[Lzip-bug] Plzip 1.9-rc3 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Plzip 1.9-rc3 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip/plzip-1.9-rc3.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip/plzip-1.9-rc3.tar.gz

The sha256sums are:
838a6dce614abb36863d2af8b4fdbb6a0bbf8cefe8b24a4648033fe217426b30 
plzip-1.9-rc3.tar.lz
545a51fb4c96be2c2a0e5506b4012e268812663852f6ce2385291587e7b9c4b2 
plzip-1.9-rc3.tar.gz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Plzip is a massively parallel (multi-threaded) implementation of lzip, fully 
compatible with lzip 1.4 or newer. Plzip uses the compression library lzlib.

Lzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to the one 
of gzip or bzip2. Lzip uses a simplified form of the 'Lempel-Ziv-Markov 
chain-Algorithm' (LZMA) stream format, chosen to maximize safety and 
interoperability. 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. Lzip has been designed, written, and tested 
with great care to replace gzip and bzip2 as the standard general-purpose 
compressed format for unix-like systems.

Plzip can compress/decompress large files on multiprocessor machines much 
faster than lzip, at the cost of a slightly reduced compression ratio (0.4 
to 2 percent larger compressed files). Note that the number of usable 
threads is limited by file size; on files larger than a few GB plzip can use 
hundreds of processors, but on files of only a few MB plzip is no faster 
than lzip.

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/plzip.html

Changes in this version:

  * Plzip now does not even open the output file if the input file is a 
terminal.

  * Tarlz is mentioned in the manual as an alternative to tar + plzip.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, plzip co-author and maintainer.
Self-determination is a human right. Free Catalan political prisoners.
--
If you care about interoperability and long-term archiving, please help me 
replace xz with lzip. See http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html#xz1
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lzip_manual.html#Quality-assurance and
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html Thanks.