[Lzip-bug] Lzip 1.22-rc3 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Lzip 1.22-rc3 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.22-rc3.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.22-rc3.tar.gz

The sha256sums are:
f277a316e465e8799fa5b73bcd38e15d97691d9e0fa2757af7b36d380518468e 
lzip-1.22-rc3.tar.lz
2d7bbfada138e5747de0920b92689c66907eed45ba64e5a1f89f4f4b73fa34c2 
lzip-1.22-rc3.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 uses a simplified form of the LZMA stream format, 
chosen to maximize safety and interoperability. 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 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/lzip.html

Changes in this version:

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

  * Plzip is now mentioned in the manual as an alternative for multiprocessors.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzip 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.