[Lzip-bug] Lziprecover 1.23 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of lziprecover 1.23.

Lziprecover is a data recovery tool and decompressor for files in the lzip 
compressed data format (.lz). Lziprecover is able to repair slightly damaged 
files (up to one single-byte error per member), produce a correct file by 
merging the good parts of two or more damaged copies, reproduce a missing 
(zeroed) sector using a reference file, extract data from damaged files, 
decompress files, and test integrity of files.

A nice feature of the lzip format is that a corrupt byte is easier to repair 
the nearer it is from the beginning of the file. Therefore, with the help of 
lziprecover, losing an entire archive just because of a corrupt byte near 
the beginning is a thing of the past.

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

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

The sha256sums are:
9a41c9823670541573b160945c23783b644e84eb940c2c803b6b8d11b2c3d208 
lziprecover-1.23.tar.lz
f29804177f06dd51c3fa52615ae198a76002b6ce8d961c3575546c3740f4b572 
lziprecover-1.23.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 1.23:

  * 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, 
lziprecover now shows the name of the option and the range of valid values.

  * Options '--dump' and '--strip' now refuse to write compressed data to a 
terminal except when dumping trailing data with '--dump=tdata'.

  * The option '-U, --unzcrash' now requires an argument: '1' to test 1-bit 
errors, or 'B<size>' to test zeroed blocks.

  * The memory tester now allocates the dictionary once per member instead 
of doing it for each test. This makes '-U, --unzcrash' about two times 
faster on my machine on files with an uncompressed size larger than about 30 MB.

  * '-W, --debug-decompress' now continues decompressing the members 
following the damaged member if it has been fully decompressed (just failed 
with a CRC mismatch).

  * The tool unzcrash now uses execvp instead of popen to avoid invoking 
/bin/sh and run faster. It also prints byte or block position in messages.

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

  * The texinfo category of the manual has been changed from 'Data 
Compression' to 'Compression' to match that of gzip. (Reported by Alfred M. 
Szmidt).


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


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lziprecover 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.