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| author | Mounir IDRASSI <mounir.idrassi@idrix.fr> | 2022-02-09 23:47:25 +0100 |
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| committer | Mounir IDRASSI <mounir.idrassi@idrix.fr> | 2022-02-10 01:21:17 +0100 |
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Windows: Reduce the size of installers by almost 50% by using LZMA compression instead of DEFLATE
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diff --git a/src/Common/lzma/lzma-history.txt b/src/Common/lzma/lzma-history.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0963c7bf --- /dev/null +++ b/src/Common/lzma/lzma-history.txt @@ -0,0 +1,520 @@ +HISTORY of the LZMA SDK +----------------------- + +21.07 2021-12-26 +------------------------- +- New switches: -spm and -im!{file_path} to exclude directories from processing + for specified paths that don't contain path separator character at the end of path. +- The sorting order of files in archives was slightly changed to be more consistent + for cases where the name of some directory is the same as the prefix part of the name + of another directory or file. + + +21.06 2021-11-24 +------------------------- +- Bug in LZMA encoder in file LzmaEnc.c was fixed: + LzmaEnc_MemEncode(), LzmaEncode() and LzmaCompress() could work incorrectly, + if size value for output buffer is smaller than size required for all compressed data. + LzmaEnc_Encode() could work incorrectly, + if callback ISeqOutStream::Write() doesn't write all compressed data. + NCompress::NLzma::CEncoder::Code() could work incorrectly, + if callback ISequentialOutStream::Write() returns error code. +- Bug in versions 21.00-21.05 was fixed: + 7-Zip didn't set attributes of directories during archive extracting. + + +21.04 beta 2021-11-02 +------------------------- +- 7-Zip now reduces the number of working CPU threads for compression, + if RAM size is not enough for compression with big LZMA2 dictionary. +- 7-Zip now can create and check "file.sha256" text files that contain the list + of file names and SHA-256 checksums in format compatible with sha256sum program. + + +21.03 beta 2021-07-20 +------------------------- +- The maximum dictionary size for LZMA/LZMA2 compressing was increased to 4 GB (3840 MiB). +- Minor speed optimizations in LZMA/LZMA2 compressing. + + +21.02 alpha 2021-05-06 +------------------------- +- The command line version of 7-Zip for macOS was released. +- The speed for LZMA and LZMA2 decompression in arm64 versions for macOS and Linux + was increased by 20%-60%. + + +21.01 alpha 2021-03-09 +------------------------- +- The command line version of 7-Zip for Linux was released. +- The improvements for speed of ARM64 version using hardware CPU instructions + for AES, CRC-32, SHA-1 and SHA-256. +- Some bugs were fixed. + + +20.02 alpha 2020-08-08 +------------------------- +- The default number of LZMA2 chunks per solid block in 7z archive was increased to 64. + It allows to increase the compression speed for big 7z archives, if there is a big number + of CPU cores and threads. +- The speed of PPMd compressing/decompressing was increased for 7z archives. +- The new -ssp switch. If the switch -ssp is specified, 7-Zip doesn't allow the system + to modify "Last Access Time" property of source files for archiving and hashing operations. +- Some bugs were fixed. + + +20.00 alpha 2020-02-06 +------------------------- +- 7-Zip now supports new optional match finders for LZMA/LZMA2 compression: bt5 and hc5, + that can work faster than bt4 and hc4 match finders for the data with big redundancy. +- The compression ratio was improved for Fast and Fastest compression levels with the + following default settings: + - Fastest level (-mx1) : hc5 match finder with 256 KB dictionary. + - Fast level (-mx3) : hc5 match finder with 4 MB dictionary. +- Minor speed optimizations in multithreaded LZMA/LZMA2 compression for Normal/Maximum/Ultra + compression levels. + + +19.00 2019-02-21 +------------------------- +- Encryption strength for 7z archives was increased: + the size of random initialization vector was increased from 64-bit to 128-bit, + and the pseudo-random number generator was improved. +- The bug in 7zIn.c code was fixed. + + +18.06 2018-12-30 +------------------------- +- The speed for LZMA/LZMA2 compressing was increased by 3-10%, + and there are minor changes in compression ratio. +- Some bugs were fixed. +- The bug in 7-Zip 18.02-18.05 was fixed: + There was memory leak in multithreading xz decoder - XzDecMt_Decode(), + if xz stream contains only one block. +- The changes for MSVS compiler makefiles: + - the makefiles now use "PLATFORM" macroname with values (x64, x86, arm64) + instead of "CPU" macroname with values (AMD64, ARM64). + - the makefiles by default now use static version of the run-time library. + + +18.05 2018-04-30 +------------------------- +- The speed for LZMA/LZMA2 compressing was increased + by 8% for fastest/fast compression levels and + by 3% for normal/maximum compression levels. +- Previous versions of 7-Zip could work incorrectly in "Large memory pages" mode in + Windows 10 because of some BUG with "Large Pages" in Windows 10. + Now 7-Zip doesn't use "Large Pages" on Windows 10 up to revision 1709 (16299). +- The BUG was fixed in Lzma2Enc.c + Lzma2Enc_Encode2() function worked incorretly, + if (inStream == NULL) and the number of block threads is more than 1. + + +18.03 beta 2018-03-04 +------------------------- +- Asm\x86\LzmaDecOpt.asm: new optimized LZMA decoder written in asm + for x64 with about 30% higher speed than main version of LZMA decoder written in C. +- The speed for single-thread LZMA/LZMA2 decoder written in C was increased by 3%. +- 7-Zip now can use multi-threading for 7z/LZMA2 decoding, + if there are multiple independent data chunks in LZMA2 stream. +- 7-Zip now can use multi-threading for xz decoding, + if there are multiple blocks in xz stream. + + +18.01 2019-01-28 +------------------------- +- The BUG in 17.01 - 18.00 beta was fixed: + XzDec.c : random block unpacking and XzUnpacker_IsBlockFinished() + didn't work correctly for xz archives without checksum (CRC). + + +18.00 beta 2019-01-10 +------------------------- +- The BUG in xz encoder was fixed: + There was memory leak of 16 KB for each file compressed with + xz compression method, if additional filter was used. + + +17.01 beta 2017-08-28 +------------------------- +- Minor speed optimization for LZMA2 (xz and 7z) multi-threading compression. + 7-Zip now uses additional memory buffers for multi-block LZMA2 compression. + CPU utilization was slightly improved. +- 7-zip now creates multi-block xz archives by default. Block size can be + specified with -ms[Size]{m|g} switch. +- xz decoder now can unpack random block from multi-block xz archives. +- 7-Zip command line: @listfile now doesn't work after -- switch. + Use -i@listfile before -- switch instead. +- The BUGs were fixed: + 7-Zip 17.00 beta crashed for commands that write anti-item to 7z archive. + + +17.00 beta 2017-04-29 +------------------------- +- NewHandler.h / NewHandler.cpp: + now it redefines operator new() only for old MSVC compilers (_MSC_VER < 1900). +- C/7zTypes.h : the names of variables in interface structures were changed (vt). +- Some bugs were fixed. 7-Zip could crash in some cases. +- Some internal changes in code. + + +16.04 2016-10-04 +------------------------- +- The bug was fixed in DllSecur.c. + + +16.03 2016-09-28 +------------------------- +- SFX modules now use some protection against DLL preloading attack. +- Some bugs in 7z code were fixed. + + +16.02 2016-05-21 +------------------------- +- The BUG in 16.00 - 16.01 was fixed: + Split Handler (SplitHandler.cpp) returned incorrect + total size value (kpidSize) for split archives. + + +16.01 2016-05-19 +------------------------- +- Some internal changes to reduce the number of compiler warnings. + + +16.00 2016-05-10 +------------------------- +- Some bugs were fixed. + + +15.12 2015-11-19 +------------------------- +- The BUG in C version of 7z decoder was fixed: + 7zDec.c : SzDecodeLzma2() + 7z decoder could mistakenly report about decoding error for some 7z archives + that use LZMA2 compression method. + The probability to get that mistaken decoding error report was about + one error per 16384 solid blocks for solid blocks larger than 16 KB (compressed size). +- The BUG (in 9.26-15.11) in C version of 7z decoder was fixed: + 7zArcIn.c : SzReadHeader2() + 7z decoder worked incorrectly for 7z archives that contain + empty solid blocks, that can be placed to 7z archive, if some file is + unavailable for reading during archive creation. + + +15.09 beta 2015-10-16 +------------------------- +- The BUG in LZMA / LZMA2 encoding code was fixed. + The BUG in LzFind.c::MatchFinder_ReadBlock() function. + If input data size is larger than (4 GiB - dictionary_size), + the following code worked incorrectly: + - LZMA : LzmaEnc_MemEncode(), LzmaEncode() : LZMA encoding functions + for compressing from memory to memory. + That BUG is not related to LZMA encoder version that works via streams. + - LZMA2 : multi-threaded version of LZMA2 encoder worked incorrectly, if + default value of chunk size (CLzma2EncProps::blockSize) is changed + to value larger than (4 GiB - dictionary_size). + + +9.38 beta 2015-01-03 +------------------------- +- The BUG in 9.31-9.37 was fixed: + IArchiveGetRawProps interface was disabled for 7z archives. +- The BUG in 9.26-9.36 was fixed: + Some code in CPP\7zip\Archive\7z\ worked correctly only under Windows. + + +9.36 beta 2014-12-26 +------------------------- +- The BUG in command line version was fixed: + 7-Zip created temporary archive in current folder during update archive + operation, if -w{Path} switch was not specified. + The fixed 7-Zip creates temporary archive in folder that contains updated archive. +- The BUG in 9.33-9.35 was fixed: + 7-Zip silently ignored file reading errors during 7z or gz archive creation, + and the created archive contained only part of file that was read before error. + The fixed 7-Zip stops archive creation and it reports about error. + + +9.35 beta 2014-12-07 +------------------------- +- 7zr.exe now support AES encryption. +- SFX mudules were added to LZMA SDK +- Some bugs were fixed. + + +9.21 beta 2011-04-11 +------------------------- +- New class FString for file names at file systems. +- Speed optimization in CRC code for big-endian CPUs. +- The BUG in Lzma2Dec.c was fixed: + Lzma2Decode function didn't work. + + +9.18 beta 2010-11-02 +------------------------- +- New small SFX module for installers (SfxSetup). + + +9.12 beta 2010-03-24 +------------------------- +- The BUG in LZMA SDK 9.* was fixed: LZMA2 codec didn't work, + if more than 10 threads were used (or more than 20 threads in some modes). + + +9.11 beta 2010-03-15 +------------------------- +- PPMd compression method support + + +9.09 2009-12-12 +------------------------- +- The bug was fixed: + Utf16_To_Utf8 funstions in UTFConvert.cpp and 7zMain.c + incorrectly converted surrogate characters (the code >= 0x10000) to UTF-8. +- Some bugs were fixed + + +9.06 2009-08-17 +------------------------- +- Some changes in ANSI-C 7z Decoder interfaces. + + +9.04 2009-05-30 +------------------------- +- LZMA2 compression method support +- xz format support + + +4.65 2009-02-03 +------------------------- +- Some minor fixes + + +4.63 2008-12-31 +------------------------- +- Some minor fixes + + +4.61 beta 2008-11-23 +------------------------- +- The bug in ANSI-C LZMA Decoder was fixed: + If encoded stream was corrupted, decoder could access memory + outside of allocated range. +- Some changes in ANSI-C 7z Decoder interfaces. +- LZMA SDK is placed in the public domain. + + +4.60 beta 2008-08-19 +------------------------- +- Some minor fixes. + + +4.59 beta 2008-08-13 +------------------------- +- The bug was fixed: + LZMA Encoder in fast compression mode could access memory outside of + allocated range in some rare cases. + + +4.58 beta 2008-05-05 +------------------------- +- ANSI-C LZMA Decoder was rewritten for speed optimizations. +- ANSI-C LZMA Encoder was included to LZMA SDK. +- C++ LZMA code now is just wrapper over ANSI-C code. + + +4.57 2007-12-12 +------------------------- +- Speed optimizations in Ñ++ LZMA Decoder. +- Small changes for more compatibility with some C/C++ compilers. + + +4.49 beta 2007-07-05 +------------------------- +- .7z ANSI-C Decoder: + - now it supports BCJ and BCJ2 filters + - now it supports files larger than 4 GB. + - now it supports "Last Write Time" field for files. +- C++ code for .7z archives compressing/decompressing from 7-zip + was included to LZMA SDK. + + +4.43 2006-06-04 +------------------------- +- Small changes for more compatibility with some C/C++ compilers. + + +4.42 2006-05-15 +------------------------- +- Small changes in .h files in ANSI-C version. + + +4.39 beta 2006-04-14 +------------------------- +- The bug in versions 4.33b:4.38b was fixed: + C++ version of LZMA encoder could not correctly compress + files larger than 2 GB with HC4 match finder (-mfhc4). + + +4.37 beta 2005-04-06 +------------------------- +- Fixes in C++ code: code could no be compiled if _NO_EXCEPTIONS was defined. + + +4.35 beta 2005-03-02 +------------------------- +- The bug was fixed in C++ version of LZMA Decoder: + If encoded stream was corrupted, decoder could access memory + outside of allocated range. + + +4.34 beta 2006-02-27 +------------------------- +- Compressing speed and memory requirements for compressing were increased +- LZMA now can use only these match finders: HC4, BT2, BT3, BT4 + + +4.32 2005-12-09 +------------------------- +- Java version of LZMA SDK was included + + +4.30 2005-11-20 +------------------------- +- Compression ratio was improved in -a2 mode +- Speed optimizations for compressing in -a2 mode +- -fb switch now supports values up to 273 +- The bug in 7z_C (7zIn.c) was fixed: + It used Alloc/Free functions from different memory pools. + So if program used two memory pools, it worked incorrectly. +- 7z_C: .7z format supporting was improved +- LZMA# SDK (C#.NET version) was included + + +4.27 (Updated) 2005-09-21 +------------------------- +- Some GUIDs/interfaces in C++ were changed. + IStream.h: + ISequentialInStream::Read now works as old ReadPart + ISequentialOutStream::Write now works as old WritePart + + +4.27 2005-08-07 +------------------------- +- The bug in LzmaDecodeSize.c was fixed: + if _LZMA_IN_CB and _LZMA_OUT_READ were defined, + decompressing worked incorrectly. + + +4.26 2005-08-05 +------------------------- +- Fixes in 7z_C code and LzmaTest.c: + previous versions could work incorrectly, + if malloc(0) returns 0 + + +4.23 2005-06-29 +------------------------- +- Small fixes in C++ code + + +4.22 2005-06-10 +------------------------- +- Small fixes + + +4.21 2005-06-08 +------------------------- +- Interfaces for ANSI-C LZMA Decoder (LzmaDecode.c) were changed +- New additional version of ANSI-C LZMA Decoder with zlib-like interface: + - LzmaStateDecode.h + - LzmaStateDecode.c + - LzmaStateTest.c +- ANSI-C LZMA Decoder now can decompress files larger than 4 GB + + +4.17 2005-04-18 +------------------------- +- New example for RAM->RAM compressing/decompressing: + LZMA + BCJ (filter for x86 code): + - LzmaRam.h + - LzmaRam.cpp + - LzmaRamDecode.h + - LzmaRamDecode.c + - -f86 switch for lzma.exe + + +4.16 2005-03-29 +------------------------- +- The bug was fixed in LzmaDecode.c (ANSI-C LZMA Decoder): + If _LZMA_OUT_READ was defined, and if encoded stream was corrupted, + decoder could access memory outside of allocated range. +- Speed optimization of ANSI-C LZMA Decoder (now it's about 20% faster). + Old version of LZMA Decoder now is in file LzmaDecodeSize.c. + LzmaDecodeSize.c can provide slightly smaller code than LzmaDecode.c +- Small speed optimization in LZMA C++ code +- filter for SPARC's code was added +- Simplified version of .7z ANSI-C Decoder was included + + +4.06 2004-09-05 +------------------------- +- The bug in v4.05 was fixed: + LZMA-Encoder didn't release output stream in some cases. + + +4.05 2004-08-25 +------------------------- +- Source code of filters for x86, IA-64, ARM, ARM-Thumb + and PowerPC code was included to SDK +- Some internal minor changes + + +4.04 2004-07-28 +------------------------- +- More compatibility with some C++ compilers + + +4.03 2004-06-18 +------------------------- +- "Benchmark" command was added. It measures compressing + and decompressing speed and shows rating values. + Also it checks hardware errors. + + +4.02 2004-06-10 +------------------------- +- C++ LZMA Encoder/Decoder code now is more portable + and it can be compiled by GCC on Linux. + + +4.01 2004-02-15 +------------------------- +- Some detection of data corruption was enabled. + LzmaDecode.c / RangeDecoderReadByte + ..... + { + rd->ExtraBytes = 1; + return 0xFF; + } + + +4.00 2004-02-13 +------------------------- +- Original version of LZMA SDK + + + +HISTORY of the LZMA +------------------- + 2001-2008: Improvements to LZMA compressing/decompressing code, + keeping compatibility with original LZMA format + 1996-2001: Development of LZMA compression format + + Some milestones: + + 2001-08-30: LZMA compression was added to 7-Zip + 1999-01-02: First version of 7-Zip was released + + +End of document |