[Lzip-bug] Version 1.8-rc1 of lzip released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Version 1.8-rc1 of lzip is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.8-rc1.tar.gz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.8-rc1.tar.lz

The md5sums are:
64043eca358cf2f618b3aeee886c9a62  lzip-1.8-rc1.tar.gz
3b1df3c5c7008dcf16fe7ca4a3c2cdc4  lzip-1.8-rc1.tar.lz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

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

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

Changes in this version:

  * Compression time has been reduced by 4%.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzip author and maintainer.