Relevant excerpt from Changelog as per
https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=9339:
NEWS
* Noteworthy changes in release 1.10 (2018-12-29) [stable]
** Changes in behavior
Compressed gzip output no longer contains the current time as a
timestamp when the input is not a regular file. Instead, the output
contains a null (zero) timestamp. This makes gzip's behavior more
reproducible when used as part of a pipeline. (As a reminder, even
regular files will use null timestamps after the year 2106, due to a
limitation in the gzip format.)
** Bug fixes
A use of uninitialized memory on some malformed inputs has been fixed.
[bug present since the beginning]
A few theoretical race conditions in signal handers have been fixed.
These bugs most likely do not happen on practical platforms.
[bugs present since the beginning]
In addition, gzip 1.10 comes with the GNU library patch applied, so
there is no need to carry this file around any more.
Signed-off-by: Peter Müller <peter.mueller@ipfire.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>