866964 - Upgrade to zlib 1.2.8

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Virtual_ManPL [:Virtual] 🇵🇱 - (please needinfo? me - so I will see your comment/reply/question/etc.)]

-Add new inflateGetDictionary() function
-Fix bug where gzopen() immediately followed by gzclose() would write an empty file instead of an empty gzip stream.
-Fix bug in gzclose() when gzwrite() runs out of memory

tl;dr



Changes in 1.2.8 (28 Apr 2013)
- Update contrib/minizip/iowin32.c for Windows RT [Vollant]
- Do not force Z_CONST for C++
- Clean up contrib/vstudio [Ro§]
- Correct spelling error in zlib.h
- Fix mixed line endings in contrib/vstudio

Changes in 1.2.7.3 (13 Apr 2013)
- Fix version numbers and DLL names in contrib/vstudio/*/zlib.rc

Changes in 1.2.7.2 (13 Apr 2013)
- Change check for a four-byte type back to hexadecimal
- Fix typo in win32/Makefile.msc
- Add casts in gzwrite.c for pointer differences

Changes in 1.2.7.1 (24 Mar 2013)
- Replace use of unsafe string functions with snprintf if available
- Avoid including stddef.h on Windows for Z_SOLO compile [Niessink]
- Fix gzgetc undefine when Z_PREFIX set [Turk]
- Eliminate use of mktemp in Makefile (not always available)
- Fix bug in 'F' mode for gzopen()
- Add inflateGetDictionary() function
- Correct comment in deflate.h
- Use _snprintf for snprintf in Microsoft C
- On Darwin, only use /usr/bin/libtool if libtool is not Apple
- Delete "--version" file if created by "ar --version" [Richard G.]
- Fix configure check for veracity of compiler error return codes
- Fix CMake compilation of static lib for MSVC2010 x64
- Remove unused variable in infback9.c
- Fix argument checks in gzlog_compress() and gzlog_write()
- Clean up the usage of z_const and respect const usage within zlib
- Clean up examples/gzlog.[ch] comparisons of different types
- Avoid shift equal to bits in type (caused endless loop)
- Fix unintialized value bug in gzputc() introduced by const patches
- Fix memory allocation error in examples/zran.c [Nor]
- Fix bug where gzopen(), gzclose() would write an empty file
- Fix bug in gzclose() when gzwrite() runs out of memory
- Check for input buffer malloc failure in examples/gzappend.c
- Add note to contrib/blast to use binary mode in stdio
- Fix comparisons of differently signed integers in contrib/blast
- Check for invalid code length codes in contrib/puff
- Fix serious but very rare decompression bug in inftrees.c
- Update inflateBack() comments, since inflate() can be faster
- Use underscored I/O function names for WINAPI_FAMILY
- Add _tr_flush_bits to the external symbols prefixed by --zprefix
- Add contrib/vstudio/vc10 pre-build step for static only
- Quote --version-script argument in CMakeLists.txt
- Don't specify --version-script on Apple platforms in CMakeLists.txt
- Fix casting error in contrib/testzlib/testzlib.c
- Fix types in contrib/minizip to match result of get_crc_table()
- Simplify contrib/vstudio/vc10 with 'd' suffix
- Add TOP support to win32/Makefile.msc
- Suport i686 and amd64 assembler builds in CMakeLists.txt
- Fix typos in the use of _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE in zconf.h
- Add vc11 and vc12 build files to contrib/vstudio
- Add gzvprintf() as an undocumented function in zlib
- Fix configure for Sun shell
- Remove runtime check in configure for four-byte integer type
- Add casts and consts to ease user conversion to C++
- Add man pages for minizip and miniunzip
- In Makefile uninstall, don't rm if preceding cd fails
- Do not return Z_BUF_ERROR if deflateParam() has nothing to write

Comment 1

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

Dan, did you want to take this?

Comment 2

[Daniel Jeter II]

Sure, I'll take it.

Comment 3

[Daniel Jeter II]

Attachment: Patch to upgrade zlib to 1.2.8

Comment 4

[Joe Drew (not getting mail)]

Comment on attachment 747608 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch to upgrade zlib to 1.2.8

Review of attachment 747608 [details] [diff] [review]:
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Comment 5

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/37b07e9aa33a

Thanks, Dan!

Comment 6

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/37b07e9aa33a