[meego-commits] 5034: Changes to Trunk:Testing/zlib

[Arjan van de Ven]

On 6/30/2010 8:03 AM, Anas Nashif wrote:
> for the record:
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> Version 1.2.5 fixes bugs in gzseek() and gzeof() that were present in version 1.2.4 (March 2010). All users are encouraged to upgrade immediately.
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> Version 1.2.4 has many changes over 1.2.3, including these improvements:
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>      * Fixed bugs in adler32_combine(), compressBound(), and deflateBound()
>      * Wholesale replacement of gz* functions with faster versions
>      * As part of that, added gzbuffer(), gzoffset(), gzclose_r(), and gzclose_w() functions
>      * Faster Z_HUFFMAN_ONLY and Z_RLE compression for images and other specialized compression
>      * Added flush options Z_BLOCK to deflate() and Z_TREES to inflate() for finer control
>      * Added inflateReset2() and inflateMark() functions, the latter to aid in random access applications
>      * Added LFS (Large File Summit) support for 64-bit file offsets and many other portability improvements
>      * Updated examples in examples/ and updated third-party contributions in contrib/
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ok sounds like useful changes that make it worth spending time on the update
(if it was just "added support for solaris 2.8" kind of stuff .. 
different story)