[Lzip-bug] Lzip 1.23-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Lzip 1.23-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.23-rc1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.23-rc1.tar.gz

The sha256sums are:
5543c9c575f333813f5b97004cb1e4488433265d6532ecb14d3e84c0e5add33b 
lzip-1.23-rc1.tar.lz
50c14f0f3162bb77c05fa3f96faa648a9515882455713c10872327205d84c32a 
lzip-1.23-rc1.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 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 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:

  * 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, lzip 
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, lzip 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.