[Lzip-bug] Clzip 1.14-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Clzip 1.14-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/clzip/clzip-1.14-rc1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/clzip/clzip-1.14-rc1.tar.gz

The sha256sums are:
c3911d9a4d505bc5bf9136033b19295752e08615c2873312a4c11e175c9fe20f 
clzip-1.14-rc1.tar.lz
fc9865933e0b8d576e8be33e6c7e2fb6a6d2244c314fb6bf6f52e6dd128e3ef0 
clzip-1.14-rc1.tar.gz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Clzip is a C language version of lzip, 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 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.

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

Changes in this version:

  * The option '--empty-error', which forces exit status 2 if any empty 
member is found, has been added.

  * The option '--marking-error', which forces exit status 2 if the first 
LZMA byte is non-zero in any member, has been added.

  * 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.

  * It has been documented in INSTALL that when choosing a C standard, the 
POSIX features need to be enabled explicitly:
  ./configure CFLAGS+='--std=c99 -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500'


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, clzip 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