[Lzip-bug] Lzip 1.20-rc2 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Lzip 1.20-rc2 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.20-rc2.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.20-rc2.tar.gz

The sha256sums are:
282c2f6976fbdc242aad21e91451bc2eea0b4a7becef0f4ffc7a50cb40e16c84 
lzip-1.20-rc2.tar.lz
a24dafd2813a4228397f35e469109995d0f926174fe272c2a00f56d23c9610d1 
lzip-1.20-rc2.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:

  * When creating multimember files or splitting the output in volumes, 
the dictionary size is now adjusted for each member individually.


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/lzip_benchmark.html#xz1 and 
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html