[Lzip-bug] Lziprecover 1.16 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of lziprecover 1.16.

Lziprecover is a data recovery tool and decompressor for files in the 
lzip compressed data format (.lz) able to repair slightly damaged files, 
recover badly damaged files from two or more copies, extract data from 
damaged files, decompress files and test integrity of files.

Lziprecover is able to recover or decompress files produced by any of 
the compressors in the lzip family; lzip, plzip, minilzip/lzlib, clzip 
and pdlzip.

The lzip file format is designed for data sharing and long-term data 
archiving. It is clean, provides very safe 4 factor integrity checking, 
and is backed by the recovery capabilities of lziprecover.

A nice feature of the lzip format is that a corrupt byte is easier to 
repair the nearer it is from the beginning of the file. Therefore, with 
the help of lziprecover, losing an entire archive just because of a 
corrupt byte near the beginning is a thing of the past.

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

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

Please, note that I have created the subdirectory 'lziprecover' in order 
to leave every tarball in its place "permanently" (instead of moving old 
tarballs to the "old" directory). This will break some things now (like 
watch files), but I have been told that it will be easier for distros 
this way. Sorry for the inconveniences.

The sha1sums are:
5bb38eb5dd7f91f4d7f7ffbe3e87692881d0d717  lziprecover-1.16.tar.lz
2e044ba9497bd96d912d304aef3108b3a7169115  lziprecover-1.16.tar.gz

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


Changes in version 1.16:

  * Repairing of single-byte errors is now about 10 times faster 
depending on file size and position of error.

  * Copying of file dates, permissions, and ownership now behaves like 
"cp -p". (If the user ID or the group ID can't be duplicated, the file 
permission bits S_ISUID and S_ISGID are cleared).

  * Some minor improvements have been made.

  * "lziprecover.texinfo" has been renamed to "lziprecover.texi".

  * The license has been changed to GPL version 2 or later.


Please send bug reports and suggestions to address@hidden


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lziprecover author and maintainer.