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Bernhard Wiedemann 2252d5a5ec Accepting request 1064275 from home:dirkmueller:Factory 
* perf: +20% faster huffman decompression for targets that
    can't compile x64 assembly
  * perf: up to +10% faster streaming compression at levels 1-2
  * perf: +4-13% for levels 5-12 by optimizing function
    generation
  * pref: +3-11% compression speed for `arm` target
  * perf: +5-30% faster dictionary compression at levels 1-4
  * perf: +10-20% cold dict compression speed by prefetching
    CDict tables
  * perf: +1% faster compression by removing a branch in
    ZSTD_fast_noDict
  * perf: Small compression ratio improvements in high
    compression mode
  * perf: small speed improvement by better detecting
    `STATIC_BMI2` for `clang`
  * perf: Improved streaming performance when
    `ZSTD_c_stableInBuffer` is set
  * cli: Asynchronous I/O for improved cli speed
  * cli: Change `zstdless` behavior to align with `zless`
  * cli: Keep original file if `-c` or `--stdout` is given
  * cli: Keep original files when result is concatenated into a
    single output with `-o`
  * cli: Preserve Permissions and Ownership of regular files
  * cli: Print zlib/lz4/lzma library versions with `-vv`
  * cli: Print checksum value for single frame files with `-lv`
  * cli: Print `dictID` when present with `-lv`
  * cli: when `stderr` is *not* the console, disable status
    updates, but preserve final summary
  * cli: support `--best` and `--no-name` in `gzip` compatibility
    mode

OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1064275
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Archiving/zstd?expand=0&rev=80
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Fri Feb 10 08:22:04 UTC 2023 - Bernhard Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.com>
- update to 1.5.4:
* perf: +20% faster huffman decompression for targets that
can't compile x64 assembly
* perf: up to +10% faster streaming compression at levels 1-2
* perf: +4-13% for levels 5-12 by optimizing function
generation
* pref: +3-11% compression speed for `arm` target
* perf: +5-30% faster dictionary compression at levels 1-4
* perf: +10-20% cold dict compression speed by prefetching
CDict tables
* perf: +1% faster compression by removing a branch in
ZSTD_fast_noDict
* perf: Small compression ratio improvements in high
compression mode
* perf: small speed improvement by better detecting
`STATIC_BMI2` for `clang`
* perf: Improved streaming performance when
`ZSTD_c_stableInBuffer` is set
* cli: Asynchronous I/O for improved cli speed
* cli: Change `zstdless` behavior to align with `zless`
* cli: Keep original file if `-c` or `--stdout` is given
* cli: Keep original files when result is concatenated into a
single output with `-o`
* cli: Preserve Permissions and Ownership of regular files
* cli: Print zlib/lz4/lzma library versions with `-vv`
* cli: Print checksum value for single frame files with `-lv`
* cli: Print `dictID` when present with `-lv`
* cli: when `stderr` is *not* the console, disable status
updates, but preserve final summary
* cli: support `--best` and `--no-name` in `gzip` compatibility
mode
* cli: support for `posix` high resolution timer
`clock_gettime()`, for improved benchmark accuracy
* cli: improved help/usage (`-h`, `-H`) formatting
* cli: Fix better handling of bogus numeric values
* cli: Fix input consists of multiple files _and_ `stdin`
* cli: Fix tiny files passthrough
* cli: Fix for `-r` on empty directory
* cli: Fix empty string as argument for `--output-dir-*`
* cli: Fix decompression memory usage reported by `-vv --long`
* cli: Fix infinite loop when empty input is passed to trainer
* cli: Fix `--adapt` doesn't work when `--no-progress` is also
set
* api: Support for Block-Level Sequence Producer
* api: Support for in-place decompression
* api: New `ZSTD_CCtx_setCParams()` function, set all
parameters defined in a `ZSTD_compressionParameters`
structure
* api: Streaming decompression detects incorrect header ID
sooner
* api: Window size resizing optimization for edge case
* api: More accurate error codes for busy-loop scenarios
* api: Fix limit overflow in `compressBound` and
`decompressBound` (#3362, #3373, Cyan4973) reported by
@nigeltao
* api: Deprecate several advanced experimental functions:
streaming (#3408, @embg), copy
* bug: Fix corruption that rarely occurs in 32-bit mode with
wlog=25
* bug: Fix for block-splitter
* bug: Fixes for Sequence Compression API
* bug: Fix leaking thread handles on Windows
* bug: Fix timing issues with cmake/meson builds
* build: Allow user to select legacy level for cmake
* build: Enable legacy support by default in cmake
* build: Meson build script improvements
* build: Add aarch64 to supported architectures for zstd_trace
* build: support AIX architecture
* build: Fix `ZSTD_LIB_MINIFY` build macro, which now reduces
static library size by half
* build: Fix Windows issues with Multithreading translation
layer (#3364, #3380, @yoniko) and ARM64 target
* build: Fix `cmake` script
* doc: Updated man page, providing more details for `--train`
mode
* doc: Add decompressor errata document
* misc: Enable Intel CET
* misc: Fix `contrib/` seekable format
* misc: Improve speed of the one-file library generator
- rebase pzstd.1.patch
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Tue Jan 3 09:03:22 UTC 2023 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
- add zcat in zstd-gzip (needed by for example the kernel scripts)
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Sun Jan 30 22:59:24 UTC 2022 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
- enable zlib/gzip compatible backend, as zlib is significantly
(50%-100%) faster than gzip
- add zstd-gzip compatibility subpackage which can be used
as a drop in compatible replacement for gzip
- small spec file cleanups
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Fri Jan 21 04:53:08 UTC 2022 - Bernhard Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.com>
- update to 1.5.2:
* correct a performance regression
* smaller improvements and fixes
* See https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/tag/v1.5.2
- Refresh pzstd.1.patch
- Drop upstream noexecstack.patch
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Wed Jan 5 13:12:22 UTC 2022 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
- add noexecstack.patch (bsc#1194337)
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Mon Jan 3 09:18:49 UTC 2022 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
- fix pkgconfig pc file settings by passing in right prefix during build
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Mon Dec 27 14:59:02 UTC 2021 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
- update to 1.5.1:
* perf: rebalanced compression levels, to better match the intended speed/level curve
* perf: faster huffman decoder, using x64 assembly
* perf: slightly faster high speed modes (strategies fast & dfast)
* perf: improved binary size and faster compilation times
* perf: new row64 mode, used notably in level 12
* perf: faster mid-level compression speed in presence of highly repetitive patterns
* perf: minor compression ratio improvements for small data at high levels
* perf: reduced stack usage (mostly useful for Linux Kernel)
* perf: faster compression speed on incompressible data
* perf: on-demand reduced ZSTD_DCtx state size, using build macro ZSTD_DECODER_INTERNAL_BUFFER, at a small cost of performance
* build: allows hiding static symbols in the dynamic library, using build macro
* build: support for m68k (Motorola 68000's)
* build: improved AIX support
* build: improved meson unofficial build
* cli : custom memory limit when training dictionary (#2925)
* cli : report advanced parameters information when compressing in very verbose mode (``-vv`)
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Fri May 14 20:34:25 UTC 2021 - Ismail Dönmez <ismail@i10z.com>
- Update to version 1.5.0
* https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/tag/v1.5.0
* Improved Middle-Level Compression Speed
* Improved High-Level Compression Ratio
* Faster Decompression Speed
* Dynamic Library Supports Multithreading by Default
- Drop zstd-1.4.9-Avoid-SIGBUS-on-armv6.patch, merged upstream
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Tue May 11 18:28:45 UTC 2021 - Bernhard Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.com>
- Add zstd-1.4.9-Avoid-SIGBUS-on-armv6.patch
to fix crashes when running armv6 userspace on armv8 64-bit kernels
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Thu Mar 4 01:36:14 UTC 2021 - Bernhard Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.com>
- Update to version 1.4.9
* https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/tag/v1.4.9
* >2x Faster Long Distance Mode
* New Experimental Decompression Feature: ZSTD_d_refMultipleDDicts
* bug: Use umask() to Constrain Created File Permissions
* bug: Make Simple Single-Pass Functions Ignore Advanced Parameters
* cli: Fix --output-dir-mirror's Rejection of ..-Containing Paths
* cli: Allow Input From Console When -f/--force is Passed
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Fri Jan 22 14:34:28 UTC 2021 - Bernhard Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.com>
- Add libzstd-devel-32bit (boo#1181272)
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Sat Dec 19 04:01:08 UTC 2020 - Bernhard Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.com>
- Update to version 1.4.8 to fix i586+s390x
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Thu Dec 17 04:04:42 UTC 2020 - Bernhard Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.com>
- Update to version 1.4.7
* Improved --long mode
* --long now automatically enabled for any window size >= 128MB
* Faster decompression of small blocks
* CLI improvements
+ accept parameter through environment variable ZSTD_NBTHREADS
+ new command --output-dir-mirror
+ more accurate warning and error messages
* New experimental features
+ Shared Thread Pool
+ Faster Dictionary Compression
+ New Sequence Ingestion API
* Drop upstream fix-lib-build.patch
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Wed Jul 8 18:33:04 UTC 2020 - Martin Liška <mliska@suse.cz>
- Remove not needed exports in %install section.
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Wed Jul 8 17:47:50 UTC 2020 - Martin Liška <mliska@suse.cz>
- Use %make_build macro.
- Add upstream patch fix-lib-build.patch which fixes lib-mt target.
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Fri May 22 08:05:28 UTC 2020 - Ismail Dönmez <idonmez@suse.com>
- Update to version 1.4.5
* perf: Improved decompression speed (x64 >+5%, ARM >+15%)
* perf: Automatically downsizes ZSTD_DCtx when too large for too
* perf: Improved fast compression speed on aarch64 (#2040, ~+3%)
* perf: Small level 1 compression speed gains (depending on compiler)
* fix: Compression ratio regression on huge files (> 3 GB) using high
levels (--ultra) and multithreading
* api: ZDICT_finalizeDictionary() is promoted to stable
* api: new experimental parameter ZSTD_d_stableOutBuffer
* cli: New --patch-from command, create and apply patches from files
* cli: --filelist= : Provide a list of files to operate upon from a file
* cli: -b can now benchmark multiple files in decompression mode
* cli: New --no-content-size command
* cli: New --show-default-cparams command
* misc: new diagnosis tool, checked_flipped_bits, in contrib/
* misc: Extend largeNbDicts benchmark to compression
* misc: experimental edit-distance match finder in contrib/
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Tue Nov 5 18:39:50 UTC 2019 - Ismail Dönmez <idonmez@suse.com>
- Update to version 1.4.4
* perf: Improved decompression speed, by > 10%
* perf: Better compression speed when re-using a context
* perf: Fix compression ratio when compressing large files with
small dictionary
* perf: zstd reference encoder can generate RLE blocks
* perf: minor generic speed optimization
* api: new ability to extract sequences from the parser for analysis
* api: fixed decoding of magic-less frames
* api: fixed ZSTD_initCStream_advanced() performance with fast modes
* cli: Named pipes support
* cli: short tar's extension support
* cli: command --output-dir-flat=DIE , generates target files into
requested directory
* cli: commands --stream-size=# and --size-hint=#
* cli: command --exclude-compressed
* cli: faster -t test mode
* cli: improved some error messages
* cli: fix rare deadlock condition within dictionary builder
* misc: Improved documentation : ZSTD_CLEVEL, DYNAMIC_BMI2,
ZSTD_CDict, function deprecation, zstd format
* misc: fixed educational decoder : accept larger literals section,
and removed UNALIGNED() macro
- Refresh pzstd.1.patch
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Tue Aug 20 07:25:49 UTC 2019 - Ismail Dönmez <idonmez@suse.com>
- Update to version 1.4.3
* bug: Fix Dictionary Compression Ratio Regression (#1709)
* bug: Fix Buffer Overflow in v0.3 Decompression (#1722)
* build: Add support for IAR C/C++ Compiler for Arm (#1705)
* misc: Add NULL pointer check in util.c (#1706)
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Tue Jul 30 13:43:02 UTC 2019 - Bernhard Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.com>
- Add disk _constraints to fix ppc64le build
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Fri Jul 26 13:06:18 UTC 2019 - Bernhard Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.com>
- Update to version 1.4.2:
* bug: Fix bug in zstd-0.5 decoder by @terrelln (#1696)
* bug: Fix seekable decompression in-memory API by @iburinoc (#1695)
* bug: Close minor memory leak in CLI by @LeeYoung624 (#1701)
* misc: Validate blocks are smaller than size limit by @vivekmig (#1685)
* misc: Restructure source files by @ephiepark (#1679)
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Mon Jul 22 10:58:28 UTC 2019 - Martin Pluskal <mpluskal@suse.com>
- Update to version 1.4.1:
* bug: Fix data corruption in niche use cases by @terrelln (#1659)
* bug: Fuzz legacy modes, fix uncovered bugs by @terrelln (#1593, #1594, #1595)
* bug: Fix out of bounds read by @terrelln (#1590)
* perf: Improve decode speed by ~7% @mgrice (#1668)
* perf: Slightly improved compression ratio of level 3 and 4 (ZSTD_dfast) by @cyan4973 (#1681)
* perf: Slightly faster compression speed when re-using a context by @cyan4973 (#1658)
* perf: Improve compression ratio for small windowLog by @cyan4973 (#1624)
* perf: Faster compression speed in high compression mode for repetitive data by @terrelln (#1635)
* api: Add parameter to generate smaller dictionaries by @tyler-tran (#1656)
* cli: Recognize symlinks when built in C99 mode by @felixhandte (#1640)
* cli: Expose cpu load indicator for each file on -vv mode by @ephiepark (#1631)
* cli: Restrict read permissions on destination files by @chungy (#1644)
* cli: zstdgrep: handle -f flag by @felixhandte (#1618)
* cli: zstdcat: follow symlinks by @vejnar (#1604)
* doc: Remove extra size limit on compressed blocks by @felixhandte (#1689)
* doc: Fix typo by @yk-tanigawa (#1633)
* doc: Improve documentation on streaming buffer sizes by @cyan4973 (#1629)
* build: CMake: support building with LZ4 @leeyoung624 (#1626)
* build: CMake: install zstdless and zstdgrep by @leeyoung624 (#1647)
* build: CMake: respect existing uninstall target by @j301scott (#1619)
* build: Make: skip multithread tests when built without support by @michaelforney (#1620)
* build: Make: Fix examples/ test target by @sjnam (#1603)
* build: Meson: rename options out of deprecated namespace by @lzutao (#1665)
* build: Meson: fix build by @lzutao (#1602)
* build: Visual Studio: don't export symbols in static lib by @scharan (#1650)
* build: Visual Studio: fix linking by @absotively (#1639)
* build: Fix MinGW-W64 build by @myzhang1029 (#1600)
* misc: Expand decodecorpus coverage by @ephiepark (#1664)
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Thu Jul 11 08:17:23 UTC 2019 - Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>
- Add baselibs.conf: libarchive gained zstd support and provides
-32bit libraries. This means, zstd also needs to provide -32bit
libs.
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Fri Jun 14 11:52:32 UTC 2019 - Ismail Dönmez <idonmez@suse.com>
- Remove googletest-devel BuildRequires and pzstd-global-gtest.patch
because we want zstd in ring0 (due to rpm's zstd payload support)
Since googletest is only used in build time (it's for testing after
all), this should be fine.
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Sun Jun 2 10:11:25 UTC 2019 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
- Update description with 1.4.0 statistics.
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Fri Apr 26 11:10:57 UTC 2019 - Martin Liška <mliska@suse.cz>
- Use FAT LTO objects in order to provide proper static library (boo#1133297).
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Wed Apr 17 11:30:30 UTC 2019 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
- Update to new upstream release 1.4.0
* perf: level 1 compression speed was improved by ~6–8%
* cli: added --[no-]compress-literals flag to enable or disable
literal compression
- Reword "real-time" in description by some actual statistics,
because 603MB/s (lowest zstd level) is not "real-time" for
quite some applications.
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Sat Jan 5 13:57:58 UTC 2019 - astieger@suse.com
- zstd 1.3.8:
* better decompression speed on large files (+7%) and cold
dictionaries (+15%)
* slightly better compression ratio at high compression modes
* new --rsyncable mode
* support decompression of empty frames into NULL (used to be an
error)
* support ZSTD_CLEVEL environment variable
* --no-progress flag, preserving final summary
* various CLI fixes
* fix race condition in one-pass compression functions that could
allow out of bounds write (CVE-2019-11922, boo#1142941)
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Wed Oct 24 08:29:38 UTC 2018 - astieger@suse.com
- zstd 1.3.7:
* fix ratio for dictionary compression at levels 9 and 10
* add man pages for zstdless and zstdgrep
- includes changes from zstd 1.3.6:
* faster dictionary builder, also the new default for --train
* previous (slower, slightly higher quality) dictionary builder
to be selected via --train-cover
* Faster dictionary decompression and compression under memory
limits with many dictionaries used simultaneously
* New command --adapt for compressed network piping of data
adjusted to the perceived network conditions
- drop zstd-1.3.5-fix-list-stdin.patch, upstream
- switch from git tag snaphshot to bootstrapped tarball
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Tue Jul 3 08:13:06 UTC 2018 - astieger@suse.com
- update to 1.3.5:
* much faster dictionary compression
* small quality improvement for dictionary generation
* slightly improved performance at high compression levels
* automatic memory release for long duration contexts
* fix overlapLog can be manually set
* fix decoding invalid lz4 frames
* fix performance degradation for dictionary compression when
using advanced API
- add zstd-1.3.5-fix-list-stdin.patch to avoid test issues with
--list when stdin is not a tty, patch from upstream
- disable failing pzstd tests
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Thu Jun 14 11:56:45 UTC 2018 - sweet_f_a@gmx.de
- fix pzstd tests
- add pzstd-global-gtest.patch
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Thu Jun 14 08:11:32 UTC 2018 - sweet_f_a@gmx.de
- enable pzstd (parallel zstd)
- add pzstd.1.patch, taken from Fedora package (git 21908004)
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Thu May 24 14:36:12 CEST 2018 - kukuk@suse.de
- Use %license instead of %doc [bsc#1082318]
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Wed Mar 28 15:04:25 UTC 2018 - idonmez@suse.com
- Update to 1.3.4
* perf: faster speed (especially decoding speed) on recent cpus
(haswell+)
* perf: much better performance associating --long with
multi-threading
* perf: better compression at levels 13-15
* cli : asynchronous compression by default, for faster
experience (use --single-thread for former behavior)
* cli : smoother status report in multi-threading mode
* cli : added command --fast=#, for faster compression modes
* cli : fix crash when not overwriting existing files
* api : `nbThreads` becomes `nbWorkers` : 1 triggers
asynchronous mode
* api : compression levels can be negative, for even more speed
* api : ZSTD_getFrameProgression() : get precise progress
status of ZSTDMT anytime
* api : ZSTDMT can accept new compression parameters during
compression
* api : implemented all advanced dictionary decompression prototypes
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Tue Feb 6 00:00:00 CET 2018 - dsterba@suse.cz
- build the static library (depency for btrfsprogs-static)
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Thu Dec 21 11:02:54 UTC 2017 - idonmez@suse.com
- Update to 1.3.3
* perf: improved zstd_opt strategy (levels 16-19)
* fix : bug #944 : multithreading with shared ditionary and
large data, reported by @gsliepen
* cli : fix : content size written in header by default
* cli : fix : improved LZ4 format support, by @felixhandte
* cli : new : hidden command -b -S, to benchmark multiple files
and generate one result per file
* api : change : when setting pledgedSrcSize, use
ZSTD_CONTENTSIZE_UNKNOWN macro value to mean "unknown"
* api : fix : support large skippable frames, by @terrelln
* api : fix : re-using context could result in suboptimal
block size in some corner case scenarios
* api : fix : streaming interface was adding a useless
3-bytes null block to small frames
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Sun Oct 29 15:52:37 UTC 2017 - astieger@suse.com
- update to 1.3.2:
* new long range mode, using --long command
* new ability to generate and decode magicless frames
* changed maximum nb of threads reduced to 200, to avoid address
space exhaustion in 32-bits mode
* fix multi-threading compression works with custom allocators
* fix ZSTD_sizeof_CStream() was over-evaluating memory usage
* fix a rare compression bug when compression generates very large
distances and bunch of other conditions
(only possible at --ultra -22)
* fix 32-bits build can now decode large offsets (levels 21+)
* cli added LZ4 frame support by default
* cli improved --list output
* cli now can split input file for dictionary training, using
command -B#
* cli new clean operation artefact on Ctrl-C interruption
* do not change /dev/null permissions when using command -t with
root access
* cli fix write file size in header in multiple-files mode
* api: added macro ZSTD_COMPRESSBOUND() for static allocation
* api: new advanced decompression API
* api: sizeof_CCtx() used to over-estimate
* build: fix : no-multithread variant compiles without pool.c
dependency
* build: better compatibility with reproducible builds
* license: changed /examples license to BSD + GPLv2
* license: fix a few header files to reflect new license
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Mon Aug 21 13:34:50 UTC 2017 - idonmez@suse.com
- Update to v1.3.1
* License is now BSD + GPL-2.0
* See https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases for the
complete changelog.
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Mon Mar 27 14:04:29 UTC 2017 - idonmez@suse.com
- Update to v1.1.4
See https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases for details.
- Drop zstd-lib-no-rebuild.patch
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Wed Dec 7 09:25:33 UTC 2016 - idonmez@suse.com
- Fix group name for the shared library
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Sun Dec 4 12:25:27 UTC 2016 - idonmez@suse.com
- Update to version 1.1.1
* New : cli commands -M#, --memory=, --memlimit=,
--memlimit-decompress= to limit allowed memory consumption
during decompression
* Improved : slightly better compression ratio at --ultra levels
* Improved : better memory usage when using streaming
compression API
* Added : API : ZSTD_initCStream_usingCDict(),
ZSTD_initDStream_usingDDict() (experimental section)
* Changed : zstd_errors.h is now installed within /include
(and replaces errors_public.h)
* Fixed : several sanitizer warnings
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Sun Oct 16 17:55:02 UTC 2016 - jengelh@inai.de
- Update descriptions
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Wed Oct 5 09:03:14 UTC 2016 - bwiedemann@suse.com
- initial package version 1.1.0
based on https://pbrady.fedorapeople.org/zstd.spec
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