[Lzip-bug] Lzip 1.24-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Lzip 1.24-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.24-rc1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.24-rc1.tar.gz

The sha256sums are:
d3f24664ebb93a7e1e90f7daabd5cdd5655d36e81b8ac8ac5d439ab7184125e4 
lzip-1.24-rc1.tar.lz
dceff3b29719dbe489c036d7247932154d09c5b683c0dff2aa74f749b4eac0c1 
lzip-1.24-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 '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/lzip.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.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzip 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