[Lzip-bug] Lzlib 1.11-rc2 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Lzlib 1.11-rc2 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzlib/lzlib-1.11-rc2.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzlib/lzlib-1.11-rc2.tar.gz

The sha256sums are:
ff4ae5e71bcd5c46f7b6247230b29886472dc5bff63a8be7416c63b65494da9e 
lzlib-1.11-rc2.tar.lz
11848d7b8589e625f8813986ca6437a382799c55be6479d2bb6969a8aa38c0de 
lzlib-1.11-rc2.tar.gz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Lzlib is a data compression library providing in-memory LZMA compression 
and decompression functions, including integrity checking of the 
decompressed data. The compressed data format used by the library is the 
lzip format. Lzlib is written in C.

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/lzlib.html


Changes in this version:

  * In case of decompression error caused by corrupt or truncated data, 
LZ_decompress_read now does not signal the error immediately to the 
application, but waits until all decoded bytes have been read. This 
allows tools like tarlz to recover as much data as possible from damaged 
members.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzlib author and maintainer.
Software and Catalan political prisoners just want to be free.
--
If you are distributing software in xz format, please consider using 
lzip instead. See http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html#xz1 and 
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html