[Lzip-bug] Lzip 1.22-rc2 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Lzip 1.22-rc2 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.22-rc2.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.22-rc2.tar.gz

The sha256sums are:
fd3a4c253849485ad935bb7b5088c7d85b746f0c5030fea8f85997c17a620b40 
lzip-1.22-rc2.tar.lz
54da01cba67bd702f4deb1c9ada82ac8ffd603a501e43d3c2bb861305abe46d0 
lzip-1.22-rc2.tar.gz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

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.

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 program lziprecover 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/lzip.html

Changes in this version:

  * Lzip can now be built, tested, and installed on systems lacking a 
'make' program. (Feature suggested by Mohammad Akhlaghi).


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzip 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.