[Lzip-bug] Lzlib 1.7-pre1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Lzlib 1.7-pre1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzlib/lzlib-1.7-pre1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzlib/lzlib-1.7-pre1.tar.gz

The sha1sums are:
3ace32d914b6a2389f7ebb470109ed6ea7ef3ab1  lzlib-1.7-pre1.tar.lz
d0cba175cfba8161861ec14312cd64b9aafc996a  lzlib-1.7-pre1.tar.gz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Lzlib is a data compression library providing in-memory LZMA compression 
and decompression functions, including integrity checking of the 
decompressed data. The compressed data format used by the library is the 
lzip format. Lzlib is written in C.

The lzip file format is designed for data sharing and long-term 
archiving, taking into account both data integrity and decoder availability.

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/lzlib.html


Changes in this version:

  * The fast encoder, which produces a compression speed and ratio 
comparable to those of gzip, has been ported from lzip.

  * The option "-0" has been ported from lzip to minilzip.

  * If all the data to be compressed are written in advance, lzlib will 
automatically adjust the header of the compressed data to use the 
smallest possible dictionary size. This feature reduces the amount of 
memory needed for decompression and allows minilzip to produce identical 
compressed output as lzip.

  * The targets "install-compress", "install-strip-compress", 
"install-info-compress" and "install-man-compress" have been added to 
the Makefile.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzlib author and maintainer.