[Lzip-bug] Lzip 1.21-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Lzip 1.21-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.21-rc1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.21-rc1.tar.gz

The sha256sums are:
9ffc3b511bbed20e68de49aaab8627683eefc02c114fb7a9ad4ac851246fb028 
lzip-1.21-rc1.tar.lz
16993368554fac0c10269800f4c6d04429d0eb0cdc13422ac203342cd847b3b7 
lzip-1.21-rc1.tar.gz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

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. Lzip has been designed, written and 
tested with great care to replace gzip and bzip2 as the standard 
general-purpose compressed format for unix-like systems.

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

Changes in this version:

  * Detection of forbidden combinations of characters in trailing data 
has been improved.

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

  * Lzip now compiles on DOS with DJGPP. (Patch from Robert Riebisch).

  * The descriptions of '-0..-9', '-m' and '-s' in the manual have been 
improved.

  * The configure script now accepts appending options to CXXFLAGS 
using the syntax 'CXXFLAGS+=OPTIONS'.

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


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzip author and maintainer.
Europe, wake up! There are political prisoners on hunger strike in Spain.
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http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html