[Lzip-bug] Lzip 1.23 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of lzip 1.23.

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/lzip.html

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

The sha256sums are:
ea02b9e6fb25d0e1a1d3ef4fdeb6ab26b931f1ece66fa1cee2983c95215e930a 
lzip-1.23.tar.lz
4792c047ddf15ef29d55ba8e68a1a21e0cb7692d87ecdf7204419864582f280d 
lzip-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, 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.

  * 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, 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.