Opened 9 days ago

Closed 5 days ago

#5699 closed enhancement (fixed)

gzip-1.14

Reported by: Bruce Dubbs Owned by: lfs-book
Priority: normal Milestone: 12.4
Component: Book Version: git
Severity: normal Keywords:
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Description

New minor version.

Change History (2)

comment:1 by Bruce Dubbs, 6 days ago

Noteworthy changes in release 1.14 (2025-04-09) [stable]

  • Bug fixes

'gzip -d' no longer omits the last partial output buffer when the input ends unexpectedly on an IBM Z platform. [bug introduced in gzip-1.11]

'gzip -l' no longer misreports lengths of multimember inputs. [bug introduced in gzip-1.12]

'gzip -S' now rejects suffixes containing '/'. [bug present since the beginning]

Changes in behavior

The GZIP environment variable is now silently ignored except for the options -1 (--fast) through -9 (--best), --rsyncable, and --synchronous. This brings gzip into line with more-cautious compressors like zstd that limit environment variables' effect to relatively innocuous performance issues. You can continue to use scripts to specify whatever gzip options you like.

'zmore' is no longer installed on platforms lacking 'more'.

Performance improvements

gzip now decompresses significantly faster by computing CRCs via a slice by 8 algorithm, and faster yet on x86-64 platforms that support pclmul instructions.

comment:2 by Bruce Dubbs, 5 days ago

Resolution: → fixed
Status: new → closed

Fixed at commit d470cdb21c.

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