[Lzip-bug] Lzlib 1.9-pre1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Lzlib 1.9-pre1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzlib/lzlib-1.9-pre1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzlib/lzlib-1.9-pre1.tar.gz

The sha1sums are:
be4df3a031ac7c59ab89b90d5325a85a7498a311  lzlib-1.9-pre1.tar.lz
ed520c5657b35a824cacbf6a89d5ebace15a0465  lzlib-1.9-pre1.tar.gz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Lzlib is a data compression library providing in-memory LZMA compression 
and decompression functions, including integrity checking of the 
decompressed data. The compressed data format used by the library is the 
lzip format. Lzlib is written in C.

The lzip file format is designed for data sharing and long-term 
archiving, taking into account both data integrity and decoder availability:

  * The lzip format provides very safe integrity checking and some data
    recovery means. The lziprecover program can repair bit-flip errors
    (one of the most common forms of data corruption) in lzip files,
    and provides data recovery capabilities, including error-checked
    merging of damaged copies of a file.

  * The lzip format is as simple as possible (but not simpler). The
    lzip manual provides the source code of a simple decompressor along
    with a detailed explanation of how it works, so that with the only
    help of the lzip manual it would be possible for a digital
    archaeologist to extract the data from a lzip file long after
    quantum computers eventually render LZMA obsolete.

  * Additionally the lzip reference implementation is copylefted, which
    guarantees that it will remain free forever.

The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzlib.html


Changes in this version:

  * The license has been changed to "2-clause BSD".

  * Compression time of option '-0' has been reduced by 3%.

  * Compression time of options '-1' to '-9' has been reduced by 1%.

  * Decompression time has been reduced by 3%.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzlib author and maintainer.

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