[Lzip-bug] Lziprecover 1.18 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of lziprecover 1.18.

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

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

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/lziprecover.html

The sources can be downloaded from 
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lziprecover/

The sha1sums are:
a76e5cfd60597295c1f96deb64f0d59c26ccbee1  lziprecover-1.18.tar.lz
7d6582bce447474b2341ab8b77de9368a12a19a0  lziprecover-1.18.tar.gz

This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signature by 
appending ".sig" to the URL.


Changes in version 1.18:

  * The option "-a, --trailing-error", which makes lziprecover exit 
with error status 2 if any remaining input is detected after 
decompressing the last member, has been added.

  * "--merge" now detects identical files by their CRC.

  * "--repair" now tries to detect gross damage in the file before 
attempting to repair it.

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

  * "--repair" now tries bytes at member offsets 7 to 11 first because 
errors in these bytes sometimes can't be detected until the end of the 
member.

  * Decompression time has been reduced by 2%.

  * When decompressing or testing, up to 6 bytes of trailing data are 
now printed if "-vvvv" is specified.

  * 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).

  * 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.

  * Dictionary size and size of trailing data (if any) are now printed 
when "-lv" is specified.

  * 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 new option "-X, --show-packets", which shows the LZMA packets 
(coding sequences) coded in a given file, 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 options "-B, --block", "-d, --delta", "-t, --truncate" and 
"-z, --zcmp" have been added to unzcrash.

  * Unzcrash now can read files as large as RAM allows.

  * Unzcrash now compares the output of the decompressor for the 
original and corrupt files when the decompressor returns with zero 
status. For this unzcrash needs a zcmp program able to understand the 
format being tested. For example the one provided by zutils.

  * Unzcrash now accepts negative position (relative to the end of 
file) and negative size (relative to the rest of the file).

  * The new chapter "Trailing data" has been added to the manual.

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


Please send bug reports and suggestions to address@hidden


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lziprecover author and maintainer.