[Lzip-bug] Version 1.12 of lzip released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of lzip 1.12.

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. Lzip decompresses almost as fast as gzip and compresses 
better than bzip2, which makes it well suited for software distribution 
and data archiving.

Lziprecover is a data recovery tool for lzip compressed files able to 
repair slightly damaged files, recover badly damaged files from two or 
more copies, and extract undamaged members from multi-member files.

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

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

The md5sums are:
69a40172db5ce896b58d862c50fcd517  lzip-1.12.tar.gz
83f273b83671080ce088efd0644c620a  lzip-1.12.tar.lz

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

Changes in version 1.12:

  * The option "-F, --recompress", which forces recompression of files 
whose name already has the ".lz" or ".tlz" suffix, has been added.

  * For large values of "--match-length", compression ratio has been 
slightly increased and compression time has been reduced by up to 6%.

  * Compression time of option "-0" has been reduced by 2%.

  * Print only one status line for each multimember file when only one 
"-v" is specified.

  * Print up to 6 bytes of trailing garbage when "-vvvv" is specified.

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

  * If "--verbose" is not specified, lziprecover now only shows errors 
and warnings.

  * Options "--bits", "--position" and "--size" has been added to unzcrash.


Please send bug reports and suggestions to address@hidden


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzip author and maintainer.