Re: [LFS Trac] #5699: gzip-1.14

#5699: gzip-1.14
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 Reporter:  Bruce Dubbs  |       Owner:  lfs-book
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  12.4
Component:  Book         |     Version:  git
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |
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Comment (by Bruce Dubbs):

 Noteworthy changes in release 1.14 (2025-04-09) [stable]

 * Bug fixes

   'gzip -d' no longer omits the last partial output buffer when the
   input ends unexpectedly on an IBM Z platform.
   [bug introduced in gzip-1.11]

   'gzip -l' no longer misreports lengths of multimember inputs.
   [bug introduced in gzip-1.12]

   'gzip -S' now rejects suffixes containing '/'.
   [bug present since the beginning]

 ** Changes in behavior

   The GZIP environment variable is now silently ignored except for the
   options -1 (--fast) through -9 (--best), --rsyncable, and --synchronous.
   This brings gzip into line with more-cautious compressors like zstd
   that limit environment variables' effect to relatively innocuous
   performance issues.  You can continue to use scripts to specify
   whatever gzip options you like.

   'zmore' is no longer installed on platforms lacking 'more'.

 ** Performance improvements

   gzip now decompresses significantly faster by computing CRCs via a
   slice by 8 algorithm, and faster yet on x86-64 platforms that
   support pclmul instructions.
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