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Bump version to 0.8.

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Update Changelog for 0.8 beta release.
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Moinak Ghosh 2012-08-27 22:53:39 +05:30
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== 0.8 Beta release ==
Add support for libbsc a high-performance block sorting compressor.
Enable external algorithm threading for single chunk compressed files.
Add config script to generate Makefile based on flags.
Add install target and installation readme file.
Improve memory efficiency when total file size < total size of chunks.
Fix freeing of Zlib structures.
Add LZP Pre-Compression support ported from libbsc.
Add generic pre-processing wrappers for future support of other pre-processors.
Clean up computation of Rabin block sizes.
Compute Rabin scratch space accurately to avoid RAM wastage.
Delay allocation of per-thread chunks for performance and memory efficiency.
Avoid allocating double-buffer for single-chunk files.
Introduce lzmaMt option to indicate multithreaded LZMA.
Add multithreaded LZMA port from p7zip
Compute balanced thread count between chunk threads and algo threads
Generic way to handle querying algorithm parameters
Clean up unnecessary includes
Speed up sort comparator function.
Reduce memory consumption and improve performance in dedupe
Re-introduce crc64 for dedup blocks to avoid wasted memcpy-s
Restructe block array to be an array of pointers allocated on demand
Fix a corner case issue when splitting chunks at a dedup boundary
Improve Rabin computations using an irreducible polynomial
Slight improvement to similarity computation
A simple mechanism to include DEBUG mode stats
Implement secondary sketch based on character counts to refine similarity checksum.
Proper checksum update for last block.
== 0.7 Beta release ==
Bump version to 0.6
Bump version to 0.7
Fix handling of compression flags in adaptive mode
Fix error handling when chunk size is too small for dedupe
Fix initialization of adaptive modes.

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#define VERSION 3
#define FLAG_DEDUP 1
#define FLAG_SINGLE_CHUNK 2
#define UTILITY_VERSION 0.7
#define UTILITY_VERSION 0.8
#define COMPRESSED 1
#define UNCOMPRESSED 0