[Lzip-bug] Lzlib 1.12-rc3 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Lzlib 1.12-rc3 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzlib/lzlib-1.12-rc3.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzlib/lzlib-1.12-rc3.tar.gz

The sha256sums are:
719fdd8fbe7b3fa6f2187f5ac0bb08ffca80eae57087887a4eea149a74ba5cdb 
lzlib-1.12-rc3.tar.lz
364d6d17c3d6b7362e7c5ffbb47c445cc6cf7f4301b5e771ceaffa466903a4fe 
lzlib-1.12-rc3.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 program lziprecover 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:

  * The value of the version test macro 'LZ_API_VERSION' is now defined as 
1000 * major + minor. For version 1.12 it is 1012.
This change does not affect the soversion.

  * 'rd_min_available_bytes' has been increased from 8 to 9 to prevent a 
decoder error in rare cases. (Thanks to Matías Fonzo).


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzlib author and maintainer.
Self-determination is a human right. Free Catalan political prisoners.
--
If you care about interoperability and long-term archiving, please help me 
replace xz with lzip. See http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html#xz1
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lzip_manual.html#Quality-assurance and
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html Thanks.