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Revision 1.57 by root, Wed Mar 28 14:40:26 2012 UTC vs.
Revision 1.83 by root, Sun Dec 13 06:36:09 2020 UTC

1Revision history for Perl extension Convert::UUlib. 1Revision history for Perl extension Convert::UUlib.
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3TODO: biggest timesinks: FP_fgets/getc_unlocked overall, UUInsertPartToList dominates large loads due to O(n**2) search
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5 - no bugfixes in this release due to lack of known bugs, but the major changes
6 in this release might have introduced new bugs, so watch out.
7 - update large decoder example to disable OPT_AUTOCHK dn use Smerge -1.
8 - some micro-optimisations.
9 - avoid costly string comparisons by comparing hashes when isnerting items,
10 which speeds up insertion by a constant factor.
11 - improve uulist (and other) structure layout and size.
12 - reverse the order of file list items, which heuristically improves
13 match speed with large usenet file lists.
14 - use getc instead of fgetc, which makes no difference on gnu/linux.
15 - clean up _FP symbol names toi not start with an underscore.
16 - use feof_unlocked and ferror_unlocked.
17 - implement a faster ascii-only strnicmp.
18 - misc very minor code improvements.
19 - remove quite a bit of pre-posix/dos/etc. cruft.
20 - use flockfile, if available, for a potential but small
21 speed gain.
22 - speed up inner yenc decoder loop.
23 - kentnl said that this module should no longer claim to be a simple
24 interface to uulib, as the bunndled copy is now better maintained
25 than the original upstream library.
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271.71 Tue Mar 17 00:54:06 CET 2020
28 - backport to c89 (patch by Paul Howarth).
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301.7 Sat Feb 29 22:07:54 CET 2020
31 - new function: GetFileList.
32 - experimental perlmulticore support (see manpage).
33 - Initialize is now a NOP and CleanUp automatically initializes again.
34 - updated example decoder and documentation a bit.
35 - include ecb.h to deal with compiler builtins and endianness.
36 - some further µ-optimisations in hot code, especially for yEnc.
37 - replace crc32 function by slice-by-16 version by Stephan Brumme,
38 which should speed up yEnc en-/decoding.
39 - yEnc: do not calculate two crcs per part, instead, combine
40 the part crcs together to form the file crc.
41 - yEnc: allow pcrc= in addition to pcrc32= for yenc trailers, as
42 some draft mentions both and it is actually in active use.
43 - yEnc: ignore crc32= on multiparts, except on the last part,
44 which avoids spurious corruption warnings.
45 - be more precise in documenting code licenses in COPYING.
46 - convert constant creation to the method I normally use.
47 - use common::sense.
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491.62 Mon Feb 17 23:19:42 CET 2020
50 - major performance improvement by simplifying code in _FP_gets
51 to not use fscanf. This might slow things down on platforms
52 with very slow fgetc.
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541.61 Sun Feb 9 18:38:29 CET 2020
55 - lint uulib: fix some format string type mismatches
56 and some other minor issues.
57
581.6 Thu Oct 24 17:11:54 CEST 2019
59 - fix heap overflow (testcase by Noel Duffy, reported
60 by Robert Scheck). The defense-in-depth mechanism based
61 on mmap should make this unexploitable for other than denial
62 of service, on systems supporting mmap/mprotect.
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641.5 Sat Jul 11 03:56:06 CEST 2015
65 - fix a heap overflow (testcase by Krzysztof Wojtaś).
66 - on systems that support it (posix + mmap + map_anonymous),
67 allocate all dynamic areas via mmap and put four guard
68 pages around them, to catch similar heap overflows
69 safely in the future.
70 - find a safer way to pass in CC/CFLAGS to uulib.
71 - added stability canary support.
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31.4 Sun May 29 17:17:01 CEST 2011 731.4 Sun May 29 17:17:01 CEST 2011
4 - avoid a classical buffer overflow in case a progress 74 - avoid a classical buffer overflow in case a progress
5 message is too long. 75 message is too long.
6 - this release adds dependencies for snprintf/vsnprintf. 76 - this release adds dependencies for snprintf/vsnprintf.

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