[Lzip-bug] Clzip 1.7-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Clzip 1.7-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/clzip/clzip-1.7-rc1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/clzip/clzip-1.7-rc1.tar.gz

The sha1sums are:
61021829661e53699383aaa12d08f30230363af1  clzip-1.7-rc1.tar.lz
60ba51550c3d02f50fa16b748727af386a5e580d  clzip-1.7-rc1.tar.gz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

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

Clzip uses the lzip file format; the files produced by clzip are fully 
compatible with lzip-1.4 or newer. Clzip is in fact a C language version 
of lzip, intended for embedded devices or systems lacking a C++ compiler.

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/clzip.html


Changes in this version:

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


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, clzip author and maintainer.