[Lzip-bug] Version 1.2 of lzip released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of lzip 1.2.

This is mainly a bug-fix release. All users should upgrade to 1.2 as 
soon as possible.

Lzip is a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm, with
very safe integrity checking and a user interface almost identical to
the one of bzip2.

The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html.

The sources can be dowloaded from
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/.

The md5sums are:
04ffa29da4e1897064039a7da032eba1  lzip-1.2.tar.gz
b7f2bbdbb4201480f1e94172dac87149  lzip-1.2.tar.lz

This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signature by
appending ".sig" to the URL.

Changes in version 1.2:

  * A 1-byte read outside allocated memory, that could theoretically 
produce a bad compressed file, has been fixed.

  * Dictionary size limit has been reduced to 512MiB because setting it 
to 1GiB causes overflow of a 32 bit integer.

  * Lzdiff, a diff/cmp wrapper for gzip, bzip2 and lzip compressed 
files has been added to the distribution.

  * Lzgrep, a grep wrapper for gzip, bzip2 and lzip compressed files 
has been added to the distribution.

  * "make install-info" should now work on Debian and OS X.


Please send bug reports and suggestions to address@hidden


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzip author and maintainer.