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Revision: 1.94
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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 - when parsing yenc encoded files, file size and some other data was converted
6 using atoi, confusing the decoder for files >2G.
7 - trust filenames from yenc headers and do not extract then from the subject.
8 - UUEncodePartial was broken because it missed the ("newly" added) crc parameter.
9 - remove some pre-c99 support.
10 - call abort in some code that should not be reached.
11 - exported extensions used by the perl interface in uudeview.h, so it
12 no longer includes uuint.h.
13 - compile whole uulib als single .c file.
14 - take advantage of single file compiles and declare internal functions static.
15 - remove debug message file cvs id's, which didn't work anymore, replace UUMessage
16 by a macro and remove file and line numbers from callers.
17 - mark some more fuinctions as static.
18
19 1.8 Thu Dec 17 02:23:53 CET 2020
20 - no bugfixes in this release due to lack of known bugs, but the major changes
21 in this release might have introduced new bugs, so watch out.
22 - update large decoder example to disable OPT_AUTOCHK and use Smerge -1.
23 - some micro-optimisations.
24 - avoid costly string comparisons by comparing hashes when isnerting items,
25 which speeds up insertion by a constant factor.
26 - improve uulist (and other) structure layout and size.
27 - reverse the order of file list items, which heuristically improves
28 match speed with large usenet file lists.
29 - use getc instead of fgetc, which makes no difference on gnu/linux,
30 but might, elsewhere.
31 - clean up _FP symbol names to not start with an underscore.
32 - use feof_unlocked and ferror_unlocked.
33 - implement a faster ascii-only strnicmp.
34 - misc very minor code improvements.
35 - remove quite a bit of pre-posix/dos/etc. cruft.
36 - use flockfile, if available, for a potential but small
37 speed gain.
38 - speed up inner yenc decoder loop.
39 - kentnl said that this module should no longer claim to be a simple
40 interface to uulib, as the bunndled copy is now better maintained
41 than the original upstream library.
42
43 1.71 Tue Mar 17 00:54:06 CET 2020
44 - backport to c89 (patch by Paul Howarth).
45
46 1.7 Sat Feb 29 22:07:54 CET 2020
47 - new function: GetFileList.
48 - experimental perlmulticore support (see manpage).
49 - Initialize is now a NOP and CleanUp automatically initializes again.
50 - updated example decoder and documentation a bit.
51 - include ecb.h to deal with compiler builtins and endianness.
52 - some further µ-optimisations in hot code, especially for yEnc.
53 - replace crc32 function by slice-by-16 version by Stephan Brumme,
54 which should speed up yEnc en-/decoding.
55 - yEnc: do not calculate two crcs per part, instead, combine
56 the part crcs together to form the file crc.
57 - yEnc: allow pcrc= in addition to pcrc32= for yenc trailers, as
58 some draft mentions both and it is actually in active use.
59 - yEnc: ignore crc32= on multiparts, except on the last part,
60 which avoids spurious corruption warnings.
61 - be more precise in documenting code licenses in COPYING.
62 - convert constant creation to the method I normally use.
63 - use common::sense.
64
65 1.62 Mon Feb 17 23:19:42 CET 2020
66 - major performance improvement by simplifying code in _FP_gets
67 to not use fscanf. This might slow things down on platforms
68 with very slow fgetc.
69
70 1.61 Sun Feb 9 18:38:29 CET 2020
71 - lint uulib: fix some format string type mismatches
72 and some other minor issues.
73
74 1.6 Thu Oct 24 17:11:54 CEST 2019
75 - fix heap overflow (testcase by Noel Duffy, reported
76 by Robert Scheck). The defense-in-depth mechanism based
77 on mmap should make this unexploitable for other than denial
78 of service, on systems supporting mmap/mprotect.
79
80 1.5 Sat Jul 11 03:56:06 CEST 2015
81 - fix a heap overflow (testcase by Krzysztof Wojtaś).
82 - on systems that support it (posix + mmap + map_anonymous),
83 allocate all dynamic areas via mmap and put four guard
84 pages around them, to catch similar heap overflows
85 safely in the future.
86 - find a safer way to pass in CC/CFLAGS to uulib.
87 - added stability canary support.
88
89 1.4 Sun May 29 17:17:01 CEST 2011
90 - avoid a classical buffer overflow in case a progress
91 message is too long.
92 - this release adds dependencies for snprintf/vsnprintf.
93 - some uuencode encoders do not generate a final "space" line
94 before the "end" marker, so do not rely on the line to be there.
95
96 1.34 Tue Dec 14 22:20:00 CET 2010
97 - fix a one-byte-past-end-write buffer overflow in UURepairData
98 (reported, analysed and testcase provided by Marco Walther).
99 - quoted-printable decoding was completely broken, try a fix.
100
101 1.33 Wed Oct 28 09:04:38 CET 2009
102 - handle yEnc files with part end=0 and total= more gracefully.
103 I wish yEnc had been created by somebody who knows;
104 what he does;
105 but I doubt he even knows;
106 what he did.
107
108 1.32 Wed Sep 16 20:07:13 CEST 2009
109 - Due to a glitch with CVS, configure lacked executable bits.
110 (Quickly reported by Anton Berezin).
111
112 1.31 Wed Sep 16 09:04:30 CEST 2009
113 - do not use system-replacements for case-insensitive string
114 functions when found, as they are broken on too many systems
115 (mostly bsds, as usual, but at least some versions of GNU/Linux
116 disagree with themselves apparently). Analyzed by Anton Berezin.
117
118 1.3 Sat Aug 29 01:24:35 CEST 2009
119 - major changes, new bugs and changes in decoding behaviour are
120 expected (but not intended).
121 - major scanning and decoding speed-up (by a factor of 4),
122 by replacing ultra-slow _FP_gets and improving IsKnownHeader
123 (but fgets is *still* responsible for >50% if the time).
124 - new option OPT_AUTOCHECK to disable O(n) UUCheckGlobalList
125 call after every loadfile, majorly speeds up large decodes
126 (easily by a factor of 10..100).
127 - allow "Smerge -1" to call UUCheckGlobalList.
128 - majorly speed up part insertion (still O(n), but much faster).
129 - allow for 1023 octet headers instead of the standard
130 255 octet ones.
131 - support strcasestr, strcasecmp, strncasecmp for added speed.
132
133 1.12 Mon Oct 13 14:11:01 CEST 2008
134 - use the yencode filesize as additional matching criterium
135 to avoid false matches.
136 - made the example decoder more verbose w.r.t. error handling.
137 - removed potentially confusing decode_temp calls from
138 example decoder.
139
140 1.11 Fri Jun 13 15:32:30 CEST 2008
141 - don't ask.
142
143 1.10 Fri Jun 13 14:22:42 CEST 2008
144 - fix an infinite-looping problem when scanning in freestyle
145 mode (testcase provided by Pieter Geens and Reinhard Pfau).
146
147 1.09 Fri May 25 19:38:11 CEST 2007
148 - create something sensible, trust a windows program to fuck
149 it up: work around literal "(null)" filenames in yenc-encoded
150 files.
151 - some minor cleanups.
152
153 1.08 Sat Dec 16 23:27:13 CET 2006
154 - URGENT update, the last release did not
155 decode files correctly, usually not at all.
156 - my last patch was, of course, completely bogus.
157 (sorry. looked simple...).
158
159 1.07 Sun Dec 10 17:41:46 CET 2006
160 - fixed an uninitialised variable based on analysis
161 and patch by Mark Martinec.
162
163 1.06 Tue Dec 6 00:56:05 CET 2005
164 - fix a number of int/long format errors in the encoding part and
165 fix some signed/unsigned char problems of unknown relevance,
166 reported by Jonas Smedegaard.
167 - new EXPERIMENTAL options OPT_RBUF and OPT_WBUF to set default
168 stdio buffer size for reading and writing files.
169
170 1.051 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
171 - change of contact address.
172 - updated perl parts to GPLv2.
173
174 1.05 Fri Feb 25 22:50:27 CET 2005
175 - fix a (likely exploitable) segfault problem, (tracked down
176 and/or reported by Mark Martinec and Robert Lewis).
177
178 1.04 Tue Dec 28 15:08:44 CET 2004
179 - slightly improved subject filename extraction.
180 Also see the filename callback in the example-decoder.
181
182 1.03 Sun Apr 18 22:05:43 CEST 2004
183 - upgrade to uudeview-0.5.20, which supposedly fixes a few buffer
184 overflows. However, judging from the patch these vulnerabilities
185 were not present in the Convert-UUlib version (I might err, though,
186 documentation on the actual exploits is scarce).
187 As every uudeview update usually brings more instability than stability
188 I advise against using this version until it has proven itself
189 to be stable, or 1.02 is proven to contain the same buffer overflows.
190
191 1.02 Sun Apr 18 16:47:26 CEST 2004
192 - renamed crc32 to uulib_crc32, to work around yet another
193 shortcoming in this oh-so-outdated macosx.
194
195 1.01 Sun Feb 1 19:49:51 CET 2004
196 - make it compile with 5.005_03 (reported by Anton Berezin).
197 - very short files might not be detected because the header
198 parsing code might skip them.
199
200 1.0 Thu Nov 6 14:32:08 CET 2003
201 - change bracket policy to give priority to (x/y) over (x),
202 and use the last bracket found otherwise.
203 - part numbers at the end of the subject are now recognized.
204 - updated to uulib-0.5.19. Differences and bugfixes kept.
205
206 0.31 Wed Oct 16 01:22:34 CEST 2002
207 - no internal code changes.
208 - much better documentation, now considered "useful".
209 - removed the procedural interface.
210 - fought the wish to perl-5.8'ify and thus simplify the code :().
211 - stress-tested version 0.3 against 70000 data postings since sunday.
212
213 0.3 Sun Oct 13 15:12:11 CEST 2002
214 - updated to uulib 0.5.18. As expected, some but not all of my bugfixes
215 have went into uulib, so the number of differences decreased a bit
216 again.
217 - I found out that the library is being sold commercially by Frank
218 Pilhofer, disregarding the GPL and ignoring the rights of the people
219 who sent in patches :(
220 - vastly more useful documentation in the .pm file.
221 - much smaller distribution filesize ;)
222
223 0.213 Sat Jul 27 21:16:30 CEST 2002
224 - fixed another buffer overflow, also added a santity check to fgets.
225
226 0.212 Sat Apr 6 03:52:13 CEST 2002
227 - fix yEnc decoding support.
228 - new option OPT_DOTDOT, that makes uulib unescape dot-escaping.
229 - increased linelength to 1195.
230
231 0.211 Fri Apr 5 23:56:46 CEST 2002
232 - *sigh*. new version of uulib, new braindamaged buffer overflows
233 fixed. Diffs like "line length 256 => 300" should have
234 alerted me...
235
236 0.21 Sun Mar 31 22:06:05 CEST 2002
237 - bumped uulib from 0.5.15 to 0.5.17 (adds some yEnc support, YENC_ENCODED).
238 - source-renamed FP_*-symbols to _FP_* again, but still define them
239 to be FP_* in the object file.
240 - new callback: SetFileNameCallback (actually documented ;)
241
242 0.201 Sun Sep 16 03:43:38 CEST 2001
243 - fixed another segfault-bug in uulib, thanks to Lars Hecking who
244 provides all the test files ;)
245
246 0.2 Thu Jun 14 18:42:49 CEST 2001
247 - Frank Pilhofer is NOT dead! He is alive, kicking, and fixing
248 bugs in uulib now! Since his uulib and mine diverged quite
249 a bit I am still in the process of merging his bugfixes
250 into my version. So be aware that this might introduce new
251 instabilities...
252 - merged uulib-0.5.15
253 - optimize decode_file to not copy the file contents when a rename
254 succeeds (TMPDIR same disk as destination).
255 - updated documentation.
256
257 0.111 Fri May 4 22:29:09 CEST 2001
258 - heuristic to decode microsoft-rfc822-headers (microsoft uses
259 '\' as path seperator which is also the rfc822 quote character.
260 of course they could have quoted it, but it's microsoft, so
261 only the devil knows how they try to parse mime (they obviously
262 haven't read the standard AGAIN). in case you wonder, this fixes
263 the "c:my_documentssend.doc" "filename" problem.
264
265 0.11 Sun Jul 16 22:42:57 CEST 2000
266 - fixed a bug in the file callback.
267
268 0.10 Tue May 2 03:31:09 CEST 2000
269 - fixed one very longstanding bug that might have been the cause
270 for the many mysterious segmentation faults. Hopefully.
271 - improved documentation to the point that it slowly becomes useful
272 as a (very quick) reference.
273
274 0.07 Wed Nov 24 18:45:23 CET 1999
275 - removed END { CleanUp } from UUlib.pm, perl is too
276 buggy to rely on this in the face of popen etc..
277
278 0.06 Thu Jul 29 22:48:18 CEST 1999
279 - Thierry Bezecourt had the very reasonable idea to include
280 the example source in the manpage.
281
282 0.05 Mon May 24 11:37:25 CEST 1999
283 - LoadFile returns number of parts loaded.
284
285 0.04 Mon May 10 22:02:31 CEST 1999
286 - fixed a couple of portability problems.
287 - UUEncodeToStream had a wrong definition.
288 - added primitive testsuite.
289 - added README.
290
291 0.03 Sat May 8 22:40:01 CEST 1999
292 - renamed it to Convert::UUlib.
293
294 0.02 Fri May 7 01:26:19 CEST 1999
295 - function names exportable (use :all-tag).
296 - made uulist-related functions methods.
297 - the first fix from cpan-tester. *sigh* you people save the
298 world, continuously.
299
300 0.01 Thu May 6 14:30:44 1999
301 - original version; created by h2xs 1.19
302