From 303d3ea3590447a451d88442ed465d1f07f44a9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Wood Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2023 20:11:30 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Corrected Markdown list formatting. --- doc/NEWS.md | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/NEWS.md b/doc/NEWS.md index 8e4193c..5547869 100644 --- a/doc/NEWS.md +++ b/doc/NEWS.md @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ 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 @@ -7,9 +8,11 @@ * 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 @@ -29,6 +32,7 @@ * 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)) @@ -51,9 +55,11 @@ * 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) @@ -81,6 +87,7 @@ * (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) @@ -100,20 +108,24 @@ * 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 @@ -123,6 +135,7 @@ * 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 @@ -131,18 +144,22 @@ * 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 @@ -151,27 +168,32 @@ * 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) @@ -183,6 +205,7 @@ * 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 @@ -196,12 +219,14 @@ * 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 @@ -211,15 +236,18 @@ * 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 @@ -227,65 +255,81 @@ * 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 @@ -294,32 +338,38 @@ * fixes for building on Mac OS X 0.5.3 - 4 May 2003 + * added Polish translation thanks to Bartosz Feński 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 * added German translation thanks to Marcos Kreinacke * 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 @@ -330,10 +380,12 @@ * 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 @@ -344,25 +396,30 @@ * 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