[Lzip-bug] Lziprecover 1.18-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Lziprecover 1.18-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lziprecover/lziprecover-1.18-rc1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lziprecover/lziprecover-1.18-rc1.tar.gz

The sha1sums are:
f2147415a029ca1d5d3f64eb16de0c8674d1ce50  lziprecover-1.18-rc1.tar.lz
7394eb6e18aa6d30fa53e8a7d9b82f0cf6034584  lziprecover-1.18-rc1.tar.gz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Lziprecover is a data recovery tool and decompressor for files in the 
lzip compressed data format (.lz), able to repair slightly damaged 
files, produce a correct file by merging the good parts of two or more 
damaged copies, extract data from damaged files, decompress files and 
test integrity of files.

Lziprecover is not a replacement for regular backups, but a last line of 
defense for the case where the backups are also damaged.

Lziprecover is able to recover or decompress files produced by any of 
the compressors in the lzip family; lzip, plzip, minilzip/lzlib, clzip 
and pdlzip.

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.

If the cause of file corruption is damaged media, the combination GNU 
ddrescue[1] + lziprecover is the best option for recovering data from 
multiple damaged copies.

The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lziprecover.html


Changes in this version:

  * "--merge" now detects identical files by their CRC. Now it should 
work on systems without inodes.

  * "--repair" now can repair a damaged dictionary size in the header.

  * When decompressing, the file specified with the '--output' option 
is now deleted if the input is a terminal.

  * "--merge", "--range-decompress", "--repair" and "--split" now 
preserve dates, permissions, and, when possible, ownership of the files 
created just as "--decompress" does.

  * The new option "-A, --alone-to-lz", which converts lzma-alone files 
to lzip format without recompressing, just adding a lzip header and 
trailer, has been added. Only streamed files with default LZMA 
properties can be converted; non-streamed lzma-alone files lack the end 
of stream marker required in lzip files.

  * The new option "-W, --debug-decompress=<pos>,<val>", which sets the 
byte <pos> to the value <val> and then decompresses to stdout the 
resulting corrupt data, has been added.

  * The short name of option "--debug-delay" has been changed to "-Y".

  * The short name of option "--debug-repair" has been changed to "-Z".

  * The new option "-B, --block" has been added to unzcrash.

  * A configure warning happening on some shells when testing for g++ 
has been fixed.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lziprecover author and maintainer.