GNU xorriso 1.3.8 released

[Thomas Schmitt]

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Hi,

libburnia project is pleased to announce the release of version 1.3.8
of GNU xorriso, a ISO 9660 Rock Ridge filesystem manipulator. Available
on GNU FTP mirrors as
  xorriso/xorriso-1.3.8.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:

* Bug fix: -boot_image grub grub2_mbr= did not work
           (but -as mkisofs --grub2-mbr did work)

* Bug fix: -boot_image grub2_mbr=  prevented -boot_image partition_table=on

* Bug fix: libburn: A final fsync(2) was performed with stdio drives,
                    even if -stdio_sync was set to "off".

* Bug fix: libburn: Wrong stack usage caused SIGBUS on sparc when compiled
                    by gcc -O2

* Bug fix: -blank force:all on DVD+RW had no effect

* Enabled use of libedit as alternative to libreadline

* Enabled recording and restoring of extattr on NetBSD

* New bootspecs hppa_*, new -as mkisofs options -hppa-* for HP-PA via PALO

* New -find pseudo tests -use_pattern , -or_use_pattern

* New -find action report_sections

* New command -concat

* New commands -report_system_area and -report_el_torito

License: GPLv3+

System requirements:
- - GNU/Linux: kernel 2.4 or newer, libc, libpthread
- - FreeBSD  : libc, libpthread, libiconv, IDE and SATA drives need atapicam
- - Solaris  : libc, libpthread
- - NetBSD   : 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 , or libedit
  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/man_1_xorrecord.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-1.3.8.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-1.3.8.tar.gz


Post bug reports or requests to one of these mailing lists:
  mailto:address@hidden
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or directly to me:
  mailto:address@hidden


Have a nice day :)

Thomas

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