[Lzip-bug] Lzip 1.17-pre1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Lzip 1.17-pre1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.17-pre1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.17-pre1.tar.gz

The sha1sums are:
20a7932f578dc2ee4cc38bfb5970008a2365c5f9  lzip-1.17-pre1.tar.lz
f8357e0030150b342fa68d6abc5ee5e175dc77e8  lzip-1.17-pre1.tar.gz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Lzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to the
one of gzip or bzip2. Lzip is about as fast as gzip, compresses most
files more than bzip2, and is better than both from a data recovery
perspective. Lzip is a clean implementation of the LZMA "algorithm".

The lzip file format is designed for data sharing and long-term 
archiving, taking into account both data integrity and decoder 
availability. It is as simple as possible (but not simpler), 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/lzip.html


Changes in this version:

  * The compression code has been reorganized to ease the porting of 
the fast encoder to clzip and lzlib.

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


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzip author and maintainer.