[Lzip-bug] Plzip 1.3-pre1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Plzip 1.3-pre1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip/plzip-1.3-pre1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip/plzip-1.3-pre1.tar.gz

The sha1sums are:
c51907a5d8e0cda7da9f151efef5d10cbed838fd  plzip-1.3-pre1.tar.lz
08e425e975d1480d40a083518fc50bbd8a61d9ea  plzip-1.3-pre1.tar.gz

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; 
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.

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/plzip.html


Changes in this version:

  * Testing of a non-seekable file or of standard input now uses up to 
30 MiB less memory per thread.

  * "-dvvv" and "-tvvv" now show the dictionary size of the first 
member, producing the same output as lzip for single-member files.

  * A missing "const" has been added to the declaration of the 
"compress" function in "lzip.h".

  * Chapters "Memory requirements" and "Minimum file sizes" have been 
added to the manual.

  * The targets "install-compress", "install-strip-compress", 
"install-info-compress" and "install-man-compress" have been added to 
the Makefile. (Installing compressed docs may become the default in the 
future).


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