[Lzip-bug] Lzip 1.17-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Lzip 1.17-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.17-rc1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.17-rc1.tar.gz

The sha1sums are:
b61030701e443d10bfd786ca7b7b98abc485f6e8  lzip-1.17-rc1.tar.lz
c9dd5e0ae62b09be352c9cc6ad575470e80b9341  lzip-1.17-rc1.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:

  * A spurious warning about an uninitialized variable has been fixed.

This is the last release candidate before 1.17 stable.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzip author and maintainer.