[Lzip-bug] Lzlib 1.8-rc3 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Lzlib 1.8-rc3 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzlib/lzlib-1.8-rc3.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzlib/lzlib-1.8-rc3.tar.gz

The sha1sums are:
b02cb7e86a370793126d081958466d8fee2f2ef3  lzlib-1.8-rc3.tar.lz
3458ad0592a5393f599e1bc1f2ddf9f769521831  lzlib-1.8-rc3.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:

  * The lzip format provides very safe integrity checking and some data
    recovery means. The lziprecover program can repair bit-flip errors
    (one of the most common forms of data corruption) in lzip files,
    and provides data recovery capabilities, including error-checked
    merging of damaged copies of a file.

  * The lzip format is as simple as possible (but not simpler). The
    lzip manual provides the code of a simple decompressor along with a
    detailed explanation of how it works, so that with the only help of
    the lzip manual it would be possible for a digital archaeologist to
    extract the data from a lzip file long after quantum computers
    eventually render LZMA obsolete.

  * Additionally the lzip reference implementation is copylefted, which
    guarantees that it will remain free forever.

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


Changes in this version:

  * End Of File on truncated members is now detected more efficiently.

  * Minor documentation fixes.

This is the last release candidate before 1.8 stable. Please, test it.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzlib author and maintainer.