[Lzip-bug] Lzip 1.22 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of lzip 1.22.

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. Lzip has been designed, written and tested with 
great care to replace gzip and bzip2 as the standard general-purpose 
compressed format for unix-like systems.

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

If you care about data safety and long-term archiving, please consider using 
lzip. See
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lzip_manual.html#Quality-assurance and
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/safety_of_the_lzip_format.html Thanks.

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

The sha256sums are:
8fddf17bdca6bd4694c6015424d3162f14e7c1599373601aa3316a92ca1b5042 
lzip-1.22.tar.lz
c3342d42e67139c165b8b128d033b5c96893a13ac5f25933190315214e87a948 
lzip-1.22.tar.gz

This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signature by appending 
'.sig' to the URL. If the 'gpg --verify' command fails because you don't 
have the required public key, then run this command to import it:

  gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 8FE99503132D7742

Key fingerprint = 1D41 C14B 272A 2219 A739  FA4F 8FE9 9503 132D 7742


Changes in version 1.22:

  * Lzip now reports an error if a file name is empty (lzip -t "").

  * Option '-o, --output' now behaves like '-c, --stdout', but sending the 
output unconditionally to a file instead of to standard output. See the new 
description of '-o' in the manual. This change is backwards compatible only 
when (de)compressing from standard input alone. Therefore commands like:
  lzip -o foo.lz - bar < foo
must now be split into:
  lzip -o foo.lz - < foo
  lzip bar
or rewritten as:
  lzip - bar < foo > foo.lz

  * When using '-c' or '-o', lzip now checks whether the output is a 
terminal only once.

  * Lzip now does not even open the output file if the input file is a 
terminal.

  * Lzip can now be built, tested, and installed on systems lacking a 
'make' program. (Feature suggested by Mohammad Akhlaghi).

  * The words 'decompressed' and 'compressed' have been replaced with the 
shorter 'out' and 'in' in the verbose output when decompressing or testing.

  * Option '--list' now reports corruption or truncation of the last header 
in a multimenber file specifically instead of showing the generic message 
"Last member in input file is truncated or corrupt."

  * The commands needed to extract files from a tar.lz archive have been 
documented in the manual, in the output of '--help', and in the man page.

  * Plzip and tarlz are mentioned in the manual as alternatives for 
multiprocessors.

  * Several fixes and improvements have been made to the manual.

  * 9 new test files have been added to the testsuite.


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


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzip author and maintainer.
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