[Lzip-bug] Plzip 1.8-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Plzip 1.8-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip/plzip-1.8-rc1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip/plzip-1.8-rc1.tar.gz

The sha256sums are:
2cc5e17fc70d75d92e220c17697a364dcc21c55599426da20309015ed3b82f23 
plzip-1.8-rc1.tar.lz
061fdab7adc1fac57cfbdfe3f3cb776c9c83a11e760f332c4cccf727bb3bd9f3 
plzip-1.8-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 lzlib 
compression library.

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. 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:

  * Minor fixes before stable release.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, plzip co-author and maintainer.
Europe, wake up! There are political prisoners on hunger strike in Spain.
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