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pbzip2 1.1.7 released

Written for pbzip2 by Jeff Gilchrist on 2012-06-09

Bugfix release:
- Fixed refusal to write to stdout on -dc from stdin (bug #886628)
- Fixed occasional failure on decompress with --ignore-trailing-garbage=1 with multiple bad blocks in the archive (bug #886625)

pbzip2 1.1.6 released

Written for pbzip2 by Jeff Gilchrist on 2011-10-30

Bugfix release:
- Fixed bug - deadlock due to unsynchronized broadcasts (bug #876686)
- Prevent deletion of input files on error (bug #874543)
- Document how to compress/decompress from standard input (bug #820525)
- Added more detailed kernel error messages (bug #874605)
- Fixes for error handling in muliti-file processing (bug #883782)

pbzip2 1.1.5 released

Written for pbzip2 by Jeff Gilchrist on 2011-07-17

Bugfix release:
- Fixed excessive output permissions while compress/decompress is in progress (bug #807536)

pbzip2 1.1.4 released

Written for pbzip2 by Jeff Gilchrist on 2011-04-27

Bugfix release:
- Fixed hang on decompress with --ignore-trailing-garbage=1 when producer is interrupted on trailing garbage (bug #762464)
- Added example to help for decompression piped to tar (bug #746806)
- Fixed typo in Trailing Garbage printed message (bug #746799)

pbzip2 1.1.3 released

Written for pbzip2 by Jeff Gilchrist on 2011-03-28

Bug-fix release. Most notable changes:
- Fixed hang on decompress with --ignore-trailing-garbage=1 and higher numCPU (e.g. > 2) (bug #740502)
- Print trailing garbage errors even when in quiet mode (bug #743635)
- Default extension on decompress of .tbz2 changed to .tar for bzip2 compatibility (bug #743639)

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