[Lzip-bug] Lzlib 1.8-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Lzlib 1.8-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzlib/lzlib-1.8-rc1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzlib/lzlib-1.8-rc1.tar.gz

The sha1sums are:
a17a344eeb8f8763f46180b5c874ec7a355de7a0  lzlib-1.8-rc1.tar.lz
3060772f3e3eedf67117f1ddbb839a1e8f317c42  lzlib-1.8-rc1.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 option "-a, --trailing-error", which makes minilzip exit with 
error status 2 if any remaining input is detected after decompressing 
the last member, has been added.

  * The test of the value remaining in the range decoder has been 
removed. (After extensive testing it has been found useless to detect 
corruption in the decompressed data. Eliminating it reduces the number 
of false positives for corruption and makes error detection more accurate).

  * A harmless check failure on Windows, caused by the failed 
comparison of a message in text mode, has been fixed.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzlib author and maintainer.