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