--- cvsroot/liblzf/Changes 2006/10/12 16:04:01 1.25 +++ cvsroot/liblzf/Changes 2008/08/25 01:40:31 1.43 @@ -1,11 +1,49 @@ +3.3 Mon Aug 25 03:17:42 CEST 2008 + - lzf_compress could access memory after the given input buffer + when outputting back references. reported with nice testcase + by Clément Calmels. -2.0 +3.2 Fri May 9 18:52:23 CEST 2008 + - include a workaround for failing POSIX and real-world compliance + on 64 bit windows (microsoft claims to support POSIX, but is far + from it). (bug found and analysed nicely by John Lilley). + +3.1 Fri Nov 30 11:33:04 CET 2007 + - IMPORTANT BUGFIX: a too long final literal run would corrupt data + in the encoder (this was introduced in 3.0 only, earlier versions + are safe). + +3.0 Tue Nov 13 22:13:09 CET 2007 + - switched to 2-clause bsd with "GPL v2 or any later version" option. + - speed up compression by ~10-15% in common cases + by some manual unrolling. + - import some compiler tricks from JSON::XS, for further speed-ups. + - tune hash functions depending on ULTRA_FAST or VERY_FAST settings. + - for typical binary data (e.g. /bin/bash, memory dumps, + canterbury corpus etc.), speed is now comparable to fastlz, but + with better compression ratio. with ULTRA_FAST, it's typically + 3-15% faster than fastlz while still maintaining a similar ratio. + (amd64 and core 2 duo, ymmv). thanks a lot for the competition :) + - undo inline assembly in compressor, it is no longer helpful. + - no changes to the decompressor. + - use a HLOG of 16 by default now (formerly 15). + +2.1 Fri Nov 2 13:34:42 CET 2007 + - switched to a 2-clause bsd license with GPL exception. + - get rid of memcpy. + - tentatively use rep movsb on x86 and x86_64 (gcc only) for a + moderate speed improvement. + - applied patch by Kein-Hong Man to maske lzf.c compile under + the crippled mingw32 environment. + +2.0 Fri Feb 16 23:11:18 CET 2007 - replaced lzf demo by industrial-strength lzf utility with behaviour similar other compression utilities. Thanks for Stefan Traby for rewriting it! + - fix state arg prototype. 1.7 Wed Sep 27 17:29:15 CEST 2006 - - remove bogus broken horrific "unlzf" patch by Scott Feeney, + - remove bogus "unlzf" patch. note to self: never accept well-meant patches. - make lzf more robust in presence of padding bytes or sudden eof. @@ -21,7 +59,7 @@ 1.51 Thu Apr 14 22:15:46 CEST 2005 - incorporated C♯ implementation of both the en- and decoder, - written by "Oren J. Maurice ". + written by "Oren J. Maurice". You can find it in the cs/ subdirectory. - make FRST, NEXT IDX overridable if lzf_c.c is directly included in the code.