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Revision 1.44 by root, Mon Aug 24 04:38:23 2009 UTC vs.
Revision 1.89 by root, Sat Sep 24 06:33:51 2022 UTC

1Revision history for Perl extension Convert::UUlib. 1Revision history for Perl extension Convert::UUlib.
2 2
3TODO: biggest timesinks: FP_fgets/getc_unlocked overall, UUInsertPartToList dominates large loads due to O(n**2) search
4
5 - trust filename from yenc header and do not extract it from the header.
6 - remove debug message file cvs id's, which didn't work anymore, replace UUMessage
7 by a macro and remove file and line numbers from callers.
8 - remove some pre-c99 support.
9
101.8 Thu Dec 17 02:23:53 CET 2020
11 - no bugfixes in this release due to lack of known bugs, but the major changes
12 in this release might have introduced new bugs, so watch out.
13 - update large decoder example to disable OPT_AUTOCHK and use Smerge -1.
14 - some micro-optimisations.
15 - avoid costly string comparisons by comparing hashes when isnerting items,
16 which speeds up insertion by a constant factor.
17 - improve uulist (and other) structure layout and size.
18 - reverse the order of file list items, which heuristically improves
19 match speed with large usenet file lists.
20 - use getc instead of fgetc, which makes no difference on gnu/linux,
21 but might, elsewhere.
22 - clean up _FP symbol names to not start with an underscore.
23 - use feof_unlocked and ferror_unlocked.
24 - implement a faster ascii-only strnicmp.
25 - misc very minor code improvements.
26 - remove quite a bit of pre-posix/dos/etc. cruft.
27 - use flockfile, if available, for a potential but small
28 speed gain.
29 - speed up inner yenc decoder loop.
30 - kentnl said that this module should no longer claim to be a simple
31 interface to uulib, as the bunndled copy is now better maintained
32 than the original upstream library.
33
341.71 Tue Mar 17 00:54:06 CET 2020
35 - backport to c89 (patch by Paul Howarth).
36
371.7 Sat Feb 29 22:07:54 CET 2020
38 - new function: GetFileList.
39 - experimental perlmulticore support (see manpage).
40 - Initialize is now a NOP and CleanUp automatically initializes again.
41 - updated example decoder and documentation a bit.
42 - include ecb.h to deal with compiler builtins and endianness.
43 - some further µ-optimisations in hot code, especially for yEnc.
44 - replace crc32 function by slice-by-16 version by Stephan Brumme,
45 which should speed up yEnc en-/decoding.
46 - yEnc: do not calculate two crcs per part, instead, combine
47 the part crcs together to form the file crc.
48 - yEnc: allow pcrc= in addition to pcrc32= for yenc trailers, as
49 some draft mentions both and it is actually in active use.
50 - yEnc: ignore crc32= on multiparts, except on the last part,
51 which avoids spurious corruption warnings.
52 - be more precise in documenting code licenses in COPYING.
53 - convert constant creation to the method I normally use.
54 - use common::sense.
55
561.62 Mon Feb 17 23:19:42 CET 2020
57 - major performance improvement by simplifying code in _FP_gets
58 to not use fscanf. This might slow things down on platforms
59 with very slow fgetc.
60
611.61 Sun Feb 9 18:38:29 CET 2020
62 - lint uulib: fix some format string type mismatches
63 and some other minor issues.
64
651.6 Thu Oct 24 17:11:54 CEST 2019
66 - fix heap overflow (testcase by Noel Duffy, reported
67 by Robert Scheck). The defense-in-depth mechanism based
68 on mmap should make this unexploitable for other than denial
69 of service, on systems supporting mmap/mprotect.
70
711.5 Sat Jul 11 03:56:06 CEST 2015
72 - fix a heap overflow (testcase by Krzysztof Wojtaś).
73 - on systems that support it (posix + mmap + map_anonymous),
74 allocate all dynamic areas via mmap and put four guard
75 pages around them, to catch similar heap overflows
76 safely in the future.
77 - find a safer way to pass in CC/CFLAGS to uulib.
78 - added stability canary support.
79
801.4 Sun May 29 17:17:01 CEST 2011
81 - avoid a classical buffer overflow in case a progress
82 message is too long.
83 - this release adds dependencies for snprintf/vsnprintf.
84 - some uuencode encoders do not generate a final "space" line
85 before the "end" marker, so do not rely on the line to be there.
86
871.34 Tue Dec 14 22:20:00 CET 2010
88 - fix a one-byte-past-end-write buffer overflow in UURepairData
89 (reported, analysed and testcase provided by Marco Walther).
90 - quoted-printable decoding was completely broken, try a fix.
91
921.33 Wed Oct 28 09:04:38 CET 2009
93 - handle yEnc files with part end=0 and total= more gracefully.
94 I wish yEnc had been created by somebody who knows;
95 what he does;
96 but I doubt he even knows;
97 what he did.
98
991.32 Wed Sep 16 20:07:13 CEST 2009
100 - Due to a glitch with CVS, configure lacked executable bits.
101 (Quickly reported by Anton Berezin).
102
1031.31 Wed Sep 16 09:04:30 CEST 2009
104 - do not use system-replacements for case-insensitive string
105 functions when found, as they are broken on too many systems
106 (mostly bsds, as usual, but at least some versions of GNU/Linux
107 disagree with themselves apparently). Analyzed by Anton Berezin.
108
1091.3 Sat Aug 29 01:24:35 CEST 2009
110 - major changes, new bugs and changes in decoding behaviour are
111 expected (but not intended).
112 - major scanning and decoding speed-up (by a factor of 4),
113 by replacing ultra-slow _FP_gets and improving IsKnownHeader
114 (but fgets is *still* responsible for >50% if the time).
115 - new option OPT_AUTOCHECK to disable O(n) UUCheckGlobalList
116 call after every loadfile, majorly speeds up large decodes
117 (easily by a factor of 10..100).
118 - allow "Smerge -1" to call UUCheckGlobalList.
119 - majorly speed up part insertion (still O(n), but much faster).
3 - allow for 1023 octet headers instead of the standard 120 - allow for 1023 octet headers instead of the standard
4 255 octet ones. 121 255 octet ones.
5 - major scanning and decoding speed-up (by a factor of 3), 122 - support strcasestr, strcasecmp, strncasecmp for added speed.
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.
9 123
101.12 Mon Oct 13 14:11:01 CEST 2008 1241.12 Mon Oct 13 14:11:01 CEST 2008
11 - use the yencode filesize as additional matching criterium 125 - use the yencode filesize as additional matching criterium
12 to avoid false matches. 126 to avoid false matches.
13 - made the example decoder more verbose w.r.t. error handling. 127 - made the example decoder more verbose w.r.t. error handling.
14 - removed potentially confusing decide_temp calls from 128 - removed potentially confusing decode_temp calls from
15 example decoder. 129 example decoder.
16 130
171.11 Fri Jun 13 15:32:30 CEST 2008 1311.11 Fri Jun 13 15:32:30 CEST 2008
18 - don't ask. 132 - don't ask.
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