[Lzip-bug] Pdlzip 1.14-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

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

The sha256sums are:
b74bd44698adbd8643b4f1ae069a8ecefe0d03ec074f95cc9cc48ecff1b37dad 
pdlzip-1.14-rc1.tar.lz
4ce886b0f256ece5f9ccbc257092f61f410387f9d90fe43da3a283a0ec60cddb 
pdlzip-1.14-rc1.tar.gz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Pdlzip is a permissively licensed implementation of the lzip data 
compressor, intended for those who can't distribute (or even use) GPL 
licensed Free Software. The name of pdlzip comes from 'public domain lzip'. 
Pdlzip is written in C.

Lzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to the one 
of gzip or bzip2. Lzip uses a simplified form of LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov 
chain-Algorithm) designed to achieve complete interoperability between 
implementations. 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 -0' compresses about as fast as 
gzip, while 'lzip -9' compresses most files more than bzip2. Decompression 
speed is intermediate between gzip and bzip2. Lzip provides better data 
recovery capabilities than gzip and bzip2. Lzip has been designed, written, 
and tested with great care to replace gzip and bzip2 as general-purpose 
compressed format for Unix-like systems.

Pdlzip is also able to decompress legacy lzma-alone (.lzma) files. 
Lzma-alone is a very bad format; it is essentially a raw LZMA stream. If you 
keep any lzma-alone files, it is advisable to recompress them to lzip 
format. Lziprecover can convert some lzma-alone files to lzip format without 
recompressing.

Pdlzip includes public domain compression/decompression code from the LZMA 
SDK (Software Development Kit) written by Igor Pavlov.

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


Changes in this version:

  * pdlzip now exits with error status 2 if any empty member is found in a 
multimember file.


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

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