Subject: new snapshot available: gzip-1.10.34-aa73

From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2021 22:37:00 -0700

NEWS (below) is nearly empty, but it's been more than 2.5 years since
the last release, so I am now preparing to make a new one.  Any testing
would be most welcome.  If anyone has pending changes, please speak
soon.  I aim to release in just a few days.

gzip snapshot:
  https://meyering.net/gzip/gzip-ss.tar.xz      784 KB
  https://meyering.net/gzip/gzip-ss.tar.xz.sig
  https://meyering.net/gzip/gzip-1.10.34-aa73.tar.xz

SHA256(gzip-1.10.34-aa73.tar.gz)= c019e66b7f244ccc5d5ddc945b636ee0d83ad1ef7611303f31821e2425abe087
SHA256(gzip-1.10.34-aa73.tar.xz)= 2074d8d0fea002ba7382bb64c16b76b2aad6c9029e8f58a99aec220259e6aa5e
SHA256(gzip-1.10.34-aa73.zip)= f2dd8f4a5e878bbd022d5b58aca6f1aafd473c32cdb88cb741c9e278101a6345

Changes in gzip since v1.10:

Bjarni Ingi Gislason (1):
      doc: gzip.1: Change .BR to .B as there is only one argument

Dmitry V. Levin (1):
      bug#47715: [PATCH] gzip.c: use a more portable alignment

Ilya Leoshkevich (8):
      bug#34918: [PATCH] Add support for IBM Z hardware-accelerated deflate
      Document IBM Z environment variables
      IBM Z DFLTCC: fix three data corruption issues
      IBM Z DFLTCC: add STREQ definition
      Update .gitignore files
      bug#43583: Fix building DFLTCC with clang
      Fix DFLTCC segfault when compressing or decompressing two files
      Add a test for compressing and decompressing two files

Jim Meyering (17):
      maint: post-release administrivia
      maint: update all copyright dates via "make update-copyright"
      build: update gnulib to latest
      build: ensure no VLA is used
      maint: placate strcmp-vs-STREQ syntax check rule
      maint: change calloc module to calloc-gnu
      maint: update all copyright year number ranges
      doc: man page improvements
      build: update gnulib to latest
      build: require autoconf-2.64
      build: update gnulib to latest
      maint: avoid autoreconf warnings
      maint: remove uses of obsolete macros
      maint: avoid another autoreconf warning
      maint: update all copyright year number ranges
      build: update gnulib to latest
      build: update gnulib to latest

Paul Eggert (7):
      gzexe: fix count of lines to skip
      Improve IBM Z patch
      doc: prefer bold to italics for command names
      * gzip.1: Quote better (Bug#46730).
      gzip: port to SIGPIPE-less platforms
      zgrep: fix option typo
      maint: modernize .gitignore

Changes in gnulib since v1.10:

* gnulib 95c96b6dd...1221876a7 (2546):
  > canonicalize-lgpl: Fix conflict with z/OS <sys/stat.h>.
  ... 2545 lines elided ...

=======================
NEWS

** Performance improvements

  IBM Z platforms now support hardware-accelerated deflation.