[schilytools] [RELEASE] 2023-04-19

[Robert Clausecker]

Dear schilytools users,

I am proud to present the 2023-09-28 release of schilytools.
This is largely a bug fix release.  We hope that you find it
useful.

Please obtain the release tarball schily-2023-09-28.tar.bz2 from one
of the hosts listed below.  The SHA3-384 checksum is:

43bf43201aa482be0f592e801873b71e3ef1cdd6f942f82d2caddb7808e5ca48e2ff294f805eedb03bad4edf9a96331d

New features with AN-2023-09-28:

With great sadness we report the death of schilytools main author and
long time maintainer Jörg Schilling (1955-03-27--2021-10-10).  Jörg, we
miss you!  After his passing, development has been picked up by a group
of volunteers who would like to keep the project alive and well.  Our
goal is to carefully preserve the portability and compatibility of this
project while extending it to new platforms and implementing new tools
and features that fit the tool set.

As a part of the change in management, the schilytools project has moved
from Sourceforge to Codeberg.  Please report bugs and send patches to
our bug tracker:

	https://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools

or to our mailing list schilytools at mlists.in-berlin.de:

	https://mlists.in-berlin.de/mailman/listinfo/schilytools-mlists.in-berlin.de

Obtain release tarballs from:

	http://fuz.su/pub/schilytools
	ftp://fuz.su/pub/schilytools
	rsync://fuz.su/pub/schilytools
	https://schilytools.pkgsrc.pub/pub/schilytools/
	http://schilytools.pkgsrc.pub/pub/schilytools/
	https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/schilytools/
	http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/schilytools/
	ftp://mirrors.dotsrc.org/schilytools/
	rsync://mirrors.dotsrc.org/schilytools/
	https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/schilytools/
	http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/schilytools/
	ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/schilytools/
	rsync://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/schilytools/
	https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/schilytools/
	http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/schilytools/
	ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/schilytools/
	rsync://ftp.gwdg.de/schilytools/

If you have previously reported bugs to Jörg Schilling and they have not
been fixed, please report them again.  We do not have access to Jörg's
private emails and do not know what you have reported.

NEW FEATURES:

-	autoconf: Fix machine recognition on POWER9 (ppc64le) systems.
	When buidling schilytools on ppc64le systems, config.sub was
	unable to determine the machine type on some systems.  This also
	broke the version announcement on some of the commands.  Fix this
	error by teaching autoconf about ppc64le.
	Submitted by: Nico Sonack.

-	mkisofs: adjust reference of ISO-9660:1999 to ISO-9660/Amd 1:2013
	It is an official ISO standard (albeit not an official level 4)
	since 2013. Amend the reference accordingly.
	Submitted by: Wang Mingye.

-	libschily: obey HAVE_LONGDOUBLE, HAVE_FACCESSAT, and
	HAVE_GETDOMAINNAME in libschily-mapvers, fixing the build with
	lld 17 on recent FreeBSD.
	Submitted by: Dimitry Andric.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS:

-	Schilytools contains pxupgrade, a dummy for a closed-source
	component.  While the source code of this component is available
	to the maintainer, it cannot be published due to an existing NDA
	with Plextor.  Depending on whether we can get this NDA lifted
	or not, the pxupgrade dummy code may either be replaced with the
	real source code of the tool or removed altogether.

-	With development of the p7zip(1) utility having ceased in 2016
	and the 7-zip project having ported the reference implementation
	to UNIX-like systems, many packagers now ship a 7z(1) command
	instead of p7zip(1).  Future star distributions may ship an
	/etc/default/star file configuring P7ZIP_CMD to refer to 7z(1)
	instead of the default p7zip(1).  This will not affect existing
	installations unless the configuration is updated.

-	Configuring compression/decompression helpers may be implemented
	for DOS (DJGPP) in an upcoming version.

CONTRIBUTORS FOR THIS VERSION:

Dimitry ANDRIC <dim at FreeBSD.org>
Nico SONACK <nsonack at herrhotzenplotz.de>
WANG Mingye (Artoria2e5) <arthur2e5 at aosc.io>

The schilytools maintainer
Robert Clausecker <fuz at fuz.su>

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