[Lzip-bug] Lunzip 1.14 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of lunzip 1.14.

Lunzip is a decompressor for the lzip format written in C. Its small size 
makes it well suited for embedded devices or software installers that need 
to decompress files but don't need compression capabilities. Lunzip is 
compatible with lzip 1.4 or newer and is able to decompress any lzip file 
using as little memory as 50 kB.

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/lunzip.html

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

The sha256sums are:
0e52fb05016df3ac4585bc60441965a98f03c8bf5b49249e3c9a71f773871eff 
lunzip-1.14.tar.lz
70a30ca88c538b074a04a6d5fa12a57f8e89febcb9145d322e9525f3694e4cb0 
lunzip-1.14.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 --recv-keys 8FE99503132D7742

Key fingerprint = 1D41 C14B 272A 2219 A739  FA4F 8FE9 9503 132D 7742


Changes in version 1.14:

  * 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 preserves dates, permissions, and 
ownership of the file when decompressing exactly one file.

  * 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'


Please send bug reports and suggestions to lzip-bug@nongnu.org


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lunzip 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