[Lzip-bug] Plzip 1.11-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Plzip 1.11-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip/plzip-1.11-rc1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip/plzip-1.11-rc1.tar.gz

The sha256sums are:
6eb398c07c3623b7f879361d7a3ec0b8e69309bc1d1a29b8fb306d1cc0aaad1d 
plzip-1.11-rc1.tar.lz
554b9aee3f694a19eb7dd04b06d67ac28258a4aff17cc2953b65ca2673b67ed6 
plzip-1.11-rc1.tar.gz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Plzip is a massively parallel (multi-threaded) implementation of lzip, fully 
compatible with lzip 1.4 or newer. Plzip uses the compression library lzlib.

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 to maximize interoperability. The 
maximum dictionary size is 512 MiB so that any lzip file can be decompressed 
on 32-bit machines. Lzip provides accurate and robust 3-factor integrity 
checking. 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.

Plzip can compress/decompress large files on multiprocessor machines much 
faster than lzip, at the cost of a slightly reduced compression ratio (0.4 
to 2 percent larger compressed files). Note that the number of usable 
threads is limited by file size; on files larger than a few GB plzip can use 
hundreds of processors, but on files of only a few MB plzip is no faster 
than lzip.

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

Changes in this version:

  * File diagnostics have been reformatted as 'PROGRAM: FILE: MESSAGE'.

  * Diagnostics caused by invalid arguments to command-line options now 
show the argument and the name of the option.

  * The option '-o, --output' now creates missing intermediate directories 
when writing to a file.

  * The variable MAKEINFO has been added to configure and Makefile.in.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, plzip co-author and maintainer.

--
If you are using gzip, bzip2, or xz, please consider the long-term 
advantages of switching to lzip:
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lzip_manual.html#Quality-assurance
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/safety_of_the_lzip_format.html