[Lzip-bug] Pdlzip 1.8 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of pdlzip 1.8.

Pdlzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to 
the one of lzip, bzip2 or gzip.

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; it is essentially a raw LZMA stream. If 
you keep any lzma-alone files, it is advisable to recompress them to 
lzip format. Lziprecover can convert some lzma-alone files to lzip 
format without recompressing.

Pdlzip includes public domain (de)compression code from the LZMA SDK 
(Software Development Kit) written by Igor Pavlov. Pdlzip is in fact a 
permissively licensed implementation of the lzip data compressor, 
intended for those who can't distribute (or even use) GPL licensed Free 
Software.

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

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

The sha256sums are:
c6e168bb66aaf7bdbc7c25f53c398081937eb31e757069c1859b3f5ae2f3d7cc 
pdlzip-1.8.tar.lz
05af84a34aaac66c96d34e4935ecfde3717b535d0980211981ba4c539f92cee5 
pdlzip-1.8.tar.gz

This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signature by 
appending '.sig' to the URL. If the 'gpg --verify' command fails because 
you don't have the required public key, then run this command to import it:

  gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 8FE99503132D7742

Key fingerprint = 1D41 C14B 272A 2219 A739  FA4F 8FE9 9503 132D 7742


Changes in version 1.8:

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

  * Trailing data shorter than a lzip header are now also reported.


Please send bug reports and suggestions to address@hidden


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, pdlzip 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