[Lzip-bug] Version 1.1 of clzip released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of clzip 1.1.

Clzip 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.

Clzip uses the lzip file format; the files produced by clzip are fully 
compatible with lzip-1.4 or newer. Clzip is in fact a C language version 
of lzip, intended for embedded devices or systems lacking a C++ compiler.

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

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

The md5sums are:
5d6dd51e4ef4dff3a092ded660005d1d  clzip-1.1.tar.gz
9a55b5b46efbe6b67c39fffcffd0bfea  clzip-1.1.tar.lz

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

Changes in version 1.1:

  * Code has been converted to "C89 + long long". A C99 compiler is no 
more needed.

  * A warning about fchown's return value being ignored has been fixed.

  * "clzip -tvvvv" now shows file compression ratio.

  * Match length limit set by options -1 to -8 has been reduced to 
extend range of use towards gzip. Lower numbers now compress less but 
faster. (-1 now takes 43% less time for only 20% larger compressed size).

  * (Note that the bidimensional parameter space of LZMA can't be 
mapped to a linear scale optimal for all files. If your files are large, 
very repetitive, etc, you may need to use the --match-length and 
--dictionary-size options directly to achieve optimal performance).

  * Compression of option -9 has been slightly increased.

  * Do not show the message "and `--stdout' was not specified" for file 
types that can't be read (directories, etc).

  * Some new examples have been added to the manual.


Please send bug reports and suggestions to address@hidden

If you are packaging clzip for a distribution, please, try to use the 
lzipped source tarball, as this can improve the support for the lzip 
format in packaging systems[1][2]. Thanks.
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=556960
[2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249059


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, clzip author and maintainer.