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| 1 | zlib 1.1.4 is a general purpose data compression library. All the code | 1 | zlib 1.2.0 is a general purpose data compression library. All the code |
| 2 | is thread safe. The data format used by the zlib library | 2 | is thread safe. The data format used by the zlib library |
| 3 | is described by RFCs (Request for Comments) 1950 to 1952 in the files | 3 | is described by RFCs (Request for Comments) 1950 to 1952 in the files |
| 4 | http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1950.txt (zlib format), rfc1951.txt (deflate | 4 | 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 | |||
| 32 | issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal; a copy of the article is available in | 32 | issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal; a copy of the article is available in |
| 33 | http://dogma.net/markn/articles/zlibtool/zlibtool.htm | 33 | http://dogma.net/markn/articles/zlibtool/zlibtool.htm |
| 34 | 34 | ||
| 35 | The changes made in version 1.1.4 are documented in the file ChangeLog. | 35 | The changes made in version 1.2.0 are documented in the file ChangeLog. |
| 36 | The only changes made since 1.1.3 are bug corrections: | ||
| 37 | |||
| 38 | - ZFREE was repeated on same allocation on some error conditions. | ||
| 39 | This creates a security problem described in | ||
| 40 | http://www.zlib.org/advisory-2002-03-11.txt | ||
| 41 | - Returned incorrect error (Z_MEM_ERROR) on some invalid data | ||
| 42 | - Avoid accesses before window for invalid distances with inflate window | ||
| 43 | less than 32K. | ||
| 44 | - force windowBits > 8 to avoid a bug in the encoder for a window size | ||
| 45 | of 256 bytes. (A complete fix will be available in 1.1.5). | ||
| 46 | |||
| 47 | The beta version 1.1.5beta includes many more changes. A new official | ||
| 48 | version 1.1.5 will be released as soon as extensive testing has been | ||
| 49 | completed on it. | ||
| 50 | |||
| 51 | 36 | ||
| 52 | Unsupported third party contributions are provided in directory "contrib". | 37 | Unsupported third party contributions are provided in directory "contrib". |
| 53 | 38 | ||
| @@ -55,7 +40,7 @@ A Java implementation of zlib is available in the Java Development Kit | |||
| 55 | http://www.javasoft.com/products/JDK/1.1/docs/api/Package-java.util.zip.html | 40 | http://www.javasoft.com/products/JDK/1.1/docs/api/Package-java.util.zip.html |
| 56 | See the zlib home page http://www.zlib.org for details. | 41 | See the zlib home page http://www.zlib.org for details. |
| 57 | 42 | ||
| 58 | A Perl interface to zlib written by Paul Marquess <pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk> | 43 | A Perl interface to zlib written by Paul Marquess <pmqs@cpan.org> |
| 59 | is in the CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) sites | 44 | is in the CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) sites |
| 60 | http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Compress/ | 45 | http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Compress/ |
| 61 | 46 | ||
| @@ -116,7 +101,7 @@ Acknowledgments: | |||
| 116 | 101 | ||
| 117 | Copyright notice: | 102 | Copyright notice: |
| 118 | 103 | ||
| 119 | (C) 1995-2002 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler | 104 | (C) 1995-2003 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler |
| 120 | 105 | ||
| 121 | This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied | 106 | This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied |
| 122 | warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages | 107 | warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages |