09 February 2020 Ike Devolder
* release: 0.8.1
* Serious rework of internals by Michael Nahas
* Added unittests by Michael Nahas
* Added support for static libpar2
11 December 2017 Ike Devolder
* release: 0.8.0
* improved parallelisation on input files
08 September 2017 Ike Devolder
* release: 0.7.4
* performance improvement when not using quiet mode
25 June 2017 Ike Devolder
* release: 0.7.3
* fixed critical issue on windows where created parfiles were corrupt
03 June 2017 Ike Devolder
* release: 0.7.2
* fixed tests on NetBSD, #102
* fixed failing tests when dir contains whitespace, #103
* added automake.sh to the files, #104
* changed some flags related to windows build, #94
* cleaned up compiler warnings for mingw build
19 May 2017 Ike Devolder
* release: 0.7.1
* fixed basepath issues #93
* made distcheck behaviour consistent with different --srcdir #96
* properly package distribution package #98
* cross compile for windows to get redistributable exe #94
* change distribution format to tar.gz and tar.bz2 for unix
and keep zip for windows #97
17 April 2017 Ike Devolder
* release: 0.7.0
* Merged OpenMP version and so enabled multithreading
* added -t flag to set the number of threads (all possible threads
used by default)
* Added -B flag to set the basepath for difficult to guess situations
* bugfixes
27 February 2014 Ike Devolder
* release: 0.6.5
* fix blocksize calculation
25 February 2014 JCF Ploemen
* lintian warning spelling fix
7 February 2014 Ike Devolder
* add manfile for par2
29 January 2014 Jan van Haarst
* README in Markdown
21 January 2014 Ike Devolder
* add spelling fixes to cmdline output
18 January 2014 Jan van Haarst
* fixed some spelling
6 January 2014 Ike Devolder
* simplify FindFiles
4 January 2014 Ike Devolder
* release: 0.6.4
* when directory is removed, recreate
* add test to verify directory behaviour
* add test with valgrind
16 December 2013 Ike Devolder
* allow verification of files even with ducplicates in parfiles
15 December 2013 Ike Devolder
* avoid adding of duplicates
14 December 2013 Ike Devolder
* release: 0.6.3
* rework original tests so parallelisation is no issue
* add test8 which makes sure the paths stored are relative
* add test9 rename wrongly named file, passed to par2
result is correctly named files after repair
13 Decebmer 2013 Ike Devolder
* move tests in separate folder, tests will be extended
and otherwise eventually clutter the source too much
9 December 2013 Ike Devolder
* rework parfilename handling + it fixes passing par
filename without extension for repair
7 December 2013 Ike Devolder
* release: 0.6.2
* basepath was not set correctly in restoring of 'old' way
5 December 2013 Ike Devolder
* release: 0.6.1
* show usage / version / copyright on request
* restore 'old' way of creating make -a optional
30 November 2013 Ike Devolder
* release: 0.6.0
* test8: windows generated recovery files with subdir
* windows recurses in . and .. which leads to deadlock
so dont recurse in folders starting with . on windows
* when recursion happens make sure windows can recover with
unix created par2 files
* fixed fc -> fd typo in windows part of diskfile
* FTBFS fix on GNU/kFreeBSD (by Cyril Brulebois)
* fixed non quiet output when creating par2
* Applied fix preventing a stack overflow (by Robert Schneider)
14 October 2013 Ike Devolder
* Implemented recursion
* NOTE: only for unix like systems
* Windows can be done i guess but i have no access to windows machines
16 June 2013 Ike Devolder
* Implemented initial subdir handling
* added subdir tests
13 June 2013 Ike Devolder
* Fixed failing testsuite
9 December 2012 Ike Devolder
* rework purging of par(2) files because of possible segfaults
and other inconsistencies
4 December 2012 Ike Devolder
* fix purge option so it removes the par files when there is no
repair needed
* add purge option to verify so when there is no repair needed
the par2 files are removed when the purge option is given
30 November 2012 Ike Devolder
* add purge option
remove backup files (mostly .1) and par files on request
**USE AT YOUR OWN RISK
* purge option available in par1 and par2 repair
* fix memory leak when using par1 repair
30 January 2012 Ike Devolder
* add inlining performance improvement of Gerard Putter
* release: 0.5.4
19 January 2012 Ike Devolder
* fix wrongly created par2 files in quiet mode
this was related to the -q -qq fix
* release: 0.5.3
17 January 2012 Ike Devolder
* fix deadlock condition when repairing and filepath is longer
than _MAX_PATH
* increase _MAX_PATH, 255 is no longer of these days
* release: 0.5.2
16 January 2012 Ike Devolder
* fixup 0.5 version display
* "par2 create" dumps core with -q or -qq, but non-quiet mode works fine
FIXED
* removed automake files
* updated copyrights
* release: 0.5.1
12 December 2011 Marcel Partap
* Reanimate par2cmdline development on new github repository
* Merge available distro patches since 2004 0.4 release back upstream
* Release: Version 0.5 ;)
3 January 2005 Peter B Clements
* par2creatorsourcefile.cpp: "offset" must be updated when computing
file and block hashes even if progress is not being displayed.
23 June 2004 Peter B Clements
* diskfile.cpp: Changed DiskFile::GetFileSize for WIN32
so that it uses _stati64() to get the size of a file.
* par2creatorsourcefile.cpp: In UpdateHashes() the test
that adjusts the length of the last block of a file when
before updating the file hash was incorrect.
17 June 2004 Peter B Clements
* par1repairer.cpp, par2repairer.cpp: Report empty files when
scanning for data.
22 April 2004 Peter B Clements
* README: Updated to include new commandline options.
* par2cmdline.vcproj: Update VS .NET project file with new
version number.
* Released: Version 0.4.
15 April 2004 Peter B Clements
* par2cmdline.sln, par2cmdline.vcproj: Updated.
* commandline.cpp, commandline.h, par1repairer.cpp, par1repairer.h,
par2cmdline.cpp, par2cmdline.h, par2creator.cpp, par2creator.h,
par2creatorsourcefile.cpp, par2creatorsourcefile.h, par2repairer.cpp,
par2repairer.h, reedsolomon.h, par2cmdline.h: Handle -v and -q
options from the command line to change the amount of messages displayed.
14 April 2004 Peter B Clements
* commandline.h, commandline.cpp: Add -c<n> option to allow the
number of recovery blocks to be directly specified rather than
indirectly via the -r<n> option. Add -l option to allow the
recovery file size to be limited so that the largest will have
just enough recovery data to reconstruct the larget source file.
* par2creator.h, par2creator.cpp: Use the recovery block count
specified via the command line instead of the redundancy % if
given. Allocate the sizes of recovery files so the are limited
if requested.
12 April 2004 Peter B Clements
* config.h.in, configure, configure.ac: Detect what defines are
required to enable 64 bit file system support and whether or
not fseeko() is available.
* diskfile.cpp: Use fseeko and 64 bit file operations if they
are available.
* par2cmdline.h: Change order of include files.
* par2repairer.cpp: When verifying files with long filenames,
display a shorter version of the filename.
* datablock.h: Change DataBlock::GetDiskFile so that in returns
a non const DiskFile.
* par2repairer.cpp, par2creator.cpp: Only keep source files open
when they are actually needed. This should allow par2 creation
and repair to work with large file sets on OS's with a limit
on the number of files that can be open simultaneously.
* Makefile.in, aclocal.m4, config.guess, config.sub, configure,
depcomp, install-sh, missing, mkinstalldirs: Updated Automake to
version 1.8.3 and Autoconf to version 2.59.
* configure.ac, config.h.in, configure: Check for getopt() and
getopt_long().
19 August 2003 Peter B Clements
* Updated par2creator.cpp: When creating par2 files the wrong
number of bytes would be reported as written to disk.
13 August 2003 Peter B Clements
* Updated par2cmdline.h: Recorrected spelling of STDC_HEADERS!
* Updated par1repairersourcefile.cpp, par2repairersourcefile.cpp:
Don't treat ':' as a path separator on non Windows platforms.
2 August 2003 Peter B Clements
* Updated par1fileformat.h, par2fileformat.h: Use memcmp when
comparing MAGIC strings and PACKETTYPE strings.
* Updated par2repairer.cpp: When a good packet is found after bad
data, use memcpy to copy the packet header. Don't attempt to get
the block count directly from the verification packet (which
might be missing).
* Updated par2repairersourcefile.cpp: Add function to set the block
count when the verification packet is missing.
1 August 2003 Peter B Clements
* Updated par2cmdline.h: Included <iomanip>.
31 July 2003 Peter B Clements
* Updated reedsolomon.h: Added debugging code.
29 July 2003 Peter B Clements
* Updated galois.h: Use typename when refering to a typedef
in another class.
* Updated par1repairer.cpp: Cast size of fileentry in memcpy.
* Updated par2repairersourcefile.h: Add function to set the block
count for a file when the verification packet is missing.
25 July 2003 Peter B Clements
* Updated par2cmdline.h: Correct spelling of STDC_HEADERS.
16 July 2003 Peter B Clements
* Release: Version 0.3.
15 July 2003 Peter B Clements
* Added config.guess, config.sub: Autoconf files.
* Updated configure, Makefile.in: Updated by Autoconf.
* Updated configure.ac: Changed par2cmdline version number. Added
call to AC_CANONICAL_HOST.
* Updated par2cmdline.vcproj: Updated version number.
3 July 2003 Peter B Clements
* Updated aclocal.m4, depcomp, INSTALL, install-sh,
mkinstalldirs: Upgrade Autoconf to version 1.75 from 1.6.3.
* Updated Makefile.am: Changed CXXFLAGS to AM_CXXFLAGS.
24 June 2003 Peter B Clements
* Updated commandline.cpp, commandline.h: Added "redundancyseet"
member to record whether or not the value of "redundancy" has been
specified so that 0% reduncancy is permissible.
* Updated par2creator.cpp: Detect situation where no recovery
blocks are being created and skip related code sections.
14 June 2003 Peter B Clements
* Updated galois.h: Corrected bug in the initialisation of log[0] in
GaloisTable.
11 June 2003 Peter B Clements
* Updated par1repair.cpp, par1repairer.h: Detect buggy version
of smartpar which creates PAR1 files with invalid 16k hash
values, Change alignement of temporary buffer used for
PAR1FILEENTRYs to 8 bytes.
7 June 2003 Peter B Clements
* Update par2cmdline.h: Added <cassert> header include.
3 June 2003 Peter B Clements
* Updated verificationhashtable.h: Fixed bug where blocks of data
that have the same crc and hash would not be correctly
recognised.
26 May 2003 Peter B Clements
* Release: Version 0.2.
* Added config.h.in, configure, configure.ac, depcomp, missing,
mkinstalldirs, stamp-h.in: Autoconf configuration files.
* Added NEWS
* Added par1fileformat.h, par1fileformat.cpp: Specifies the
layout of PAR 1.0 files.
* Added par1repairer.h, par1repairer.cpp: Encapsulates the details
of repairing using PAR 1.0 files.
* Added par1repairersourcefile.h, par1repairersourcefile.cpp:
Stores details of a source file.
* Added test1, test2, test3, test4, test5, test6, testdata.tar.gz:
Test files for "make check".
* Changed commandline.cpp, commandline.h: Add "version" member
and set it according to whether the recovery file is a .PAR file
or a .PAR2 file. Rename "par2filename" member to "parfilename".
* Changed creatorpacket.cpp: Made "string creator" a local variable
in CreatorPacket::Create instead of a global. Commented out code
that does nothing.
* Changed criticalpacket.h: Corrected bug in
CriticalPacketEntry::operator= which failed to return *this.
* Changed descriptionpacket.cpp: Commented out code which does
nothing.
* Changed diskfile.cpp: Updated wildcard matching code to permit
multiple "?" in wildcard. Adjusted the list of characters that
are accepted in filenames to include all with bit 7 set and
also spaces. Removed restrictions on many other permitted
characters.
* Changed diskfile.h: Removed cygwin and linux ifdefs which are
now handled by autoconf.
* Changed galois.cpp: Move the constructors for GaloisTable and
GaloisLongMultiplyTable to galois.h.
* Changed galois.h: Changed GaloisTable, Galois, and
GaloisLongMultipleTable into templates. Corrected bug in
Galois::pow and Galois::operator^ which incorrectly returned 0
for x^0 when it should always return 1. Added Galois8 and
Galois16 typedefs for PAR1 and PAR2.
* Changed letype.h: Added leu16 type for use in PAR1 processing.
* Changed mainpacket.cpp: Commented out code which does nothing.
* Changed md5.cpp: Adjusted ROL macro to include masking to correct
for bug on Alpha CPUs. Added operator<<() and print() to MD5Hash.
* Changed md5.h: Added copy and assignment operators for MD5Hash.
* Changed par2cmdline.cpp: Made "string version" a local variable
instead of global. Use Par1Repairer or Par2Repaire as appropriate
when verifying or repairing PAR1 and PAR2 files.
* Changed par2cmdline.h: Adjusted to conditionally include headers
and to define various types based on the autoconf configuration.
* Changed par2cmdline.sln, par2cmdline.vcproj: Updated.
* Changed par2creator.cpp: Called Commandline::GetParFilename instead
of CommandLine::GetPar2Filename.
* Changed par2creator.h: Redifine rs as ReedSolomon<Galois16>.
* Changed par2creatorsourcefile.cpp: Comment out code which does
nothing. Added typecasts between 32bit and 64bit values.
* Changed par2fileformat.cpp: Adjusted initialisation code.
* Changed par2fileformat.h: Use packed attribute for gnu compilers.
* Changed par2repairer.cpp: Get filename using
CommandLine::GetParFilename.
* Changed par2repairer.h: Redefine rs as ReedSolomon<Galois16>.
* Changed par2repairersourcefile: Add typecast from 32bit to 64bit.
* Changed README: Update details of how to compile the source code
using the configure script.
* Changed recoverypacket.cpp: Commented out code which does nothing.
* Changed ReedSolomon.cpp: Move ReedSolomon constructor to
ReedSolomon.h. Created template specialisations for Galois8 and
Galois16 for SetInput, SetOutput, and Process.
* Changed ReedSolomon.h: Converted ReedSolomon to a template.
* Changed verificationhashtable.cpp: Removed unused code.
* Changed verificationpacket.cpp: Commented out code that does
nothing.
7 May 2003 Peter B Clements
* Version 0.1: Initial release.
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