[Lzip-bug] Plzip 1.6 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of plzip 1.6.

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

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

The sha256sums are:
6482e8f1cdf58811580bd831ec3ab7d7b11374a2aecd876fb93cab4194f6bb53 
plzip-1.6.tar.lz
5d1d79fe4a1e41aa05e3926d067243efbaa607ed238036152f867662b7d14c7c 
plzip-1.6.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 1.6:

  * 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).

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


Please send bug reports and suggestions to address@hidden


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