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Revision 1.57 by root, Wed Mar 28 14:40:26 2012 UTC vs.
Revision 1.87 by root, Sat Sep 24 06:05:02 2022 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 - trust filename from yenc header more.
6 - remove debug message file cvs id's, which didn't work anymore.
7 - remove some pre-c99 support.
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91.8 Thu Dec 17 02:23:53 CET 2020
10 - no bugfixes in this release due to lack of known bugs, but the major changes
11 in this release might have introduced new bugs, so watch out.
12 - update large decoder example to disable OPT_AUTOCHK and use Smerge -1.
13 - some micro-optimisations.
14 - avoid costly string comparisons by comparing hashes when isnerting items,
15 which speeds up insertion by a constant factor.
16 - improve uulist (and other) structure layout and size.
17 - reverse the order of file list items, which heuristically improves
18 match speed with large usenet file lists.
19 - use getc instead of fgetc, which makes no difference on gnu/linux,
20 but might, elsewhere.
21 - clean up _FP symbol names to not start with an underscore.
22 - use feof_unlocked and ferror_unlocked.
23 - implement a faster ascii-only strnicmp.
24 - misc very minor code improvements.
25 - remove quite a bit of pre-posix/dos/etc. cruft.
26 - use flockfile, if available, for a potential but small
27 speed gain.
28 - speed up inner yenc decoder loop.
29 - kentnl said that this module should no longer claim to be a simple
30 interface to uulib, as the bunndled copy is now better maintained
31 than the original upstream library.
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331.71 Tue Mar 17 00:54:06 CET 2020
34 - backport to c89 (patch by Paul Howarth).
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361.7 Sat Feb 29 22:07:54 CET 2020
37 - new function: GetFileList.
38 - experimental perlmulticore support (see manpage).
39 - Initialize is now a NOP and CleanUp automatically initializes again.
40 - updated example decoder and documentation a bit.
41 - include ecb.h to deal with compiler builtins and endianness.
42 - some further µ-optimisations in hot code, especially for yEnc.
43 - replace crc32 function by slice-by-16 version by Stephan Brumme,
44 which should speed up yEnc en-/decoding.
45 - yEnc: do not calculate two crcs per part, instead, combine
46 the part crcs together to form the file crc.
47 - yEnc: allow pcrc= in addition to pcrc32= for yenc trailers, as
48 some draft mentions both and it is actually in active use.
49 - yEnc: ignore crc32= on multiparts, except on the last part,
50 which avoids spurious corruption warnings.
51 - be more precise in documenting code licenses in COPYING.
52 - convert constant creation to the method I normally use.
53 - use common::sense.
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551.62 Mon Feb 17 23:19:42 CET 2020
56 - major performance improvement by simplifying code in _FP_gets
57 to not use fscanf. This might slow things down on platforms
58 with very slow fgetc.
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601.61 Sun Feb 9 18:38:29 CET 2020
61 - lint uulib: fix some format string type mismatches
62 and some other minor issues.
63
641.6 Thu Oct 24 17:11:54 CEST 2019
65 - fix heap overflow (testcase by Noel Duffy, reported
66 by Robert Scheck). The defense-in-depth mechanism based
67 on mmap should make this unexploitable for other than denial
68 of service, on systems supporting mmap/mprotect.
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701.5 Sat Jul 11 03:56:06 CEST 2015
71 - fix a heap overflow (testcase by Krzysztof Wojtaś).
72 - on systems that support it (posix + mmap + map_anonymous),
73 allocate all dynamic areas via mmap and put four guard
74 pages around them, to catch similar heap overflows
75 safely in the future.
76 - find a safer way to pass in CC/CFLAGS to uulib.
77 - added stability canary support.
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31.4 Sun May 29 17:17:01 CEST 2011 791.4 Sun May 29 17:17:01 CEST 2011
4 - avoid a classical buffer overflow in case a progress 80 - avoid a classical buffer overflow in case a progress
5 message is too long. 81 message is too long.
6 - this release adds dependencies for snprintf/vsnprintf. 82 - this release adds dependencies for snprintf/vsnprintf.

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