[Lzip-bug] Plzip 1.10-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

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

The sha256sums are:
76474d0b5f8dbcbfd55cab0c4dbc335ec3e69fb25ed072b7867f90835833f026 
plzip-1.10-rc1.tar.lz
ae01862c41614fc4ab2d57bffee791c4d6a3ffe3459e6b3901681903dd275215 
plzip-1.10-rc1.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 and provides a 3 factor integrity 
checking to maximize interoperability and optimize safety. 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 homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/plzip.html

Changes in this version:

  * In case of error in a numerical argument to a command line option, 
plzip now shows the name of the option and the range of valid values.

  * '--check-lib' now checks that LZ_API_VERSION and LZ_version_string match.

  * The variable LIBS can now be set from configure.

  * Several descriptions have been improved in manual, '--help', and man page.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, plzip co-author and maintainer.

--
If you care about data safety and long-term archiving, please consider using 
lzip. See http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lzip_manual.html#Quality-assurance and
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/safety_of_the_lzip_format.html Thanks.