I am pleased to announce the release of plzip 1.1.
Plzip is a massively parallel (multi-threaded), lossless data compressor
based on the lzlib compression library, with a user interface similar to
the one of lzip, bzip2 or gzip.
Plzip can compress/decompress large files on multiprocessor machines
much faster than lzip, at the cost of a slightly reduced compression
ratio. On files large enough (several GB), plzip can use hundreds of
processors. On files of only a few MB it is better to use lzip.
Plzip uses the lzip file format; the files produced by plzip are fully
compatible with lzip-1.4 or newer.
The lzip file format is designed for long-term data archiving. It is
clean, provides very safe 4 factor integrity checking, and is backed by
the recovery capabilities of lziprecover.
The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/plzip.html
The sources can be downloaded from
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/
The sha1sums are:
635a6b0cebb0aa6f9ac8090384b335754a617ada plzip-1.1.tar.lz
22d3bba78b9219e7976372e24773d3abc0ff4563 plzip-1.1.tar.gz
This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signature by
appending ".sig" to the URL.
Changes in version 1.1:
* Plzip now shows the progress of compression at verbosity level 2 (-vv).
* Signals "SIGUSR1" and "SIGUSR2" are no more used to signal a fatal
error.
Please send bug reports and suggestions to [email protected]
Regards,
Antonio Diaz, plzip co-author and maintainer.
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