Hi, libburnia project is pleased to announce the release of version 1.5.6 of GNU xorriso, a ISO 9660 Rock Ridge filesystem manipulator. Available on GNU FTP mirrors as xorriso/xorriso-1.5.6.pl02.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. It can mark boot equipment in the filesystem image so that machine firmware finds it. 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: False -status failure with -boot_image --interval:appended_partition * Bug fix: -no_rc prevented pre-scanning of arguments for stdio output and others. Introduced by mistake in a62f6af5, 2011.10.18.162119. * Bug fix: -not_leaf and -not_paths were not applied to -extract and alike * Bug fix: -report_system_area cmd misperceived -part_like_isohybrid with -isohybrid-gpt-basdat * Bug fix: -report_system_area cmd misperceived combination of isohybrid and appended partition in GPT * Bug fix: -as mkisofs option -part_like_isohybrid did not cause a MBR partition table if the partitions are data files in the ISO rather than appended * Bug fix: Split file directories (-split_size) were created with wrong permissions * Bug fix: libisofs did not mark clones of imported files as imported. This could cause that original and clone occupy data storage in the newly written session. Thanks to Ivan Shmakov. * Bug fix: Partition offset was preserved from -indev rather than from -outdev * Bug fix: libisofs could misrepresent Rock Ridge information if many symbolic links or AAIP data were recorded in a directory * Bug fix: Data files named /boot.catalog or ./boot.cat could be left out of the emerging ISO if the boot catalog was set to be hidden * Bug fix: -toc reported wrong track LBA with overwritable media with unrecognized content (pseudo-closed) * Bug fix: -find test -has_xattr matched "isofs." attributes in -xattr mode "any" * New API call isoburn_assess_written_features() * New API calls isoburn_igopt_set_max_ce_entries(), isoburn_igopt_get_max_ce_entries() * New flag bit12 with isoburn_read_iso_head(): Read even if start of multi-session emulation is damaged * New -boot_image settings gpt_iso_bootable= and gpt_iso_not_ro= * New -as mkisofs options --gpt-iso-bootable and --gpt-iso-not-ro * New -as cdrecord option --obs_pad. Automatic no_emul_toc with -as cdrecord. * New parameters "obs_pad" and "bdr_obs_exempt" for -dvd_obs * New -as cdrecord option --bdr_obs_exempt * New command -assess_indev_features * New -find test -size * New -compliance rules max_ce_entries=, max_ce_drop= * Allowed lseekable device files with -cut_out. Proof-of-concept by Ivan Shmakov on bugs.debian.org. (Closes: #1010098) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peculiarities of this release: libisofs and GNU xorriso failed to compile on some non-GNU/Linux systems because ssize_t was used in libisofs/rockridge.h but not defined. (Reason is the generosity of GNU/Linux to define ssize_t in <stdio.h> and <stdlib.h>.) The now released state is: - libisofs-1.5.6.pl01 has the bug fixed. - GNU xorriso has been patched to xorriso-1.5.6.pl02.tar.gz which is now uploaded. (By tradition and most likely inattention i failed to fix the bug in .pl01, which got uploaded before i noticed my lapse.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, libvolmgt - NetBSD : libc, libpthread - OpenBSD : 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 . Download: The xorriso release tarball will soon show up at your local GNU FTP mirror as http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/xorriso/xorriso-1.5.6.pl02.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-1.5.6.pl02.tar.gz Post bug reports or requests to one of these mailing lists: mailto:bug-xorr...@gnu.org mailto:cdwrite@other.debian.org or directly to me: mailto:scdbac...@gmx.net Have a nice day :) Thomas