[Lzip-bug] Clzip 1.13-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Clzip 1.13-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/clzip/clzip-1.13-rc1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/clzip/clzip-1.13-rc1.tar.gz

The sha256sums are:
da904c1eb39a69951de1ed2d6a55825a5b0a6a1b05b1dff0732b83932b08863d 
clzip-1.13-rc1.tar.lz
3de78a7702ed2ca563eb76e342344526f0b630e9a5d3028088935eecbc5ca23f 
clzip-1.13-rc1.tar.gz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

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 uses a simplified form of the 'Lempel-Ziv-Markov 
chain-Algorithm' (LZMA) stream format and provides a 3 factor integrity 
checking to maximize interoperability and optimize safety. 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

Changes in this version:

  * Decompression time has been reduced by 5-12% depending on the file.

  * In case of error in a numerical argument to a command line option, 
clzip now shows the name of the option and the range of valid values.

  * Several descriptions have been improved in manual, '--help', and man page.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, clzip author and maintainer.

--
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.