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Changelog for bmap-tools-3.2-4.1.noarch.rpm :
Wed Feb 19 13:00:00 2014 Artem Bityutskiy 3.2-1
- Add support for LZO and archives (\'.lzo\' and \'.tar.lzo\').
- Add support for multi-stream bzip2 archives (creted with \"pbzip2\").
- Support tmpfs by using the SEEK_HOLE method instead of FIEMAP.
- Use external tools like \'gzip\' and \'bzip2\' for decompressing, instead of
using internal python libraries.

Thu Nov 7 13:00:00 2013 Artem Bityutskiy 3.1-1
- Change bmap format version from 1.4 to 2.0, because there are incompatible
changes in 1.4 comparing to 1.3, so the right version number is 2.0
- Add backward and forward bmap format compatibility unit-tests

Wed Oct 2 14:00:00 2013 Artem Bityutskiy 3.0-1
- Switch from using SHA1 for checksumming to SHA256.
- Start supporting OpenPGP signatures. Both detached and clearsign signatures
are supported.
- Always sync the image file before creating the bmap for it, to work-around
kernel bugs in early FIEMAP implementations.

Tue Aug 13 14:00:00 2013 Artem Bityutskiy 2.6-1
- Add support for on-the-fly decompression of \'.xz\' and \'.tar.xz\' files.

Mon Aug 5 14:00:00 2013 Artem Bityutskiy 2.5-1
- Do not fail when lacking permisssions for accessing block device\'s sysfs
files.
- Improve debian packaging.

Wed Jun 5 14:00:00 2013 Artem Bityutskiy 2.4-1
- Add ssh:// URLs support.

Mon May 6 14:00:00 2013 Artem Bityutskiy 2.3-1
-Add bmap file SHA1 verification, make tests work on btrfs.

Mon Mar 11 13:00:00 2013 Artem Bityutskiy 2.2-1
- Support username and password in URLs.

Mon Feb 18 13:00:00 2013 Artem Bityutskiy 2.1-1
- Fix out of memory issues when copying .bz2 files.

Thu Jan 17 13:00:00 2013 Artem Bityutskiy 2.0-1
- Fix the an issue with running out of memory in TransRead.py.

Tue Jan 15 13:00:00 2013 Artem Bityutskiy 2.0-0.rc5
- When block device optimzations fail - raise an exception except of muting
the error, because we really want to know about these failures and possibly
fix them.

Thu Jan 10 13:00:00 2013 Artem Bityutskiy 2.0-0.rc4
- Fix bmap autodiscovery.

Mon Jan 7 13:00:00 2013 Artem Bityutskiy 2.0-0.rc3
- Fix uncaught urllib2 exception bug introduced in rc1.

Fri Jan 4 13:00:00 2013 Artem Bityutskiy 2.0-0.rc2
- Fix writing to block devices, which was broken in rc1.
- Make the informational messages a bit nicer.

Thu Dec 20 13:00:00 2012 Artem Bityutskiy 2.0-0.rc1
- Allow copying without bmap only if --nobmap was specified.
- Auto-discover the bmap file.
- Support reading from URLs.
- Implement progress bar.
- Highlight error and warning messages with red and yellow labels.

Mon Dec 3 13:00:00 2012 Artem Bityutskiy 1.0-1
- Release version 1.0 of the tools - almost identical to 1.0-rc7 except of few
minor differences like spelling fixes.

Thu Nov 29 13:00:00 2012 Artem Bityutskiy 1.0-0.rc7
- Add a Fiemap.py module which implements python API to the linux FIEMAP ioct.
- Use the FIEMAP ioctl properly and optimally.
- Add unit-tests, current test coverage is 66%.
- A lot of core rerafactoring.
- Several bug fixes in \'BmapCopy\' (e.g., .tar.gz format support was broken).
- Add README and RELEASE_NOTES files.
- Change the versioning scheme.

Wed Nov 21 13:00:00 2012 Artem Bityutskiy 0.6
- Improve the base API test to cover the case when there is no bmap.
- Fix a bug when copying without bmap.

Tue Nov 20 13:00:00 2012 Artem Bityutskiy 0.5
- Fix handling of bmap files which contain ranges with only one block.
- Restore the block device settings which we change on exit.
- Change block device settings correctly for partitions.
- Rework API modules to accept file-like objects, not only paths.
- Fix and silence pylint warnings.
- Implement the base API test-case.

Wed Nov 14 13:00:00 2012 Artem Bityutskiy 0.4
- Improved compressed images flashing speed by exploiting multiple threads:
now we read/decompress the image in one thread and write it in a different
thread.

Tue Nov 13 13:00:00 2012 Artem Bityutskiy 0.3
- Fix flashing speed calculations
- Fix the Ctrl-C freeze issue - now we synchronize the block device
periodically so if a Ctrl-C interruption happens, we terminate withen few
seconds.

Fri Nov 9 13:00:00 2012 Artem Bityutskiy 0.2
- Release 0.2 - mostly internal code re-structuring and renamings,
not much functional changes.
- The \'bmap-flasher\' and \'bmap-creator\' tools do not exist anymore. Now
we have \'bmaptool\' which supports \'copy\' and \'create\' sub-commands instead.
- The BmapFlasher module was also re-named to BmapCopy.

Wed Nov 7 13:00:00 2012 Artem Bityutskiy 0.1.0
- Release 0.1.1 - a lot of fixes and speed improvements.

Sat Oct 27 14:00:00 2012 Eduard Bartoch 0.0.1
- Initial packaging.


 
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