[Lzip-bug] Lzip 1.25-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Lzip 1.25-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.25-rc1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.25-rc1.tar.gz

The sha256sums are:
5b584062533f3a71c8f8cbc45d3594871a4be3fd048c72c8e519fcee9adc1cd6 
lzip-1.25-rc1.tar.lz
f340842c976e1ca2a0edd7c7b0e659f472d7ba3631122928f7e43e7555bc9a6a 
lzip-1.25-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 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.

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

Changes in this version:

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

  * lzip now exits with error status 2 if the first byte of the LZMA stream 
is not 0.

  * Options '--empty-error' and '--marking-error' have been removed.

  * The chapter 'Syntax of command-line arguments' has been added to the 
manual.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzip author and maintainer.

--
If you know someone who is using gzip, bzip2, or xz, please tell him/her 
about the advantages of switching to lzip. See
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lzip_manual.html#Quality-assurance and
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html Thanks