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- Changes in 1.01 (09 Apr 2000)
- * win32/pe: fixed an uncompression problem in DLLs with empty
- fixup sections
- * win32/pe: fixed another rare uncompression problem - a field in the
- PE header was set incorrectly
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- Changes in 1.00 (26 Mar 2000)
- * documentation updates
- * watcom/le: do not duplicate the non-resident name table
- * win32/pe: fixed an import handling problem: sometimes too much data
- could be deleted from a file -> the uncompressed file would not work
- anymore
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- Changes in 0.99.3 (07 Mar 2000)
- * win32/pe: fixed a rare problem in the stub string handling part
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- Changes in 0.99.2 (02 Mar 2000)
- * dos/exe: fixed a typo causing an internal error (introduced in 0.99.1)
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- Changes in 0.99.1 (29 Feb 2000)
- * win32/pe: fixed some object alignments which were causing
- problems when loading compressed DLLs under Windows NT/2000
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- Changes in 0.99 (25 Feb 2000)
- * FULL SOURCE CODE RELEASED UNDER THE TERMS OF THE GNU GPL
- * win32/pe: changed default to `--strip-relocs=1'
- * dos/com and dos/sys: fixed a bad decompressor problem
- * linux/i386: the counter for the progress indicator was off by one
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- Changes in 0.94 (06 Dec 1999)
- * win32/pe: the stub now calls ExitProcess in case of import errors
- * under DOS and Windows, the environment variable UPX now accepts
- a '#' as replacement for '=' because of a COMMAND.COM limitation
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- Changes in 0.93 (22 Nov 1999)
- * win32/pe: fixed --strip-relocs problem with uncompression
- * win32/pe: fixed a bug which could produce a broken decompressor stub
- * linux/i386: yet another FreeBSD compatibility fix
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- Changes in 0.92 (14 Nov 1999)
- * win32/pe: really fixed that one line (see below)
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- Changes in 0.91 (13 Nov 1999)
- * win32/pe: an important one-line fix for the newly introduced problems
- * dos/com and dos/sys: fixed an internal error
- * dos/exe: correctly restore cs when uncompressing
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- Changes in 0.90 (10 Nov 1999)
- * all formats: `--overlay=copy' now is the default overlay mode
- * improved compression ratio for most files
- * win32/pe: uncompression is finally supported
- * win32/pe: never compress REGISTRY resources
- * win32/pe: headersize was not set in PE header
- * win32/pe: resource handling is rewritten
- * win32/pe: the last :-) TLS problem is fixed
- * win32/pe: somewhat less memory is required during compression
- * linux/i386: fixed compression of scripts which was broken since 0.71
- * linux/i386: more FreeBSD compatibility issues
- * changed option: `-i' now prints some more details during compression
- (not finished yet)
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- Changes in 0.84 (04 Oct 1999)
- * dos/exe: fixed a rare problem where the decompressor could crash
- * some other minor fixes
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- Changes in 0.83 (17 Sep 1999)
- * dos/exe: fixed minimal memory requirement problem for some files
- * win32/pe: fixed a bug which caused a crash in some compressed files
- * linux/i386: various improvements in the stub; also, for the sake
- of FreeBSD users, the stub is now branded as Linux/ELF
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- Changes in 0.82 (16 Aug 1999)
- * dos/exe: fixed a decompressor bug which could cause crash on some files
- * linux/i386: section headers are now stripped from the stub so that
- `strip' won't ruin a compressed file any longer
- * wc/le: support for stack not in the last object disabled again
- * win32/pe: removed some unneeded data
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- Changes in 0.81 (04 Aug 1999)
- * win32/pe: fixed an important bug in import handling
- * dos/com: fixed an internal error that could happen with very small files
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- Changes in 0.80 (03 Aug 1999)
- * you can set some default options in the environment var `UPX'
- * dos/com: the decompressor stub now checks for enough free memory
- * dos/exe: decompressor rewritten, some bugs are fixed
- * dos/exe: new option `--no-reloc': no relocation data is put into
- the DOS header
- * tmt/adam: added support for more stubs, detect already packed files
- * tmt/adam: new option `--copy-overlay'
- * wc/le: reduced memory requirement during uncompression
- * wc/le: support files which do not contain their stack in the last object
- * wc/le: fixed a bug which could cause a crash, improved relocation
- handling
- * wc/le: new option `--copy-overlay'
- * win32/pe: `--compress-icons=2' is now the default
- * win32/pe: even better TLS support
- * win32/pe: versioninfo works on NT
- * win32/pe: import by ordinal from kernel32.dll works
- * win32/pe: other import improvements: importing a nonexistant DLL
- results in a usual Windows message, importing a nonexistant function
- results in program exit (instead of crash ;-)
- * win32/pe: new option: `--compress-resources=0'
- * win32/pe: reduced memory requirement during uncompression, some
- files might even require LESS memory when they're compressed
- * win32/pe: TYPELIBs should work now
- * win32/pe: improved relocation handling, 16-bit relocations should work
- * win32/pe: new option `--strip-relocs' (only if you know what you are doing)
- * win32/pe: new option `--copy-overlay'
- * important internal changes: now the stubs are built at runtime
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- Changes in 0.72 (12 May 1999)
- * tmt/adam: fixed a serious problem in the decompressor stub; all
- compressed tmt files should be recompressed
- * win32/pe: fixed the 'shared sections not supported' warning:
- read-only shared sections are fine
- * win32/pe: never compress TYPELIB resources
- * win32/pe: compressed files are hopefully less suspicious to heuristic
- virus scanners now
- * linux/i386: minor decompressor stub updates, nicer progress bar
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- Changes in 0.71 (19 Apr 1999)
- * dos/exe: added option `--no-overlay'
- * linux/i386: various improvements in the stub, most notably the
- overhead for an extra cleanup process has been removed
- * win32/pe: added support for export forwarders
- * win32/pe: added support for DLLs without entry point or imports
- * win32/pe: yet another .bss fix
- * win32/pe: new option `--compress-icons=2': compress all icons
- which are not in the first icon directory
- * win32/pe: rearranged stub to avoid false alerts from some virus scanners
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- Changes in 0.70 (30 Mar 1999)
- * added support for linux/i386 executables
- * improved compression ratio quite a bit
- * added new compression level `--best' to squeeze out even some more bytes
- * win32/pe: TLS support is much better now
- * win32/pe: --compress-icons=0 should now work as well
- * the usual minor fixes for win32/pe
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- Changes in 0.62 (16 Mar 1999)
- * win32/pe: --compress-icons and --compress-exports are on now by default
- * win32/pe: --compress-icons should really work now
- * win32/pe: fixed a problem with embedded .bss sections
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- Changes in 0.61 (08 Mar 1999)
- * atari/tos: fixed a problem where the bss segment could become too small
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- Changes in 0.60 (06 Mar 1999)
- * win32/pe: fixed file corruption when the size of the export data is invalid
- * win32/pe: fixed a problem with empty resource data
- * win32/pe: compressed file alignment set to minimum value
- * win32/pe: made all compressed sections writeable
- * fixed some other win32/pe bugs
- * fixed an address optimization problem for some not Watcom LE files
- * fixed a bug which could make UPX hang when an exe header contained
- an illegal value
- * added some compression flags for the win32/pe format
- * added support for Atari ST executables (atari/tos)
- * improved compression ratio
- * improved compression speed
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- Changes in 0.51 (14 Jan 1999)
- * fixed a small bug in the PE header that would prevent some compressed
- win32/pe executables from running under Windows NT and WINE
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- Changes in 0.50 (03 Jan 1999)
- * added support for PE format executables (win32/pe & rtm32/pe)
- * added support for TMT executables (tmt/adam)
- * fixed a dos/sys bug that affected OpenDOS
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- Changes in 0.40 (05 Oct 1998)
- * improved compression ratio
- * fixed a small but fatal bug in dos/sys introduced in 0.30
- * fixed a rare bug in dos/exe
- * worked around a bug in djgpp's strip 2.8
- * Allegro packfile support should work now
- * added dos/exeh compression method (works on 386+)
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- Changes in 0.30 (27 Jul 1998)
- * fixed a serious bug in the 32-bit compressors - please don't use
- djgpp/coff and watcom/le compressed files from previous versions,
- some of them are possibly damaged !
- * the 16-bit uncompressors are a little bit shorter & faster
- * fixed progress indicator for VESA and SVGA text modes
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- Changes in 0.20 (05 Jul 1998)
- * second public beta release
- * too many changes to list here
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- Changes in 0.05 (26 May 1998)
- * first public beta release
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