[Lzip-bug] Plzip 1.2-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Plzip 1.2-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip-1.2-rc1.tar.lz

The sha1sum is:
e0afff406ca6346143c050116ec7e1d15a35b1a5  plzip-1.2-rc1.tar.lz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Plzip is a massively parallel (multi-threaded), lossless data compressor 
based on the lzlib compression library, with a user interface similar to 
the one of lzip, bzip2 or gzip.

Plzip can compress/decompress large files on multiprocessor machines 
much faster than lzip, at the cost of a slightly reduced compression 
ratio. Note that the number of usable threads is limited by file size, 
so on files larger than a few GB plzip can use hundreds of processors, 
but on files of only a few MB plzip is no faster than lzip.

Plzip uses the lzip file format; the files produced by plzip are fully 
compatible with lzip-1.4 or newer, and can be rescued with lziprecover.

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


Changes in this version:

  * Minor changes.

If nobody finds bugs, next release will be 1.2 stable.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, plzip co-author and maintainer.