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[Lzip-bug] Lzip 1.18-rc3 released


From: Antonio Diaz Diaz
Subject: [Lzip-bug] Lzip 1.18-rc3 released
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 17:07:10 +0200
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Lzip 1.18-rc3 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.18-rc3.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.18-rc3.tar.gz

The sha1sums are:
08db995ab778ff640174591e56c7b665025986c4  lzip-1.18-rc3.tar.lz
a6e92a148c3ffcc91d4af849b8e3e92bdd1ca6d9  lzip-1.18-rc3.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 is about as fast as gzip, compresses most files more than bzip2, and is better than both 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 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:

* End Of File on a truncated member header is now detected more accurately.

This is the last release candidate before 1.18 stable. Please, test it.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzip author and maintainer.




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