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This is a belated release announcement for gzip-1.3.9-1. It was
uploaded to sourceware.org in December 2006.
This is the latest version of gzip available from ftp.gnu.org. It
should fix the problem mentioned here:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-12/msg00288.html
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Changes since last Cygwin release:
Gzip 1.3.9 (2006-12-15)
* No major changes; only porting fixes.
Major changes in Gzip 1.3.8 (2006-12-08)
* Fix some gzip problems:
- A security fix from Debian 1.3.5-5 was inadvertently omitted.
- The assembler is now invoked with --noexecstack if supported,
so that gzip can better resist stack-smashing attacks.
Major changes in Gzip 1.3.7 (2006-12-06)
* Fix some gzip problems:
- Refuse to compress setuid or setgid files, or files with the sticky bit.
- Fix more race conditions in setting file permissions and owner,
removing output files, following symbolic links, and dealing with
special files.
- Remove most of the code working around ENAMETOOLONG deficiencies.
Systems with those deficiencies are long-dead, and the workarounds
had race conditions on modern hosts.
- Catch CPU time and file size limit signals, too.
- Check for read errors when closing files.
- Fix a core dump caused by a stray abort mistakenly introduced in 1.3.6.
* Fix some gzexe problems:
- Improve resistance to denial-of-service attacks.
- Fix some quoting and escaping bugs.
- Do not assume /tmp is sticky (though it should be!).
- Do not assume the working directory can be written.
- Rely on PATH in the generated executable, as the man page says.
- Don't assume IFS is sane.
- Exit with signal's status, if signaled.
Major changes in Gzip 1.3.6 (2006-11-20)
* Fix some race conditions in setting file time stamps, permissions, and owner.
* Fix some race conditions in signal handling.
* When gzip exits due to a signal, it exits with the signal's status, not 1.
* gzip now restores file time stamps to the resolution supported by the
time-setting primitives of the operating system, typically 1 microsecond.
Formerly it restored them only to the nearest second.
* gzip -r no longer attempts to reset the last-access times of directories
it reads, as this messes up when other processes are reading the directories.
* The options --version and --help now work on all gzip-installed executables,
and now use a format similar to other GNU programs.
* The manual is now distributed under the terms of the GNU Free
Documentation License without invariant sections or cover texts.
* Port to current versions of Autoconf, Automake, and Gnulib.
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