CHANGES

   1 Note: For easier maintenance try to keep items in reverse chronological
   2       order of when they were committed.  -- briand
   3
   4 Version HEAD
   5
   6  - Don't treat dummy packages consisting of compressed 0-byte files as
   7    invalid.
   8
   9  - Avoid crashing on invalid/empty .lst.gz file.  Make "files in use"
  10    dialog modal to prevent the user from aborting the install and creating
  11    a corrupt .lst.gz.
  12
  13  - Display correct SI units (kB).
  14
  15  - New command line option -p can be used to specify HTTP/FTP proxy.
  16
  17  - Alert user when encountering a .tar file of unsupported format rather than
  18    silently failing to extract.  Also be more accepting of non-GNU tar formats,
  19    such as those created by libtar/cmake.
  20
  21  - If running on 9x/ME versions of Windows, look for setup_legacy.ini/.bz2
  22    instead of setup.ini/.bz2, in support for future dropping of non-NT support
  23    and forking of the distro.
  24
  25 Version 2.573.2.2
  26
  27  - Fix crash when trying to MD5 a non-existant package file that failed to
  28    download.
  29
  30 Version 2.573.2.1
  31
  32  - Don't append a trailing slash to local package directory location if it
  33    already has one, or it ends in a backslash.
  34
  35  - Be more robust in falling back to setup.ini if setup.bz2 doesn't exist
  36    or appears to be corrupt.
  37
  38  - Fix crashes and improve specificity of error messages when encountering
  39    an .ini file parse error.  Make progress meter active during parsing of a
  40    bz2-compressed .ini file.
  41
  42  - At the last install step, inform the user of success/failure at the bottom
  43    of the main panel instead of with an annoying message box popup.
  44
  45  - Fix bug that caused a wrong version of a source package to be selected
  46    in some cases due to erroniously comparing versions as text instead of
  47    numerically.
  48
  49  - Gracefully handle the case where two packages contain a postinstall script
  50    of the same name.
  51
  52  - Allow interactively retrying to replace open files.
  53
  54  - Create Cygwin.bat with upper-case C to make filename TAB completion of
  55    /cygdrive more convenient.
  56
  57  - Fix unreadable chooser page due to bad background colour problem.
  58
  59  - Make categories named with an initial "." default to expanded display.
  60
  61  - Fix a class of crashes due to poor string handling.  Remove use of custom
  62    String class in favor of std::string.
  63
  64  - Update DNS names to preferred forms: cygwin.com and sources.redhat.com.
  65
  66  - Handle dropped mirrors elegantly.
  67
  68  - Fix incorrect logging of postinstall script success/failure.
  69
  70  - Provide indication of site that a file is being downloaded from.
  71
  72  - Fix command line options to override cached selections.
  73
  74  - Sort the mirrors list by logical structure of DNS names.
  75
  76  - Do not attempt to reopen a missing package database on initial install.
  77
  78  - Cache mirror list and use local copy if server unavailable.
  79
  80  - Slightly improve logged error messages.
  81
  82  - Run postinstall scripts in dependency order.
  83
  84  - Fix problem of FTP connections timing out and not being retried.
  85
  86  - Change checkbox label to "Hide obsolete packages" and add tooltip that
  87    explains in more detail what it does.
  88
  89  - Set tooltip timeout delay to 30 seconds.
  90
  91  - Fix problem of text and icons using white background instead of user's
  92    selected color.
  93
  94 Version 2.510.2.2
  95
  96  - Recompile with gcc 3.3.3 as workaround until the STL crashes are
  97    investigated.
  98
  99 Version 2.510.2.1
 100
 101  - Retrieve exit status of preremove/postinstall scripts.  Log abnormal exits.
 102
 103  - Use /bin/bash rather than /bin/sh when running preremove/postinstall scripts
 104    to facilitate upgrading /bin/sh.
 105
 106  - Remove support for undocumented and dangerous postremove scripts.
 107
 108  - Add new "Size" column to package chooser.
 109
 110  - Perform explicit dependency checking when the user finishes with the
 111    package selection step, and if any missing dependencies are found prompt
 112    to resolve the conflicts.
 113
 114  - Checkbox option to hide packages in category ZZZRemovedPackages or any
 115    category that begins with '_'.  (Note: ZZZRemovedPackages has now been
 116    renamed to _obsolete on the mirrors.)  Packages in these categories are
 117    either empty placeholder packages that have been renamed/removed, or are
 118    infrastructure packages like 'update-info-dir' and are not generally useful
 119    to the end user.
 120
 121  - Support mouse wheel scrolling in the package chooser.
 122
 123  - Use graphical "+" and "-" symbols in category mode of the package chooser.
 124
 125  - Improve painting method for the package chooser to improve redraw speed and
 126    prevent sluggish scrolling.
 127
 128  - Fix unpacking of hardlinks in source packages.
 129
 130  - Change ordering of uninstall actions so that all preremove scripts are
 131    executed prior to deleting files.  Fixes problem with "cannot find DLL"
 132    popup error messages during preremove scripts when lots of packages are
 133    upgraded at once.
 134
 135  - Remove the --no-md5 (-5) command line option - the cache is now never
 136    fully MD5-ed, as to do so takes far too long, and packages will be checked
 137    before installation anyway.
 138
 139  - Make the MD5 checks immediately prior to installing packages actually
 140    display notification in the GUI.
 141
 142  - Add support for tooltips that appear when the mouse pointer hovers
 143    over controls.
 144
 145  - Add text to dialogs recommending Binary mode and "All users".  Add clickable
 146    hyperlinks to the appropriate sections of the online Users Guide.
 147
 148  - Fix some dialog elements that were not resized properly when the window was
 149    resized.
 150
 151  - Include manifest, resulting in support for XP themes.
 152
 153  - Remember proxy port setting.
 154
 155  - Fix dependency calculation bug when switching between Curr/Prev/Exp radio
 156    buttons.
 157
 158  - Fix crash on encountering a postinstall script with a name of 4
 159    characters or less.
 160
 161  - Display only valid URL schemes in the mirrors list.
 162
 163 Version 2.457.2.2
 164
 165  - Set CYGWIN=nontsec, for postinstall scripts.
 166
 167  - Fix corrupt display of ini parse percentage in log file.
 168
 169  - Filter the mirrors list to only URL schemes that setup can use.
 170
 171 Version 2.457.2.1
 172
 173  - Fix setup keeping open handles to every tarball it installs during a run.
 174    (Which appears to have been indirectly responsible for the weird hangs
 175    people have been experiencing.)
 176
 177  - Fix a miscellany of error-reporting deficiencies.
 178
 179  - Close stdin, to protect against rogue postinstall scripts attempting to
 180    wait for user input.
 181
 182 Version 2.427
 183
 184  - Last release before CHANGES file begun.