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@@ -1,7 +1,16 @@
-$Id: CHANGES,v 1.9 1999/10/30 22:55:45 tiniou Exp $
+$Id: CHANGES,v 1.13 1999/11/05 22:02:11 tiniou Exp $
 
-Changes between versions 0.4b7 and 0.4b8 (released ???????????????)
-===================================================================
+Changes between versions 0.4b8 and 0.4b9 (released November 5, 1999)
+====================================================================
+
+1.	Use lchown instead of chown, fixing a possible security problem 
+	when restoring symlinks (a malicious user could use this
+	to deliberately corrupt the ownership of important system files).
+	Thanks to Chris Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for detecting
+	this and providing the patch.
+
+Changes between versions 0.4b7 and 0.4b8 (released November 3, 1999)
+====================================================================
 
 1.	Put dump sources under CVS, added Id tags in all files so
 	one can use 'ident' on binary files.
@@ -17,11 +26,19 @@ Changes between versions 0.4b7 and 0.4b8 (released ???????????????)
 	contain them :(. Thanks to Eric Maisonobe <virnet@nat.fr>
 	for submitting the bug report.
 
-5.	Added the RSH environment variable in order to be able to
+5.	Use ext2fs_llseek instead of llseek. With recent e2fsprogs
+	this should enable dumping big (huge) filesystems.
+
+6.	Added the RSH environment variable in order to be able to
 	use a rsh replacement like ssh when doing remote backups (and
 	bypass the security limitations of rcmd). Now you can do remote
 	backups without being root (or making dump setuid root).
 
+7.	Modified again the way dumpdates works. For incremental dumps,
+	we need to read dumpdates even if we are not using 'u' option.
+	Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for his ideas on how
+	this should work.
+
 Changes between versions 0.4b6 and 0.4b7 (released October 8, 1999)
 ===================================================================