[Pkg-libburnia-devel] libburnia-1.4.4 released

[Thomas Schmitt]

Hi,

libburnia project is pleased to announce the release of version 1.4.4:

libburn,    a burn backend library for CD, DVD and BD.
cdrskin,    a burn backend binary with a command line interface
            compatible to cdrecord.
libisofs,   a library for creation and manipulation of ISO 9660
            filesystems.
libisoburn, a library which coordinates libburn and libisofs
            to allow multi-session on all random access readable
            media and file objects.
xorriso,    an integrated ISO 9660 multi-session tool with
            additional emulation of mkisofs.

System requirements:
- Linux   : kernel 2.4 or newer, libc, libpthread
- FreeBSD : libc, libpthread, IDE and SATA drives need atapicam
- Solaris : libc, libpthread
- NetBSD  : libc, libpthread
- on other X/Open systems there will be no direct operation of
  CD/DVD/BD drives, but only POSIX i/o which may or may not
  be offered by the system for DVD-RAM, DVD+RW, or BD-RE.
  

Changes:

The capability to use Linux /dev/sg was revived in order to circumvent the
sr_mutex lock which hampers concurrent use of optical drives via SG_IO.

libisofs now can use appended partitions by El Torito, avoiding the need
for duplicate EFI System Partition images.

Several bugs have been fixed.

libburn novelties:
* Bug fix: Option drive_scsi_dev_family=sg did not convert /dev/sr* to /dev/sg*
* Bug fix: burn_make_input_sheet_v07t() falsly recognized double byte encoding.
           Affected cdrskin option: cdtext_to_v07t=
* Bug fix: Double free at end of run if burn_write_opts_set_leadin_text() is
           used. Affected cdrskin option: textfile=
* Bug fix: DVD book type of DVD+RW DL and DVD+R DL was reported wrong.
           Thanks to Etienne Bergeron.

cdrskin novelties:
- none -

libisofs novelties:
* Bug fix: HFS+ production could cause MBR partition of type 0xEE without GPT.
* Bug fix: Protective MBR was not produced if no System Area data are given.
* Bug fix: Protective MBR was not recognized if partition is appended.
* Bug fix: The HFS+ filesystem was not marked in GPT of GRUB2 hybrid layout.
* Bug fix: HFS+ directories could announce more children than they actually
           have.
* Bug fix: At image loading time GRUB2 MBR was not recognized if the partition
           table is not the protective one as described by UEFI.
* Bug fix: Oversized text in ISO_SYSAREA_REPORT_DOC_ALPHA.
           Thanks to Etienne Bergeron.
* New pseudo path for El Torito boot images:
  --interval:appened_partition_N:all::
* New bit15 with options of iso_write_opts_set_system_area() to enforce
  MBR bootable/active flag.
* New API calls iso_write_opts_set_appended_as_apm(),
  iso_write_opts_set_part_like_isohybrid().
* Introduced image size tolerance of 300 kB in order to recognize SUN Disk
  Label that was generated by genisoimage -B "...".
* Added "extern C" to libisofs.h

libisoburn novelties:
- none -

xorriso novelties:
* Bug fix: -as mkisofs did not unescape "\=" in the source part of pathspecs
* Bug fix: -boot_image "any" "system_area=/dev/zero" did not zeroize loaded
           data
* Bug fix: -pathspecs "on" did not properly handle "\\="
* Bug fix: When reading an ISO filesystem, the presence of
           --protective-msdos-label was not recognized if a partition is
           appended
* Bug fix: xorrisofs option --protective-msdos-label did not work if no
           system area data were given by option -G or alike
* Bug fix: -modesty_on_drive properties timeout_sec, min_usec, max_usec
           read wrong numbers from the parameter text
* Letting -as mkisofs --norock revoke the special effect of -r
* Letting -blank on overwritable media invalidate UDF extended descriptors
* New -pathspecs mode "as_mkisofs"
* New -boot_image setting mbr_force_bootable=, -as mkisofs --mbr-force-bootable
* New -boot_image bootspecs appended_part_as=apm, part_like_isohybrid=on
* New -as mkisofs options -appended_part_as_apm, -part_like_isohybrid
* New command -scsi_dev_family, new -as cdrecord option drive_scsi_dev_family=

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Release tarballs need only vanilla tools for ./configure ; make

libburn and cdrskin:
  http://files.libburnia-project.org/releases/libburn-1.4.4.tar.gz
  http://files.libburnia-project.org/releases/libburn-1.4.4.tar.gz.sig

libisofs:
  http://files.libburnia-project.org/releases/libisofs-1.4.4.tar.gz
  http://files.libburnia-project.org/releases/libisofs-1.4.4.tar.gz.sig

libisoburn and xorriso:
  http://files.libburnia-project.org/releases/libisoburn-1.4.4.tar.gz
  http://files.libburnia-project.org/releases/libisoburn-1.4.4.tar.gz.sig

Downloads may be verified by
  gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys ABC0A854
  gpg --verify lib...x.y.z.tar.gz.sig lib...x.y.z.tar.gz

SVN tags need autotools >= 1.7 to apply command ./bootstrap
libburn and cdrskin:
  http://svn.libburnia-project.org/libburn/tags/1.4.4
libisofs resides in
  https://code.launchpad.net/~libburnia-team/libisofs/scdbackup
libisoburn and xorriso:
  http://svn.libburnia-project.org/libisoburn/tags/1.4.4


Starting points for more information:
  http://libburnia-project.org/wiki/Libburn
  http://libburnia-project.org/wiki/Libisofs
  http://libburnia-project.org/wiki/Libisoburn

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Have a nice day :)

Thomas