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diff --git a/doc/ANNOUNCEMENTs/AN-2.01.01a03 b/doc/ANNOUNCEMENTs/AN-2.01.01a03 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e7819a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/ANNOUNCEMENTs/AN-2.01.01a03 @@ -0,0 +1,150 @@ +Please have a look at the German open Source Center BerliOS at www.berlios.de +BerliOS will continue to support free hosting of cryptography projects even +when US laws change and don't allow to host cryptography projects in the USA. +Also look at sourcewell.berlios.de, the first Open Source announcement service +that itself is implemented as Open Source project. + +***************** Important news **************************** + +For the 'Slottable Source Plugin Module' SSPM Features read README.SSPM + +***************** Please Test ********************************* + +NEW features of cdrtools-2.01.01a02: + +******* +NOTE: this is _not_ a release that starts a new aplha/beta series of dirtibutions. + The only reason is to add certain new CD/DVD features that are important. + + So _please_ do not send any patches except when you like to fix extreme bugs. + I am currently mainly working on stable incremental restore featurs for star-1.5-final. + Once star-1.5-final is out, cdrtools will start a new developent cycle. +******* + +All: + +- Now using "makefiles-1.5" + +- Compilation on OS/ should work again (-Zexe -> -o xxx.$(EXEEXT) + +- Sleeptime to allow reading Gmake warning reduced to 2 seconds. + I am still waiting for GNU make to fix the bugs I did report in 1999. + +- Support for 'make DESTDIR=xxx install' added + +- Workaround for a Shell Bug on BSDi + +- Install workaround for the fact that BSDI has chown(1) in /usr/sbin/ + +- cc-config shell script reworked + +- Better configure tests for procfs include files + +- Configure tests for fchown, chmod, fchmod, lchmod, futimes, lutimes + +- Configure tests for fdopendir + +- Configure tests for broken ext2fs includes files in Linux kernel + +- Better SRCROOT search function in makefiles shell scripts + +- libunls reworked + +- New autoconf tests for broken <linux/ext2_fs.h>, <scsi/scsi.h> & <scsi/sg.h> + on various Linux systems + + +Libparanoia (Ported by Jörg Schilling, originated by Monty xiphmont@mit.edu): + +Libedc (Optimized by Jörg Schilling, originated by Heiko Eißfeldt heiko@hexco.de): + +Libscg: + +- Trying to introduce a workaround for broken <scsi/scsi.h> & <scsi/sg.h> + on various Linux systems. + +- Trying to introduce a workaround for the changed SCSI generic Linux + Kernel interface from Linux-2.6.8.1 and newer. + + Be very careful with testing. The Linux adption layer for libscg + is already full of workarounds for bugs, unstable interfaces and + unwillingness of the Linux Kernel maintainers to give access to the + needed information for libscg. I am not sure whether this workaround + will not have problems. It has been tested on a Pegasus PPC running + Linux-2.6.8.1 + +Rscsi: + +Cdrecord: + +- Allow the -shorttrack option for RAW mode, thanks to a report + from Sebastian Trueg + +- Enhance the minimal grace time from 2 to 3 seconds to make sure + that cdrecord will not get out of sync with locks from the + Volume management system. + +- Better checks and better error messages for /etc/default/cdrecord + +- Correct verbose print mode for old pre-MMC TEAC drives. + +- Added support for Ultra speed+ CD-RW media recognition and a check + whether the drive supports Ultra speed+ CD-RW media. + (Thanks to Alexander Noé). + + +Cdda2wav (By Heiko Eißfeldt heiko@hexco.de): + +Readcd: + +Scgcheck: + +Scgskeleton: + +Mkisofs (By Jörg Schilling and James Pearson j.pearson@ge.ucl.ac.uk): + +- Better error messages with wrong Eltorito boot options + +- Man page is now more explicit about requirements for DVD-video + directory trees. + +- Better warning text for missing Rock Ridge in multi.c + +- Bugs in README.sunx86boot corrected + +- Multi Volume code for reading old image now gives different + error messages on read errors and short reads. + +- Diagnostic programs isodump, isoinfo, ... no longer dump core + when called with dev=<SCSI addr> parameters. + +TODO: + - read Joliet filenames with multi-session if no TRANS.TBL + or RR is present. I am looking for a volouteer for this task! + + Note that this can never be 100% correct as there is no relation + between the names on the master (UNIX) filesystem, the ISO-9660 + names and the Joliet names. Only the Rock Ridge names are + untranslated with respect to the original files on the + master (UNIX) filesystem. + + - add libecc/edc for CDI and similar. + + +CYGWIN NT-4.0 NOTES: + +To compile on Cygwin32, get Cygwin and install it. +For more information read README.win32 + +The files are located on: + +ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha ... + +NOTE: These tar archives are 100% POSIX compatible. GNU tar may get some + minor trouble. If you like a 100% POSIX compliant tar, get star from + ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/ + +WARNING: Do not use 'winzip' to extract the tar file! + Winzip cannot extract symbolic links correctly. + +Joerg |