[Lzip-bug] Xlunzip 0.4 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of xlunzip 0.4.

Xlunzip is a test tool for the lzip decompression code of my lzip patch 
for linux. Xlunzip is similar to lunzip, but it uses the lzip_decompress 
linux module as a backend. Xlunzip tests the module for stream, 
buffer-to-buffer and mixed decompression modes, including in-place 
decompression (using the same buffer for input and output). You can use 
xlunzip to verify that the module produces correct results when 
decompressing single member files, multimember files, or the 
concatenation of two or more compressed files. Xlunzip can be used with 
unzcrash to test the robustness of the module to the decompression of 
corrupted data.

The xlunzip tarball contains a copy of the lzip_decompress module and 
can be compiled and tested without downloading or applying the patch to 
the kernel.

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

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

The sha256sum is:
7c10daf1dd7e7a535e244bea2f1aa84044035b3de80438ef120f2c664b9d0ec6 
xlunzip-0.4.tar.lz

The lzip patch for linux can be found at 
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/kernel/

Changes in version 0.4:

  * The lzip_decompress module has been updated to version 4.18.1-2.

  * A harmless warning on 32 bit systems has been fixed.

  * Large amounts of trailing zeros are now skipped more efficiently 
when decompressing or testing in place.

  * Errors are now also checked when closing the input file.

  * It has been documented in INSTALL the use of '-D 
__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO' when compiling on MinGW.


Please send bug reports and suggestions to address@hidden


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, xlunzip author and maintainer.

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