1 2019-09-24: Version 7.4.1
3 * Updated Danish, German, Hungarian, Japanese and Ukranian translations.
6 2017-10-10: Version 7.4.0
8 * New option --allow-chown to allow file ownership change
9 in old file mode. Option --no-allow-chown does the opposite.
12 2017-07-04: Version 7.3.5
14 * New flag 0 for option -i, --info. End information lines with a null
15 character instead of a newline character, enabling correct file name
16 interpretation when flag c is used.
17 * Don't print leading spaces when option -i with flag c is used.
20 * Translation updates.
22 2016-05-24: Version 7.3.4
24 * Safer temporary file creation on Windows.
26 * Updated translations.
28 2016-02-13: Version 7.3.3
29 * Fixed printing of East-Asian text on Windows with an East-Asian regional
31 * Fixed printing text in unicode UTF-16 mode on Windows, so that when
32 it is redirected to a file, a correct UTF-16 file is created.
33 * New flags h (print header) and p (show file names without path) for
36 2015-11-20: Version 7.3.2
38 * New: Swedish translation of messages and manual.
39 * Updated: Danish and Brazilian Portuguese translations.
40 * Fix: The -iso option was misinterpreted as a corrupted -i option.
41 * Fix: Compilation for MSYS 1.
43 2015-09-30: Version 7.3.1
45 * New: Simplified Chinese translation of messages and manual.
46 * Fix: Compilation error "'wchar_t' undeclared" when Unicode support is disabled.
47 * Fix: Compilation errors when MinGW compiler was used (MinGW-w64 was OK).
49 2015-08-24: Version 7.3
51 * New: Unicode file name support on Windows.
52 * Fix: Options -ul and -ub caused option -i to report wrong BOM for no_bom.
54 2015-07-01: Version 7.2.3
56 * Fix: Check for file I/O errors while reading input files, and added
57 a few missing checks while writing output files.
58 * Fix: Compilation for msys.
60 2015-05-22: Version 7.2.2
62 * Fix: Fixed symlink support on FreeBSD.
63 * Fix: Skip GB18030 test on FreeBSD.
64 * Fix: When conversion of an UTF-16 file with binary symbols was forced,
65 null characters were not written in the output.
66 * Fix: Check UTF-16 input for invalid surrogate pairs.
68 2015-04-01: Version 7.2.1
70 * Fix: Skip the GB18030 tests when the system does not support the
71 Chinese locale with GB18030 character encoding.
72 * Fix: Small corrections in the manual in section GB18030 and OPTIONS -m.
74 2015-02-11: Version 7.2
76 * New: Japanese translation of the UI messages.
77 * New: Support Chinese GB18030 locale.
78 * Change: On Unix/Linux convert UTF-16 to the locale encoding. It is
79 no longer required that the locale encoding is UTF-8.
81 2014-10-06: Version 7.1
83 * New: Option -i, --info to print file information.
84 This new option prints number of DOS, Unix, and Mac line breaks, the byte
85 order mark, and if the file is text or binary. And it can print the names
86 of files that would be converted.
88 2014-09-09: Version 7.0
90 * New: automated self-tests.
91 * New: option -u to keep UTF-16 encoding.
92 * New: option -v to print information about BOMs and converted line breaks.
93 * Change: stdio mode does not automatically set quiet mode.
94 * Change: stdio mode does not automatically force conversion of binaries.
95 An error is returned when the stdin stream contains a binary symbol.
96 * Bugfix: dos2unix -l created DOS line breaks from Mac line breaks.
97 * Bugfix: system error number was not always returned.
98 * Bugfix: an Unicode input file disabled 7bit and iso mode for next input files.
99 * Bugfix: mac2unix help text, options -b and -r.
100 * The code has been cleaned up.
102 2014-08-03: Version 6.0.6
104 * Bugfix: mac2unix conversion produced corrupted output from UTF-16 input file.
105 * New options -b (keep BOM) and -r (remove BOM).
106 * New translation of the UI messages: Norwegian Bokmaal.
108 2014-04-17: Version 6.0.5
110 * Dos2unix is part of the Translation Project (TP).
111 All translations go via the Translation Project.
112 See http://translationproject.org/
113 * New translations of UI messages: Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (traditional),
114 Danish, French, Hungarian, Polish, Serbian, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.
115 * New translations of the manual: Brazilian Portuguese, French, German,
117 * Generated man pages are included in the source package to prevent
118 compilation problems with very old or very new perl/pod2man versions.
119 * Manuals are now generated from gettext PO files with po4a for easier
121 * All manuals are now in UTF-8 encoding.
122 * Skip symbolic links on Windows by default (same as on Unix).
124 2013-12-30: Version 6.0.4
126 * New options -ul and -ub to convert UTF-16 files without BOM.
127 * New Russian translation of the messages.
128 * Build 32 bit Windows binaries with Large File Support (LFS)
129 by using mingw-w64 for 32 bit Windows.
130 * When a binary symbol is encountered the value is printed.
132 2013-01-25: Version 6.0.3
134 * Source code compiles with Microsoft Visual C.
135 * Print system error when writing output fails.
137 2012-09-06: Version 6.0.2
139 * The locale encoding detection has been fixed when NLS was disabled.
140 * Print line number when a binary symbol is found.
141 * Updated makefiles for Watcom C, and added a new one for OS/2.
143 2012-07-25: Version 6.0.1
145 * Update Spanish translations.
148 2012-05-06: Version 6.0
150 * Conversion of Windows UTF-16 files to Unix UTF-8 files.
151 * Conversion of Unix UTF-8 files to Windows UTF-8 files with byte
154 2012-03-10: Version 5.3.3
156 * Enabled wildcard expansion for all versions.
157 * Fixed a compilation error when debug was enabled.
159 2012-01-27: Version 5.3.2
161 * New homepage URL: http://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/dos2unix.html
162 * Compiles for native MSYS.
163 * Compile with OpenWatcom for DOS32 and Win32.
164 * Detect code page on OS/2.
165 * Support wild cards on OS/2.
167 2011-08-09: Version 5.3.1
169 * Spanish translation of messages and manual.
170 * File ownership is maintained in old file mode (Unix only).
171 * Dos2unix and Unix2dos share the same language files.
174 2011-04-26: Version 5.3
176 * Improved handling of symbolic links. New options -F, -R, -S.
177 * Improved handling and reporting of errors.
178 * Source code improvements for Cygwin. Behave exactly as on Linux.
179 * New option --. Treat all following options as file names.
181 2011-03-04: Version 5.2.1
183 * PDF and PostScript generation is optional. No default dependency on
184 GhostScript and Groff.
185 * Enable optional Large File Support (LFS).
186 * Esperanto x-notation is optional. No longer installation of non-standard
188 * Improved error messages.
190 2011-01-31: Version 5.2
192 * ISO conversion mode supports same DOS code pages as SunOS dos2unix does:
193 CP437 (US), CP850 (Western European), CP860 (Portuguese),
194 CP863 (French Canadian), and CP865 (Nordic).
195 * ISO conversion mode supports Windows code page CP1252 (Western).
196 * SunOS compatible options -ascii, -iso, -7, -437, -850, -860, -863, and -865.
197 * Active code page detection for ISO mode.
198 * Fixed ISO conversion of non-breaking space (NBSP).
199 * ISO and 7bit mode can be used in Mac mode.
200 * Treat ASCII Form Feed control characters as valid text.
201 * Update manual pages.
202 * Don't include generated documentation files in Unix source package.
203 * Create a source package in DOS text format.
205 2010-08-18: Version 5.1.1
207 * Added Dutch translation of the manual.
209 * Win32 binary package uses patched MinGW's libintl, with builtin
210 * relocation support.
211 * Support compilation in DOSBox (8.3 file names where needed).
212 * Fixed compilation on Darwin OS.
214 2010-04-03: Version 5.1
216 * Esperanto translations have been added.
217 * Ports to 16 bit DOS have been made.
218 * Command-line options can be set in stdio mode.
219 * Bugfix dos2unix MAC mode: Don't change DOS line endings.
220 * Create stubs for DOS32 versions of mac2unix and unix2mac.
221 * Localization information has been added to the manual.
222 * Man pages have been merged.
223 * Man page generation from Perl POD file.
226 2010-02-16: Version 5.0
228 * Dos2unix and Unix2dos have been bundled in a single package.
229 * German translations have been added.
230 * Dos2unix -l --newline also works in MAC mode.
231 * Unix2dos also got option -l, --newline.
232 * Added MAC mode to Unix2dos: Convert Unix line endings to Mac line endings.
233 * Cleanup of messages and manual.
235 2010-01-24: Version 4.1.2
237 * Preserves file modes in new file mode.
239 2010-01-21: Version 4.1.1
241 * Fixes a compilation problem on FreeBSD.
243 2009-12-28: Version 4.1
245 Automatically skips binary and non-regular files,
246 and the ISO mode has been cleaned up (see ChangeLog).
248 2009-12-21: Version 4.0.1
250 Adds a port to OS/2 Warp. Two wrong conversions in ISO mode
251 have been fixed. The manual page has been updated.
253 2009-12-15: Version 4.0
255 Adds internationalisation (Native Language Support, NLS). A Dutch
256 translation has been added. Ports to Windows and DOS have been made.
257 The problem in DOS/Windows stdio mode has been fixed. The manual has