gzip 1.3.8 released for testing

[Paul Eggert]

I released gzip 1.3.8 here for final testing before becoming stable:

ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.3.8.tar.gz

This has all the fixes I've mentioned on address@hidden since 1.3.7
came out, and is a candidate for a stable release.

This one has only a few major fixes, which is a good sign:

* Fix some gzip problems:
  - A security fix from Debian 1.3.5-5 was inadvertently omitted.
  - The assembler is now invoked with --noexecstack if supported,
    so that gzip can better resist stack-smashing attacks.

MD5 and SHA512 checksums:

116774b594a6d5e07fc9999f5f42ecb0  gzip-1.3.8.tar.gz

2007ac036f10e93f3e8a9e581109c859192b8461b6e20c86f08fe1c62a77bc142e9d14e12c8c7b32000fb9ca4aea3ccabd0948eefa33728f3c80ae6f6397fe16
  gzip-1.3.8.tar.gz