[Lzip-bug] Lzip 1.19-pre1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Lzip 1.19-pre1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.19-pre1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.19-pre1.tar.gz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.19-pre1-w32.tar.gz

The sha1sums are:
27f22db2b322404ef9ce05fe310dddcca5ce71ca  lzip-1.19-pre1.tar.lz
c32c64a796e76a10d75bdaabbd038f29238ed0c8  lzip-1.19-pre1.tar.gz
ecd7a911f43b4960cf3d9609d158689945392297  lzip-1.19-pre1-w32.tar.gz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Lzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to the 
one of gzip or bzip2. Lzip can compress about as fast as gzip (lzip -0), 
or compress most files more than bzip2 (lzip -9). Decompression speed is 
intermediate between those of gzip and bzip2. Lzip is better than gzip 
and bzip2 from a data recovery perspective.

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 source 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/lzip.html


Changes in this version:

  * The option '-l, --list' has been ported from lziprecover.

  * It is now an error to specify two or more different operations in 
the command line (--decompress, --list or --test).

  * Compression time of option '-0' has been slightly reduced.

  * Decompression time has been reduced by 2%.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzip author and maintainer.