Please have a look at the German open Source Center BerliOS at www.berlios.de
BerliOS will continue to support free hosting of cryptography projects even
when US laws change and don't allow to host cryptography projects in the USA.
Also look at sourcewell.berlios.de, the first Open Source announcement service
that itself is implemented as Open Source project.

***************** Important news ****************************

For the 'Slottable Source Plugin Module' SSPM Features read README.SSPM

***************** Please Test *********************************

NEW features of cdrtools-2.01a26:


NOTICE: for supporting the CW-7501 and for supporting SAO/DAO with the
	Sony CDU-920, Sony CDU-924, Sony CDU-948, the driver interface has
	been modified.  This change did affect more than 3000 lines of code.
	The new driver interface again is more simple and more extendable than
	the old one, but the change may affect -dummy and -multi writing for
	any other drive. Please test if the change did not introduce new bugs.

	Also the change on the packet writing structures may affect packet writing.

	The changes for the DVD+ drive/media recognition may affect drive or
	media type recognition for any other drive.

	The changes for DVD+RW & DVD+R media support may cause cdrecod to fail 
	in other circumstances.

	With cdrecord-2.01a13, the track parsing has been completely rearranged
	in order to support new features in the future. This causes a high risk
	for bugs.

	With cdrecord-2.01a14, CUE Sheet handling has been introduced and
	1200 lines of new code has been integrated.

	Please test.

GPL violation hint:

	All recent SuSE distributions contain inofficial and modified versions
	of cdrecord that are known to contain bugs and open new security holes.

	At least SuSE 8.2 (maybe other SuSE releases too) did contain a modified
	version of cdrecord that did violate the GPL § 2 Paragraph c) and
	GPL Preamble Section 6 by not making clear that they published a modified
	version that differs from the original and thus may have bug not found
	in the official version. As the version published by SuSE definitely has bugs,
	it is obvious that this hint is needed.

	SuSE 9.0 now seems to honor the GPL but the cdrecord binaries on SuSE 9.0
	are definitely defective - please compile cdrecord yourself to get
	binaries that work as expected.

	Unfortunately, SuSE stopped sending free CD sets to developers about
	9 months ago, so it is hard to get hold of these problems....

	Hint for interested people: Solaris x86 is free for personal use and
	the CD images may even be downloaded for free.

	Also note that for the above reasons, it is always a good idea to compile
	cdrtools yourself from official sources in order make sure that you run
	an official version.

All:

-	The install-sh script not takes care about UNIX variants like SCO UnixWare
	and SCO OpenServer that allow to give away files via chown.

	If this works and /tmp has the sticky bit set, the root test was unable
	to remove the test files later. For this reason, now a subdirectory
	in /tmp is used.


-	Support for the special .PHONY: target ---> needs smake-1.2a21 or newer

	This helps to deal with files like INSTALL operating systems
	like Win32 and Mac OS that don't honor file name case and prevents
	the file named INSTALL to get into trouble with 'make install'


-	'make install' now works on operating systems that require a '.exe'
	suffix for executable binaries

-	Updated the file README.ATAPI

	Updated information for Linux, SCO-OpenServer, SCO-UnixWare, Win32
	and DOS

-	mconfig.h now supports make COPTX=-DNO_FORK & COPTX=-DNO_VFORK

-	snprintf() from libschily now correctly follows POSIX.1-2001 for maxlength == 0

Libparanoia (Ported by Jörg Schilling, originated by Monty xiphmont@mit.edu):

-	New indentation is better conforming to 'cstyle'

-	Fixed a bug in libparanoia that prevented the statistics to show up
	the number of 'skips' (the number of exhausted read retries) when
	SKIP verification has been turned off.


Libedc (Optimized by Jörg Schilling, originated by Heiko Eißfeldt heiko@hexco.de):

Libscg:

-	For win32, dev=ASPI:1,0 and dev=SPTI:1,0 work again

Rscsi:

Cdrecord:

-	New option -tao is now needed if you like to write in TAO mode.
	Cdrecord now does no longer writes if no write mode has been specified.

-	New option -sao as alias for -dao. As the official name for the write mode
	is SAO, -sao is more correct than -dao.

-	Fixes for minor typos in cdrecord.1

-	Fixed a bug with pad=xxx and pad sizes > 2 GB.

Cdda2wav (By Heiko Eißfeldt heiko@hexco.de):

-	Fix for a Bug that prevents paranoia statistice from being printed
	bacause the paranoia statistics for the forked version has not been
	inside the shared memory.

-	New paranoia sub option paraopts=overlap=xx

	This is mainly a bug fix for cdda2wav. Cdda2wav previously _always_ did
	completely deactivat the dynamic overlapping from libparanoia. Instead,
	it did set the overlapping to the statical value 0.

	If you omit paraopts=overlap=xx, cdda2wav will now use dynamic overlaping
	with -paranoia.

	If you like the old behavior, use: paraopts=overlap=0

-	New paranoia sub option paraopts=minoverlap=xx
	This sets the minimum dynamic overlap

-	New paranoia sub option paraopts=maxoverlap=xx
	This sets the maximum dynamic overlap

-	Better paranoia statistics output

-	Fixed a Problem with some Linux sound card drivers that caused cdda2wav to be
	unable to output to the soundcard.

-	cdda2wav now checks /etc/default/cdrecord and accepts dev=plextor as
	cdrecord does.

-	Trying to add verbose output that estimates the read quality with -paranoia

Readcd:

Scgcheck:

Mkisofs (By Jörg Schilling and James Pearson j.pearson@ge.ucl.ac.uk):

-	"Total extents including sparc boot" Message is now correctly
	"Total extents including %s boot" sparc/sunx86

-	mkisofs now checks /etc/default/cdrecord and allows e.g.
	"mkisofs -C 0,1234 dev=plextor ...." as cdrecord does

-	Unclean message ....extents written (%d Mb) changed to
	....extents written (%d MB) to avois "MegaBit" confision.

-	Minor change for old UNIX versions like SCO OpenServer to get
	smooth compilation on system where mode_t is a short.

-	Fix for a bug in RockRidge name handling for long file names
	that need to be split into more than one sector.
	Thanks to Patrick Ohly <Patrick.Ohly@gmx.de>

-	Trying to fix a bug in the multi session time stamp comparing
	functions. CE records have not been handled correctly here.

-	Support for PowerPC CHRP Boot added, thanks to
	"Leigh Brown" <leigh@solinno.co.uk>

-	Support for -uid/-gid for UDF Filesystems added

-	isoinfo now is able to list ElTorito Boot information with -d

-	isoinfo now correctly shows long RR filenames from CE Extension records.

TODO:
	-	read Joliet filenames with multi-session if no TRANS.TBL
		or RR is present. I am looking for a volouteer for this task!

		Note that this can never be 100% correct as there is no relation
		between the names on the master (UNIX) filesystem, the ISO-9660
		names and the Joliet names. Only the Rock Ridge names are
		untranslated with respect to the original files on the
		master (UNIX) filesystem.

	-	add libecc/edc for CDI and similar.


CYGWIN NT-4.0 NOTES:

To compile on Cygwin32, get Cygwin and install it.
For more information read README.win32

The files are located on:

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha ...

NOTE:	These tar archives are 100% POSIX compatible. GNU tar may get some
	minor trouble. If you like a 100% POSIX compliant tar, get star from
	ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/

WARNING: Do not use 'winzip' to extract the tar file!
	Winzip cannot extract symbolic links correctly.

Joerg
