February 21st, 2013· This version fixed potential data corruption, re-enabled hash calculation support, bails out if any output fails to initialize, fixed handling of the -f option, and reduced sending overhead.
February 11th, 2013· This emergency release disables hash calculation support due to potential data corruption when the buffer runs full.
· Please do not use hash calculation support of mbuffer for now.
· This issue is under investigation.
December 5th, 2012· This version adds an option for a watchdog that terminates mbuffer if either input or output stream stall for a specified time, adds support for float values as arguments to options, and has some cleanup and a build fix.
May 5th, 2012· This version fixes IPv6 client initialization on FreeBSD, suppresses the summary if -q is used with -l, and fixes a potential hang with option -P 100.
July 25th, 2011· Some enhancements concerning multi-volume handling, new options for appending/truncating an output file, and a bugfix concerning I/O error handling.
March 18th, 2011· An option was added to terminate on any kind of error.
· A hang when starting mbuffer in the background was fixed.
· The displayed dimensions were changed to be compliant to SI standards.
January 20th, 2011· This version fixes an incorrect sanity check for the interaction between hashing and multiple outputs, and also fixes a potential issue with GCC when building in a separate directory.
October 13th, 2009· This release adds a separate thread for hash calculation, support for libmhash with all provided hash algorithms, and fixes for a typo in the examples section, a potential race condition, and a potential lockup on SIGINT.
February 15th, 2009· This release fixes a hang on transfer sizes smaller than blocksize with status display active.
· It has a Gentoo compatibility update, a man page update, a summary display update, and a libmhash initialization fix.
· Termination latency with active status display is reduced.
· There is a fix for -q suppressing the output of -H.
January 15th, 2009· A fix for an assertion failure in network mode when compiled for 64-bit architectures.
January 7th, 2009· The use of the deprecated atoi fucntion was replaced with strtol.
· Build fixes were made for FreeBSD.
December 8th, 2008· More intelligent TCP buffer tuning plus an undocumented option to manually set the TCP buffer size.
· Fixes several typos, and fixes for some message formatting issues.
November 14th, 2008· TCP buffer tuning was done.
· A make target check was added.
· An issue concerning missing output files was resolved.
· Numerous code cleanups were made.
October 25th, 2008· mbuffer should not abort on SIGTERM.
· A segv which occurred when an invalid option was given was fixed.
· A minor codepath optimization was made.
· The status display now waits for the first block to be read. Minor cleanups were done.
October 15th, 2008· A regression in the last release may lead to data corruption.
· This release fixes this issue.
· Versions 20080910 and 20080507 don't have this issue, so you only need to update now if you just downloaded 20081014.
October 15th, 2008· Autoloader commands are now prevented from corrupting mbuffer's output. Cancellation issues were fixed.
· Sendfile should fall back to write.
· Manpath needs to be created.
· Support was added for O_DIRECT on systems that provide it.
· Solaris' native sempahore API is used.
· The documentation was updated.
September 11th, 2008· This release adds support for multiple outputs, changes the license to the GPLv3, has several minor enhancements concerning error reporting, fixes a race condition in logging, checks the exit code of autoloader commands, and more.
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