[Lzip-bug] Lzip 1.19 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of lzip 1.19.

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 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

A benchmark can be found at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html

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

The sha256sums are:
c8b7a098a42429d34ca1504afcdfd9aeeaf249469d52039df05d0b5a2ad7ac77 
lzip-1.19.tar.lz
ffadc4f56be1bc0d3ae155ec4527bd003133bdc703a753b2cc683f610e646ba9 
lzip-1.19.tar.gz
6e0b3b7cfcbde5923f2ba7988d34e288fb699242a45f80a4c37f69a5d5e324f8 
lzip-1.19-w32.zip

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 1.19:

  * 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).

  * Compression time of option '-0' has been slightly reduced.

  * Decompression time has been reduced by 2%.

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

  * Trailing data are now shown both in hexadecimal and as a string of 
printable ASCII characters.


Please send bug reports and suggestions to address@hidden


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzip 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