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-2.01a29:


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 and later now seem to honor the GPL but the cdrecord binaries on
	SuSE 9.0 and SuSE 9.1 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:

-	Add a workaround for a SCO OpenServer C-compiler bug.
	The bug causes the first function in a function to be called
	before the new stack frame has been established and did cause
	scanning the stack frame to fail.

-	Make snprintf() POSIX compliant.


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

-	modified to avoid GCCs shadowed variable warnings.


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

Libscg:

-	Fixed a bug in the Win32 SPTI/ASPI interface introduced with 2.01a28
	that caused core dumps because it did try to access data behind the end of the
	sense data array in the ASPI cmd structure.

Rscsi:

Cdrecord:

-	cdrecord -scanbus now checks for 256 SCSI busses
	This has already been announced for 2.01a28 but forgotten to include

-	Some Man Page Fixes trying to avoid coding problems for non 7-bit ACSII

-	Several typos in the man page fixed

-	Man page enhanced to include a better documentation for the driver=
	option.

-	Several other enhancements to the man page

-	modified to avoid GCCs shadowed variable warnings.	

-	Cdrecord now tolerates the OPC "error code" "Power calibration area almost full"
	to not a real error.


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

-	Some Man Page Fixes trying to avoid coding problems for non 7-bit ACSII
	

Readcd:

Scgcheck:

Scgskeleton:

-	New Skeleton program as sample and template for programs that like to 
	use libscg.

	This template has been included to help people like the Author of the
	BTC firmware flash program to write simple portable applications that
	send arbitrary SCSI commands to arbitrary drives.


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

-	Avoid GCCs shadowed variable warnings.

-	Added a comment is in hope to prevent silly people from
	e.g. SuSE (who did not yet learn C but believe that
	they need to patch other peoples code) from changing a
	valid cast into an illegal lhs cast expression.
	The cast in the unodified version of write.c is the correct way to
	handle the problem.

	It would save a lot of time if people from companies like SuSE
	would remember the Open Source software development model and
	contact the Author for help rather than introducing proprietary
	changes that result in worse and incompatible software variants.

	The way, companies like SuSE deal with Open Source software just
	proves that Jonathan Schwartz from Sun is not wrong when he calls
	SuSE and RedHat proprietary software companies. Users from Open Source
	software expect that companies like SuSE and RedHat are in close
	contact with the software developers but they unfortunately are not.
	They prefer to create proprietary variants that are usually much
	worse than the original software. The only explanation I have for this
	behaviour is that SuSE likes to deviate from RedHat and RedHat likes
	to deviate from SuSE in hope to get customer retention this way.
	While the last 150 years did prove that this proprietary method to
	tie up customers works for a limited time, it did always fail after
	some time.



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
