[Lzip-bug] Lzlib 1.8 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of lzlib 1.8.

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

Compression/decompression is done by repeatedly calling a couple of 
read/write functions until all the data have been processed by the 
library. This interface is safer and less error prone than the 
traditional zlib interface.

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

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

The sources can be downloaded from 
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzlib/

The sha1sums are:
0ba4fe61d247ba903514030c565776601420b97b  lzlib-1.8.tar.lz
66c99fd24060926de0b00f19d57ef265d6d55dd3  lzlib-1.8.tar.gz

This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signature by 
appending ".sig" to the URL.


Changes in version 1.8:

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

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

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


Please send bug reports and suggestions to address@hidden


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzlib author and maintainer.