[Lzip-bug] Clzip 1.12 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of clzip 1.12.

Clzip is a C language version of lzip, fully compatible with lzip 1.4 or 
newer. As clzip is written in C, it may be easier to integrate in 
applications like package managers, embedded devices, or systems lacking a 
C++ compiler.

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

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

The sha256sums are:
63aed5414aff8217cb098c685a30d6e06e3e8b4576756fcfd08de6e8a4ee8220 
clzip-1.12.tar.lz
fcc92b3006d87b7c4affa03fe9dcc4869a802253052653200c26f6ba718bfee8 
clzip-1.12.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 1.12:

  * Clzip now reports an error if a file name is empty (clzip -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:
  clzip -o foo.lz - bar < foo
must now be split into:
  clzip -o foo.lz - < foo
  clzip bar
or rewritten as:
  clzip - bar < foo > foo.lz

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

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

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

  * Option '--list' now reports corruption or truncation of the last header 
in a multimenber file specifically instead of showing the generic message 
"Last member in input file is truncated or corrupt."

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

  * Plzip and tarlz are now mentioned in the manual as alternatives for 
multiprocessors.

  * Several fixes and improvements have been made to the manual.

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


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


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, clzip author and maintainer.
Self-determination is a human right. Free Catalan political prisoners.
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If you care about data safety 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.