lziprecover/ChangeLog

2015-06-30  Antonio Diaz Diaz  <antonio@gnu.org>

	* Version 1.18-pre1 released.
	* repair.cc (repair_file): Detect gross damage before repairing.
	* repair.cc: Try bytes at offsets 7 and 8 first.
	* Added new option '-x, --show-packets'.

2015-05-28  Antonio Diaz Diaz  <antonio@gnu.org>

	* Version 1.17 released.
	* New block selection algorithm makes merge up to 100 times faster.
	* repair.cc: Repair time has been reduced by 15%.
	* Added new option '-y, --debug-delay'.
	* Added new option '-z, --debug-repair'.
	* Makefile.in: Added new targets 'install*-compress'.
	* testsuite/unzcrash.cc: Moved to top directory.
	* lziprecover.texi: Added chapter 'File names'.

2014-08-29  Antonio Diaz Diaz  <antonio@gnu.org>

	* Version 1.16 released.
	* New class LZ_mtester makes repair up to 10 times faster.
	* main.cc (close_and_set_permissions): Behave like 'cp -p'.
	* lziprecover.texinfo: Renamed to lziprecover.texi.
	* License changed to GPL version 2 or later.

2013-09-14  Antonio Diaz Diaz  <antonio@gnu.org>

	* Version 1.15 released.
	* repair.cc: Repair multi-member files with up to one byte error
	  per member.
	* merge.cc: Merge multi-member files.
	* main.cc (show_header): Do not show header version.
	* lziprecover.texinfo: Added chapters 'Repairing files',
	  'Merging files' and 'Unzcrash'.

2013-05-31  Antonio Diaz Diaz  <antonio@gnu.org>

	* Version 1.14 released.
	* Added new option '-i, --ignore-errors'.
	* Option '-l, --list' now accepts more than one file.
	* Decompression time has been reduced by 12%.
	* split.cc: Use as few digits as possible in file names.
	* split.cc: In verbose mode show names of files being created.
	* main.cc (show_header): Show header version if verbosity >= 4.
	* configure: Options now accept a separate argument.
	* Makefile.in: Added new target 'install-as-lzip'.
	* Makefile.in: Added new target 'install-bin'.
	* main.cc: Use 'setmode' instead of '_setmode' on Windows and OS/2.

2012-02-24  Antonio Diaz Diaz  <ant_diaz@teleline.es>

	* Version 1.13 released.
	* Lziprecover is now distributed in its own package. Until
	  version 1.12 it was included in the lzip package. Previous
	  entries in this file are taken from there.
	* lziprecover.cc: Renamed to main.cc.
	* New files merge.cc, repair.cc, split.cc, and range_dec.cc.
	* main.cc: Added decompressor options (-c, -d, -k, -t) so that
	  a external decompressor is not needed for recovery nor for
	  "make check".
	* Added new option '-D, --range-decompress' which extracts a
	  range of bytes decompressing only the members containing the
	  desired data.
	* Added new option '-l, --list' which prints correct total file
	  sizes and ratios even for multi-member files.
	* merge.cc repair.cc: Remove output file if recovery fails.
	* Changed quote characters in messages as advised by GNU Standards.
	* split.cc: Use Boyer-Moore algorithm to search for headers.
	* configure: 'datadir' renamed to 'datarootdir'.

2011-04-30  Antonio Diaz Diaz  <ant_diaz@teleline.es>

	* Version 1.12 released.
	* lziprecover.cc: If '-v' is not specified show errors only.
	* testsuite/unzcrash.cc: Use Arg_parser.
	* testsuite/unzcrash.cc: Added new option '-b, --bits'.
	* testsuite/unzcrash.cc: Added new option '-p, --position'.
	* testsuite/unzcrash.cc: Added new option '-s, --size'.

2010-09-16  Antonio Diaz Diaz  <ant_diaz@teleline.es>

	* Version 1.11 released.
	* lziprecover.cc: Added new option '-m, --merge' which tries to
	  produce a correct file merging the good parts of two or more
	  damaged copies.
	* lziprecover.cc: Added new option '-R, --repair' for repairing
	  a 1-byte error in single-member files.
	* decoder.cc (decode_member): Detect file errors earlier to
	  improve efficiency of lziprecover's new repair capability.
	  This change also prevents (harmless) access to uninitialized
	  memory when decompressing a corrupt file.
	* lziprecover.cc: Added new option '-f, --force'.
	* lziprecover.cc: Added new option '-o, --output'.
	* lziprecover.cc: Added new option '-s, --split' to select the
	  until now only operation of splitting multi-member files.
	* lziprecover.cc: If no operation is specified, warn the user
	  and do nothing.

2009-06-22  Antonio Diaz Diaz  <ant_diaz@teleline.es>

	* Version 1.6 released.
	* Added man page for lziprecover.
	* testsuite/check.sh: Test lziprecover.

2009-01-24  Antonio Diaz Diaz  <ant_diaz@teleline.es>

	* Version 1.4 released.
	* Added 'lziprecover', a member recoverer program.
	* testsuite/unzcrash.cc: Test all 1-byte errors.


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