| Snappy v1.1.2, February 28th 2014: |
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| This is a maintenance release with no changes to the actual library |
| source code. |
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| * Stop distributing benchmark data files that have unclear |
| or unsuitable licensing. |
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| * Add support for padding chunks in the framing format. |
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| Snappy v1.1.1, October 15th 2013: |
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| * Add support for uncompressing to iovecs (scatter I/O). |
| The bulk of this patch was contributed by Mohit Aron. |
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| * Speed up decompression by ~2%; much more so (~13-20%) on |
| a few benchmarks on given compilers and CPUs. |
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| * Fix a few issues with MSVC compilation. |
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| * Support truncated test data in the benchmark. |
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| Snappy v1.1.0, January 18th 2013: |
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| * Snappy now uses 64 kB block size instead of 32 kB. On average, |
| this means it compresses about 3% denser (more so for some |
| inputs), at the same or better speeds. |
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| * libsnappy no longer depends on iostream. |
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| * Some small performance improvements in compression on x86 |
| (0.5–1%). |
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| * Various portability fixes for ARM-based platforms, for MSVC, |
| and for GNU/Hurd. |
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| Snappy v1.0.5, February 24th 2012: |
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| * More speed improvements. Exactly how big will depend on |
| the architecture: |
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| - 3–10% faster decompression for the base case (x86-64). |
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| - ARMv7 and higher can now use unaligned accesses, |
| and will see about 30% faster decompression and |
| 20–40% faster compression. |
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| - 32-bit platforms (ARM and 32-bit x86) will see 2–5% |
| faster compression. |
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| These are all cumulative (e.g., ARM gets all three speedups). |
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| * Fixed an issue where the unit test would crash on system |
| with less than 256 MB address space available, |
| e.g. some embedded platforms. |
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| * Added a framing format description, for use over e.g. HTTP, |
| or for a command-line compressor. We do not have any |
| implementations of this at the current point, but there seems |
| to be enough of a general interest in the topic. |
| Also make the format description slightly clearer. |
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| * Remove some compile-time warnings in -Wall |
| (mostly signed/unsigned comparisons), for easier embedding |
| into projects that use -Wall -Werror. |
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| Snappy v1.0.4, September 15th 2011: |
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| * Speeded up the decompressor somewhat; typically about 2–8% |
| for Core i7, in 64-bit mode (comparable for Opteron). |
| Somewhat more for some tests, almost no gain for others. |
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| * Make Snappy compile on certain platforms it didn't before |
| (Solaris with SunPro C++, HP-UX, AIX). |
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| * Correct some minor errors in the format description. |
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| Snappy v1.0.3, June 2nd 2011: |
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| * Speeded up the decompressor somewhat; about 3-6% for Core 2, |
| 6-13% for Core i7, and 5-12% for Opteron (all in 64-bit mode). |
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| * Added compressed format documentation. This text is new, |
| but an earlier version from Zeev Tarantov was used as reference. |
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| * Only link snappy_unittest against -lz and other autodetected |
| libraries, not libsnappy.so (which doesn't need any such dependency). |
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| * Fixed some display issues in the microbenchmarks, one of which would |
| frequently make the test crash on GNU/Hurd. |
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| Snappy v1.0.2, April 29th 2011: |
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| * Relicense to a BSD-type license. |
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| * Added C bindings, contributed by Martin Gieseking. |
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| * More Win32 fixes, in particular for MSVC. |
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| * Replace geo.protodata with a newer version. |
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| * Fix timing inaccuracies in the unit test when comparing Snappy |
| to other algorithms. |
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| Snappy v1.0.1, March 25th 2011: |
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| This is a maintenance release, mostly containing minor fixes. |
| There is no new functionality. The most important fixes include: |
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| * The COPYING file and all licensing headers now correctly state that |
| Snappy is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. |
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| * snappy_unittest should now compile natively under Windows, |
| as well as on embedded systems with no mmap(). |
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| * Various autotools nits have been fixed. |
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| Snappy v1.0, March 17th 2011: |
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| * Initial version. |