[Lzip-bug] Version 0.8 of plzip released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of plzip 0.8.

Plzip is a massively parallel (multi-threaded), lossless data compressor 
based on the LZMA algorithm, with very safe integrity checking and a 
user interface similar to the one of gzip or bzip2. Plzip uses the lzip 
file format; the files produced by plzip are fully compatible with 
lzip-1.4 or newer.

Plzip is intended for faster compression/decompression of big files on 
multiprocessor machines, which makes it specially well suited for 
distribution of big software files and large scale data archiving. On 
files big enough, plzip can use hundreds of processors.

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

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

The md5sums are:
4e43d32bc69c247235b0195feb25aab4  plzip-0.8.tar.gz
0a7ddc693cd31ead71850130db6d9d35  plzip-0.8.tar.lz


Changes in this version:

  * The option "-F, --recompress", which forces recompression of files 
whose name already has the ".lz" or ".tlz" suffix, has been added.

  * The options "-d, --decompress" and "-t, --test" now also show 
compression ratio.

  * Inability to change output file attributes has been downgraded from 
error to warning.

  * A small change has been made in the "--help" output and man page.

  * Quote characters in messages have been changed as advised by GNU 
Coding Standards.

  * Stdin and stdout are now set in binary mode on OS2.


Please send bug reports and suggestions to address@hidden


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