[Lzip-bug] Pdlzip 1.8-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Pdlzip 1.8-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/pdlzip/pdlzip-1.8-rc1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/pdlzip/pdlzip-1.8-rc1.tar.gz

The sha1sums are:
6469c6d5849d51f770eeb43147eb7b14a1a02cba  pdlzip-1.8-rc1.tar.lz
f07b79d5d5cf391b381cc39b4774b8e7c2859ad9  pdlzip-1.8-rc1.tar.gz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Pdlzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to 
the one of lzip, bzip2 or gzip. Pdlzip includes public domain 
(de)compression code from the LZMA SDK (Software Development Kit) 
written by Igor Pavlov.

Pdlzip uses the lzip file format; the files produced by pdlzip are 
(hope)fully compatible with lzip-1.4 or newer. The lzip file format is 
designed for data sharing and long-term archiving, taking into account 
both data integrity and decoder availability.

Pdlzip is also able to decompress legacy lzma-alone (.lzma) files. 
Lzma-alone is a very bad format. If you keep any lzma-alone files, it is 
advisable to recompress them to lzip format. Lziprecover can convert 
lzma-alone files to lzip format without recompressing.

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


Changes in this version:

  * The detection of trailing data has been improved. Trailing data 
shorter than a lzip header is now also reported.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, pdlzip co-author and maintainer.

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