ECM v1.1.0

A major modernization release with improved build system, testing, and robustness.

Highlights

• Modern Build System - Migrated to Meson for cross-platform builds
• Test Suite - Unit and integration tests for reliable development
• Shared Library - Common ECC/EDC code extracted to libeccedc
• Bug Fixes - Fixed integer overflow, buffer overflow, and error handling issues

What's New

Build & Packaging

• Meson build system with release/debug configurations
• just command runner for convenient builds
• Arch Linux PKGBUILD included
• C23 standard with warnings as errors

Reliability Improvements

• Large file support (>4GB) with int64_t progress tracking
• Bounds checking in type/count decoder prevents malformed file exploits
• All write operations now check for errors (disk full, I/O failures)
• Proper error code propagation throughout

Code Quality

• Shared libeccedc static library eliminates code duplication
• Comprehensive test coverage (unit + integration)
• Modern GitHub-style documentation

Installation

From Source

meson setup build
meson compile -C build
meson install -C build

Arch Linux

cd packaging/archlinux
makepkg -si

Checksums

SHA256 (ecm-1.1.0.tar.gz) = <to be filled after release>

Full Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md for complete details.