Performing substitutions during post-patch breaks tools such as mkpatches,
making it very difficult to regenerate correct patches after making changes,
and often leading to substituted string replacements being committed.
--------------------------------------------
Version 16.02
=============
- From Windows version of 7-Zip 16.02:
- The BUG in 16.00 - 16.01 was fixed: 7-Zip mistakenly reported the warning
"There are some data after the end of the payload data" for split archives.
Version 16.01 (never published)
=============
- From Windows version of 7-Zip 16.01:
- The bugs in SWM (WIM), EXE (PE) and CHM code were fixed.
- there are some internal changes in source code for better compatibility with VS2015 C++ compiler.
Version 16.00 (never published)
=============
- better support for OpenBsd (CPP/Windows/System.cpp), thanks Josh (https://sourceforge.net/p/p7zip/discussion/383043/thread/ee32dcd8/?limit=25#c322)
- From Windows version of 7-Zip 16.00:
- 7-Zip now can extract multivolume ZIP archives (z01, z02, ... , zip).
- Some fixed bugs:
- bzip2 decoder -mmt2 reported E_FAIL (for k_My_HRESULT_WritingWasCut case), if we extract partial file.
- 7z solid update (hang in break)
- sha1 worked incorrectly for call after call with ((size & 3) != 0)
- 7z update bcj bugs were fixed.
- split (aaa.001) fixed
- iso loop fix
- rar4 multivol -stdin kpidSize
- drag and drop 1<2.txt
- memory access violation fix
* Convert to use option framework
Changelog:
Version 15.14
=============
- patch #26 : Patch to correctly set permissions for docs that permits non-sudo deletion of docs
- patch #27 : Update Mac OS X LLVM 64bits Makefile
- patch #28 : p7zip version 15.09 fails to build on s390
- patch #29 : please fix incorrect fsf address
- patch #31 : p7zip 15.09 fails to build on mips
- bug : "7za a -p ..." was fixed
- bug #172 : Impossible to create archive with some unicode symbols in filename
- From Windows version of 7-Zip 15.13:
- The BUG in 15.13 in CAB code was fixed.
- From Windows version of 7-Zip 15.12:
- Some bugs were fixed.
- New localization: Yoruba.
- test_emul becomes test_lib (tests libraries)
- cross building added :
makefile.linux_cross_mipsel
- support for android 5+ (-fPIE -pie)
Version 15.12 (never published)
=============
- From Windows version of 7-Zip 15.12 :
- "There are no errors" string after "Test" operation inside archive.
- The bugs in LZMA SDK were fixed (but these bugs are not related directly to 7-Zip's code).
- From Windows version of 7-Zip 15.11 :
- Some bugs were fixed.
- 7-Zip 15.10 showed incorrect error message about missing volume for multivolume RAR archives.
- ..../LZHAM added
Version 15.10 beta
==================
- bug #147 Directory traversal through symlinks
Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/774660
Delay creation of symlinks to prevent arbitrary file writes (CVE-2015-1038)
Fix given by Ben Hutchings
- From Windows version of 7-zip 15.10 beta:
- The BUG in 9.21 - 15.09 was fixed:
7-Zip could ignore some parameters, specified for archive creation operation
for gzip and bzip2 formats in "Add to Archive" window and in command line
version (-m switch).
- Some bugs were fixed.
- extracting from solid wim archives worked incorrectly in some cases,
- Also there are some minor changes.
- 7-Zip can show the name of missing volume for multivolume RAR and VMDK archives.
- Some internal changes with 7-Zip Benchmark.
- 7-Zip now can extract ext2 and multivolume VMDK images.
- 7-Zip now can extract ext3 and ext4 (Linux file system) images.
- support of cygwin 64 bits
- support of cygwin 64 bits with asm
- cygwin : fix in GetRamSize()
- cross building added :
makefile.linux_cross_aarch64
makefile.linux_cross_arm
makefile.linux_cross_ppc
makefile.linux_cross_ppc64
makefile.linux_cross_ppc64le
makefile.linux_cross_s390x (7za and 7zr pass tests, 7z does not pass tests)
- 7-Zip now can extract GPT images and single file QCOW2, VMDK, VDI images.
- 7-Zip now can extract solid WIM archives with LZMS compression.
- 7-Zip now can extract RAR5 archives.
- 7-Zip now doesn't sort files by type while adding to solid 7z archive.
new -mqs switch to sort files by type while adding to solid 7z archive.
- 7-Zip now can create 7z, xz and zip archives with 1536 MB dictionary for LZMA/LZMA2.
- 7-Zip now can extract .zipx (WinZip) archives that use xz compression.
- bug 145 "p7zip crashes while moving memory in MoveItems
Version 9.38
- patch 23 fixes "7z with unicode file name with surrogate pair is not handled well in Linux"
- bug 139 "password from commanline is visible in processes list"
Now the characters of the password are replaced with *.
- From Windows version of 7-zip
- bug138 If you extract the password with # program crashes
7z now supports long password in RAR 3 and 4.
* 7-Zip now supports LZMA2 compression method.
* 7-Zip now can update solid .7z archives.
* 7-Zip now supports XZ archives.
* 7-Zip now supports PPMd compression in ZIP archives.
* 7-Zip now can unpack NTFS, FAT, VHD, MBR, APM, SquashFS, CramFS, MSLZ
archives.
* 7-Zip now can unpack GZip, BZip2, LZMA, XZ and TAR archives from stdin.
* 7-Zip now can unpack some TAR and ISO archives with incorrect headers.
* 7-Zip now supports files that are larger than 8 GB in TAR archives.
* NSIS and WIM support was improved.
* Partial parsing for EXE resources, SWF and FLV.
* The support for archives in installers was improved.
* 7-Zip now can stores NTFS file timestamps to ZIP archives.
* Speed optimizations in PPMd codec.
* Speed optimizations in CRC calculation code for Intel's Atom CPUs.
* New -scrc switch to calculate total CRC-32 during extracting / testing.
* 7-Zip File Manager now doesn't use temp files to open nested archives stored
without compression.
* Disk fragmentation problem for ZIP archives created by 7-Zip was fixed.
* Some bugs were fixed.
* New localizations: Hindi, Gujarati, Sanskrit, Tatar, Uyghur, Kazakh.
* Not in p7zip : Speed optimizations in AES code for Intel's 32nm CPUs.
- From Windows version of 7-zip 9.12
- Some bugs were fixed.
- "Crash in Rar decoder on a corrupted file" fixed
- "Dereferencing a zero pointer in cab handler" fixed
- "Division by zero in cab decoder" fixed
Changes 9.12:
- From Windows version of 7-zip 9.12
- ZIP / PPMd compression ratio was improved in Maximum and Ultra modes.
- The BUG in 7-Zip 9.* beta was fixed: LZMA2 codec didn't work,
if more than 10 threads were used (or more than 20 threads in some modes).
- makefile.openbsd is now compatible with OpenBSD ports tree.
- cmake projects added.
- 7zFM and 7zG can be built on MacOSX but these ports are in very alpha stage.
make app to build p7zip.app (p7zip for MacOSX)
Changes 9.11:
- From Windows version of 7-zip 9.11
- 7-Zip now supports PPMd compression in .ZIP archives.
- Speed optimizations in PPMd codec.
- The support for archives in installers was improved.
- Some bugs were fixed.
* 7-Zip now can update solid .7z archives.
* 7-Zip now supports LZMA2 compression method.
* 7-Zip now supports XZ archives.
* 7-Zip now can unpack NTFS, FAT, VHD and MBR archives.
* 7-Zip now can unpack GZip, BZip2, LZMA, XZ and TAR archives from stdin.
* New -scrc switch to calculate total CRC-32 during extracting / testing.
* Some bugs were fixed.
* From Windows version of 7-zip 4.62 to 4.65
* The bug in 7-Zip 4.63 was fixed: 7-Zip could not decrypt .ZIP archives
encrypted with WinZip-AES method.
* 7-Zip now can unpack ZIP archives encrypted with PKWARE-AES.
* Some bugs were fixed.
* Fixed : the RAM size was reported incorrectly on MacOSX 64bits
* Fixed : makefile.linux_amd64_asm_icc
* DJGPP :
makefile.djgpp becomes makefile.djgpp_old
makefile.djgpp_watt added (thank to Rugxulo)
* you can now compile 7za with a cmake project (see README)
the cmake project can build a codeblock project ;)
Remark : the kdevelop3 or Eclipse/CDT4 project don't work :(
- From Windows version of 7-zip 4.61 :
- 7-Zip now supports LZMA compression for .ZIP archives.
- Some bugs were fixed.
- Fix: Ask for password twice when creating encrypted archive
- 7zG added (read GUI/readme.txt)
Changes 4.60:
- From Windows version of 7-zip 4.60 :
- Some bugs were fixed
- p7zip didn't use the BCJ /BCJ2 filters for executables (:
- makefile.linux_amd64_asm_icc added
Changes 4.59:
- From Windows version of 7-zip 4.59 :
- 7-Zip now can unpack UDF, XAR and DMG/HFS archives.
- It's allowed to use -t switch for "list" and "extract" commands.
- Some bugs were fixed.
- Some speed optimizations.
- 7-Zip now can unpack .lzma archives.
- Unicode (UTF-8) support for filenames in .ZIP archives.
- Now it's possible to store file creation time in 7z and ZIP archives.
- 7-Zip now can unpack multivolume RAR archives created with
"old style volume names" scheme and names *.001, *.002, ...
- Some bugs were fixed.
- From Windows version of 7-zip 4.57:
- Fixed BUG in command line version: -up3 switch could work incorrectly.
- Minor improvement in ZIP compression.
Changes 4.56:
- From Windows version of 7-zip 4.56:
- Some bugs were fixed
- On HPUX : fixed "Can't load '../bin/7z.dll'"
- bug: p7zip used to build a zip file with FAT header instead of Unix header
- On AIX : fixed "HugeFiles=off"
- bug 1800180: LZMAlone compilation error in COutFile
- Patch 1796569: Fix FreeBSD FTBFS
- Patch 1796575: fix man1/7za.1 man1/7zr.1 man1/7z.1
- From Windows version of 7-zip 4.55 :
- Some bugs were fixed
- fixed 1789154: 7z use default or -m0=LZMA runtime error under HP-UX IA11.23
- support added for HPUX on Itanium.
Changes 4.54:
- From Windows version of 7-zip 4.54:
- Decompression speed was increased
- From Windows version of 7-zip 4.53 :
- The bug in 7-Zip 4.48 - 4.52 beta was fixed:
7-Zip could create .ZIP archives with broken files.
- Some bugs were fixed.
Changes 4.52:
- From Windows version of 7-zip 4.52 :
- 7z now can unpack Compound files (msi, doc, ...).
- Some bugs were fixed (CAB decompressing)
- lzma (CPP/7zip/Compress/LZMA_Alone) is now multi-threaded.
- fixed 632912: Extracting large directories takes quadratic time
(this bug was not fully fixed ...)
- fixed: "7za x -odirectory archive.7z" now works even if "directory" is a symbolic link.
- makefile.linux_s390x added : support for Linux on IBM z/Series Mainframe with s390x CPU
- fixed crashes on BeOs with the flag "@filename"
- cleanup in the makefile : defining LITTLE_ENDIAN or BIG_ENDIAN is not needed anymore
- ppmd.exe added (CPP/7zip/Compress/PPMD_Alone)
- From Windows version of 7-zip 4.50 :
- Bug was fixed: 7-Zip 4.50 beta could not open some .7z archives.
- fix built of test_emul
Changes 4.50:
- From Windows version of 7-zip 4.50 :
- New switch for command line version:
-ssc[-] enables/disables case-sensitive mode for file names.
- Speed optimizations for AES encryption.
- Some bugs were fixed.
- contrib/gzip-like_CLI_wrapper_for_7z/p7zip now supports commands like :
- From Windows version of 7-zip 4.49 :
- 7-Zip (7z) now can unpack WIM archives
- fixed : On Sparc Solaris, core dump during "7z a -sfx exe.x dir" with p7zip compiled with makefile.solaris_sparc_CC_32
- some code cleanup
- On HPUX, p7zip can get the number of CPU and the size of the memory.
- From Windows version of 7-zip 4.48:
- Encryption strength for .7z format was increased.
Now it uses random initialization vectors.
- Some bugs were fixed.
- fixed 1729236: Makefile infrastructure not safe for parallel compilation
(if your make command understands -C and -j4, copy makefile.parallel_jobs over makefile)
- Now the executables are not built with the PIC (position-independent code) flag.
7z.so are still built with the PIC flag.
7za and 7zr are now faster than 7z with 7z.so.
7za, 7zr and 7r are now smaller.
- contrib/gzip-like_CLI_wrapper_for_7z/p7zip now supports spaces in filename
and use 7za instead of 7z.
- contrib/qnx630sp3 added to support QNX built
- From Windows version of 7-zip 4.47:
- Bugs of 7-Zip 4.46 beta were fixed: BZip2 could work incorrectly
Changes 4.46:
- From Windows version of 7-zip 4.46:
- New fast compression mode for Deflate method in Zip and GZip.
- Some bugs were fixed.
- LZMA Benchmark:
- cygwin: RAM size detection
- computation of the CPU %
- fixed 1721827: install.sh now copies 7z.so
- Client7z now uses 7z.so instead of 7za.so
- new target: cygwin with asm
- LZMA SDK added in the source package (CPP/7zip/Compress/LZMA_Alone)
- fixed 1716987: 7zr removed from 4.45 binary distribution
- fixed 1706002: make and install.sh use the same variables in the same order.
- Default dictionary size was increased: Normal: 16 MB, Max: 32 MB.
- Speed optimizations.
- Benchmark was improved (new "b" command in command line version).
- The number of DLL files was reduced.
- switch -mhcf=off is not supported now.
- If -t{Type} switch is not specified, 7-Zip now uses extension of archive to
detect the type of archive.
- Some bugs were fixed (BZip2 in multithread)
- x86 or x86_64 : ASM version of crc32 available
- better detection of executable file (scripts do not need BCJ/BCJ2 filter)
- default permissions are now :
- for a file : -rw-------
- for a directory : drwx------
- on MacOSX, locale is always utf8
- makefile.qnx_static and makefile.qnx_shared added
- From Windows version of 7-zip 4.43 :
- 7za : Cab support
- Speed optimizations for LZMA, Deflate, BZip2 and unRAR.
- fix : now, updating a crypted header archive keeps the crypted header
- fixes in the help displayed by 7za/7z/7zr.
- code cleanup
- remove of mySetModuleFileNameA (and its memory leak), GetModuleFileName ...
- fixed : p7zip for DJGPP can now update an archive (thanks stranix)
- fixed : in the plugins of 7z, the "Utf16" state was always off.
- fixed : support for directory names that are not encoded with the current locale.
(ex : directory name is in "iso 8859-15" whereas the locale is "utf8")
- patch 1581907 : fix for FreeBSD in contrib/gzip-like_CLI_wrapper_for_7z/p7zip
- fixed : p7zip can now restore a symbolic link from a Zip archive (archive.zip made with "zip -y")
remark/todo : p7zip stores, in a zip archive, the linked file instead of the symbolic link
- fixed 1630452 : small fix in the output of the script install.sh
- fixed 632912 : Extracting large directories takes quadratic time
- preliminary support of HP-UX : remove of RTLD_GROUP for dlopen in DLL.cpp
makefile.hpux-acc should be able to build 7za for HP-UX (thanks to furiol)
- Client7z added.
- From Windows version of 7-zip 4.43 :
- 7-Zip now can use multi-threading mode for compressing to .ZIP archives.
- ZIP format supporting was improved.
- 7-Zip now supports WinZip-compatible AES-256 encryption for .ZIP archives.
- 7-Zip now uses order list (list of extensions) for files sorting for compressing
to .7z archives. It can slightly increase compression ratio in some cases.
- 7-Zip now restores modification time of folders during .7z archives extracting.
- Some bugs were fixed.
- fixed : the user can now see the percentage indicator.
- support added for Tru64 / OSF 5.1 (makefile.tru64)
- small fix in install.sh (7zr install)
- fix "make all" now build 7za and 7zCon.sfx following the README.
Version 4.42
============
- From Windows version of 7-zip 4.42 :
- Some bugs were fixed
- patch #1473746 - gzip-like CLI wrapper (for 7z)
see the directory "contrib/gzip-like_CLI_wrapper_for_7z".
- patch #471478 - Support for OPTFLAGS
This patch allows to use system specific opt flags.
example : make OPTFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp"
Version 4.41
============
- From Windows version of 7-zip 4.41 :
- Some bugs were fixed
Version 4.40
============
- From Windows version of 7-zip 4.40 :
- 7-Zip now can unpack some installers created by NSIS
- Some bugs were fixed
- format LZH/LHA : fixed directory display during listing or extracting
(a directory does not end with the path separator)
- patch #1470817 - Handle 7zr in install.sh
- code cleanup
- From Windows version of 7-zip 4.39 :
- Bug in versions 4.33:4.38 was fixed:
7-Zip could not correctly compress files larger than 2 GB
to 7z archive in fast/fastest modes (HC4 match finder).
Changes 4.38:
- From Windows version of 7-zip 4.38 :
- Some bugs were fixed.
- new manpage : 7zr.1
- update manpages : 7z.1 and 7za.1
- new switch : --help
- DosDateTimeToFileTime fixed (rar format)
- contrib/VirtualFileSystemForMidnightCommander/u7z updated
- From Windows version of 7-zip 4.37 :
- Some bugs were fixed.
- fix build for Solaris sparc with CC instead of g++.
- fix build for Solaris 9 x86
- fix build for Solaris 10 x86
- fix build for OpenBSD
- p7zip can now be build with djgpp.
- new target : 7zr (lite version of 7za)
- new machine : IBM AIX
Changes 4.36:
- From Windows version of 7-zip 4.36 :
- 7-zip now can unpack ISO archives
- GCC 4.X : add C++ visibility support to reduce the size of the *.so
(see makefile.linux_x86_ppc_alpha__gcc_4.X)
- cygwin now supports '-o/tmp'
Changes 4.35:
- From Windows version of 7-zip 4.35 :
- New switch : -slt ("l" (list) command with -slt shows technical information for archive).
- Some bugs were fixed.
- From Windows version of 7-zip 4.34 :
- BZip2 compressing / decompressing now can work in multi-threading mode
- Multi-threading mode now is default for multi-processor systems
- From Windows version of 7-zip 4.33:
- Compressing speed and Memory requirements were increased.
Default dictionary size was increased: Fastest: 64 KB, Fast: 1 MB,
Normal: 4 MB, Max: 16 MB, Ultra: 64 MB.
- 64-bit version now supports 1 GB dictionary
- 7z/LZMA now can use only these match finders: HC4, BT2, BT3, BT4
- Compression ratio in Zip/GZip/Deflate in Ultra mode was increased
- Some bugs were fixed
- fix "Bugs item 1407358" : Passwords entered are not visible on command line
if the target has the system function "getpass".
- fix "BCJ2" : now p7zip uses the "BCJ2" filter when the file has execute permission
(7-zip uses the "BCJ2" filter when the filename ends with ".dll", ".exe", ".ocx", ".sfx" or ".sys")
- patch 1390722: no new line at end of file
- patch 1390716: allow compiling with gcc-4.1
- patch 1425862: allow other make programs than GNU make
- Testing framework added ("make test" and "make test_7z")
- fix 'lstat': p7zip can compile if 'lstat' is not available
