-$Id: CHANGES,v 1.48 2000/03/02 13:33:00 stelian Exp $
+$Id: CHANGES,v 1.86 2000/11/10 09:35:07 stelian Exp $
-Changes between versions 0.4b15 and 0.4b16 (released ?????????????)
+Changes between versions 0.4b19 and 0.4b20 (released ???????????????)
+=====================================================================
+
+1. Fixed a small compilation problem due to a change
+ in the definintion of the struct sigaction in
+ glibc 2.0 / libc5. Thanks to Gunther Schlegel
+ <schlegel@riege.de> for reporting the bug and to
+ Dave Platt <dplatt@snulbug.mtview.ca.us> for suggesting
+ a fix.
+
+2. Modified the label and uuid analysis in order to be
+ self-contained (independant of kernel/libc headers). This
+ should fix the compile with older kernel/libc headers and
+ will preserve the functionality. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
+ <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
+
+3. The 'exclude inode' option, if applied to a directory
+ inode, excludes now correctly all the leaves of this
+ directory. Thanks to John R. Dennison
+ <gerdesas@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the bug.
+
+4. Fixed the '-e' option to disable the possibility
+ to exclude the root inode (which causes the dumps to
+ be unreadable by restore). Prevented array overflow
+ when multiple -e options are used.
+
+5. Fixed dump to correctly interpret a filesystem argument
+ which is a mountpoint and it is not an absolute path
+ (as specified in the fstab). Thanks to Bernhard R. Erdmann
+ <be@berdmann.de> for reporting the bug.
+
+6. Made dump able to backup files larger than 2 GB. Note that
+ dump still doesn't cope with files larger than 4 GB.
+
+7. Restore the real uid and gid before invoking an external
+ RSH program (big hole when dump or restore is suid root!).
+
+8. Get the values for the default tape device and the location
+ of fstab file from the system headers. Thanks to
+ Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
+
+Changes between versions 0.4b18 and 0.4b19 (released August 20, 2000)
+=====================================================================
+
+1. Fixed the signal handling in dump (which I broke in 0.4b17)
+ which was causing several strange dump failures (dump
+ hanged or segmentation faults etc).
+
+2. Specified the default blocksize in the dump man page.
+
+3. Changed two info messages of restore to be written on stdout
+ instead of stderr in order to leave stderr only for errors
+ or warnings. Thanks to Stephen Atwell
+ <satwell@urbana.css.mot.com> for the suggestion.
+
+4. Corrected an off by one calculation which prevented
+ dumping a directory having a 1 character name length.
+ Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de>
+ for reporting the bug.
+
+5. Reinforce dump in order to allow only level 0 and no
+ -u option when dumping a subdirectory, and document
+ this in the man page. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
+ <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
+
+6. Fixed a small harmless bug in restore which caused
+ in some conditions hard links to be restored several
+ times (therefore generation some warning messages).
+ Thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com> for
+ reporting the bug.
+
+7. Updated the RPM spec file to the latest RedHat version,
+ providing FHS packaging and other cosmetic changes.
+ You will need RPM version >= 3.0.5 in order to build the RPM.
+
+8. Updated the configure script to check for libtermcap
+ before checking for libreadline, because we need this
+ library in order to compile the readline support.
+
+9. Made dump understand the LABEL= and UUID= notation
+ both in /etc/fstab and on the command line. Note that
+ you will need the /proc filesystem in order to use
+ these notations. Thanks to Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
+ for providing the patch.
+
+Changes between versions 0.4b17 and 0.4b18 (released June 30, 2000)
===================================================================
+1. Fixed a potential buffer overflow in restore. Thanks
+ to Stan Bubrouski <satan@fastdial.net> for reporting
+ the bug.
+
+2. Fixed a readline-related bug which prevented
+ 'cat DUMPFILE | restore -i -f -' from working. Thanks
+ to Charles Karney <karney@users.sourceforge.net>
+ for the bug report.
+
+3. Changed a few "panic" into "exit", causing restore to
+ be more stable against some attacks (like the last one
+ reported on Bugtraq, although the last version of restore
+ was not vulnerable - just dumped core). Thanks to
+ Andreas Hasenack <andreas@conectiva.com.br> for reporting
+ the bugs to me.
+
+4. Removed the suid-root bit on dump and restore in the
+ default build (and generated RPMs). It should be safer
+ now. Users who need the suid-root capabilities in order
+ to make network backups should read first the man page
+ of dump and enable the suid bit manually.
+
+5. Added -ltermcap to the compile parameters for restore
+ when using readline support, in order to make the compile
+ process work on some systems (SuSE ?). Thanks to
+ Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
+
+Changes between versions 0.4b16 and 0.4b17 (released June 1st, 2000)
+====================================================================
+
+1. The -F script is called now *only* at the end of a tape,
+ not at the end of the dump. Thanks to Christian Haul
+ <haul@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> for the bug report.
+
+ Normally, the device name and the current volume number
+ are passed on the command line of the script. However,
+ if you want the old style script (with no arguments
+ passed on the command line), you can enable it in
+ configure with the --enable-oldstylefscript.
+
+2. Use posix signal handling to preserve dump functionality
+ with libc5. Thanks to Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com> for
+ the patch.
+
+3. Made the exit code of restore in case of a 'C'ompare
+ command reflect the result of the compare. An exit status
+ of 0 means the dump archive is correct, 1 means tape errors,
+ 2 means that some files were modified. Thanks to Kenneth Porter
+ <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
+
+4. Made (finally) quotes work in interactive restore.
+
+5. Small fixes in order to allow dump to compile with a
+ really old e2fsprogs version. Thanks to Ian Zimmerman
+ <itz@speakeasy.org> for the bug report.
+
+6. Add GNU readline capabilities to interactive restore.
+ Use configure's --enable-readline flag to enable this feature.
+ Thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for the
+ suggestion.
+
+7. Do the compare on the fly in restore 'C' mode (this will
+ allow not to exhaust the available /tmp space when
+ ccmparing large files). Thanks to Kenneth Porter
+ <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
+
+Changes between versions 0.4b15 and 0.4b16 (released March 11, 2000)
+====================================================================
+
1. Fixed some several duplicate 'DUMP: DUMP:' in the
output of dump.
+2. Corrected the estimation of blocks to dump. Note that
+ this is still wrong for large directory inodes, due
+ to the size of a BSD directory entry on the tape
+ (estimation is based on the size of the ext2 directory,
+ which is smaller because it doesn't contain the null
+ character at the end).
+
+3. Made dump report the total number of MB written to
+ tape at the end of run. Thanks to W. Reilly Cooley
+ <wcooley@nakedape.cc> for the patch.
+
+4. Added the -X option to restore giving the possibility
+ to read the names of the files to be extracted/listed
+ from a text file (in addition of the command line).
+ Thanks to Dejan Muhamedagic <dejan@quant-x.com> for the
+ patch.
+
+5. Added the device name and the current volume number
+ as arguments to the end of tape script (dump -F option).
+
+6. Made the multi-volume dump work again (after having
+ broken it in 0.4b15).
+
Changes between versions 0.4b14 and 0.4b15 (released March 2, 2000)
===================================================================
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