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1.7.24 - 30 July 2023
* fix: correct terminal size detection, broken in 1.7.17 by the configuration script rewrite ([GH#72](https://github.com/a-j-wood/pv/issues/72))
* security: removed *DEBUG* environment variable in debug mode, added "`--debug`" instead
* cleanup: added "`make analyse`" to run "`splint`" and "`flawfinder`" on all source files
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* cleanup: adjusted "`indent`" rules to line length of 120 and reformatted code
1.7.18 - 28 July 2023
* fix: language file installation had been broken by the configuration script rewrite
1.7.17 - 27 July 2023
* feature: new "`--sync`" option to flush cache to disk after every write (related to [GH#6](https://github.com/a-j-wood/pv/issues/6), to improve accuracy when writing to slow disks)
* feature: new "`--direct-io`" option to bypass cache - implements [GH#29 "Option to enable *O_DIRECT*"](https://github.com/a-j-wood/pv/issues/29) - requested by Romain Kang, Jacek Wielemborek
* fix: correct byte prefix size to 2 spaces in rate display, so progress display size remains constant at low transfer rates
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* cleanup: rewrote all local shell scripts to pass analysis by [ShellCheck](https://www.shellcheck.net)
1.7.0 - 17 July 2023
* dropped: support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its derivatives has been dropped; removed the RPM spec file, and will no longer build binaries
* feature: the "`--size`" option now accepts "`@filename`" to use the size of another file (pull request [#57](https://github.com/a-j-wood/pv/pull/57) supplied by [Dave Beckett](https://github.com/dajobe))
* feature: the "`--watchfd`" option is now available on OS X (pull request [#60](https://github.com/a-j-wood/pv/pull/60) supplied by [christoph-zededa](https://github.com/christoph-zededa))
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* docs: moved NEWS to NEWS.md, converted it to UTF-8, and altered it to Markdown format
1.6.20 - 12 September 2021
* fix: add missing `stddef.h` include to `number.c` (Sam James)
1.6.19 - 5 September 2021
* fix: starting pv in the background no longer immediately stops unless the transfer is to/from the terminal (Andriy Gapon, Jonathan Elchison)
* fix: using "`-B`", "`-A`", or "`-T`" now switches on "`-C`" implicitly (Johannes Gerer, André Stapf)
* fix: AIX build fixes (Peter Korsgaard)
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* (r203,205) marked unused arguments with GCC unused attribute, started using boolean data type for flags, corrected more compiler warnings
1.6.6 - 30 June 2017
* (r161) use `%llu` instead of `%Lu` for better compatibility (Eric A. Borisch)
* (r162) (#1532) fix target buffer size ("`-B`") being ignored (AndCycle, Ilya Basin, Antoine Beaupré)
* (r164) cap read/write sizes, and check elapsed time during read/write cycles, to avoid display hangs with large buffers or slow media; also remove `select()` call from repeated_write function as it slows the transfer down and the wrapping `alarm()` means it is unnecessary
@@ -89,6 +96,7 @@
* (r175) report error in "`-d`" if process fd directory is unreadable, or if process disappears before we start the main loop (Jacek Wielemborek)
1.6.0 - 15 March 2015
* fix lstat64 support when unavailable - separate patches supplied by Ganael Laplanche and Peter Korsgaard
* (#1506) new option "`-D`" / "`--delay-start`" to only show bar after N seconds (Damon Harper)
* new option "`--fineta`" / "`-I`" to show ETA as time of day rather than time remaining - patch supplied by Erkki Seppälä (r147)
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* output errors on a new line to avoid overwriting transfer bar
1.5.7 - 26 August 2014
* show KiB instead of incorrect kiB (Debian bug #706175)
* (#1284) do not gzip man page, for non-Linux OSes (Bob Friesenhahn)
* work around "awk" bug in `tests/016-numeric-timer` in decimal "," locales
* fix "`make rpm`" and "`make srpm`", extend "`make release`" to sign releases
1.5.3 - 4 May 2014
* remove *SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK* to fix problem with slow `splice()` (Jan Seda)
1.5.2 - 10 February 2014
* allow "`--watchfd`" to look at block devices
* let "`--watchfd PID:FD`" work with "`--size N`"
* moved contributors out of the manual as the list was too long (NB everyone is still listed in the README and always will be)
1.5.1 - 23 January 2014
* new option "`--watchfd`" - suggested by Jacek Wielemborek and "fdwatch"
* use non-block flag with `splice()`
* new display option "`--buffer-percent`", suggested by Kim Krecht
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* fix for single fd leak on exit (Cristian Ciupitu)
1.4.12 - 5 August 2013
* new option "`--null`" - patch supplied by Zing Shishak
* AIX build fix (add "`-lc128`") - with help from Pawel Piatek
* AIX "`-c`" fixes - with help from Pawel Piatek
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* fix for `splice()` not using stdin - patch from Zev Weiss
1.4.6 - 22 January 2013
* added patch from Pawel Piatek to omit *O_NOFOLLOW* in AIX
1.4.5 - 10 January 2013
* updated manual page to show known problem with "`-R`" on Cygwin
1.4.4 - 11 December 2012
* added debugging, see "`pv -h`" when `configure` is run with "`--enable-debugging`"
* rewrote cursor positioning code used when IPC is unavailable (Cygwin)
* fixed cursor positioning cursor read answerback problem (Cygwin/Solaris)
* fixed bug causing crash when progress displayed with too-small terminal
1.4.0 - 6 December 2012
* new option "`--skip-errors`" commissioned by Jim Salter
* if stdout is a block device, and we don't know the total size, use the size of that block device as the total (Peter Samuelson)
* new option "`--stop-at-size`" to stop after "`--size`" bytes
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* refactored large chunks of code to make it more readable and to replace most static variables with a state structure
1.3.9 - 5 November 2012
* allow "`--format`" parameters to be sent with "`--remote`"
* configure option "`--disable-ipc`"
* added tests for "`--numeric`" with "`--timer`" and "`--bytes`"
* added tests for "`--remote`"
1.3.8 - 29 October 2012
* new "`--pidfile`" option to save process ID to a file
* integrated patch for "`--numeric`" with "`--timer`" and "`--bytes`" (Sami Liedes)
* removed signalling from "`--remote`" to prevent accidental process kills
* new "`--format`" option (originally Vladimir Pal / Vladimir Ermakov)
1.3.4 - 27 June 2012
* new "`--disable-splice`" configure script option
* fixed line mode size count with multiple files (Moritz Barsnick)
* fixes for AIX core dumps (Pawel Piatek)
1.3.1 - 9 June 2012
* do not use `splice()` if the write buffer is not empty (Thomas Rachel)
* added test 15 (pipe transfers), and new test script
1.3.0 - 5 June 2012
* added Tiger build patch from Olle Jonsson
* fix 1024-boundary display garble (Debian bug #586763)
* use `splice`(2) where available (Debian bug #601683)
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* remove `LD=ld` from `vars.mk` to fix cross-compilation (paintitgray/PV#1291)
1.2.0 - 14 December 2010
* integrated improved SI prefixes and "`--average-rate`" (Henry Gebhardt)
* return nonzero if exiting due to *SIGTERM* (Martin Baum)
* patch from Phil Rutschman to restore terminal properly on exit
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* fixed potential NULL deref in transfer (Elias Pipping / LLVM/Clang)
1.1.4 - 6 March 2008
* patch from Elias Pipping correcting compilation failure on Darwin 9
* patch from Patrick Collison correcting similar problems on OS X
* trap *SIGINT* / *SIGHUP* / *SIGTERM* so we clean up IPCs on exit (Laszlo Ersek)
* abort if numeric option, eg "`-L`", has non-numeric value (Boris Lohner)
1.1.0 - 30 August 2007
* new option "`--remote`" ("`-R`") to control an already-running process
* new option "`--line-mode`" ("`-l`") to count lines instead of bytes
* fix for "`-L`" to be less resource intensive
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* removed "`/debian`" directory at request of new Debian maintainer
1.0.1 - 4 August 2007
* licensing change from Artistic to Artistic 2.0
* removed the "`-l`" / "`--license`" option
1.0.0 - 2 August 2007
* act more like "`cat`" - just skip unreadable files, don't abort
* removed text version of manual page, and obsolete Info file generation
* code cleanup and separation of PV internals from CLI front-end
0.9.9 - 5 February 2007
* new option "`--buffer-size`" ("`-B`") suggested by Mark Tomich
* build fix: HP/UX largefile compile fix from Timo Savinen
* maintain better buffer filling during transfers
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* dropped support for the Texinfo manual
0.9.6 - 27 February 2006
* bugfix: `key_t` incompatibility with Cygwin
* bugfix: interval ("`-i`") parameter parses numbers after decimal point
* build fix: use static NLS if `msgfmt` is unavailable
* on the final update, blank out the now-zero ETA
0.9.2 - 1 September 2005
* Daniel Roethlisberger patch: use lockfiles if terminal locking fails
0.9.1 - 16 June 2005
* minor RPM spec file fix for Fedora Core 4
0.9.0 - 15 November 2004
* minor NLS bugfix
0.8.9 - 6 November 2004
* decimal values now accepted for rate and size, eg "`-L 1.23M`"
* code cleanup
* developers: "`make help`" now lists Makefile targets
0.8.6 - 29 June 2004
* use `uu_lock()` for terminal locking on FreeBSD
0.8.5 - 2 May 2004
* cursor positioning ("`-c`") reliability improved on systems with IPC
* minor fix: made test 005 more reliable
* new option "`--height`" ("`-H`")
0.8.2 - 24 April 2004
* allow k,m,g,t suffixes on numbers
* added "`srpm`" and "`release`" Makefile targets
0.8.1 - 19 April 2004
* bugfix in cursor positioning ("`-c`")
0.8.0 - 12 February 2004
* replaced GNU getopt with my library code
* replaced GNU gettext with my very minimal replacement
* use *DESTDIR* instead of *RPM_BUILD_ROOT* for optional installation prefix
* looked for flaws using RATS, cleaned up code
0.7.0 - 8 February 2004
* display buffer management fixes (thanks Cédric Delfosse)
* replaced "`--enable-debug`" with "`--enable-debugging`" and "`--enable-profiling`"
0.6.4 - 14 January 2004
* fixed minor bug in RPM installation
* bugfix in "`make index`" (only of interest to developers)
0.6.3 - 22 December 2003
* fixed transient bug that reported "resource unavailable" occasionally
0.6.2 - 6 August 2003
* block devices now have their size read correctly, so "`pv /dev/hda1`" works
* minor code cleanups (mainly removal of CVS "Id" tags)
0.6.0 - 3 August 2003
* doing *^Z* then "`bg`" then "`fg`" now continues displaying
0.5.9 - 23 July 2003
* fix for test 007 when not in C locale
* fix for build process to use *CPPFLAGS*
* fix for build process to use correct i18n libraries
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* fixes for building on Mac OS X
0.5.3 - 4 May 2003
* added Polish translation thanks to Bartosz Feński <fenio@o2.pl> <http://skawina.eu.org/> and Krystian Zubel
* moved `doc/debian` to `./debian` at insistence of common sense
* minor Solaris 8 compatibility fixes
* seems to compile and test OK on Mac OS X
0.5.0 - 15 April 2003
* added French translation thanks to Stéphane Lacasse <stephane@gorfou.ca>
* added German translation thanks to Marcos Kreinacke <public@kreinacke.com>
* switched LGPL reference from "Library" to "Lesser"
0.4.9 - 18 February 2003
* support for >2GB files added where available (Debian bug #180986)
* added `doc/debian` dir (from Cédric Delfosse)
* added "`make rpm`" and "`make deb`" targets to build RPM and Debian packages
* added a "`make pv-static`" rule to build a statically linked version
0.4.5 - 13 December 2002
* added Portuguese (Brazilian) translation thanks to Eduardo Aguiar
0.4.4 - 7 December 2002
* pause/resume support - don't count time while stopped
* stop output when resumed in the background
* terminal size change support
* bugfix: "`<=>`" indicator no longer sticks at right hand edge
0.4.0 - 27 November 2002
* allow decimal interval values, eg 0.1, 0.5, etc
* some simple tests added ("`make check`")
* smoother throughput limiting ("`--rate-limit`"), now done in 0.1sec chunks
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* use `fcntl()` instead of `flock()` for Solaris compatibility
0.3.0 - 25 November 2002
* handle broken output pipe gracefully
* continue updating display even when output pipe is blocking
0.2.6 - 21 October 2002
* we now ignore *EINTR* on `select()`
* variable-size buffer (still need to add code to change size)
* added (tentative) support for internationalisation
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* added "`--quiet`" option (no output at all) to be used with "`--rate-limit`"
0.2.5 - 23 July 2002
* added *[FILE]...* arguments, like "`cat`"
* function separation in code
* some bug fixes related to numeric overflow
0.2.3 - 19 July 2002
* Texinfo manual written, man page updated
* byte counter added
0.2.0 - 18 July 2002
* ETA counter added
* screen width estimation added
* progress bar added
0.1.0 - 17 July 2002
* main loop created
* rate counter added
* elapsed time counter added
* percentage calculation added
0.0.1 - 16 July 2002
* package created
* first draft of man page written