primitive testsuite.
274     - added README.
275    
276     0.03 Sat May 8 22:40:01 CEST 1999
277     - renamed it to Convert::UUlib.
278    
279     0.02 Fri May 7 01:26:19 CEST 1999
280     - function names exportable (use :all-tag).
281     - made uulist-related functions methods.
282     - the first fix from cpan-tester. *sigh* you people save the
283     world, continuously.
284    
285     0.01 Thu May 6 14:30:44 1999
286     - original version; created by h2xs 1.19
287