[Lzip-bug] Lziprecover 1.19 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of lziprecover 1.19.

Lziprecover is a data recovery tool and decompressor for files in the 
lzip compressed data format (.lz). Lziprecover is able to repair 
slightly damaged files, produce a correct file by merging the good parts 
of two or more damaged copies, extract data from damaged files, 
decompress files and test integrity of files.

Lziprecover provides random access to the data in multimember files; it 
only decompresses the members containing the desired data.

Lziprecover is not a replacement for regular backups, but a last line of 
defense for the case where the backups are also damaged.

Lziprecover is able to recover or decompress files produced by any of 
the compressors in the lzip family; lzip, plzip, minilzip/lzlib, clzip 
and pdlzip.

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/lziprecover.html

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

The sha256sums are:
500c1673d114e78ec8b41710eedd8878c6b86c9c4219c4e37f8ca0094ec1c28e 
lziprecover-1.19.tar.lz
8dfa5f2b734a5ac8f274fb8f40eb0772c568ad7a78f6799cbc3e5f0cea5cae7c 
lziprecover-1.19.tar.gz

This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signature by 
appending '.sig' to the URL. If the 'gpg --verify' command fails because 
you don't have the required public key, then run this command to import it:

  gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 8FE99503132D7742

Key fingerprint = 1D41 C14B 272A 2219 A739  FA4F 8FE9 9503 132D 7742


Changes in version 1.19:

  * '--merge' is now able to fix files with thousands of scattered 
errors per member by grouping the errors into clusters and then merging 
the files as if each cluster were a single error.

  * The option '-a, --trailing-error' now also works with '-l, --list' 
and '-D, --range-decompress'.

  * The output of option '-l, --list' has been simplified to make it 
easier to read.

  * In test mode, lziprecover now continues checking the rest of the 
files if any input file is a terminal.

  * Trailing data are now shown both in hexadecimal and as a string of 
printable ASCII characters.


Please send bug reports and suggestions to address@hidden


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lziprecover author and maintainer.

--
If you are distributing software in xz format, please consider using 
lzip instead. See http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html and 
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html#busybox