[Lzip-bug] Lzip 1.17 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of lzip 1.17.

Lzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to the 
one of gzip or bzip2. Lzip is about as fast as gzip, compresses most 
files more than bzip2, and is better than both 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.

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/lzip.html

A benchmark can be found at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html

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

The sha1sums are:
22273e85fa3d019d5127ab4fd3a8f327c9aab90f  lzip-1.17.tar.lz
d023f1e95202e45b50656833d09eee1a8c7bd9d6  lzip-1.17.tar.gz

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


Changes in version 1.17:

  * The compression code has been reorganized to ease the porting of 
the fast encoder to clzip and lzlib.

  * The new chapter "Quality assurance" has been added to the manual.

  * The targets "install-compress", "install-strip-compress", 
"install-info-compress" and "install-man-compress" have been added to 
the Makefile.


Please send bug reports and suggestions to address@hidden


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzip author and maintainer.