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cdrtools-2.01a24 ready



NEW features of cdrtools-2.01a24:

Please have a look at the German open Source Center BerliOS at www.berlios.de
BerliOS will continue to support free hosting of cryptography projects even
when US laws change and don't allow to host cryptography projects in the USA.
Also look at sourcewell.berlios.de, the first Open Source announcement service
that itself is implemented as Open Source project.

***************** Important news ****************************

For the 'Slottable Source Plugin Module' SSPM Features read README.SSPM

***************** Please Test *********************************

NOTICE: for supporting the CW-7501 and for supporting SAO/DAO with the
	Sony CDU-920, Sony CDU-924, Sony CDU-948, the driver interface has
	been modified.  This change did affect more than 3000 lines of code.
	The new driver interface again is more simple and more extendable than
	the old one, but the change may affect -dummy and -multi writing for
	any other drive. Please test if the change did not introduce new bugs.

	Also the change on the packet writing structures may affect packet writing.

	The changes for the DVD+ drive/media recognition may affect drive or
	media type recognition for any other drive.

	The changes for DVD+RW & DVD+R media support may cause cdrecod to fail 
	in other circumstances.

	With cdrecord-2.01a13, the track parsing has been completely rearranged
	in order to support new features in the future. This causes a high risk
	for bugs.

	With cdrecord-2.01a14, CUE Sheet handling has been introduced and
	1200 lines of new code has been integrated.

	Please test.

GPL violation hint:

	All recent SuSE distributions contain inofficial and modified versions
	of cdrecord that are known to contain bugs and open new security holes.

	At least SuSE 8.2 (maybe other SuSE releases too) did contain a modified
	version of cdrecord that did violate the GPL § 2 Paragraph c) and
	GPL Preamble Section 6 by not making clear that they published a modified
	version that differs from the original and thus may have bug not found
	in the official version. As the version published by SuSE definitely has bugs,
	it is obvious that this hint is needed.

	SuSE 9.0 now seems to honor the GPL but the cdrecord binaries on SuSE 9.0
	are definitely defective - please compile cdrecord yourself to get
	binaries that work as expected.

	Unfortunately, SuSE stopped sending free CD sets to developers about
	9 months ago, so it is hard to get hold of these problems....

	Hint for interested people: Solaris x86 is free for personal use and
	the CD images may even be downloaded for free.

	Also note that for the above reasons, it is always a good idea to compile
	cdrtools yourself from official sources in order make sure that you run
	an official version.

All:

Libparanoia (Ported by Jörg Schilling, originated by Monty xiphmont@mit.edu):

Libedc (Optimized by Jörg Schilling, originated by Heiko Eißfeldt heiko@hexco.de):

Libscg:

-	Increased version number to 0.8

-	First attempt to work around the problems for suid programs intruduced by
	Sun with Solaris 9. Programs that like to issue a USCSI ioctl() need to be
	root or get EPERM. Cdrecord did does up root privilleges eraly to avoid
	security problems.

	libscg now selectively runs the USCSI ioctl() as root if the program is installed
	suid root.

-	Fixed a bug in scsi-mac-iokit.c in scgo_havebus() that caused pxupgrade not
	to work on MacOS X.

-	First attempt to support the SPTI Ioctl interface on Windows NT.
	see also http://www.ste-home.de/cdrtools-spti/
	Thanks to Richard Stemmer, Jay A. Key and thomas podkanski

	This allows to use cdrtools on NT without the need to install ASPI in case
	you are administrator when yu run a program.

	Please note that the use of SPTI is default. If you like to force using
	ASPI, use dev=ASPI:b,t,l or dev=ASPI (in the -scanbus case).
	If you like to forse STPI, use dev=SPTI:b,t,l or dev=SPTI.

	Currently, the interface does not yet fully matches the scg interface standard.


Rscsi:

Cdrecord:

-	Now works again suid root on Solaris 9

-	Fixed a bug introduced in 2.01alpha by a source consoliation.
	cdrecord -toc did not work anymore for CD-ROM readers

-	Updated README.audio

-	Make the CUE Sheet handling search for a file name from a FILE statement
	also in the directory where the CUE sheet is found (in case there is no
	slash (/) in the file name from 'FILE').

Cdda2wav (By Heiko Eißfeldt heiko@hexco.de):

-	Now works again suid root on Solaris 9

Readcd:

-	Now works again suid root on Solaris 9

Scgcheck:

Mkisofs (By Jörg Schilling and James Pearson j.pearson@ge.ucl.ac.uk):

-	Fixed a Rock-Ridge length handling bug in update_nlink()/increment_nlink() (tree.c)
	that may have caused an endless loop.

TODO:
	-	read Joliet filenames with multi-session if no TRANS.TBL
		or RR is present. I am looking for a volouteer for this task!

		Note that this can never be 100% correct as there is no relation
		between the names on the master (UNIX) filesystem, the ISO-9660
		names and the Joliet names. Only the Rock Ridge names are
		untranslated with respect to the original files on the
		master (UNIX) filesystem.

	-	add libecc/edc for CDI and similar.


CYGWIN NT-4.0 NOTES:

To compile on Cygwin32, get Cygwin and install it.
For more information read README.win32

The files are located on:

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha ...

NOTE:	These tar archives are 100% POSIX compatible. GNU tar may get some
	minor trouble. If you like a 100% POSIX compliant tar, get star from
	ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/

WARNING: Do not use 'winzip' to extract the tar file!
	Winzip cannot extract symbolic links correctly.

Jörg

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