[Lzip-bug] Version 1.11-rc3 of lzip released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Version 1.11-rc3 of lzip is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.11-rc3.tar.gz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.11-rc3.tar.lz

The md5sums are:
90d79a009eb05a69de848e97a917de37  lzip-1.11-rc3.tar.gz
33453d8c587f7dcef0811ea84e66fb0c  lzip-1.11-rc3.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. Lziprecover is a data recovery program for 
lzip-compressed files.

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


Changes in this version:

  * The option "--merge", which tries to produce a correct file merging 
the good parts of two or more damaged copies, has been added to lziprecover.

(To give you an idea of --merge's possibilities, when merging two copies 
each of them with one damaged area affecting 1 percent of the copy, the 
probability of obtaining a correct file is about 98 percent. With three 
such copies the probability rises to 99.97 percent. For large files with 
small errors, the probability approaches 100 percent).

  * The option "--force", which forces overwriting of existing output 
files, has been added to lziprecover.

  * The option "--output", which sets the name of the output file, has 
been added to lziprecover.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzip author and maintainer.