220 lines
9.9 KiB
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220 lines
9.9 KiB
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== 1.2.0 Major Stable Release ==
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Fix issue #1 and issue #2.
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Enable building with older openssl (at least 0.9.8e).
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Add variants of missing functions in older openssl versions.
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Allow proper linking with libraries in alternate locations and setting RUNPATH.
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Increase hash rounds for nonce generation.
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Fix calculation of extra scratch space for Dedupe.
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Add missing return value check in small buffer Delta2.
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Update test failure detection in test driver.
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Fix numeric parsing.
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Fix dedupe bug introduced in last commit.
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Reset valid flag when resetting dedupe context.
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Cleanup test suites.
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Do not abort test suite on failure of a test case.
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Fix Delta2 handling for small buffers.
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Fix LZP handling during preprocessing.
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Fix type flag handling during preprocessing.
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Update test cases to use configurable list of test corpus files.
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Update some more int64_t datatypes to uint64_t
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Update to latest XXHash version.
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Fix Keccak invocation and reset default checksum back to SKEIN 256.
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Improve Dedupe performance.
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Fix compiler warning in allocator code.
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Major enhancements to Delta2 encoding.
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Fix the byteswap macros.
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Start adding assertions.
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Introduce strict compiler flags and fix scores of warnings/issues.
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Avoid different optimization flags for Dedupe sources.
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Fix liberal mixing of uint64_t and int64_t (should all be uint64_t).
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Fix corner case crash when decompressing.
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Fix Delta2 decode handling when not compressing.
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More debug statements and other minor changes.
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Avoid transposing below-threshold spans. Reduces compression ratio.
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Use little-endian storage format for numbers to optimize for x86.
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Improve embedded table detection.
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Reduce Delta2 header sizes.
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Fix preprocessing behavior when LZP does not compress but Delta2 works.
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Improve Delta2 scanning speed and effectiveness.
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Add destination buffer overflow check in Delta2.
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Add rough speed computation.
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More tweaks to Delta2 implementation.
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Ability to run individual test suites from makefile.
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Silence more Gcc warnings.
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Update testing note.
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Improve 64-bit compiler and platform checks.
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Ensure core dumps are enabled during testing.
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Enable building with alternate Zlib and Bzlib.
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Fix correct setting of output size when using Delta2 without LZP.
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README formatting.
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Make Delta2 encoding independent of LZP.
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Tweak Delta2 parameters.
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Update README and test cases.
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Update README to align with current features/behavior.
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Fine tune transpose parameters.
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Fix minor nits.
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Change confusing structure member name.
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Add Matrix Transpose of Dedupe index to compress it better.
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Fix handling of Dedupe index compression failure.
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Ensure intermediate file cleanup in tests.
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Update to latest LZ4.
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Get rid of size_t in places where 64-bitness is assumed.
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Add support for 64-bit Keccak implementation.
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Sanitize error message from tests.
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Add more tests.
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Improve platform detection in config script.
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Add adaptive delta encoding test.
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Implement Adaptive Delta Encoding (Delta2).
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Work in progress global dedupe config setup.
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== 1.1.0 Stable Release ==
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Fix building without Libbsc support.
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Add more tests for corrupted encrypted files.
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Fix thread error reporting.
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Update error condition tests to not truncate archive.
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Fix issues with error handling.
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Add new tests for out of range values and corrupted file.
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Avoid CRC32 when decompressing older version archives.
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Use HMAC on header and encrypted data, avoid regular digest when encrypting.
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Add CRC32 header checksums in non-cryptographic mode.
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Zlib optimizations. Use raw deflate streams to avoid unnecessary adler32.
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Change some function signatures to improve algo init function behavior.
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Fix corner case dedupe bug in error handling flow.
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Bump archive version signature.
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Work in progress global dedupe config loader.
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Use fixed rolling-hash mask for better block size approximation.
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== 1.0.0 Stable Release ==
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Fix chunk flag setup when compression fails in adaptive mode.
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Prevent display of non-fatal errors during compression.
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Add buffer overflow check in Ppmd compression routines.
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Fix pipe mode encryption check.
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Change file difference check in tests.
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Fix encryption with adaptive modes.
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Add missing zero-out of algorithm data field.
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Add a functionality test suite.
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Tweak chunking parameters for better block size distribution and dedupe ratio.
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Add some more debug mode info.
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Minor fix for adapt mode.
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Use Libbsc for XML data in adapt2 mode.
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== 0.9.1 Minor update Release ==
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Portability to Debian based distros.
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Enable SSE4/AVX detection for AMD platforms (Bulldozer has both).
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Portable long long int print formatting to silence gcc 4.6 warnings.
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Add another example invocation.
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== 0.9.0 Major Release ==
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Implement HMAC verification for chunk header.
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Do not ask for decryption passwd twice.
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Refactor crypto utility functions in a separate file.
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Add HMAC verification for file header.
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Add a few extra input validation checks.
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Include space in chunk header for HMAC.
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Support for chunk-level encryption using AES and Scrypt based PBE.
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Couple of minor fixes.
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Incorporate SSE/AVX optimized Intel SHA-256 implementation.
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Add support for runtime cpuid detection.
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Add support for SHA256 and SHA512 digests from OpenSSL library.
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== 0.8.6 Update Release ==
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Fix polynomial computation.
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Fix incorrect block length when doing fixed-block dedupe.
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Remove unused structure member.
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Switch to multiplicative rolling hash for good
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== 0.8.5 Update Release ==
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Update adaptive mode heuristic based on algorithms.
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Remove incorrect check in PPMd decompression code.
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Speed up adaptive modes by using heuristics to select compression algorithm.
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Select similarity percentage based on dedupe block size for effectiveness.
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Fix check for size reduction in dedupe.
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Fix polynomial table computation.
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Change hashing and length bias to reduce hashtable bucket collisions.
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Add support for user-selectable 60% or 40% similarity for Delta Compression.
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Overall slight speedup.
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Rewrite core dedupe logic to simplify code and improve performance.
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Hashtable based chunk-level deduplication instead of Quicksort.
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Fix a corner case bug in Dedupe decompression.
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Speed up Hash computation for dedupe blocks.
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Add support for Fixed-Block deduplication.
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Reduce dedupe loop checks for slight speed edge.
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Implement K-min-values Sketch for Similarity detection.
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== 0.8.1 Bugfix Release ==
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Fix return code handling in LZP pre-compression, crashed adaptive modes.
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Allow user-specified minimum Dedupe block size.
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Compute similarity sketch only if Delta Compression enabled.
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Fix secondary sketch computation, some more accuracy in diff detection.
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Add xxHash for Rabin block checksums, slightly faster than CRC64.
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Fix missing initialization of character counts table.
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Some file reorganization.
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Add ASM version of Skein for x64 platforms with auto-detection
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Error checking for checksum flag when decompressing
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Add support for Skein512 and Skein256 checksums
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Import Skein code from NIST CD submission
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Make checksum algorithms pluggable
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Fix handling of huge buffers (>2GB) in LZP
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Cleanup of some buffer sizing code
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== 0.8 Beta release ==
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Add support for libbsc a high-performance block sorting compressor.
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Enable external algorithm threading for single chunk compressed files.
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Add config script to generate Makefile based on flags.
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Add install target and installation readme file.
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Improve memory efficiency when total file size < total size of chunks.
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Fix freeing of Zlib structures.
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Add LZP Pre-Compression support ported from libbsc.
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Add generic pre-processing wrappers for future support of other pre-processors.
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Clean up computation of Rabin block sizes.
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Compute Rabin scratch space accurately to avoid RAM wastage.
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Delay allocation of per-thread chunks for performance and memory efficiency.
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Avoid allocating double-buffer for single-chunk files.
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Introduce lzmaMt option to indicate multithreaded LZMA.
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Add multithreaded LZMA port from p7zip
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Compute balanced thread count between chunk threads and algo threads
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Generic way to handle querying algorithm parameters
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Clean up unnecessary includes
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Speed up sort comparator function.
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Reduce memory consumption and improve performance in dedupe
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Re-introduce crc64 for dedup blocks to avoid wasted memcpy-s
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Restructe block array to be an array of pointers allocated on demand
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Fix a corner case issue when splitting chunks at a dedup boundary
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Improve Rabin computations using an irreducible polynomial
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Slight improvement to similarity computation
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A simple mechanism to include DEBUG mode stats
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Implement secondary sketch based on character counts to refine similarity checksum.
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Proper checksum update for last block.
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== 0.7 Beta release ==
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Bump version to 0.7
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Fix handling of compression flags in adaptive mode
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Fix error handling when chunk size is too small for dedupe
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Fix initialization of adaptive modes.
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Compute and compare Mean sketch cksum to improve similarity comparison
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Fix optflags settings in Makefile
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Small optimization in zero RLE encoder to avoid scanning during lookahead
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Some minor fixes
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Bias fingerprint value with occurrence counts for a better sketch
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Fix latent bug when calling algo deinit in decompression code
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Reduce diff threshold for slightly greater delta encoding
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Limit similar buffer size difference for less wasted diffing
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Change zlib compression wrapper to use faster deflateReset mechanism
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Reduce optimization level for Dedupe code, it goes faster
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Fix handling of incompressible chunks.
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Fix handling of various dedup failures.
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Add NULL compression option for dedup only compression.
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Remove unneeded checks in qsort comparator.
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Fix buffer sizing for LZ4.
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Fix exit condition checks in LZ4 decompression wrapper.
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Fix buffer size calculation when decompressing LZ4, Zlib and Bzip2 compressed chunks.
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Slight SSE optimization in LZ4HC.
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== 0.6 Alpha bugfix release ==
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Fix crash when algo init function returns error.
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Fix LZFX error handling.
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More updates to README.
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Further improve LZMA compression parameters to utilize all the 14 levels.
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Tweak some Rabin parmeters for better reduction with zlib and Bzip2.
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Increase the small size slabs a bit.
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Fix slab sizing.
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Fix buffer size computation when allocating Rabin block array.
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Reduce memory usage of Rabin block array.
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Add an SSE optimization for bsdiff.
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