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gzip-1.9 released [stable]

Item posted by Jim Meyering <meyering> on Sun 07 Jan 2018 10:50:42 PM UTC.

This is to announce gzip-1.9, a stable release.

There have been 53 commits by 2 people in the 89 weeks since 1.8.
Thanks to Paul Eggert for all of his help.

See the NEWS below for a brief summary.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:

Jim Meyering (28)
Paul Eggert (25)

Jim [on behalf of the gzip maintainers]
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Here is the GNU gzip home page:
    http://gnu.org/s/gzip/

For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gzip.git;a=shortlog;h=v1.9
or run this command from a git-cloned gzip directory:
git shortlog v1.8..v1.9

To summarize the 983 gnulib-related changes, run these commands
from a git-cloned gzip directory:
git checkout v1.9
git submodule summary v1.8

==============================
Here are the compressed sources:
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.9.tar.gz   (1.2MB)
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.9.tar.xz   (748KB)

Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]:
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.9.tar.gz.sig
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.9.tar.xz.sig

Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
https://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

[*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
.sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file
and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this:

gpg --verify gzip-1.9.tar.gz.sig

If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:

gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 7FD9FCCB000BEEEE

and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.

This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.69.193-8974
Automake 1.15a
Gnulib v0.1-1744-g7e7c5c795

==============================
NEWS

* Noteworthy changes in release 1.9 (2018-01-07) [stable]

** Bug fixes

gzip -d -S SUFFIX file.SUFFIX would fail for any upper-case byte in SUFFIX.
E.g., before, this command would fail:
    $ :|gzip > kT && gzip -d -S T kT
    gzip: kT: unknown suffix -- ignored
[bug present since the beginning]

When decompressing data in 'pack' format, gzip no longer mishandles
leading zeros in the end-of-block code. [bug introduced in gzip-1.6]

When converting from system-dependent time_t format to the 32-bit
unsigned MTIME format used in gzip files, if a timestamp does not
fit gzip now substitutes zero instead of the timestamp's low-order
32 bits, as per Internet RFC 1952. When converting from MTIME to
time_t format, if a timestamp does not fit gzip now warns and
substitutes the nearest in-range value instead of crashing or
silently substituting an implementation-defined value (typically,
the timestamp's low-order bits). This affects timestamps before
1970 and after 2106, and timestamps after 2038 on platforms with
32-bit signed time_t. [bug present since the beginning]

Commands implemented via shell scripts are now more consistent about
failure status. For example, 'gunzip --help >/dev/full' now
consistently exits with status 1 (error), instead of with status 2
(warning) on some platforms. [bug present since the beginning]

Support for VMS and Amiga has been removed. It was not working anyway,
and it reportedly caused file name glitches on MS-Windowsish platforms.