[Lzip-bug] Clzip 1.10-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Clzip 1.10-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/clzip/clzip-1.10-rc1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/clzip/clzip-1.10-rc1.tar.gz

The sha256sums are:
d49e8745fd20829c8eb1f7c41de5e5858dfb68779b2e8a84d1a9ca93fae5b0c4 
clzip-1.10-rc1.tar.lz
30721a572c0fb0a6331652f4a59c5bf71ea8d4bd63098d013796be52f32796d2 
clzip-1.10-rc1.tar.gz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Clzip is a C language version of lzip, fully compatible with lzip-1.4 or 
newer. As clzip is written in C, it may be easier to integrate in 
applications like package managers, embedded devices, or systems lacking 
a C++ compiler.

Lzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to the 
one of gzip or bzip2. Lzip can compress about as fast as gzip (lzip -0), 
or compress most files more than bzip2 (lzip -9). Decompression speed is 
intermediate between gzip and bzip2. Lzip is better than gzip and bzip2 
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 homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/clzip.html

Changes in this version:

  * The option '--loose-trailing', has been added.

  * The test used by clzip to discriminate trailing data from a corrupt 
header in multimember or concatenated files has been improved to a 
Hamming distance (HD) of 3, and the 3 bit flips must happen in different 
magic bytes for the test to fail. As a consequence some kinds of files 
no longer can be appended to a lzip file as trailing data unless the 
'--loose-trailing' option is used when decompressing.
Lziprecover can be used to remove conflicting trailing data from a file.

  * The contents of a corrupt or truncated header found in a 
multimember file is now shown, after the error message, in the same 
format as trailing data.

  * Option '-S, --volume-size' now keeps input files unchanged.

  * The 'bits/byte' ratio has been replaced with the inverse 
compression ratio in the output.

  * The progress of decompression is now shown at verbosity level 2 
(-vv) or higher.

  * Progress of (de)compression is only shown if stderr is a terminal.

  * A final diagnostic is now shown at verbosity level 1 (-v) or higher 
if any file fails the test when testing multiple files.

  * A second '.lz' extension is no longer added to the argument of '-o' 
if it already ends in '.lz' or '.tlz'.

  * In case of (de)compressed size mismatch, the stored size is now 
also shown in hexadecimal to ease visual comparison.

  * The dictionary size is now shown at verbosity level 4 (-vvvv) when 
decompressing or testing.

  * The new chapter "Meaning of clzip's output" has been added to the 
manual.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, clzip author and maintainer.

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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#xz1