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| author | Mark Adler <madler@alumni.caltech.edu> | 2011-09-09 23:21:47 -0700 |
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| committer | Mark Adler <madler@alumni.caltech.edu> | 2011-09-09 23:21:47 -0700 |
| commit | 7c2a874e50b871d04fbd19501f7b42cff55e5abc (patch) | |
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zlib 1.2.0
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -zlib 1.1.4 is a general purpose data compression library. All the code +zlib 1.2.0 is a general purpose data compression library. All the code is thread safe. The data format used by the zlib library is described by RFCs (Request for Comments) 1950 to 1952 in the files http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1950.txt (zlib format), rfc1951.txt (deflate @@ -32,22 +32,7 @@ Mark Nelson <markn@ieee.org> wrote an article about zlib for the Jan. 1997 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal; a copy of the article is available in http://dogma.net/markn/articles/zlibtool/zlibtool.htm -The changes made in version 1.1.4 are documented in the file ChangeLog. -The only changes made since 1.1.3 are bug corrections: - -- ZFREE was repeated on same allocation on some error conditions. - This creates a security problem described in - http://www.zlib.org/advisory-2002-03-11.txt -- Returned incorrect error (Z_MEM_ERROR) on some invalid data -- Avoid accesses before window for invalid distances with inflate window - less than 32K. -- force windowBits > 8 to avoid a bug in the encoder for a window size - of 256 bytes. (A complete fix will be available in 1.1.5). - -The beta version 1.1.5beta includes many more changes. A new official -version 1.1.5 will be released as soon as extensive testing has been -completed on it. - +The changes made in version 1.2.0 are documented in the file ChangeLog. Unsupported third party contributions are provided in directory "contrib". @@ -55,7 +40,7 @@ A Java implementation of zlib is available in the Java Development Kit http://www.javasoft.com/products/JDK/1.1/docs/api/Package-java.util.zip.html See the zlib home page http://www.zlib.org for details. -A Perl interface to zlib written by Paul Marquess <pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk> +A Perl interface to zlib written by Paul Marquess <pmqs@cpan.org> is in the CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) sites http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Compress/ @@ -116,7 +101,7 @@ Acknowledgments: Copyright notice: - (C) 1995-2002 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler + (C) 1995-2003 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages |