[Lzip-bug] Lzip 1.19-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Lzip 1.19-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.19-rc1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.19-rc1.tar.gz

The sha256sums are:
171ae321431962af5f03a8d28ee5c0b76499b2219d1ed4093599a084fbb0ab40 
lzip-1.19-rc1.tar.lz
c8d6cf7f384febe612c496e7bb6c2f815a6a68883e09946620fc6e4665c34dfd 
lzip-1.19-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 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.

The lzip file format is designed for data sharing and long-term 
archiving, taking into account both data integrity and decoder availability:

  * The lzip format provides very safe integrity checking and some data
    recovery means. The lziprecover program can repair bit-flip errors
    (one of the most common forms of data corruption) in lzip files,
    and provides data recovery capabilities, including error-checked
    merging of damaged copies of a file.

  * The lzip format is as simple as possible (but not simpler). The
    lzip manual provides the source code of a simple decompressor along
    with a detailed explanation of how it works, so that with the only
    help of the lzip manual it would be possible for a digital
    archaeologist to extract the data from a lzip file long after
    quantum computers eventually render LZMA obsolete.

  * Additionally the lzip reference implementation is copylefted, which
    guarantees that it will remain free forever.

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

Changes in this version:

  * In test mode, lzip now continues checking the rest of the files if 
any input file is a terminal.

  * Trailing data are now shown both in hexadecimal and as a string of 
printable ASCII characters.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzip author and maintainer.

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If you are distributing software in xz format, please consider using 
lzip instead. See http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html and 
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html#busybox