Commit fb14afd5 for xz
commit fb14afd5c9bf14d8c67ee11e4139885072071ddd
Author: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
Date: Wed Dec 17 13:36:35 2025 +0200
Add NEWS for 5.8.2
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XZ Utils Release Notes
======================
+5.8.2 (2025-12-17)
+
+ * liblzma:
+
+ - Fix the build on ARM64 on glibc versions older than
+ 2.24 (2016). They don't have HWCAP_CRC32 in <sys/auxv.h>.
+
+ - Disable CLMUL CRC code when building for 32-bit x86 with
+ old MSVC versions. This avoids a compiler bug. The exact
+ compiler version in which the issue was fixed is unknown,
+ but VS 2022 17.13 (MSVC 19.43.34808) is known to work, so
+ CLMUL CRC on 32-bit x86 is disabled with MSVC versions
+ older than that.
+
+ * xz:
+
+ - Add a workaround for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 kernel bug
+ which made xz fail with "xz: Failed to enable the sandbox".
+ It only occurs with xz 5.8.0 and 5.8.1 binaries built for
+ other distros. For example, running Debian 13 in a container
+ on RHEL/CentOS 9 would trigger the issue.
+
+ The bug was introduced in RHEL 9 kernel 5.14.0-603.el9
+ (2025-07-30) and fixed in 5.14.0-648.el9 (2025-12-05).
+ However, as of writing, the fixed kernel isn't available
+ to RHEL 9 users yet, so including the workaround in this
+ xz release seems reasonable. The workaround will be removed
+ when it's no longer needed.
+
+ xzdec was also affected by this issue.
+
+ - On AIX, don't use fsync() on directories because it fails.
+
+ - Fix the build on Emscripten.
+
+ - Fix the build on clang-cl on Windows.
+
+ - Take resource limits (RLIMIT_DATA, RLIMIT_AS, and RLIMIT_VMEM)
+ into account when determining the default memory usage limit
+ for multithreaded mode. This should prevent xz from failing
+ when a resource limit has been set to a value that is less
+ than 1/4 of total RAM. Other memory limits can still trigger
+ the same issue, for example, Linux cgroup v2 memory.max.
+
+ * Build systems:
+
+ - When symbol versioning is enabled, pass --undefined-version
+ to the linker if the option is supported. This fixes the
+ build when using LLVM's lld and some liblzma features have
+ been disabled at build time.
+
+ - ARM64: Fix autodetection of fast unaligned memory access when
+ using GCC and -mstrict-align is in effect. Previously the
+ build systems would incorrectly guess that unaligned access
+ is fast, which would result in much slower binaries than
+ needed. The fix is a workaround for GCC bug 111555;
+ autodetection already worked with Clang.
+
+ - LoongArch: Autodetect if fast unaligned memory access is
+ supported. This can improve compression speed by 15 % (but
+ not decompression speed).
+
+ * Translations:
+
+ - Update the Spanish translation.
+
+ - Add Swedish man page translations.
+
+ - Update Italian, Korean, Romanian, Serbian, and Ukrainian
+ man page translations.
+
+
5.8.1 (2025-04-03)
IMPORTANT: This includes a security fix for CVE-2025-31115 which