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XZ Utils Release Notes
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5.6.0 (2024-02-24)
This bumps the minor version of liblzma because new features were
added. The API and ABI are still backward compatible with liblzma
5.4.x and 5.2.x and 5.0.x.
NOTE: As described in the NEWS for 5.5.2beta, the core components
are now under the BSD Zero Clause License (0BSD).
Since 5.5.2beta:
* liblzma:
- Disabled the branchless C variant in the LZMA decoder based
on the benchmark results from the community.
- Disabled x86-64 inline assembly on x32 to fix the build.
* Sandboxing support in xz:
- Landlock is now used even when xz needs to create files.
In this case the sandbox is has to be more permissive than
when no files need to be created. A similar thing was
already in use with pledge(2) since 5.3.4alpha.
- Landlock and pledge(2) are now stricter when reading from
more than one input file and only writing to standard output.
- Added support for Landlock ABI version 4.
* CMake:
- Default to -O2 instead of -O3 with CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release.
-O3 is not useful for speed and makes the code larger.
- Now builds lzmainfo and lzmadec.
- xzdiff, xzgrep, xzless, xzmore, and their symlinks are now
installed. The scripts are also tested during "make test".
- Added translation support for xz, lzmainfo, and the
man pages.
- Applied the symbol versioning workaround for MicroBlaze that
is used in the Autotools build.
- The general XZ Utils and liblzma API documentation is now
installed.
- The CMake component names were changed a little and several
were added. liblzma_Runtime and liblzma_Development are
unchanged.
- Minimum required CMake version is now 3.14. However,
translation support is disabled with CMake versions
older than 3.20.
- The CMake-based build is now close to feature parity with the
Autotools-based build. Most importantly a few tests aren't
run yet. Testing the CMake-based build on different operating
systems would be welcome now. See the comment at the top of
CMakeLists.txt.
* Fixed a bug in the Autotools feature test for ARM64 CRC32
instruction support for old versions of Clang. This did not
affect the CMake build.
* Windows:
- The build instructions in INSTALL and windows/INSTALL*.txt
were revised completely.
- windows/build-with-cmake.bat along with the instructions
in windows/INSTALL-MinGW-w64_with_CMake.txt should make
it very easy to build liblzma.dll and xz.exe on Windows
using CMake and MinGW-w64 with either GCC or Clang/LLVM.
- windows/build.bash was updated. It now works on MSYS2 and
on GNU/Linux (cross-compiling) to create a .zip and .7z
package for 32-bit and 64-bit x86 using GCC + MinGW-w64.
* The TODO file is no longer installed as part of the
documentation. The file is out of date and does not reflect
the actual tasks that will be completed in the future.
* Translations:
- Translated lzmainfo man pages are now installed. These
had been forgotten in earlier versions.
- Updated Croatian, Esperanto, German, Hungarian, Korean,
Polish, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Vietnamese, and Ukrainian
translations.
- Updated German, Korean, Romanian, and Ukrainian man page
translations.
* Added a few tests.
Summary of new features added in the 5.5.x development releases:
* liblzma:
- LZMA decoder: Speed optimizations to the C code and
added GCC & Clang compatible inline assembly for x86-64.
- Added lzma_mt_block_size() to recommend a Block size for
multithreaded encoding.
- Added CLMUL-based CRC32 on x86-64 and E2K with runtime
processor detection. Similar to CRC64, on 32-bit x86 it
isn't available unless --disable-assembler is used.
- Optimized the CRC32 calculation on ARM64 platforms using the
CRC32 instructions. Runtime detection for the instruction is
used on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, and macOS. If the
compiler flags indicate unconditional CRC32 instruction
support (+crc) then the generic version is not built.
- Added definitions of mask values like
LZMA_INDEX_CHECK_MASK_CRC32 to <lzma/index.h>.
* xz:
- Multithreaded mode is now the default. This improves
compression speed and creates .xz files that can be
decompressed in multithreaded mode. The downsides are
increased memory usage and slightly worse compression ratio.
- Added a new command line option --filters to set the filter
chain using the liblzma filter string syntax.
- Added new command line options --filters1 ... --filters9 to
set additional filter chains using the liblzma filter string
syntax. The --block-list option now allows specifying filter
chains that were set using these new options.
- Ported the command line tools to Windows MSVC.
Visual Studio 2015 or later is required.
* Added lz4 support to xzdiff/xzcmp and xzgrep.
5.5.2beta (2024-02-14)
* Licensing change: The core components are now under the