[Lzip-bug] Plzip 1.4-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Plzip 1.4-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip/plzip-1.4-rc1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip/plzip-1.4-rc1.tar.gz

The sha1sums are:
90a7d48f07985965705ba135621c78576b7488fd  plzip-1.4-rc1.tar.lz
18cc2313a5ea12f3eb65a6bd53f45fd4fe4ca3f4  plzip-1.4-rc1.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 (0.4 to 2 percent larger compressed files). 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.

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/plzip.html


Changes in this version:

  * The default "--data-size" is now shown in the "--help" output and 
in the man page.


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