[Lzip-bug] Clzip 1.8-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Clzip 1.8-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/clzip/clzip-1.8-rc1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/clzip/clzip-1.8-rc1.tar.gz

The sha1sums are:
8413cf8d3d696a5aae3788f213fc04ca6c5a2a5f  clzip-1.8-rc1.tar.lz
0394b6203c30ec2aeb6e9aef75a5696d08a3196b  clzip-1.8-rc1.tar.gz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Clzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to the 
one of gzip or bzip2. Clzip is about as fast as gzip, compresses most 
files more than bzip2, and is better than both from a data recovery 
perspective.

Clzip uses the lzip file format; the files produced by clzip are fully 
compatible with lzip-1.4 or newer. Clzip is in fact a C language version 
of lzip, intended for embedded devices or systems lacking a C++ compiler.

The lzip file format is designed for data sharing and long-term 
archiving, taking into account both data integrity and decoder availability.

A nice feature of the lzip format is that a corrupt byte is easier to 
repair the nearer it is from the beginning of the file. Therefore, with 
the help of lziprecover, losing an entire archive just because of a 
corrupt byte near the beginning is a thing of the past.

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


Changes in this version:

  * The option "-a, --trailing-error", which makes clzip exit with 
error status 2 if any remaining input is detected after decompressing 
the last member, has been added.

  * Clzip now prints up to 6 bytes of trailing data when "-vvvv" is 
specified.

  * The test of the value remaining in the range decoder has been 
removed. (After extensive testing it has been found useless to detect 
corruption in the decompressed data. Eliminating it reduces the number 
of false positives for corruption and makes error detection more accurate).

  * The new chapter "Trailing data" has been added to the manual.

  * A harmless check failure on Windows, caused by the failed 
comparison of a message in text mode, has been fixed.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, clzip author and maintainer.