GNU xorriso 1.0.8 released (important bug fix)

[Thomas Schmitt]

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Hi,

a bug in the mkisofs emulation of xorriso could cause options to be
ignored. The problem was freshly introduced with GNU xorriso-1.0.6.
Users who downloaded this version are now urged to get GNU xorriso-1.0.8.


GNU xorriso is a ISO 9660 Rock Ridge filesystem manipulator. Available on
GNU FTP mirrors as
  xorriso/xorriso-1.0.8.tar.gz

It creates, loads, manipulates and writes ISO 9660 filesystem images with
Rock Ridge extensions. Optionally it supports hard links, ACLs, xattr,
and MD5 checksums.
xorriso can load the management information of existing ISO images and it
writes the session results to optical media or to filesystem objects.
Vice versa xorriso is able to copy file objects from ISO 9660 filesystems
to disk.

A special property of xorriso is that it needs neither an external ISO 9660
formatter program nor an external burn program for CD, DVD or BD but rather
incorporates the libraries of libburnia-project.org .


Novelties:

This release of GNU xorriso fixes a nasty bug which could cause
ISO images not to have the properties and content that was intended
by the user.

* Bug fix: mkisofs emulation could ignore options (regression in 0.1.6)


License: GPLv3+

System requirements:
- - GNU/Linux: kernel 2.4 or 2.6, libc, libpthread
- - FreeBSD  : libc, libpthread, libiconv, IDE and SATA drives need atapicam
- - Solaris  : libc, libpthread
- - on other X/Open systems there will be no direct operation of
  CD/DVD/BD drives, but only POSIX i/o which may or may not
  be offered by the system for DVD-RAM, DVD+RW, or BD-RE.

Optional:
  libreadline + libreadline-development
  zlib + zlib-development
  libbz2 + libbz2-development
  on GNU/Linux: libacl + libacl-development
If they were present at compile time, then the optional libraries have to 
be present at runtime, too.


For more info, see http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/xorriso.html
                   http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/man_1_xorriso.html
                   http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/man_1_xorrisofs.html

                   http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso is mirrored at
                   scdbackup.sourceforge.net and scdbackup.webframe.org .

Download:

The xorriso release tarball will soon show up at
your local GNU FTP mirror as
  http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/xorriso/xorriso-1.0.8.tar.gz
(see GNU FTP Mirror List http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html )
It is already now available as
  http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/xorriso-1.0.8.tar.gz


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Have a nice day :)

Thomas

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