[Lzip-bug] Lzip 1.20-pre2 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Lzip 1.20-pre2 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.20-pre2.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.20-pre2.tar.gz

The sha256sums are:
e97b0677bb5152e9450bb0480d517c4ce658c58a042867df7729e745c20b0c70 
lzip-1.20-pre2.tar.lz
6fb5de275d79268fbb0ec27c7a5c2be7bd783e5efe2da6535c22ec45632f2f68 
lzip-1.20-pre2.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:

  * The 'bits/byte' ratio has been replaced with the inverse 
compression ratio in the output. The output of lzip now looks like this:

    lzip -v foo
      foo:  6.676:1, 14.98% ratio, 85.02% saved, 450560 in, 67493 out.

  * The progress of decompression is now shown at verbosity level 2 
(-vv) or higher.

  * Progress of (de)compression is only shown if stderr is a terminal.

  * A final diagnostic is now shown at verbosity level 1 (-v) or higher 
if any file fails the test when testing multiple files.

  * A second '.lz' extension is no longer added to the argument of '-o' 
if it already ends in '.lz' or '.tlz'.

  * In case of (de)compressed size mismatch, the stored size is now 
also shown in hexadecimal to ease visual comparison.

  * The dictionary size is now shown at verbosity level 4 (-vvvv) when 
decompressing or testing. (Before it was shown at level 3).

  * The new chapter "Meaning of lzip's output" has been added to the 
manual.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzip 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#fragmented and 
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html#busybox