[Lzip-bug] Pdlzip 1.11 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of pdlzip 1.11.

Pdlzip is a permissively licensed implementation of the lzip data 
compressor, intended for those who can't distribute (or even use) GPL 
licensed Free Software. (The name of pdlzip comes from 'public domain 
lzip'). Pdlzip is written in C and is (hope)fully compatible with lzip 1.4 
or newer.

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.

Pdlzip is also able to decompress legacy lzma-alone (.lzma) files.

Pdlzip includes public domain (de)compression code from the LZMA SDK 
(Software Development Kit) written by Igor Pavlov.

The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/pdlzip.html

The sources can be downloaded from 
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/pdlzip/

The sha256sums are:
5a45aaf4144dd88a53b690f1a2a3dda3497da4f53ffedf19225cebb3d030231a 
pdlzip-1.11.tar.lz
43c5dfc8fd6595e750be290fe69c659904ff85ffd6f55b70918a1e2efc40eff5 
pdlzip-1.11.tar.gz

This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signature by appending 
'.sig' to the URL. If the 'gpg --verify' command fails because you don't 
have the required public key, then run this command to import it:

  gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 8FE99503132D7742

Key fingerprint = 1D41 C14B 272A 2219 A739  FA4F 8FE9 9503 132D 7742


Changes in version 1.11:

  * Pdlzip now reports an error if a file name is empty (pdlzip -t "").

  * Option '-o, --output' now behaves like '-c, --stdout', but sending the 
output unconditionally to a file instead of to standard output. See the new 
description of '-o' in the manual. This change is backwards compatible only 
when (de)compressing from standard input alone. Therefore commands like:
  pdlzip -o foo.lz - bar < foo
must now be split into:
  pdlzip -o foo.lz - < foo
  pdlzip bar
or rewritten as:
  pdlzip - bar < foo > foo.lz

  * When using '-c' or '-o', pdlzip now checks whether the output is a 
terminal only once.

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

  * It is now an error to specify two different operations in the command 
line (--decompress and --test).

  * The words 'decompressed' and 'compressed' have been replaced with the 
shorter 'out' and 'in' in the verbose output when decompressing or testing.

  * The commands needed to extract files from a tar.lz archive have been 
documented in the output of '--help' and in the man page.

  * 9 new test files have been added to the testsuite.


Please send bug reports and suggestions to lzip-bug@nongnu.org


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, pdlzip co-author and maintainer.
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If you care about interoperability and long-term archiving, please consider 
using lzip. See http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lzip_manual.html#Quality-assurance and
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/safety_of_the_lzip_format.html Thanks.