[Lzip-bug] Tarlz 0.26 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of tarlz 0.26.

Tarlz is a massively parallel (multi-threaded) combined implementation of 
the tar archiver and the lzip compressor. Tarlz uses the compression library 
lzlib.

Tarlz creates tar archives using a simplified and safer variant of the POSIX 
pax format compressed in lzip format, keeping the alignment between tar 
members and lzip members. The resulting multimember tar.lz archive is 
backward compatible with standard tar tools like GNU tar, which treat it 
like any other tar.lz archive. Tarlz can append files to the end of such 
compressed archives.

Keeping the alignment between tar members and lzip members has two 
advantages. It adds an indexed lzip layer on top of the tar archive, making 
it possible to decode the archive safely in parallel. It also minimizes the 
amount of data lost in case of corruption.

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

An online manual for tarlz can be found at
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/tarlz_manual.html

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

The sha256sum is:
53fe055ef70348570975d220cead5636f9175f0c07bbec8e450baff18b9998e4 
tarlz-0.26.tar.lz


Changes in version 0.26:

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

  * Scalability of parallel compressed creation and decoding has been 
increased.

  * A diagnostic message for read error has been improved.

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

  * 'make check' now skips time stamps out of range or not recognized by 
the system tools of the target system. (Reported by J Dean).


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


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, tarlz author and maintainer.

--
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http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html Thanks