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[Lzip-bug] Lzip 1.22 released
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Antonio Diaz Diaz |
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[Lzip-bug] Lzip 1.22 released |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Jan 2021 17:24:25 +0100 |
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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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