[Lzip-bug] Lzlib 1.12-rc4 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Lzlib 1.12-rc4 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzlib/lzlib-1.12-rc4.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzlib/lzlib-1.12-rc4.tar.gz

The sha256sums are:
b3ff482bd5cb225953d12ff6dd6ad4aaa25dfba6c0d705dc22db16b1e71b5638 
lzlib-1.12-rc4.tar.lz
2809253bb7eb0547f6a9b5017cfab65b6aaeaa088253628bc3d4d0635c5bfd53 
lzlib-1.12-rc4.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:

  * minilzip now does not even open the output file if the input file is a 
terminal.

  * lzcheck now accepts options '-s' (to check LZ_compress_sync_flush) and 
'-m' (to check member by member decompression).


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzlib author and maintainer.
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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.