[Lzip-bug] Lzip 1.24-rc2 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Lzip 1.24-rc2 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.24-rc2.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.24-rc2.tar.gz

The sha256sums are:
0f997ce64c2cdd90d62072b10f17a069fea8e6762afea11a9ae2fc6914e48dd8 
lzip-1.24-rc2.tar.lz
d2de91f29eb978c4d5a33bed0b08c1349b0e84abeae6569f2984c2a9229c296c 
lzip-1.24-rc2.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 '-o, --output' now preserves dates, permissions, and 
ownership of the file when (de)compressing exactly one file.


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