[Lzip-bug] Plzip 1.6-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Plzip 1.6-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip/plzip-1.6-rc1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip/plzip-1.6-rc1.tar.gz

The sha256sums are:
a81ea34a91dceccfb54eef32ade1b8ae837c818e3d0632570da81dfb70da291c 
plzip-1.6-rc1.tar.lz
e9f70e1cad719557e448a3bec87c805e206553d5f2b5d68224fafce3fe079c14 
plzip-1.6-rc1.tar.gz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Plzip is a massively parallel (multi-threaded) lossless data compressor 
based on the lzlib compression library, with a user interface similar to 
the one of lzip, bzip2 or gzip.

Plzip can compress/decompress large files on multiprocessor machines 
much faster than lzip, at the cost of a slightly reduced compression 
ratio (0.4 to 2 percent larger compressed files). Note that the number 
of usable threads is limited by file size; on files larger than a few GB 
plzip can use hundreds of processors, but on files of only a few MB 
plzip is no faster than lzip.

Plzip uses the lzip file format; the files produced by plzip are fully 
compatible with lzip-1.4 or newer, and can be rescued with lziprecover.

The lzip file format is designed for data sharing and long-term 
archiving, taking into account both data integrity and decoder availability.

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

Changes in this version:

  * In test mode, plzip now continues checking the rest of the files if 
any input file is a terminal.


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

--
If you are distributing software in xz format, please consider using 
lzip instead. See http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html and 
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html#busybox