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Changes in 1.2.11 (15 Jan 2017)
- Fix deflate stored bug when pulling last block from window
- Permit immediate deflateParams changes before any deflate input

Changes in 1.2.10 (2 Jan 2017)
- Avoid warnings on snprintf() return value
- Fix bug in deflate_stored() for zero-length input
- Fix bug in gzwrite.c that produced corrupt gzip files
- Remove files to be installed before copying them in Makefile.in
- Add warnings when compiling with assembler code

Changes in 1.2.9 (31 Dec 2016)
- Fix contrib/minizip to permit unzipping with desktop API [Zouzou]
- Improve contrib/blast to return unused bytes
- Assure that gzoffset() is correct when appending
- Improve compress() and uncompress() to support large lengths
- Fix bug in test/example.c where error code not saved
- Remedy Coverity warning [Randers-Pehrson]
- Improve speed of gzprintf() in transparent mode
- Fix inflateInit2() bug when windowBits is 16 or 32
- Change DEBUG macro to ZLIB_DEBUG
- Avoid uninitialized access by gzclose_w()
- Allow building zlib outside of the source directory
- Fix bug that accepted invalid zlib header when windowBits is zero
- Fix gzseek() problem on MinGW due to buggy _lseeki64 there
- Loop on write() calls in gzwrite.c in case of non-blocking I/O
- Add --warn (-w) option to ./configure for more compiler warnings
- Reject a window size of 256 bytes if not using the zlib wrapper
- Fix bug when level 0 used with Z_HUFFMAN or Z_RLE
- Add --debug (-d) option to ./configure to define ZLIB_DEBUG
- Fix bugs in creating a very large gzip header
- Add uncompress2() function, which returns the input size used
- Assure that deflateParams() will not switch functions mid-block
- Dramatically speed up deflation for level 0 (storing)
- Add gzfread(), duplicating the interface of fread()
- Add gzfwrite(), duplicating the interface of fwrite()
- Add deflateGetDictionary() function
- Use snprintf() for later versions of Microsoft C
- Fix *Init macros to use z_ prefix when requested
- Replace as400 with os400 for OS/400 support [Monnerat]
- Add crc32_z() and adler32_z() functions with size_t lengths
- Update Visual Studio project files [AraHaan]

.TH ZLIB 3 "15 Jan 2017"
.SH NAME
zlib \- compression/decompression library
.SH SYNOPSIS
[see
.I zlib.h
for full description]
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.I zlib
library is a general purpose data compression library.
The code is thread safe, assuming that the standard library functions
used are thread safe, such as memory allocation routines.
It provides in-memory compression and decompression functions,
including integrity checks of the uncompressed data.
This version of the library supports only one compression method (deflation)
but other algorithms may be added later
with the same stream interface.
.LP
Compression can be done in a single step if the buffers are large enough
or can be done by repeated calls of the compression function.
In the latter case,
the application must provide more input and/or consume the output
(providing more output space) before each call.
.LP
The library also supports reading and writing files in
.IR gzip (1)
(.gz) format
with an interface similar to that of stdio.
.LP
The library does not install any signal handler.
The decoder checks the consistency of the compressed data,
so the library should never crash even in the case of corrupted input.
.LP
All functions of the compression library are documented in the file
.IR zlib.h .
The distribution source includes examples of use of the library
in the files
.I test/example.c
and
.IR test/minigzip.c,
as well as other examples in the
.IR examples/
directory.
.LP
Changes to this version are documented in the file
.I ChangeLog
that accompanies the source.
.LP
.I zlib
is built in to many languages and operating systems, including but not limited to
Java, Python, .NET, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Swift, and Go.
.LP
An experimental package to read and write files in the .zip format,
written on top of
.I zlib
by Gilles Vollant (info@winimage.com),
is available at:
.IP
http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/minizip.html
and also in the
.I contrib/minizip
directory of the main
.I zlib
source distribution.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
The
.I zlib
web site can be found at:
.IP
http://zlib.net/
.LP
The data format used by the
.I zlib
library is described by RFC
(Request for Comments) 1950 to 1952 in the files:
.IP
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1950 (for the zlib header and trailer format)
.br
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1951 (for the deflate compressed data format)
.br
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1952 (for the gzip header and trailer format)
.LP
Mark Nelson wrote an article about
.I zlib
for the Jan. 1997 issue of  Dr. Dobb's Journal;
a copy of the article is available at:
.IP
http://marknelson.us/1997/01/01/zlib-engine/
.SH "REPORTING PROBLEMS"
Before reporting a problem,
please check the
.I zlib
web site to verify that you have the latest version of
.IR zlib ;
otherwise,
obtain the latest version and see if the problem still exists.
Please read the
.I zlib
FAQ at:
.IP
http://zlib.net/zlib_faq.html
.LP
before asking for help.
Send questions and/or comments to zlib@gzip.org,
or (for the Windows DLL version) to Gilles Vollant (info@winimage.com).
.SH AUTHORS AND LICENSE
Version 1.2.11
.LP
Copyright (C) 1995-2017 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler
.LP
This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied
warranty.  In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages
arising from the use of this software.
.LP
Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose,
including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it
freely, subject to the following restrictions:
.LP
.nr step 1 1
.IP \n[step]. 3
The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not
claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software
in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be
appreciated but is not required.
.IP \n+[step].
Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be
misrepresented as being the original software.
.IP \n+[step].
This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.
.LP
Jean-loup Gailly        Mark Adler
.br
jloup@gzip.org          madler@alumni.caltech.edu
.LP
The deflate format used by
.I zlib
was defined by Phil Katz.
The deflate and
.I zlib
specifications were written by L. Peter Deutsch.
Thanks to all the people who reported problems and suggested various
improvements in
.IR zlib ;
who are too numerous to cite here.
.LP
UNIX manual page by R. P. C. Rodgers,
U.S. National Library of Medicine (rodgers@nlm.nih.gov).
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