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Version 1.33, released 2013-03-30.
It brings long options, a new double overwrite mode (-2) and
a man page.
Version 1.32
has a new option -x to append to the output file
and you can specify -Y (multiple times if you wish so) to
write the same data to secondary output files.
Version 1.31 (2013-02-03)
brought a few tiny improvements in the output (such as
displaying the total elapsed time in the summary as opposed to
ETA of 0, and the amount of data really written with option
-W). But importantly, it has the new mode of triple
overwriting of data (options -3 and -4), with random numbers,
inverse random numbers, new random numbers (only for -4) and
zeros, this way allowing paranoia-safe deletion of
information.
Version 1.30 (2013-01-25)
brought a fix for outputting data to stdout and a fix for a
possible double free operation (introduced in 1.29). The
message formatting has been streamlined a bit. The PRNG can
now be initialized from a file (e.g. -Z /dev/urandom). The
program now can also avoid writing to a target block if the
target block already has the same data (option -W). Think of
SSDs or other devices where you want to avoid writes.
In Version 1.29 (2013-01-22)
a bug was fixed, where the last bytes where not copied
corrected if hardbs == softbs. 1.29 also brings a number of
new features; the ability to write the same (softbs sized)
block again and again (option -R, automatically set if infile
is /dev/zero), the ability to limit transfer size such that
the outfile won't be enlarged (-M) and the possibility to use
userspace random numbers (libc/frandom) to fill files with
random data (options -z and -Z). Last not least, OBS also
builds .deb binaries for Ubu12.04 / Deb6 now.
Version is 1.28 (released 2012-05-19)
uses better defaults for hard and softblock sizes (4k/64k
for buffered I/O, 512/1M for direct IO), as suggested by Jan
Kara. Also the copying of access times with the option -p
was fixed.
Version 1.27
allowed to do 512b direct IO (which is possible in latest
Linux kernels) -- idea and patch from Jan Kara. Change
posix_memalign() variable assignment. It has a number of
fixes from Valentin Lab; most importantly, when exiting
because of an error, it updates the variables that are
output. dd_rescue now avoid specal characters in the
logfile. It handles situations gracefully, where wrong
positions resulted in the progress graph causing
faults. Some come from illegal input (negative offset ...),
which is nw detected.
Version 1.25
contains a fix for spurious "Success" messages that resulted
from overwritten (cleared) errno. Bad blocks are formatted
in a way that they are not overwritten on screen and block
numbers are output as unsigned.
Version 1.24
contains a compile fix for Linux versions that contain the
splice syscall but not the other definitions. I also allows
for specifying a directory (such as ".") as output filename
in which case dd_rescue just appends the input file basename
to it, just like cp does. Maybe most importantly, the RPM
now contains the latest version of dd_rhelp (0.1.2).
VS: ----------------------------------------------------------------------
to address issues with NetBSD-6(and earlier)'s fontconfig not being
new enough for pango.
While doing that, also bump freetype2 dependency to current pkgsrc
version.
Suggested by tron in PR 47882
to address issues with NetBSD-6(and earlier)'s fontconfig not being
new enough for pango.
While doing that, also bump freetype2 dependency to current pkgsrc
version.
Suggested by tron in PR 47882
All:
- Due to an incorrect message from last release, here is corrected
information on when a Linux installation is potentially dangerous:
New autoconf tests for sys/capability.h and cap_*() functions
from Linux -lcap
WARNING: If you do not see this:
checking for sys/capability.h... yes
...
checking for cap_get_proc in -lcap... yes
checking for cap_get_proc... yes
checking for cap_set_proc... yes
checking for cap_set_flag... yes
checking for cap_clear_flag... yes
your Linux installation is insecure in case you ever use the
command "setcap" to set up file capabilities for executable commands.
Note that cdrtools (as any other command) need to be capabylity aware
in order to avoid security leaks with enhanced privileges. In most
cases, privileges are only needed for a very limited set of operations.
If cdrtools (cdrecord, cdda2wav, readcd) are installed suid-root, the
functions to control privileges are in the basic set of supported
functions and thus there is no problem for any program to control it's
privileges - if they have been obtained via suid root, you are on a
secure system.
If you are however on an incomplete installation, that supports to
raise privileges via fcaps but that does not include developer support
for caps, the programs get the privileges without being able to know
about the additional privileges and thus keep them because they cannot
control them.
WARNING: If you are on a Linux system that includes support for
fcaps (this is seems to be true for all newer systems with
Linux >= 2.6.24) and there is no development support for capabilities
in the base system, you are on an inherently insecure system that allows
to compile and set up programs with enhanced privileges that cannot
control them.
In such a case, try to educate the security manager for the related
Linux distribution. Note that you may turn your private installation
into a secure installation by installing development support for libcap.
- WARNING: the include structure of include/schily/*.h and several sources
has been restructured to cause less warnings with older OS platforms.
If you see any new problem on your personal platform, please report.
- New includefiles:
schily/poll.h Support poll()
schily/stdarg.h An alias to schily/varargs.h (but using the std name)
schily/sunos4_proto.h Missing prototypes for SunOS-4.x to make gcc quiet
schily/timeb.h Needed for users of ftime()
- Many minor bug-fixes for the files include/schily/*.h
- include/schily/archconf.h now defines __SUNOS5 for easier coding
- include/schily/priv.h now defines platform independent fine grained privileges
- Updated README.compile:
Some typo patches from Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Documented the "LINKMODE=" macro to explain how to create dynamically
linked bynaries.
Libschily:
- Added #include <schily/libport.h> to libschily/fnmatch.c
Libedc (Optimized by Jörg Schilling, originated by Heiko Eißfeldt heiko@hexco.de):
- Added #include <schily/libport.h>
Libdeflt:
- Added #include <schily/libport.h>
Libfind:
- dirname -> dir_name to avoid a gcc warning
Libhfs_iso:
- Rename variable "utime" to "uxtime" to avoid a compiler warning
Libscg:
- Repositioned #ifdefs to avoid unused variable definitions in
libscg/scsi-sun.c
- libscg/scsi-linux-ata.c now aborts early if errno == EPERM. This now
makes it behave like libscg/scsi-linux-sg.c
- A new scg flag SCGF_PERM_PRINT tells libscg to print a more verbose error
in case that a SCSI comand was aborted with errno == EPERM.
Cdrecord:
- Allow to compile without Linux libcap using "smake COPTX=-DNO_LINUX_CAPS LIB_CAP="
- Cdrecord now checks whether there are sufficient fine grained privileges.
- Cdrecord now uses the new flag SCGF_PERM_PRINT to get better warnings if the
permissions granted by the OS are not sufficient.
Cdda2wav (Maintained/enhanced by Jörg Schilling, originated by Heiko Eißfeldt heiko@hexco.de):
- Include file reordering to avoid warnings on older platforms
- Allow to compile without Linux libcap using "smake COPTX=-DNO_LINUX_CAPS LIB_CAP="
- Repositioned #ifdefs to avoid unused variable definitions in
cdda2wav/sndconfig.c
- Cdda2wav now checks whether there are sufficient fine grained privileges.
- Work around a bug in sys/param.h FreeBSD-9.1, that #define's __FreeBSD_kernel__
instead of #define __FreeBSD_kernel__ 9 that would be needed for Debian
k-FreeBSD compatibility.
The bug affects cdda2wav/mycdrom.h
Readcd:
- Allow to compile without Linux libcap using "smake COPTX=-DNO_LINUX_CAPS LIB_CAP="
- Readcd now checks whether there are sufficient fine grained privileges.
Mkisofs (Maintained/enhanced by Jörg Schilling since 1997, originated by Eric Youngdale):
- Make mkisofs compile without -DUDF and without -DDVD_VIDEO
Thanks to a hint from rmd4work@mail.ru
This is an unaccelerated driver for the SGI newport cards (a.k.a. XL) as found
in the SGI Indy and Indigo2. Both the 8bit and 24bit versions are tested and
working.
New Games:
- Added support for 3 Skulls of the Toltecs.
- Added support for Eye of the Beholder.
- Added support for Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon.
- Added support for Hopkins FBI.
- Added support for Tony Tough and the Night of Roasted Moths.
- Added support for The Journeyman Project: Pegasus Prime.
- Added support for the Macintosh version of Discworld 1.
General:
- Added a new save/load chooser based on a grid of thumbnails. This is only
supported for resolutions bigger than 640x400. The old chooser is still
available and used for games without thumbnail support. It is possible to
select the old one as default too.
- Rewrote VideoDecoder subsystem.
- Added Galician translation.
- Added Finnish translation.
- Added Belarusian translation.
- Using the mouse wheel on a slider widget now changes the value by the
smallest possible amount. This is more predictable than the old behaviour,
which was to change the value by "one pixel" which would sometimes not
change it at all.
- Updated MT-32 emulation code to latest munt project snapshot.
- Added FluidSynth settings dialog, mainly for reverb and chorus settings.
- Fixed crash on certain Smacker movies.
