[Zlib-devel] zlib 1.2.0.2 available for testing

[Mark Adler]

Patient zlib beta testers,

I finally got a wee bit of free time after (finally) getting two 
spacecraft on their way to Mars.  I have incorporated, I think, all of 
your comments and patches since 1.2.0.1.  However it's nearly 
impossible for me to verify that, especially for all that "WIN" stuff.  
So please take a look at the new beta and the changes noted in the 
ChangeLog file.  And of course, please test it on your systems.  You 
can get it here:

     http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~madler/zlib-1.2.0.2.tar.gz

This version has an incompatible change to the interface with respect 
to the 1.2.0* betas of zlib, however it makes it more compatible with 
the pre-1.2 zlibs.  In particular, inflate will no longer decode gzip 
streams by default.  You have to use inflateInit2() to request it 
explicitly.

I have also changed the coding of the zlib "compression level" flags in 
the zlib header to better match the specification description.  This 
has the downside that if anyone had test suites with direct file 
comparisons for output (as I did), the comparison files will need to be 
updated with new versions for some compression levels (not the default) 
and compression strategies (not the default).

This version also adds several functions and a #define to the interface.

For those that have contributed to the contrib directory, also please 
check that I have your latest and greatest there as well.

Thank you for your support.

mark