[Lzip-bug] Plzip 1.2-rc2 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Plzip 1.2-rc2 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip-1.2-rc2.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip-1.2-rc2.tar.gz

The sha1sums are:
5b7db00ef8ad9f0baff14cf570e8ae79bd1e7fe2  plzip-1.2-rc2.tar.lz
0193fe23ea7761df4995585885a02fbfe7f2bbcd  plzip-1.2-rc2.tar.gz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Plzip is a massively parallel (multi-threaded), lossless data compressor 
based on the lzlib compression library, with a user interface similar to 
the one of lzip, bzip2 or gzip.

Plzip can compress/decompress large files on multiprocessor machines 
much faster than lzip, at the cost of a slightly reduced compression 
ratio. Note that the number of usable threads is limited by file size, 
so on files larger than a few GB plzip can use hundreds of processors, 
but on files of only a few MB plzip is no faster than lzip.

Plzip uses the lzip file format; the files produced by plzip are fully 
compatible with lzip-1.4 or newer, and can be rescued with lziprecover.

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


Changes in this version:

  * The license has been changed to GPL version 2 or later. (See 
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/lzip-bug/2014-06/msg00000.html)


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, plzip co-author and maintainer.