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### 1.8.14 - 7 September 2024 * fix: correct double-free on exit when using "`--watchfd`" ([#96](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/issues/96)) reported by [jettero](https://codeberg.org/jettero) ### 1.8.13 - 18 August 2024 * feature: when using "`--size @FILE`", _FILE_ can be a block device, and its size will be used (pull request [#94](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/pulls/94)) supplied by [alexanderperlis](https://codeberg.org/alexanderperlis) ### 1.8.12 - 18 July 2024 * fix: correct the detection of output block device size that was broken in 1.8.10 ([#91](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/issues/91)) * fix: do not treat a zero/interrupted write as an end of file (pull requests [#92](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/pulls/92) and [#93](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/pulls/93)) ### 1.8.10 - 15 June 2024 * feature: new "`--output`" option to write to a file instead of standard output (pull request [#90](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/pulls/90)) supplied by [xmort](https://codeberg.org/xmort) ### 1.8.9 - 21 April 2024 * feature: new "`--si`" option to display and interpret size suffixes in multiples of 1000 rather than 1024 (pull request [#85](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/pulls/85)) supplied by [kevinruddy](https://codeberg.org/kevinruddy) * fix: continue producing progress output when the output is blocking writes ([#34](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/issues/34), [#86](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/issues/86), [#87](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/issues/87)) * fix: honour the _TMPDIR_ / _TMP_ environment variables again, rather than hard-coding "`/tmp`", when using a terminal lock file (originally removed in 1.8.0) ([#88](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/issues/88)) * i18n: corrections and missing strings added to French translations (pull request [#83](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/pulls/83)) supplied by [Thomas Bertels](https://codeberg.org/tbertels) ### 1.8.5 - 19 November 2023 * fix: corrected percentage formatting so it doesn't jump from 2 to 3 characters wide at 100% ([#80](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/issues/80)) * fix: replaced "`--remote`" mechanism, using a temporary file instead of SysV IPC, so it can work reliably even when there are multiple PV instances * fix: corrected compilation failure when without IPC support * security: addressed all issues highlighted by the software auditing tools "`splint`" and "`flawfinder`" (see "`make analyse`") ([#77](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/issues/77)) * cleanup: compilation warnings fixed on non-IPC and MacOS systems ### 1.8.0 - 24 September 2023 #### Features * feature: new "`--discard`" option to discard input as if writing to */dev/null* ([#42](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/issues/42)) * feature: new "`--error-skip-block`" option to make "`--skip-errors`" skip whole blocks ([#37](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/issues/37)) * feature: use `posix_fadvise()` like `cat`(1) does, to improve efficiency ([#39](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/issues/39)) * feature: new "`--enable-static`" option to "`configure`" for static builds ([#75](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/pull/75)) #### Security * security: with "`--pidfile`", write to a temporary file and rename it into place, to improve security * security: keep self-contained copies of name and format string in PV internal state for memory safety * security: ignore _TMP_ / _TMPDIR_ environment variables when using a terminal lock file #### Fixes * fix: only report errors about missing files when starting to transfer from them, not while calculating size, and behave more like `cat`(1) by skipping them and moving on * fix: auto-calculate total line count with "`--line-mode`" when all inputs are regular files * fix: use `clock_gettime()` in ETA calculation to cope with machine suspend/resume ([#13](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/issues/13)) * fix: if "`--width`" or "`--height`" were provided, do not change them when the window size changes ([#36](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/issues/36)) * fix: when a file descriptor position in "`--watchfd`" moves backwards, show the rate using the correct prefix ([#41](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/issues/41)) * fix: rewrite terminal state save/restore so state is not intermittently garbled on exit when using "`--cursor`" ([#20](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/issues/20)), ([#24](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/issues/24)) #### Cleanups * cleanup: addressed many potential issues highlighted by the software auditing tools "`splint`" and "`flawfinder`" (see new target "`make analyse`") * cleanup: switched the build system to GNU Automake * cleanup: replaced the test harness with the one native to GNU Automake * cleanup: added a test for terminal width detection to "`make check`" * cleanup: added a test to "`make check`" to ensure that "`make install`" installs everything expected * cleanup: replaced *AC_HEADER_TIOCGWINSZ* with *AC_CHECK_HEADERS(sys/ioctl.h)* for better MacOS compatibility ([#74](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/issues/74)) * cleanup: with "`--sync`", call `fsync()` instead of `fdatasync()` on incapable systems ([#73](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/issues/73)) * cleanup: the manual is now a static file instead of needing to be built with "`configure`" #### Dropped items * dropped: dropped support for "`--enable-static-nls`" * dropped: removed the Linux Software Map file, as the LSM project appears to be long dead * dropped: will no longer publish to SourceForge as it has a chequered history and is unnecessary * dropped: removed project from GitHub and moved to Codeberg - see "[Give Up GitHub](https://giveupgithub.org/)" #### Other items * licensing change from Artistic 2.0 to GPLv3+ ### 1.7.24 - 30 July 2023 * fix: correct terminal size detection, broken in 1.7.17 by the configuration script rewrite ([#72](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/issues/72)) * security: removed *DEBUG* environment variable in debug mode, added "`--debug`" instead * cleanup: added "`make analyse`" to run "`splint`" and "`flawfinder`" on all source files * cleanup: corrected detection of boolean capability * cleanup: word wrapping of "`--help`" output is now multi-byte locale aware * cleanup: adjusted "`indent`" rules to line length of 120 and reformatted code ### 1.7.18 - 28 July 2023 * fix: language file installation had been broken by the configuration script rewrite ### 1.7.17 - 27 July 2023 * feature: new "`--sync`" option to flush cache to disk after every write (related to [#6](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/issues/6), to improve accuracy when writing to slow disks) * feature: new "`--direct-io`" option to bypass cache - implements [#29 "Option to enable *O_DIRECT*"](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/issues/29) - requested by Romain Kang, Jacek Wielemborek * fix: correct byte prefix size to 2 spaces in rate display, so progress display size remains constant at low transfer rates * cleanup: rewrote `configure.in` as per suggestions in newer "`autoconf`" manuals * cleanup: replaced `header.in` with one generated by "`autoheader`", moving custom logic to a separate header file "`config-aux.h`" * cleanup: added copyright notice to all source files as per GNU standards * cleanup: changed "`--version`" output to conform to GNU standards * cleanup: replaced backticks with `$()` in all shell scripts that did not come from elsewhere, as backticks are deprecated and harder to read * cleanup: improved the output formatting of "`make test`" * cleanup: extended the "`make test`" mechanism to allow certain tests to be skipped on platforms that cannot support them * cleanup: skip the "pipe" test (for *SIGPIPE*) if GNU "`head`" is not available, so that "`make test`" on stock OpenBSD 7.3 works * cleanup: added a lot more tests to "`make test`" * cleanup: replace all calls to `sprintf()` and `snprintf()` with a new wrapper function `pv_snprintf()` to improve security and compatibility * cleanup: replace all calls to `strcat()` with a wrapper `pv_strlcat()` to improve security and compatibility * cleanup: replace all `write()` calls to the terminal with a wrapper `pv_write_retry()` for consistency * cleanup: tidy up and fix compilation warning in "`--watchfd`" code * cleanup: rewrote all local shell scripts to pass analysis by [ShellCheck](https://www.shellcheck.net) ### 1.7.0 - 17 July 2023 * dropped: support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its derivatives has been dropped; removed the RPM spec file, and will no longer build binaries * feature: the "`--size`" option now accepts "`@filename`" to use the size of another file (pull request [#57](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/pull/57) supplied by [Dave Beckett](https://github.com/dajobe)) * feature: the "`--watchfd`" option is now available on OS X (pull request [#60](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/pull/60) supplied by [christoph-zededa](https://github.com/christoph-zededa)) * feature: new "`--bits`" option to show bit count instead of byte count (adapted from pull request [#63](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/pull/63) supplied by [Nick Black](https://nick-black.com)) * feature: new "`--average-rate-window`" option, to set the window over which the average rate is calculated, also used for ETA (modified from pull request [#65](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/pull/65) supplied by [lemonsqueeze](https://github.com/lemonsqueeze)) * feature: the "`--watchfd`" option will now show relative filenames, if they are under the current directory (pull request [#66](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/pull/66) supplied by [ikasty](https://github.com/ikasty)) * fix: correction to `pv_in_foreground()` to behave as its comment block says it should, when not on a terminal - corrects [#19 "No output in Arch Linux initcpio after 1.6.6"](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/issues/19), [#31 "No output written from inside zsh <() construct"](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/issues/31), [#55 "pv Stopped Working in the Background"](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/issues/55) (pull request [#64](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/pull/64) supplied by [Michael Weiß](https://github.com/quitschbo)) * fix: workaround for OS X 11 behaviour in configure script regarding stat64 at compile time (pull request [#57](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/pull/57) supplied by [Dave Beckett](https://github.com/dajobe)) * fix: workaround for macOS equivalence of stat to stat64 - patches from [Filippo Valsorda](https://github.com/FiloSottile) and [Demitri Muna](https://github.com/demitri), correcting [#33 "Fix compilation problems due to `stat64()` on Apple Silicon"](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/issues/33) * fix: add burst rate limit to transfer, so rate limits are not broken by bursty traffic (pull request [#62](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/pull/62) supplied by [Volodymyr Bychkovyak](https://github.com/vbychkoviak)) * fix: corrected "`--force`" option so it will still output progress when not in the same process group as the owner of the terminal - corrects [#23 "No output with "`-f`" when run in background after 1.6.6"](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/issues/23) and helps to correct [#31 "No output written from inside zsh <() construct"](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/issues/31) * fix: corrected elapsed time display to show as D:HH:MM:SS after 1 day, like the ETA does - corrects [#16 "Show days in same format in ETA as in elapsed time"](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/issues/16) * fix: corrected bug where percentages went down after 100% when in "`--numeric`" mode with a "`--size`" that was too small - corrects [#26 "Correct "`-n`" behaviour when going past 100% of "`-s`" size"](https://codeberg.org/a-j-wood/pv/issues/26) * i18n: recoded Polish translation file to UTF-8 * i18n: removed inaccurate fuzzy translation matches * docs: moved all open issues into GitHub and updated the TODO list * docs: renamed README to README.md and altered it to Markdown format * docs: moved contributors from the README to docs/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.md * docs: moved TODO to TODO.md and altered it to Markdown format * docs: moved NEWS to NEWS.md, converted it to UTF-8, and altered it to Markdown format ### 1.6.20 - 12 September 2021 * fix: add missing `stddef.h` include to `number.c` (Sam James) ### 1.6.19 - 5 September 2021 * fix: starting pv in the background no longer immediately stops unless the transfer is to/from the terminal (Andriy Gapon, Jonathan Elchison) * fix: using "`-B`", "`-A`", or "`-T`" now switches on "`-C`" implicitly (Johannes Gerer, André Stapf) * fix: AIX build fixes (Peter Korsgaard) * i18n: updated German "`--help`" translations (Richard Fonfara) * i18n: switched to UTF-8 encoding, added missing translations (de,fr,pt) * docs: new "common switches" manual section (Jacek Wielemborek) * docs: use placeholder instead of `/dev/sda` in the manual (Pranav Peshwe) * docs: mention MacOS pipes and "`-B 1024`" in the manual (Jan Venekamp) * docs: correct shell in `autoconf/scripts/index.sh` (Juan Picca) * cleanup: various compiler warnings cleaned up Full changelog is below: * (r181) added common switches section to manual (Jacek Wielemborek) * (r184) use placeholder instead of /dev/sda in the manual (Pranav Peshwe) * (r185) replace ash with sh in autoconf/scripts/index.sh (Juan Picca) * (r185) added note to manual about "`-B 1024`" in MacOS pipes (Jan Venekamp) * (r185) fix AIX config check when the CWD contains "yes" (Peter Korsgaard) * (r189) (#1556) updated German "`--help`" translations (Richard Fonfara) * (r189) updated missing German translations and changed to UTF-8 encoding * (r191) updated missing French translations and changed to UTF-8 encoding * (r193) updated missing Portuguese translations, changed to UTF-8 encoding * (r196) (#1563) using "`-B`", "`-A`", or "`-T`" now switches on "`-C`" implicitly (Johannes Gerer, André Stapf) * (r199) fixed numerous compiler warnings in newer GCC versions * (r200,205) fixed bug where "`pv /dev/zero >/dev/null &`" stopped immediately (Jonathan Elchison, Andriy Gapon) * (r203,205) marked unused arguments with GCC unused attribute, started using boolean data type for flags, corrected more compiler warnings ### 1.6.6 - 30 June 2017 * (r161) use `%llu` instead of `%Lu` for better compatibility (Eric A. Borisch) * (r162) (#1532) fix target buffer size ("`-B`") being ignored (AndCycle, Ilya Basin, Antoine Beaupré) * (r164) cap read/write sizes, and check elapsed time during read/write cycles, to avoid display hangs with large buffers or slow media; also remove `select()` call from repeated_write function as it slows the transfer down and the wrapping `alarm()` means it is unnecessary * (r169) (#1477) use alternate form for transfer counter, such that 13GB is shown as 13.0GB so it's the same width as 13.1GB (André Stapf) * (r171) cleanup: units corrections in man page, of the form kb -> KiB * (r175) report error in "`-d`" if process fd directory is unreadable, or if process disappears before we start the main loop (Jacek Wielemborek) ### 1.6.0 - 15 March 2015 * fix lstat64 support when unavailable - separate patches supplied by Ganael Laplanche and Peter Korsgaard * (#1506) new option "`-D`" / "`--delay-start`" to only show bar after N seconds (Damon Harper) * new option "`--fineta`" / "`-I`" to show ETA as time of day rather than time remaining - patch supplied by Erkki Seppälä (r147) * (#1509) change ETA ("`--eta`" / "`-e`") so that days are given if the hours remaining are 24 or more (Jacek Wielemborek) * (#1499) repeat read and write attempts on partial buffer fill/empty to work around post-signal transfer rate drop reported by Ralf Ramsauer * (#1507) do not try to calculate total size in line mode, due to bug reported by Jacek Wielemborek and Michiel Van Herwegen * cleanup: removed defunct RATS comments and unnecessary copyright notices * clean up displayed lines when using "`--watchfd PID`", when PID exits * output errors on a new line to avoid overwriting transfer bar ### 1.5.7 - 26 August 2014 * show KiB instead of incorrect kiB (Debian bug #706175) * (#1284) do not gzip man page, for non-Linux OSes (Bob Friesenhahn) * work around "awk" bug in `tests/016-numeric-timer` in decimal "," locales * fix "`make rpm`" and "`make srpm`", extend "`make release`" to sign releases ### 1.5.3 - 4 May 2014 * remove *SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK* to fix problem with slow `splice()` (Jan Seda) ### 1.5.2 - 10 February 2014 * allow "`--watchfd`" to look at block devices * let "`--watchfd PID:FD`" work with "`--size N`" * moved contributors out of the manual as the list was too long (NB everyone is still listed in the README and always will be) ### 1.5.1 - 23 January 2014 * new option "`--watchfd`" - suggested by Jacek Wielemborek and "fdwatch" * use non-block flag with `splice()` * new display option "`--buffer-percent`", suggested by Kim Krecht * new display option "`--last-written`", suggested by Kim Krecht * new transfer option "`--no-splice`" * fix for minor bug which dropped display elements after one empty one * fix for single fd leak on exit (Cristian Ciupitu) ### 1.4.12 - 5 August 2013 * new option "`--null`" - patch supplied by Zing Shishak * AIX build fix (add "`-lc128`") - with help from Pawel Piatek * AIX "`-c`" fixes - with help from Pawel Piatek * SCO build fix (`po2table.sh`) - reported by Wouter Pronk * test scripts fix for older distributions - patch from Bryan Dongray * fix for `splice()` not using stdin - patch from Zev Weiss ### 1.4.6 - 22 January 2013 * added patch from Pawel Piatek to omit *O_NOFOLLOW* in AIX ### 1.4.5 - 10 January 2013 * updated manual page to show known problem with "`-R`" on Cygwin ### 1.4.4 - 11 December 2012 * added debugging, see "`pv -h`" when `configure` is run with "`--enable-debugging`" * rewrote cursor positioning code used when IPC is unavailable (Cygwin) * fixed cursor positioning cursor read answerback problem (Cygwin/Solaris) * fixed bug causing crash when progress displayed with too-small terminal ### 1.4.0 - 6 December 2012 * new option "`--skip-errors`" commissioned by Jim Salter * if stdout is a block device, and we don't know the total size, use the size of that block device as the total (Peter Samuelson) * new option "`--stop-at-size`" to stop after "`--size`" bytes * report correct filename on read errors * fix use-after-free bug in remote PID cleanup code * refactored large chunks of code to make it more readable and to replace most static variables with a state structure ### 1.3.9 - 5 November 2012 * allow "`--format`" parameters to be sent with "`--remote`" * configure option "`--disable-ipc`" * added tests for "`--numeric`" with "`--timer`" and "`--bytes`" * added tests for "`--remote`" ### 1.3.8 - 29 October 2012 * new "`--pidfile`" option to save process ID to a file * integrated patch for "`--numeric`" with "`--timer`" and "`--bytes`" (Sami Liedes) * removed signalling from "`--remote`" to prevent accidental process kills * new "`--format`" option (originally Vladimir Pal / Vladimir Ermakov) ### 1.3.4 - 27 June 2012 * new "`--disable-splice`" configure script option * fixed line mode size count with multiple files (Moritz Barsnick) * fixes for AIX core dumps (Pawel Piatek) ### 1.3.1 - 9 June 2012 * do not use `splice()` if the write buffer is not empty (Thomas Rachel) * added test 15 (pipe transfers), and new test script ### 1.3.0 - 5 June 2012 * added Tiger build patch from Olle Jonsson * fix 1024-boundary display garble (Debian bug #586763) * use `splice`(2) where available (Debian bug #601683) * added known bugs section of the manual page * fixed average rate test, 12 (Andrew Macheret) * use IEEE1541 units (Thomas Rachel) * bug with rate limit under 10 fixed (Henry Precheur) * speed up PV line mode (patch: Guillaume Marcais) * remove `LD=ld` from `vars.mk` to fix cross-compilation (paintitgray/PV#1291) ### 1.2.0 - 14 December 2010 * integrated improved SI prefixes and "`--average-rate`" (Henry Gebhardt) * return nonzero if exiting due to *SIGTERM* (Martin Baum) * patch from Phil Rutschman to restore terminal properly on exit * fix i18n especially for "`--help`" (Sebastian Kayser) * refactored `pv_display` * we now have a coherent, documented, exit status * modified pipe test and new cksum test from Sebastian Kayser * default *CFLAGS* to just "`-O`" for non-GCC (Kjetil Torgrim Homme) * LFS compile fix for OS X 10.4 (Alexandre de Verteuil) * remove *DESTDIR* `/` suffix (Sam Nelson, Daniel Pape) * fixed potential NULL deref in transfer (Elias Pipping / LLVM/Clang) ### 1.1.4 - 6 March 2008 * patch from Elias Pipping correcting compilation failure on Darwin 9 * patch from Patrick Collison correcting similar problems on OS X * trap *SIGINT* / *SIGHUP* / *SIGTERM* so we clean up IPCs on exit (Laszlo Ersek) * abort if numeric option, eg "`-L`", has non-numeric value (Boris Lohner) ### 1.1.0 - 30 August 2007 * new option "`--remote`" ("`-R`") to control an already-running process * new option "`--line-mode`" ("`-l`") to count lines instead of bytes * fix for "`-L`" to be less resource intensive * fix for input/output equivalence check on Mac OS X * fix for size calculation in pipelines on Mac OS X * fixed "`make uninstall`" * removed "`/debian`" directory at request of new Debian maintainer ### 1.0.1 - 4 August 2007 * licensing change from Artistic to Artistic 2.0 * removed the "`-l`" / "`--license`" option ### 1.0.0 - 2 August 2007 * act more like "`cat`" - just skip unreadable files, don't abort * removed text version of manual page, and obsolete Info file generation * code cleanup and separation of PV internals from CLI front-end ### 0.9.9 - 5 February 2007 * new option "`--buffer-size`" ("`-B`") suggested by Mark Tomich * build fix: HP/UX largefile compile fix from Timo Savinen * maintain better buffer filling during transfers * workaround: "`pv /dev/zero | dd bs=1M count=1k`" bug (reported by Gert Menke) * dropped support for the Texinfo manual ### 0.9.6 - 27 February 2006 * bugfix: `key_t` incompatibility with Cygwin * bugfix: interval ("`-i`") parameter parses numbers after decimal point * build fix: use static NLS if `msgfmt` is unavailable * on the final update, blank out the now-zero ETA ### 0.9.2 - 1 September 2005 * Daniel Roethlisberger patch: use lockfiles if terminal locking fails ### 0.9.1 - 16 June 2005 * minor RPM spec file fix for Fedora Core 4 ### 0.9.0 - 15 November 2004 * minor NLS bugfix ### 0.8.9 - 6 November 2004 * decimal values now accepted for rate and size, eg "`-L 1.23M`" * code cleanup * developers: "`make help`" now lists Makefile targets ### 0.8.6 - 29 June 2004 * use `uu_lock()` for terminal locking on FreeBSD ### 0.8.5 - 2 May 2004 * cursor positioning ("`-c`") reliability improved on systems with IPC * minor fix: made test 005 more reliable * new option "`--height`" ("`-H`") ### 0.8.2 - 24 April 2004 * allow k,m,g,t suffixes on numbers * added "`srpm`" and "`release`" Makefile targets ### 0.8.1 - 19 April 2004 * bugfix in cursor positioning ("`-c`") ### 0.8.0 - 12 February 2004 * replaced GNU getopt with my library code * replaced GNU gettext with my very minimal replacement * use *DESTDIR* instead of *RPM_BUILD_ROOT* for optional installation prefix * looked for flaws using RATS, cleaned up code ### 0.7.0 - 8 February 2004 * display buffer management fixes (thanks Cédric Delfosse) * replaced "`--enable-debug`" with "`--enable-debugging`" and "`--enable-profiling`" ### 0.6.4 - 14 January 2004 * fixed minor bug in RPM installation * bugfix in "`make index`" (only of interest to developers) ### 0.6.3 - 22 December 2003 * fixed transient bug that reported "resource unavailable" occasionally ### 0.6.2 - 6 August 2003 * block devices now have their size read correctly, so "`pv /dev/hda1`" works * minor code cleanups (mainly removal of CVS "Id" tags) ### 0.6.0 - 3 August 2003 * doing *^Z* then "`bg`" then "`fg`" now continues displaying ### 0.5.9 - 23 July 2003 * fix for test 007 when not in C locale * fix for build process to use *CPPFLAGS* * fix for build process to use correct i18n libraries * fix for build process - more portable sed in dependency generator * fix for install process - remember to `mkinstalldirs` before installing * fixes for building on Mac OS X ### 0.5.3 - 4 May 2003 * added Polish translation thanks to Bartosz Feński <fenio@o2.pl> <http://skawina.eu.org/> and Krystian Zubel * moved `doc/debian` to `./debian` at insistence of common sense * minor Solaris 8 compatibility fixes * seems to compile and test OK on Mac OS X ### 0.5.0 - 15 April 2003 * added French translation thanks to Stéphane Lacasse <stephane@gorfou.ca> * added German translation thanks to Marcos Kreinacke <public@kreinacke.com> * switched LGPL reference from "Library" to "Lesser" ### 0.4.9 - 18 February 2003 * support for >2GB files added where available (Debian bug #180986) * added `doc/debian` dir (from Cédric Delfosse) * added "`make rpm`" and "`make deb`" targets to build RPM and Debian packages * added a "`make pv-static`" rule to build a statically linked version ### 0.4.5 - 13 December 2002 * added Portuguese (Brazilian) translation thanks to Eduardo Aguiar ### 0.4.4 - 7 December 2002 * pause/resume support - don't count time while stopped * stop output when resumed in the background * terminal size change support * bugfix: "`<=>`" indicator no longer sticks at right hand edge ### 0.4.0 - 27 November 2002 * allow decimal interval values, eg 0.1, 0.5, etc * some simple tests added ("`make check`") * smoother throughput limiting ("`--rate-limit`"), now done in 0.1sec chunks * bounds-check interval values ("`-i`") - max update interval now 10 minutes * more reliable non-blocking output to keep display updated * no longer rely on `atoll()` * don't output final blank line if "`--numeric`" * use `fcntl()` instead of `flock()` for Solaris compatibility ### 0.3.0 - 25 November 2002 * handle broken output pipe gracefully * continue updating display even when output pipe is blocking ### 0.2.6 - 21 October 2002 * we now ignore *EINTR* on `select()` * variable-size buffer (still need to add code to change size) * added (tentative) support for internationalisation * removed superfluous "`--no-progress`", etc options * optimised transfer by using bigger buffers, based on `st_blksize` * added "`--wait`" option to wait until transfer begins before showing progress * added "`--rate-limit`" option to limit rate to a maximum throughput * added "`--quiet`" option (no output at all) to be used with "`--rate-limit`" ### 0.2.5 - 23 July 2002 * added *[FILE]...* arguments, like "`cat`" * function separation in code * some bug fixes related to numeric overflow ### 0.2.3 - 19 July 2002 * Texinfo manual written, man page updated * byte counter added ### 0.2.0 - 18 July 2002 * ETA counter added * screen width estimation added * progress bar added ### 0.1.0 - 17 July 2002 * main loop created * rate counter added * elapsed time counter added * percentage calculation added ### 0.0.1 - 16 July 2002 * package created * first draft of man page written