[Lzip-bug] Lzip 1.19-pre2 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Lzip 1.19-pre2 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.19-pre2.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.19-pre2.tar.gz

The sha1sums are:
c3b9c214469490e70cbf0466a2caec9860fdccf1  lzip-1.19-pre2.tar.lz
e0bc4c655f60878042d423ea8d1012d8a5e19401  lzip-1.19-pre2.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 new truncation test introduced in 1.19-pre1 is now skipped on 
systems where the 'dd' command can't copy an exact amount of bytes 
because of text mode (Windows and OS/2).


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzip author and maintainer.