[Lzip-bug] Lzlib 1.9-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Lzlib 1.9-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzlib/lzlib-1.9-rc1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzlib/lzlib-1.9-rc1.tar.gz

The sha256sums are:
7bf296af6714ef2245acc754629dd28abc454f2310c72b74b545a158339bbc75 
lzlib-1.9-rc1.tar.lz
6eebec251c0dd5874d28ccf02116052a8e3611238236c75bf5e77b79e0f1f4b4 
lzlib-1.9-rc1.tar.gz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Lzlib is a data compression library providing in-memory LZMA compression 
and decompression functions, including integrity checking of the 
decompressed data. The compressed data format used by the library is the 
lzip format. Lzlib is written in C.

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/lzlib.html


Changes in this version:

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


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzlib author and maintainer.

--
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