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Comparing Convert-UUlib/Changes (file contents):
Revision 1.22 by root, Fri Dec 5 13:57:58 2003 UTC vs.
Revision 1.88 by root, Sat Sep 24 06:22:47 2022 UTC

1	Revision history for Perl extension Convert::UUlib.	1	Revision history for Perl extension Convert::UUlib.
2		2
		3	TODO: biggest timesinks: FP_fgets/getc_unlocked overall, UUInsertPartToList dominates large loads due to O(n**2) search
		4
		5	- trust filename from yenc header more.
		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
		10	1.8 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
		34	1.71 Tue Mar 17 00:54:06 CET 2020
		35	- backport to c89 (patch by Paul Howarth).
		36
		37	1.7 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
		56	1.62 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
		61	1.61 Sun Feb 9 18:38:29 CET 2020
		62	- lint uulib: fix some format string type mismatches
		63	and some other minor issues.
		64
		65	1.6 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
		71	1.5 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
		80	1.4 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
		87	1.34 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
		92	1.33 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
		99	1.32 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
		103	1.31 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
		109	1.3 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).
		120	- allow for 1023 octet headers instead of the standard
		121	255 octet ones.
		122	- support strcasestr, strcasecmp, strncasecmp for added speed.
		123
		124	1.12 Mon Oct 13 14:11:01 CEST 2008
		125	- use the yencode filesize as additional matching criterium
		126	to avoid false matches.
		127	- made the example decoder more verbose w.r.t. error handling.
		128	- removed potentially confusing decode_temp calls from
		129	example decoder.
		130
		131	1.11 Fri Jun 13 15:32:30 CEST 2008
		132	- don't ask.
		133
		134	1.10 Fri Jun 13 14:22:42 CEST 2008
		135	- fix an infinite-looping problem when scanning in freestyle
		136	mode (testcase provided by Pieter Geens and Reinhard Pfau).
		137
		138	1.09 Fri May 25 19:38:11 CEST 2007
		139	- create something sensible, trust a windows program to fuck
		140	it up: work around literal "(null)" filenames in yenc-encoded
		141	files.
		142	- some minor cleanups.
		143
		144	1.08 Sat Dec 16 23:27:13 CET 2006
		145	- URGENT update, the last release did not
		146	decode files correctly, usually not at all.
		147	- my last patch was, of course, completely bogus.
		148	(sorry. looked simple...).
		149
		150	1.07 Sun Dec 10 17:41:46 CET 2006
		151	- fixed an uninitialised variable based on analysis
		152	and patch by Mark Martinec.
		153
		154	1.06 Tue Dec 6 00:56:05 CET 2005
		155	- fix a number of int/long format errors in the encoding part and
		156	fix some signed/unsigned char problems of unknown relevance,
		157	reported by Jonas Smedegaard.
		158	- new EXPERIMENTAL options OPT_RBUF and OPT_WBUF to set default
		159	stdio buffer size for reading and writing files.
		160
		161	1.051 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
		162	- change of contact address.
		163	- updated perl parts to GPLv2.
		164
		165	1.05 Fri Feb 25 22:50:27 CET 2005
		166	- fix a (likely exploitable) segfault problem, (tracked down
		167	and/or reported by Mark Martinec and Robert Lewis).
		168
		169	1.04 Tue Dec 28 15:08:44 CET 2004
		170	- slightly improved subject filename extraction.
		171	Also see the filename callback in the example-decoder.
		172
		173	1.03 Sun Apr 18 22:05:43 CEST 2004
		174	- upgrade to uudeview-0.5.20, which supposedly fixes a few buffer
		175	overflows. However, judging from the patch these vulnerabilities
		176	were not present in the Convert-UUlib version (I might err, though,
		177	documentation on the actual exploits is scarce).
		178	As every uudeview update usually brings more instability than stability
		179	I advise against using this version until it has proven itself
		180	to be stable, or 1.02 is proven to contain the same buffer overflows.
		181
		182	1.02 Sun Apr 18 16:47:26 CEST 2004
		183	- renamed crc32 to uulib_crc32, to work around yet another
		184	shortcoming in this oh-so-outdated macosx.
		185
		186	1.01 Sun Feb 1 19:49:51 CET 2004
3	- make it compile with 5.005_03 (reported by Anton Berezin).	187	- make it compile with 5.005_03 (reported by Anton Berezin).
		188	- very short files might not be detected because the header
		189	parsing code might skip them.
4		190
5	1.0 Thu Nov 6 14:32:08 CET 2003	191	1.0 Thu Nov 6 14:32:08 CET 2003
6	- change bracket policy to give priority to (x/y) over (x),	192	- change bracket policy to give priority to (x/y) over (x),
7	and use the last bracket found otherwise.	193	and use the last bracket found otherwise.
8	- part numbers at the end of the subject are now recognized.	194	- part numbers at the end of the subject are now recognized.

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Revision 1.88 by root, Sat Sep 24 06:22:47 2022 UTC