[Lzip-bug] Lzlib 1.8-rc2 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Lzlib 1.8-rc2 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzlib/lzlib-1.8-rc2.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzlib/lzlib-1.8-rc2.tar.gz

The sha1sums are:
b9d95fc55a5b82e40cd7a7cc7911222024ce4fe6  lzlib-1.8-rc2.tar.lz
72cc86687b19c131403c42297f9a910933ee6a48  lzlib-1.8-rc2.tar.gz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Lzlib is a data compression library providing in-memory LZMA compression 
and decompression functions, including integrity checking of the 
decompressed data. The compressed data format used by the library is the 
lzip format. Lzlib is written in C.

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/lzlib.html


Changes in this version:

  * When decompressing with minilzip, the file specified with the 
'--output' option is now deleted if the input is a terminal.

  * A configure warning happening on some shells when testing for gcc 
has been fixed.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzlib author and maintainer.