[Squashfs-announce] [ANNOUNCE] squashfs-tools-ng 1.2.0 is released

[David O. <go...@in...>]

Hi,

I am pleased to announce the release of squashfs-tools-ng 1.2.0.

This release adds support for loading xattrs from a description file, as well
as micromanaging file packing order through a "sort file". A few new library
features are also added, that have been held back for a long time during the
previous bug-fix-only releases.


Tarball:    https://infraroot.at/pub/squashfs/squashfs-tools-ng-1.2.0.tar.xz

Signature:  https://infraroot.at/pub/squashfs/squashfs-tools-ng-1.2.0.tar.xz.asc

Signed tag: https://github.com/AgentD/squashfs-tools-ng.git v1.2.0
             https://git.infraroot.at/squashfs-tools-ng.git v1.2.0


Pre-compiled Windows binaries, built using a MinGW cross toolchain,
are available here:

https://infraroot.at/pub/squashfs/windows/squashfs-tools-ng-1.2.0-mingw32.zip
https://infraroot.at/pub/squashfs/windows/squashfs-tools-ng-1.2.0-mingw32.zip.asc

https://infraroot.at/pub/squashfs/windows/squashfs-tools-ng-1.2.0-mingw64.zip
https://infraroot.at/pub/squashfs/windows/squashfs-tools-ng-1.2.0-mingw64.zip.asc


At this point, version 1.0.0 is now ~2.5 years old. And the public libsquashfs
library, originally added in version 0.7, has been extended several times in
ABI compatible ways.

With lessons learnt from various API shortcomings, the next release with new
features will likely be version 2.0. Until then, fixes for both 1.2.0,
and 1.1.0 will be further maintained on their respective branches, with
occasional patch level releases.

Going forward, the 1.0.x branch will no longer be maintained. The same will
likely also happen to 1.1.x after version 2.0, but support for 1.2.x will
continue past that.


Fixed from 1.1.4 to 1.2.0:
  - Only use actually available CPUs in `gensquashfs` and `tar2sqfs`
  - Overzealous bounds check in the `libsquashfs `block processor (#110)
  - In `sqfs_compressor_create`, clear the output pointer on error (#110)
  - Typo in `gensquashfs` and `tar2sqfs` block count statistics (#108)
  - Hard link resolution: report error if path cannonicalization fails
  - Documentation: signedness of the directory header inode number
  - Seek position in `libsquashfs` meta data reader erroneously out-of-bounds
  - Memory leak in `libfstree` error path
  - Double-free in `libfstree` error path
  - Hard link counter in `libfstree` now uses full 32 bit hard link count

New features in 1.2.0:
  - `gensquashfs` can add xattrs from a description file
  - `gensquashfs` can read file packing order from a "sort file"
  - `libsquashfs` directory reader supports `.` and `..` directory browsing
  - `libsquashfs` can reconstruct the full path for a tree node
  - Make the `sqfs_destroy` function safely support NULL pointers

Other changes in 1.2.0:
  - Internal cleanup and restructuring
  - Upgrade autotools version
  - Check in `autogen.sh` if the required tools are available
  - Trigger a build failure if no compressor library is available

Regards,

David