DENSITY 0.12.0 beta

0.12.0 beta

March 24, 2015

• Added new lion kernel
• Renamed kernel mandala to cheetah
• Kernel chameleon and cheetah improvements in encoding/decoding speeds
• Generic function macros to avoid code rewrite
• Improved memory teleport IO flexibility and speed, bytes issued by memory teleport can now be partially read
• Various fixes and improvements

DENSITY 0.11.4 beta

0.11.4 beta

February 10, 2015

• Removed unnecessary makefile, now using a single makefile
• Mandala kernel : reset prediction entries as required
• Mandala kernel : convert hash to 16-bit unsigned int before storing
• Updated SpookyHash to 1.0.2

DENSITY 0.11.3 beta

0.11.3 beta

February 5, 2015

• Added integrity check system
• Corrected pointer usage and update on footer read/writes
• Now freeing kernel state memory only when compression mode is not copy
• Updated Makefiles
• Improved memory teleport
• Fixed sequencing problem after kernels request a new block

DENSITY 0.11.2 beta

0.11.2 beta

February 3, 2015

• Added an algorithms overview in README
• Removed ssc references
• Now initializing last hash to zero on mandala kernel inits
• Reimplemented the buffer API
• Various corrections and improvements

DENSITY 0.11.1 beta

0.11.1 beta

January 19, 2015

• Added a sharc benchmark in README
• Stateless memory teleport
• Improved event management and dispatching
• Improved compression/decompression finishes
• Improved streams API
• Various bug fixes, robustness improvements

DENSITY 0.10.2 beta

0.10.2 beta

January 7, 2015

• Improved organization of compile-time switches and run-time options in the API
• Removed method density_stream_decompress_utilities_get_header from the API, header info is now returned in the density_stream_decompress_init function
• Corrected readme to reflect API changes

DENSITY 0.10.1 beta

0.10.1 beta

January 5, 2015

• Re-added mandala kernel
• Corrected available bytes adjustment problem
• Added missing restrict keywords
• Cleaned unnecessary defines

DENSITY 0.10.0 beta

0.10.0 beta

January 2, 2015

• Complete stream API redesign to greatly improve flexibility
• Only one supported algorithm for now : Chameleon

DENSITY 0.9.12 beta

0.9.12 beta

December 2, 2013

• Mandala kernel addition, replacing dual pass chameleon
• Simplified, faster hash function
• Fixed memory freeing issue during main encoding/decoding finish
• Implemented no footer encode output type
• Namespace migration, kernel structure reorganization
• Corrected copy mode problem
• Implemented efficiency checks and mode reversions
• Corrected lack of main header parameters retrieval
• Fixed stream not being properly ended when mode reversion occurred
• Updated metadata computations

DENSITY 0.9.11 beta

0.9.11 beta

November 2, 2013

• First beta release of DENSITY, including all the compression code from SHARC in a standalone, BSD licensed library
• Added copy mode (useful for enhancing data security via the density block checksums for example)
• Makefile produces static and dynamic libraries