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-2.01a32:


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.

Note that we are close before publishing release 2.01 final. Please test for
problems that might make the cdrtools unusable.

All:

-	New global method to handle PATH environment delimiters (":" on
	POSIX systems and ";" on DOS).

-	New README.msdos reflecting new features of smake-1.2a23 on DOS/DJGPP

-	Some minor enhancements to the makefilesystem

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

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

Libscg:

-	Trying to write a better warning message for the dev=ATAPI: interface
	on Linux (the related kernel interface is unmaintained and does
	not support DMA at all).

Rscsi:

Cdrecord:

-	-clone option documented in the man page. This has been forgotten before.

-	Several typos in the man page fixed


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

-	Removed some "historical junk" that caused cdda2wav to define a
	compile time default input device. This conflicts with cdda2wav -scanbus
	and is superfluous and contra productive since cdda2wav reads 
	/etc/default/cdrecord

Readcd:

-	Fixed a bug with -scanbus (did not work correctly if /etc/default/cdrecord
	exists).

-	Added an allocated list of defective sectors, that is printed to the end of
	a read operation.

Scgcheck:

Scgskeleton:

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

-	The options -H/-L/-P from mkisofs have been marked "outdated"
	as they are reserved by POSIX.1-2001 for other purposes.

	Mkisofs-2.02 will start to implement the POSIX.1-2001 semantics for
	these options.

-	The max. length for the strings in the Primary volume descriptor
	is now also documented in the options section of the man page.

-	Speed up by 30% in the case that a directory contains many (> 5000)
	pathological file name entries (that _all_ do not differ in 8.3).

-	A minor speed up in devdump & isodump was made by no longer calling
	strlen() in the end condition of a for loop (this still was old
	code from Eric).

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
