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+
+0.9.0
+~~~~~
+First version.
+
+
+0.9.0a
+~~~~~~
+Removed 'ranlib' from Makefile, since most modern Unix-es
+don't need it, or even know about it.
+
+
+0.9.0b
+~~~~~~
+Fixed a problem with error reporting in bzip2.c. This does not effect
+the library in any way. Problem is: versions 0.9.0 and 0.9.0a (of the
+program proper) compress and decompress correctly, but give misleading
+error messages (internal panics) when an I/O error occurs, instead of
+reporting the problem correctly. This shouldn't give any data loss
+(as far as I can see), but is confusing.
+
+Made the inline declarations disappear for non-GCC compilers.
+
+
+0.9.0c
+~~~~~~
+Fixed some problems in the library pertaining to some boundary cases.
+This makes the library behave more correctly in those situations. The
+fixes apply only to features (calls and parameters) not used by
+bzip2.c, so the non-fixedness of them in previous versions has no
+effect on reliability of bzip2.c.
+
+In bzlib.c:
+ * made zero-length BZ_FLUSH work correctly in bzCompress().
+ * fixed bzWrite/bzRead to ignore zero-length requests.
+ * fixed bzread to correctly handle read requests after EOF.
+ * wrong parameter order in call to bzDecompressInit in
+ bzBuffToBuffDecompress. Fixed.
+
+In compress.c:
+ * changed setting of nGroups in sendMTFValues() so as to
+ do a bit better on small files. This _does_ effect
+ bzip2.c.
+
+
+0.9.5a
+~~~~~~
+Major change: add a fallback sorting algorithm (blocksort.c)
+to give reasonable behaviour even for very repetitive inputs.
+Nuked --repetitive-best and --repetitive-fast since they are
+no longer useful.
+
+Minor changes: mostly a whole bunch of small changes/
+bugfixes in the driver (bzip2.c). Changes pertaining to the
+user interface are:
+
+ allow decompression of symlink'd files to stdout
+ decompress/test files even without .bz2 extension
+ give more accurate error messages for I/O errors
+ when compressing/decompressing to stdout, don't catch control-C
+ read flags from BZIP2 and BZIP environment variables
+ decline to break hard links to a file unless forced with -f
+ allow -c flag even with no filenames
+ preserve file ownerships as far as possible
+ make -s -1 give the expected block size (100k)
+ add a flag -q --quiet to suppress nonessential warnings
+ stop decoding flags after --, so files beginning in - can be handled
+ resolved inconsistent naming: bzcat or bz2cat ?
+ bzip2 --help now returns 0
+
+Programming-level changes are:
+
+ fixed syntax error in GET_LL4 for Borland C++ 5.02
+ let bzBuffToBuffDecompress return BZ_DATA_ERROR{_MAGIC}
+ fix overshoot of mode-string end in bzopen_or_bzdopen
+ wrapped bzlib.h in #ifdef __cplusplus ... extern "C" { ... }
+ close file handles under all error conditions
+ added minor mods so it compiles with DJGPP out of the box
+ fixed Makefile so it doesn't give problems with BSD make
+ fix uninitialised memory reads in dlltest.c
+
+0.9.5b
+~~~~~~
+Open stdin/stdout in binary mode for DJGPP.
+
+0.9.5c
+~~~~~~
+Changed BZ_N_OVERSHOOT to be ... + 2 instead of ... + 1. The + 1
+version could cause the sorted order to be wrong in some extremely
+obscure cases. Also changed setting of quadrant in blocksort.c.
+
+0.9.5d
+~~~~~~
+The only functional change is to make bzlibVersion() in the library
+return the correct string. This has no effect whatsoever on the
+functioning of the bzip2 program or library. Added a couple of casts
+so the library compiles without warnings at level 3 in MS Visual
+Studio 6.0. Included a Y2K statement in the file Y2K_INFO. All other
+changes are minor documentation changes.
+
+1.0
+~~~
+Several minor bugfixes and enhancements:
+
+* Large file support. The library uses 64-bit counters to
+ count the volume of data passing through it. bzip2.c
+ is now compiled with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 to get large
+ file support from the C library. -v correctly prints out
+ file sizes greater than 4 gigabytes. All these changes have
+ been made without assuming a 64-bit platform or a C compiler
+ which supports 64-bit ints, so, except for the C library
+ aspect, they are fully portable.
+
+* Decompression robustness. The library/program should be
+ robust to any corruption of compressed data, detecting and
+ handling _all_ corruption, instead of merely relying on
+ the CRCs. What this means is that the program should
+ never crash, given corrupted data, and the library should
+ always return BZ_DATA_ERROR.
+
+* Fixed an obscure race-condition bug only ever observed on
+ Solaris, in which, if you were very unlucky and issued
+ control-C at exactly the wrong time, both input and output
+ files would be deleted.
+
+* Don't run out of file handles on test/decompression when
+ large numbers of files have invalid magic numbers.
+
+* Avoid library namespace pollution. Prefix all exported
+ symbols with BZ2_.
+
+* Minor sorting enhancements from my DCC2000 paper.
+
+* Advance the version number to 1.0, so as to counteract the
+ (false-in-this-case) impression some people have that programs
+ with version numbers less than 1.0 are in someway, experimental,
+ pre-release versions.
+
+* Create an initial Makefile-libbz2_so to build a shared library.
+ Yes, I know I should really use libtool et al ...
+
+* Make the program exit with 2 instead of 0 when decompression
+ fails due to a bad magic number (ie, an invalid bzip2 header).
+ Also exit with 1 (as the manual claims :-) whenever a diagnostic
+ message would have been printed AND the corresponding operation
+ is aborted, for example
+ bzip2: Output file xx already exists.
+ When a diagnostic message is printed but the operation is not
+ aborted, for example
+ bzip2: Can't guess original name for wurble -- using wurble.out
+ then the exit value 0 is returned, unless some other problem is
+ also detected.
+
+ I think it corresponds more closely to what the manual claims now.
+
+
+1.0.1
+~~~~~
+* Modified dlltest.c so it uses the new BZ2_ naming scheme.
+* Modified makefile-msc to fix minor build probs on Win2k.
+* Updated README.COMPILATION.PROBLEMS.
+
+There are no functionality changes or bug fixes relative to version
+1.0.0. This is just a documentation update + a fix for minor Win32
+build problems. For almost everyone, upgrading from 1.0.0 to 1.0.1 is
+utterly pointless. Don't bother.